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Yesterday, closing arguments were made in U.S. District Court in a class action sexual discrimination suit brought against Brown University in April 1992. The women athletes contest Brown's compliance to Title IX, a 1972 federal law prohibiting gender discrimination at schools that receive federal funds. In particular, the law specifies that schools must offer equal athletic opportunities to women...
...power and -- as an extra added attraction -- that other American obsession, dieting. It's the reverse-discrimination suit filed by eight men from Boston who found the Jenny Craig weight-loss organization too full of, well, female chauvinist pigs. The girl talk in the office, says plaintiff Joseph Egan, about "who to marry, who is pregnant, how to get pregnant" was offensive, and it was sexist to ask his male colleagues to shovel the snow and insensitive to tell another he was "sensitive for a guy." These men found themselves on a slower track than their female colleagues...
...past 150 years or so, as steel-stringed fiddles and machine-tooled valve horns replaced their forebears, the orchestra has achieved a golden sheen but at the expense of clarity. Instruments that are perfect for late- 19th century music do not necessarily suit 18th century compositions, not even those of Beethoven, who straddles the two eras. "Later instruments have a way of blurring the edges of the music," explains Gardiner. With original instruments, he says, "what you lose in opulence, you gain in extra transparency...
...achievement. "It's so cheesy," he says, "but I just want a little plaque that says, no. 1 tv show, no. 1 book, no. 1 movie. Just something for me, because I worked so hard I almost died: 18-hour days getting in and out of a fat suit, typing ((my book)) on my laptop. I looked forward to this day, right before Christmas, when it would all be over...
...women to gain the full benefits of final club membership, the clubs must open the punch process voluntarily, recognizing their own benefit in doing so. For now, however, the specter of sexism still precludes me from stripping to a bathing suit and parading across the Widener steps in the November cold. With due apologies to all those who have been spending the week risking hypothermia, not to mention their dignity, I can't say I feel particularly deprived...