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...lament living in a time when Isaiah Washington is fired for calling a gay Grey's Anatomy co-star a "faggot." "I hate to think we live in a time when you can get fired from your job because of what you say," he says. "He didn't punch anyone. I think we'll think differently with hindsight." Clearly, not all his notions are liberal...
...Industry experts say the bad publicity American Airlines and JetBlue received was enough to prevent airlines from repeating the mistakes again. "The marketplace handled this by giving terrible publicity to the airlines," says David Stempler, president of the Air Travelers Association. "JetBlue became a punch line and lost [millions] in revenue." After the incidents, both airlines sent the stranded passengers travel vouchers and letters of apology. JetBlue also enacted its own "Customer Bill of Rights," which says that passengers will not be stranded on the tarmac for more than five hours. It also entitles stranded passengers to travel vouchers...
...College because they are single-sex—are Harvard’s social powerhouses and traditionally involve heavy drinking during their “punch” events and at their parties. (One of the near-fatal drinking binges this fall was at a final club punch event.) Thus, the policy seems to be a poorly masked attempt to control the unsafe drinking environment at final clubs...
...milieu where students voluntarily subject themselves to judgment and competitive social weeding, it is safe to assume that few would “out” social club leaders to the College and compromise their own punch. Punches want, above all, to curry favor with the leadership of their desired club. Club members want to protect their club-mates and friends from punishment. Knowing that club heads could face the Administrative Board if an intoxicated student is brought to University Health Services serves as a disincentive to seek medical attention, especially if students are drunk enough to underestimate the severity...
When the Harvard College Women’s Center (HCWC) opened last September, hundreds of students, faculty, administrators and alumnae filled the space, sipping on punch, eating crab puffs, and listening to laudatory speeches from deans and vaunted faculty. The Radcliffe Pitches infused the evening’s energy with their spirited harmonies. Suddenly, in the midst of the joyful chaos of that evening, I felt a hand touch my arm from the middle of the crowd. A well-dressed woman of about 50 years stepped toward me, a bit tentatively, and whispered...