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...gays have indeed been discriminated against as a class - a traditional test for whether a group deserves the protection of heightened constitutional scrutiny. "The County does not, and could not in good faith, dispute the historical reality that gay and lesbian people as a group have long been the victim of purposeful and invidious discrimination because of their sexual orientation. The long and painful history of discrimination against gay and lesbian persons is epitomized by the criminalization of homosexual conduct in many parts of this country until very recently. School-yard bullies have psychologically ground children with apparently...
...hesitant prosecutors and investigating magistrates get them, there usually isn't enough in the dossier for a case to be tried," Diaz-Jogeix says. "There is no independent alternative to challenge rulings that the abuse accusations are unfounded. That allows police and their superiors to claim the role of victim, and file suit for 'outrage' against the people whose rights were abused by police violence in the first place...
...adds, may not see sexual assault as a prevalent problem within their community. “The issue is not relegated to people of a certain socioeconomic or educational background,” she says.At Duke University, “Saturday Night” began after one anonymous victim of sexual assault decided to write about the incident in The Chronicle, the student daily. After calling for others to speak out about similar experiences, she received a variety of responses, which moved her to compile the stories into a publication she named, “Saturday Night: Untold Stories...
...people say that they've cut back on groceries so significantly that they've actually lost weight. Some are thinking about leaving the city altogether. They're tired and frustrated and bored, but on this last afternoon in March they are making light of their situation. Lauren Diamond, a victim of advertising agency layoffs shrugs as she waits in line for the games, "I'm seriously sad," she says. "But at least I'm not from Lehman Brothers...
Harvard has also been victim to a few of its own health epidemics in years past (scabies /wait-just-kidding-it's-not-scabies outbreak of October 2007). In December of 1994, Harvard experienced a norovirus outbreak similar to that of Babson's and around 150 people were treated by UHS for vomiting and diarrhea. Rosenthal says that the origin of the virus outbreak of 1994 was most likely a dining hall employee working the salad bar. "One of the reasons we have Purell dispensers in the dining halls is because good hand washing can prevent the spread of this," he said...