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...used to be that these tone-deaf moments were used to buttress discrimination claims. Now they are becoming the basis for those claims, according to Marko Mrkonich, managing director of Littler Mendelson, a San Francisco--based law firm that defends management in disputes with employees. "People are saying, 'I just feel really unwelcome,'" he says...
...Robert MacGregor, management-development chief at IBM, which recently partnered with Young to start training its 330,000 workers around the globe: "We want to create an environment that's open and inviting to all employees." And it's not just the words he's using but the earnest tone in his voice that show he means...
...ROTC program. Cadets are allowed to date, as long as they do not date between ranks. But the women say that flirting just does not happen. All of the cadets call each other by their last names, on and off the training fields. The last names set a different tone. “Even outside [of ROTC], they kind of identify me on this same level playing field,” Waterman says. “It would be very rare for anyone to ever transcend that playing field into a romantic relationship.” But Waterman...
...creates an innocent, yet sexually attuned character who delivers lines that, when said by anyone else, may have seemed corny or mechanical. Often, Camilla asks Bandini, “Why are you so mean?” This crudely simple line delivered in Hayek’s painfully desperate tone breaks the heart and comes off as more significant than the sum of its parts. Farrell, on the other hand, seems like he’s still trying for that Oscar nomination. Following performances in epics such as “Alexander,” he once again plays...
...breaking through 51 seconds into the second period when Saints defenseman Mike Madill found center Chase Trull by the left post. With Harvard goaltender John Daigneau still shifted to the left, Trull sent the puck into the right side of the net. The early goal seemed to set the tone for the period. It was St. Lawrence’s turn to apply the pressure, finding the back of the net again at 13:06 when Madill, firing from the top of the right circle, banked a shot off of the left post and past Daigneau...