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Regardless of how it is settled, Heckendorn's complaint could encourage similar challenges by high-ranking women who believe they have been wrongfully passed over. While women have brought record numbers of sexual harassment and bias suits in the past year, the pinnacles of corporate power have remained virtually all-male aeries untroubled by female challenges. "It's very unusual to have a suit at this level, although I've been approached by a number of highly placed executive women who have been harassed by a CEO or someone of equally high rank," says Ellen Bravo, executive director of 9to5...
...third time in as many months, the President found himself scrounging for two or three votes for a half-trillion-dollar package. The compromise was virtually complete, but reluctance by rank-and-file Democrats to go along could spell defeat when the House and Senate vote on the plan this week. Party discipline might work in the House, but White House officials expected Al Gore would have to cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. "The big question," joked a senior official, visibly exhausted from hours of lobbying, "is whether we can hold Gore...
...Chavis' attention-getting tactics have won applause from many of the N.A.A.C.P.'s rank and file. But his quick start has rattled some of the association's Old Guard, who consider him too radical. Many resent the association's endorsement of President Bill Clinton's plan to lift the ban on gays in the military. Others criticize Chavis' scheme for going global as too grandiose for a group that has more than twice as many inactive members (1.2 million) as dues-paying participants...
...perhaps even those who perceive and profess some sympathy for its concerns? If identity politics is good enough for everyone that Harvard should embrace its goals, why do some consider it irrelevant? Insufficiencies in minority student groups forms only a part of the explanation; the rest lies with the rank and file...
Alumni agree that life was simpler in their day; there was less political activism and less competition for positions of rank and power. Occurrences of racism were negligible. "The same changes you notice in the rest of society have affected Harvard students...narcissism and almost neurotic idealism," says Whiteside. "There was far less social concern...political correctness was unthinkable...the politicals were a narrow cult, just as the jocks were...