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...jubilant about the decision. Said Helen Neuborne, executive director of the NOW Legal Defense Fund: "We are thrilled with the court's strong message that when women suffer sexual harassment, they will be treated exactly the same as any other group discriminated against based on race, religion or national origin." Employers, many of whom have already begun to police their workplaces, for the most part supported the court's decision. Said Stephen Bokat, general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "This is a very reasonable decision. It is really relatively easy under current law for an employer to preclude...
...could dispute Kilson's assertion on several grounds. However, I wish specifically to address his claim that "[t]he most visible extra-democratic outcomes of hate-speech are found in national statistics on crimes based on race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation." Hate speech is not the same as crimes based on hate. I will not deny that there is some relation between the two. But I would hope that by this point in his career Professor Kilson could tell the difference between a causation and a correlation...
...gourmet coffee is a wine for the nineties. There is the snobbery about country of origin, the niggling distinctions about process of preparation, and the gratuitous use of descriptive yet totally inaccurate adjectives to distinguish flavor. The coffee illuminati can sip their Kenya AA or $30-per-pound Jamaican Blue Mountain while they debate the comparative merit of washed and dry-milled beans with an air of enlightened self-satisfaction...
...most visible extra-democratic outcomes of hate-speech are found in national statistics on crimes based on race, national origin, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. There were 4,402 such crimes recorded in 1991 and 5,138 recorded in 199--a nearly 17 percent increase...
Nair sees herself in the very clash of identities that her films represent. But rather than affect a Third World cosmopolitanism, she grounds herself in the particulars of exile, never abandoning her sense of origin. "If you don't know where you come from," she insists, "then you're just knocking about the world, you know." She grew up in Orissa, a region in eastern India. After a brief stint at Delhi University, she came to Harvard, where she discovered "this foolish confidence that you can do anything." She also discovered her interest in film. Arriving in Cambridge, she intended...