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...Court's 9-0 decision in UAW v. Johnson Controls killed a new breed of sex discrimination based on the age-old idea that women's special responsibility to future generations justifies limiting their employment opportunities. So-called "fetal protection policies" might have applied in more than two million jobs had they remained legal, according to the Department of Labor...
...display of confederate flags--not unusual at other schools--has rekindled an age-old debate about the extent of free speech on campus. It is a debate that has many students and parents fuming and some administrators running for cover...
...instance, Gravely is the very parody of the football coach most of us see on television every Saturday, berating his players and gnawing on an age-old cigar butt. But Gravely turns this stereotype into a source of humor--for a while he walks around campus with the help of a cane, which he doesn't need but thinks makes him seem more distinguished and almighty...
...much too long. It was once, way back in the 1930s, a brisk, young, up-and-coming idea. By the late '60s, when Richard Nixon first declared a health-care "crisis," it was already beginning to sound a little middle-aged and weary. Today, with the health-care situation moving rapidly beyond crisis to near catastrophe, the age-old and obvious solution has the tone of a desperate whine: Why can't we have national health insurance -- like just about everybody else in the civilized world, please...
Melody Beattie is an American phenomenon. With her codependency concept, she connects with age-old quests for self-improvement and rebirth. These values, and the slogans that convey them, have reached the souls of millions of Americans who seem to communicate with one another through a national emotional chain letter. Off-putting or silly to the uninitiate, her messages inspire true believers. She has tapped into a preoccupation with addiction and alcohol, added a whiff of New Age mysticism and come up with a message that reaches Americans adrift in an atomistic society and often disillusioned with traditional psychotherapy...