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...sure I had spotted John a few months later in Central Park, but it turned out to be just some guy. Still, I debated telling people I HAD seen John, for the sake of a good story...
...exist in many dioceses. Most Americans, underwhelmed by the clergy's self-policing, will welcome this. But the message sent by the troubled Stokes, who stands accused of attempted murder after confessing to shooting Blackwell three times, is this: If you do set up lay boards, for God's sake, listen to them. Clerics and laypeople alike are also praying that the shooting--along with the apparent suicide last week of the Rev. Alfred J. Bietighofer, a Bridgeport, Conn., priest accused of sex abuse--foreshadows no trend...
Though diversity is an important educational goal, quotas can sacrifice quality for the sake of quantity; the need to meet an arbitrary level may lead to the acceptance of lower caliber students simply to satisfy a predetermined necessary quantity. Institutions of higher learning should be cognizant of diversity but should not seek to meet any preset percentages, no matter how vaguely they define what would be considered acceptable numbers...
...circumstantial evidence doesn’t look good: the agreement the employees signed specifically waived “any claim for age or other types of discrimination prohibited by the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967.” So let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that Allstate did have a discriminatory intent when it fired the 6,400 workers. Or, better yet, suppose that it had chosen to discriminate by firing a group of 6,400 workers, 90 percent of whom were African-American. Could it stop paying benefits and rehire them...
Even as one who spent years critiquing his government, Adio says he’s not about to play the role of crusading journalist just for the sake of appearing radical...