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...motivated by bigotry. In a rare step, the Ohio chapter of the A.C.L.U. has filed a Supreme Court brief that opposes the national organization and argues that such laws are an inadmissible limitation on free speech. And while the national organization in 1990 came out against speech codes that punish bigoted remarks on college / campuses, the board voted after heated debate this month to revise its position that workplace speech could be regarded as sexual harassment only when it was directed at an individual and had "definable consequences" on such things as promotion. The new definition covers offensive language that...
...await evacuation, thus far in vain. Despite a World Court ruling in Bosnia's favor against alleged aggression, and the debut slated this week of NATO warplanes to enforce what so far has been a meaningless ban on military flights above Bosnian territory, there remains scant international consensus to punish Serbia for refusing to recognize a peace plan in its neighbor's year-old civil war. One increasingly vocal holdout at the U.N.: Russia, which historically has maintained close ties to Serbia...
...November the gun lobby will try to make good on its promises to punish legislators who have opposed it. After the New Jersey vote, senate president Donald DiFrancesco, a Republican who initially supported repeal of the assault-weapon ban, set up a campaign fund to assist legislative candidates that the NRA had targeted for defeat. To make sure the organization got the message, he made the first contribution himself -- $10,000 that the NRA had contributed to his own campaign fund over the past two years...
Contrary to his claims, Perot's proposal might not provide an incentive for legislators to cut the deficit. Because it would punish all members of Congress-even those who have done all in their power to reduce spending-there would be little political reward in trying...
Although the United Nations deployed human rights observers to Haiti shortly after Clinton's inauguration (and partially at his insistence), the Haitian military has continued to punish political dissent, and applications for political asylum have increased dramatically...