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...pregnant, how to get pregnant" was offensive, and it was sexist to ask his male colleagues to shovel the snow and insensitive to tell another he was "sensitive for a guy." These men found themselves on a slower track than their female colleagues, and so some of them quit, others were laid off and all of them filed complaints. Last week three of the plaintiffs cleared the first hurdle: the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination determined that there was probable cause of gender bias and ordered mediation. The other five are awaiting action...
...Clinton Administration is likely to lose at least one other top player. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown is reportedly due to quit his job this spring to head his embattled President's re-election campaign...
...Mexico, public officials who quit their jobs but value their futures tend to keep the reasons for leaving to themselves. Not Mario Ruiz Massieu. He held a press conference, for which he took out newspaper advertisements offering public invitations. He arrived surrounded by a cordon of rifle-toting federal police and bodyguards. He distributed 3,000 copies, printed in color, of his resignation speech. And after announcing his departure both from his job as Mexico's assistant attorney general and from the political party to which he has belonged for 23 years, Ruiz Massieu slammed the door behind him with...
...from the Mark Twain playbook, telling reporters that reports of his departure were "premature." Leading the pack of talked-about replacements: Robert Rubin, head of Clinton's National Economic Council and the former co-chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says Bentsen has decided to quit "for a lot of reasons. First, he's getting on. The timing coincides with what would have been the end of his Senate term had he not taken this job. Second, although he's deeply respected, his views have not carried the unusual weight that they might have, considering...
...resignation. We'd really like to know if disillusionment or personal reasons precipitated his departure. By resigning. Bonfili has abdicated the responsibility which he had so impressively brought upon himself. As a public figure on campus, he has a duty to inform students about his abrupt decision to quit the council...