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Such cases of male advantage certainly exist. Date rape, the most predominant form of sexual harassment on campus, involves a claim to a type of dominance which requires redress. While such an advantage is not derivative of any corporate hierarchy, it is nevertheless apparent and therefore requires special laws to protect women...
...Merwe's statements before Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission marked a turning point in the process of seeking redress for the brutality suffered by millions of South Africans during apartheid's kragdadigheid ("ironfistedness"). Set up by President Nelson Mandela last year, the commission has heard mainly from victims. But while many of their stories were moving, the inquiry was perceived as largely feckless, unable to tie the crimes to perpetrators, black or white, on either side of apartheid. Despite offers of amnesty, alleged culprits refused to confess because they were convinced they could get a better deal...
...pulp, a cellulose product that shows up in everything from rayon to ice cream. Tongass timber was cheap because in 1954 the Federal Government gave KPC a 50-year contract guaranteeing the mill rights to vast amounts of Alaskan timber at fire-sale prices. In 1990 Congress tried to redress this giveaway by passing the Tongass Timber Reform Act, which forced KPC to pay market prices. KPC later sued for breach of contract and threatened to close the Tongass pulp operation if Congress did not extend the contract for 15 years beyond its 2004 expiration date and restore bargain-basement...
...toward racial equality has become since 1954, when the Supreme Court struck down segregation, than the history of last week's ruling in Sheff v. O'Neill. The case was filed in the state courts in 1989 because civil rights lawyers had concluded that there was no hope of redress from the conservative U.S. Supreme Court. Connecticut's constitution, on the other hand, explicitly guarantees the right to a free, unsegregated public education, which made the state a more promising venue. "We were looking for new ways to breathe life back into the fight for equal educational opportunity, because...
...hasn't worked out that way. When fellow Reagan appointee Anthony Kennedy wrote, for the 6-to-3 majority in Romer v. Evans in May, that a state constitutional amendment denying legal redress for discrimination based on homosexuality violated the equal-protection clause, Scalia wrote a withering dissent. He scoffed at the majority opinion's "grim, disapproving hints that Coloradans have been guilty of animus or animosity toward homosexuality, as though that has been established as un-American" and derided Kennedy's reasoning as "preposterous" and "comical," then dismissed the holding as "terminal silliness...