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...federal court threw a last-minute wrench into Shannon Faulkner's plan to become the Citadel military college's first woman cadet. Faulkner was set to enroll Monday after winning a sex-discrimination suit that had bounced up to the Supreme Court. But this afternoon a three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the school a delay until December, when the case goes back to the drawing board. Till then, Faulkner is stuck in the Citadel's day-student program. The silver lining: no court-ordered buzz cut for Faulkner, at least not this semester...
Does equality of the sexes in the military world extend to the barbershop? Just a week after trailblazing Shannon Faulkner won court-enforced admission to South Carolina's all-male Citadel, the same judge ruled that the prestigious military college's first woman cadet will have to get her head shaved like the boys. U.S. District Judge Weston Houck accepted the school's plan for Faulkner's admittance, which includes the dreaded trim. Faulkner's lawyer called the requirement "punitive and degrading...
...federal judge ordered the Citadel, the state-supported military college in South Carolina, to admit Shannon Faulkner to its all-male corps of cadets next month and to develop plans to admit other women soon. The school said it would appeal...
Washington: Dan Goodgame, Ann Blackman, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: Janice C. Simpson, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor, Wendy Cole Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Austin: S.C. Gwynne Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson Denver: Richard Woodbury...
Israel's top officials renewed accusations that Iran-backed terrorists orchestrated four anti-Jewish bombings in the past 10 days, and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher agreed that the Islamic fundamentalist group Hizballah is the likely culprit. U.S. counterterrorism specialists told TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon the evidence seems to link the bombings in Buenos Aires and Panama last week, and the assault in London this week. What's more, they told her that Hizballah began planning "something fairly spectacular" after the Hebron massacre of Palestinians by American emigrant Baruch Goldstein in March. "They need to be seen...