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...collection contains "much, much more," to echo the last words of Nabokov's novel Ada. There are madmen, romantics, nymphets and those enduring symbols of the 20th century, melancholy exiles whose portable lives are light on possessions but heavy with memories. That Nabokov gave wings to his own past is reaffirmed by the publication of this long-overdue volume, an authentic literary event and, even at $35, the reading bargain of the year...
...This amounts to cultural and economic genocide," says Ada Deer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior and head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. A ferocious appropriations bill passed last month by the Senate, outdoing an only slightly less severe offering by the House, slashes the bureau's $1.7 billion budget a third. Deer has announced that the BIA may lay off up to 4,000 of its 12,000 employees by month's end, the most drastic personnel cut currently being contemplated by any federal agency. Just as important, the Senate bill targets moneys that bulwark greater tribal autonomy. Says...
...potentially bankrupting litigation. In fact, a new Louis Harris & Associates survey of 404 corporate executives, 81% of whom have modified their offices since the law went into effect, found that the median cost of making the workplace more accessible is just $223 per disabled person. Two-thirds said the ADA had not invited any increase in lawsuits. Even so, hiring of the disabled by large corporations has barely nudged forward over the past decade. More dismally, the percentage of small businesses that have hired disabled employees has slipped from 54% to 48% since the ada's enactment. "They're fearful...
...frivolous lawsuits. In Indiana a customer filed a complaint against a restaurant because a waiter refused to carve the meat for the man's ailing mother. A Louisiana television anchorwoman sued for time off to receive fertility treatments. In each case, the charges were thrown out. What infuriates ADA advocates is that most of the 45,000 complaints filed over the past three years with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission have been brought by people citing types of disabilities--back problems, depression, neurological disorders--that received scant mention when the ADA was crafted...
...backward against the flow of other shoppers after she paid her bill. On a recent visit, she found that the store, now run by a different retailer, was much easier to deal with. There were no turnstiles to negotiate, and a wide checkout counter had been installed. "Without the ADA," Breslin said, "this wouldn't have happened...