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Sounds fair. After all, prosecutors bear the burden of proof in criminal cases, so why shouldn't plaintiffs do the same in discrimination suits? But for nearly two decades, it didn't work that way. In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled in Griggs v. Duke Power Co. that once an employee could demonstrate that a particular hiring practice had resulted in a "disparate impact" (i.e. a statistical imbalance among members of a particular minority group), the burden of proof shifted to the employer to defend the "business necessity" of the challenged practice...
...need for a womens' center is predicated on the belief that there are certain issues specific to gender which historically have been ignored or maginalized in mainstream discourse. Harvard, which itself did not abolish quotas on the number of women admitted until 1975, must bear some responsibility for rectifying this matter...
Black's got a good ear and -- judging from his songs -- short patience for affectation of any kind. His lyrics bear down sharp but easy, perhaps because he came to country by a slightly different route. "When I was eight, I started collecting records," he remembers. "But it was the rock stuff that my older brothers had exposed me to. Then I got into Loggins and Messina, Croce, Buffett, Jackson Browne and James Taylor." He's had a total of one professional guitar lesson, and all it did was make him impatient. He just kept his eyes open around...
...their men, he realizes that there are many casualties on the scarred battlefields. They ) include those searching and mourning for their loved ones. At the end, Noiret sends a poignant love letter to Azema; the experience has made them a couple, perfectly matched but sadly unfulfilled. Tavernier, an ebullient bear of a man, is very much in the spirit of France's patron-saint director, Jean Renoir. In this monumental meditation on love in a time of war, Tavernier has made his own Rules of the Game...
...This is where it gets muddy, and everyone is going to draw the line differently. Consider the situation with manic-depressive illness, a reasonably common disorder. It is clearly genetically influenced, though not in a simple way. Now, manic-depressive illness can be a terrible cross to bear. The swings into depression are awful, and the highs can be very destructive. Yet a substantial number of highly creative people have suffered from this disease. Suppose we find the gene responsible for manic depression. If every couple has a prenatal test to determine if a fetus is at risk for manic...