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...modern Games had hardly begun when the U.S. outraged the British by refusing to dip the flag to King Edward VII during the 1908 opening ceremonies in London. (Nor did the U.S. dip the flag to Queen Elizabeth II last week; she was not offended.) The Finns, then under the domination of Imperial Russia, sought the same year to emphasize their strivings for national identity by refusing to march under the Russian flag. Hitler tried to use the 1936 Berlin Games as a display of the supremacy of the Aryan race...
...fired for spurning the sexual advances of her boss, U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Richey last week tried to apply some firm rules of law to such indelicate situations. He came close to succeeding, then fell on his face. From his Washington courtroom, Richey decreed that under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, employees discharged for not submitting to amorous advances may bring sexual-discrimination charges against the following bosses: 1) males who try to seduce female subordinates, 2) females who make advances toward male underlings and 3) homosexuals who have eyes for employees of the same...
Barbara E. White and Christiane Joost-Gaugier are charging Tufts with a violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which says that any person who feels unfairly dealt with "by an employer because of race, color, religion, national origin or sex" has the right to file charges with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC...
Lloyd Randolph, an official in Boston's division of the EEOC, said Tuesday the Civil Rights Act of 1964's Title VII provisions give any person who feels unfairly dealt with "by an employer because of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, has the right to file a charge with the EEOC...
...Title VII has previously been instrumental in labor related decisions. This case marks a divergence in that the academic community is involved, Randolph said...