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While gays see themselves as fighting for equal rights, opponents often characterize what is at stake as "special rights," a tacit appeal to the backlash generated by affirmative-action programs for blacks and women. Roy Schmidt, city commissioner of Grand Rapids, Michigan, voted this year against an ordinance adding gays to the existing civil rights code. He insists, "I have no problem with the gay community or gay people. My beliefs aren't based on bigotry or ignorance. But you could take it further and say fat people, prostitutes or left-handed people deserve their own protections." Like many people...
Business Manager: Peter L. Schmidt...
Companies face other suits for negligence in hiring, retaining and promoting violent workers. "The defense that employers used to have, that a violent employee acted out of the scope of his responsibilities, has been eroded," observes Karen Kienbaum of Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt and Howlett, a Michigan law firm. When an off-duty store manager chased a child who had urinated on the side of the building and attacked his four-year-old companion, the parents sued the company and won. "The jury said, 'Forget it. The man had a history of violence, and you made him store manager. Then...
...author said his interest was furthered by newspaper accounts of trouble at Yale--including controversy surrounding the 1992 resignation of former Yale president Benno Schmidt...
...Edison Project, headed by former Yale University president Benno C. Schmidt Jr., will ally private in-dustry with public education through contracts with individual school systems to reshape curriculum and administration to an Edison Project plan...