Word: protecters
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Interpreted literally, Title VII prevents firms from considering race as a factor in hiring. Created to protect minorities from discrimination, this provision of the Civil Rights Act has therefore not been invoked against affirmative action programs that favor minorities. Affirmative action supporters feared that with political tides in the United States shifting to the right, the Taxman case would give the court the opportunity to codify this shift--eradicating the widespread use of affirmative action policies...
...bashing is nothing new, but what's unusual is that these students are holding their schools accountable. In 1996 Nabozny brought a groundbreaking federal lawsuit alleging that administrators hadn't done enough to protect him. A jury agreed, and the school district settled for $900,000. Four similar lawsuits have followed--McDonald filed one in October--and the U.S. Department of Education issued guidelines in March barring certain kinds of antigay harassment...
During the course of her trial, some of the defendants and witnesses disappeared, and later some said they had perjured themselves to protect Madikizela-Mandela. From his prison cell, Richardson claimed she not only ordered Seipei's murder but also told him to kill another youngster, a girl she believed to be a police informer. Last week Katiza Cebekhulu, who said he was smuggled out of the country to prevent his giving testimony linking her to a number of Soweto murders, was one of more than 40 people called by the Truth Commission to testify to the activities of Winnie...
BRING ON THE BIG MAC Preliminary research suggests that taking vitamins C and E before pigging out may protect blood vessels from some of the clogging effects of a fatty meal. Fruits and veggies may also do the trick...
...comedian Jerry Seinfeld, the actor Tom Hanks and the eventual Class Day speaker, record-producer Quincy Jones--did not become public until spring. (Attention candidates for the council presidency: ever consider sunshine laws at Harvard?) Of course, the intricacies of procedure are in place for good reason, i.e. to "protect the candidates," in the words of one committee member. This translates to "We want control." Would not a ballot with 10 choices on it serve the interests of the senior class? Can't it compete with Dining Services...