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Then there is intent. In September, California's Supreme Court ruled that a health-food store owner could not reject a job applicant if her fatness was the result of a faulty metabolism or a psychological systemic problem, but could if it was the person's fault. Imagine the cottage industry of fat experts, the obesity counselors, next door to the sexual-harassment ! counselors, at the office, trying to decide whether someone is fat by predisposition or from eating too much Haagen-Dazs...
Perhaps the most telling sign that even America's softest hearts are hardening is a radical reframing of the debate into terms that reject a sympathetic view of the homeless. In the '80s, the issue's leading spokesman was Robert Hayes, founder of the Coalition for the Homeless, who identified the three main causes of homelessness as "housing, housing and housing." People who challenged that thinking were accused of blaming the victims. Today the leading voices are authors Alice Baum and Donald Burnes, who claim the very word "homelessness" is a misnomer coined by activists to persuade the public that...
...Rodriguez said the commission will probably reject Dalimonte's amendment to the age, or "vintage" requirement, because it is unnecessary...
...search began in school and later took him to New York State, where he clerked in a convenience store while sending out resumes. When nothing turned up, he returned to his parents' house in Lynchburg, Virginia, only to have the pizza parlor where he had worked in college reject him as overqualified. That's when the offer from a small Reston, Virginia, accounting firm came through. But Clough's big break meant big disappointment for others: no fewer than 250 people had applied...
...privileges but also all the responsibilities" of statehood. While he makes the transition sound easy, his opponents predict corruption of Puerto Rico's soul and destruction of its economy. They also argue that the vote is moot in any case: the U.S. Congress will find a way to reject a poor, Spanish-speaking land that would enter the Union with a secessionist faction. If statehood wins with only a small majority, Congress may find ways to delay confronting the question of union for years...