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...denial of Brown's appeal leaves in effect a ruling from last November by the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston that Brown had violated Title IX, the 1972 code that bans gender discrimination in education...
...first time in a long while, I turned on the television in my room. As a program started, some odd letters flashed on the left hand side of the screen: TV-something. What were they, these mysterious letters? A glitch of the emergency operating system? Some odd code to alien spaceships so their attacks could be synchronized? Perhaps even a subliminal message? In fact, the strange message in the corner of my screen was a part of the new system of television ratings...
Nevertheless, the association is promulgating a code that prohibits its 1,000 member HMOs from enforcing gag rules and employing such practices as drive-by mastectomies, on pain of being kicked out. In what looks like an if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em move, the association has even announced support for Clinton's panel. Pisano hopefully predicts a "thoughtful" study--leading, presumably, to mild recommendations...
...profession seemed more an arbitrary choice to inject "workplace humor." After the second season she stopped dating--some writers say because DeGeneres was uncomfortable with overtly heterosexual story lines, although she says she simply wasn't interested in doing a show that focused on relationships. As it happens, the code working title of the coming-out script, The Puppy Episode, is an in-joke reference to one of the lamer attempts to juice up the show: an executive's suggestion--DeGeneres won't say whose--that the show's creative problems might be solved if Ellen Morgan got a puppy...
Apple's future is not "rotten at the core," as Davis claims. Apple will ship this year both Mac O.S. 8 (code-named Tempo, a complete revitalization of the Macintosh interface, which includes significant performance and stability improvements) and its first release of the Nextstep-derived Rhapsody, which promises to put Microsoft back on the defensive...