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When the University of Pennsylvania denied tenure to Rosalie Tung in 1985, the Chinese-American business professor decided to put up a fight. Charging discrimination on the basis of sex and race, Tung asked the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate. But the university turned down the agency's request to see the peer-review letters that contained evaluations of Tung's performance by her colleagues. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court bluntly told the university to hand over the documents. The decision was one of a quartet of major rulings from the high bench, which also touched...
First Amendment experts generally cheered the Dallas ruling. "Over and over, the court has said that licensing standards must be crystal clear," explained University of Michigan law professor Frederick Schauer. "This is a quite proper application of the court's long-held distrust of official discretion." Conservative court commentator Bruce Fein disagreed, charging that "the high court is doing a pirouette around obscenity laws...
Civil rights advocates were dismayed at the decision, which they saw as another attempt to water down legal remedies against inequality. "This case may encourage unwarranted defiance of judicial authority in civil rights matters," observed Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe. Added ) Cornell University law professor Steven Shiffrin: "There is no place for deference to the legislative process when it does not act in good faith." But Peter Chema, one of the targeted Yonkers council members, was jubilant. "This is a democracy," he declared, "and an elected official's vote is sacred...
...Fast food used to be a bootstraps business -- you started out as a fry cook and then became president. No longer." So says Professor Don Smith of Washington State University, who holds what may be the first endowed chair for the study of the fast-food industry, thanks to a $250,000 grant from Taco Bell. A former executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and the Shakey's pizza- parlor chain, Smith says the booming $60 billion industry is suffering a shortage of skilled managers...
...AIDS lobby has been so successful because early on it grasped a fundamental principle of American research. Explains Philip Lee, University of California at San Francisco professor of social medicine: "The system is a political process." By using Washington connections, media savvy and even civil disobedience, the AIDS movement may have become the most effective disease lobby in the history of medicine. Says Jeff Levi, former executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: "Long after AIDS is gone, we will have changed how research is done in this country...