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...While it is laudable that the VA has accepted the Wiccan Pentacle and begun to examine their highly entrenched, anachronistic system, this single action is not enough. The system of emblems of belief—which places an undue, indeed unfair, emphasis on one’s religious identity—needs to be reevaluated entirely so that soldiers can be remembered in a way most appropriate to them...
What hasn't changed is the NC-17. Though the designation got a makeover in 1990--it used to be X--it still has the old, unfair tinge of porn. The big studios avoid it. Mostly it goes to sexually charged fare from world-class directors, like Pedro Almodvar's Bad Education ($5.2 million domestic) and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers ($2.5 million). The one big, glitzy NC-17 movie, the 1995 Vegas-stripper epic Showgirls, cost $45 million to produce and earned just $20 million. That modest sum is the highest take ever...
...gaps based on race and socioeconomic status. As Richard C. Atkinson, former president of the University of California school system, said to the American Council on Education in 2001, the SAT also tends to “[distort] educational priorities and practices…is perceived by many as unfair, and…can have a devastating impact on the self-esteem and aspirations of young students.” While some argue that the SAT is an important tool for large state schools to comb through their many applicants, publicly expressed skepticism by the University of California itself proves...
...Katzmann, the judge who awarded Currier the break time last week, rejected the board’s argument and cited the potential for pain or medical injury from infection or breast engorgement if Currier were not given extra break time. “Such physical pain constitutes an unfair burden on the mental energies required for this examination,” he wrote in last week’s decision. That opinion overturned a ruling the week before by Judge Patrick F. Brady of Norfolk Superior Court, who ruled in favor of the Board. Zaroulis added that Currier would take...
...undisputed that the petitioner will suffer physical pain from breast engorgement if she is not permitted additional time,” he wrote. “Such physical pain constitutes an unfair burden on the mental energies required for this examination...