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Chantal E. Stern said she thought the Kanes' dismissal was more of a personal issue. "It's happened before Tutors are asked to leave and there are a variety of reasons," she said...
After Kasparov's loss, a Wall Street Journal editorial issued a stern warning against viewing technology as a threat ("Sierra Club thinking"). After all, the Journal reminded us, Deep Blue is a product of human genius. So buck up! When you turnpike-toll takers lose your jobs to E-ZPass and other electronic systems, just remember: E-ZPass is a product of human genius. There. Feel better...
...anxious Knicks fans, a federal judge refused to reverse the suspensions of four New York Knicks involved in Wednesday's melee with the Miami Heat. After a 90 minute hearing between the NBA and the National Basketball Players' Association, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that league commissioner David Stern had complete authority to hand down the suspensions. The players claimed the NBA's decision to suspend violated the league's collective bargaining agreement, which mandates that such a rule must be negotiated with the Players' Union. The ruling, which upholds the harshest suspension in NBA playoff history, left...
...Lisa Stern received some bad news over the phone on April 30, 1991. Then a high school senior in Phoenix, Arizona, Stern had committed to Brown University not only because it is part of the Ivy League but also because of its reputation in women's gymnastics. The call from Providence, Rhode Island, though, was to inform her that Brown's athletic department was eliminating four sports, among them women's gymnastics, in a budget cutback. "I was devastated," recalls Stern. "I wanted the best academics and the best athletics. Brown's team had won the Ivys the year before...
...small decision for Brown women turned into a giant one for womankind last week. On April 21, a phone call brought some very good news to Stern, now an investment banker in Baltimore, Maryland. The call was from Lynette Labinger, an attorney representing the women. Labinger told Stern that the U.S. Supreme Court would let stand a lower-court ruling that Brown was in violation of Title IX. "I was ecstatic," says Stern. "After six years, it was finally over. It shows that universities can't ignore women in sports...