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...quiet about their sexual orientation, offer an apt model. "Hundreds of corporations have policies that protect gay men and lesbians against discrimination," says Jay Lucas, a Philadelphia employment consultant. "But that doesn't mean the culture has changed." John, a Navy petty officer in San Diego, sounds a common refrain. To come out of the closet, he says, "would be professional suicide because your superiors will find ways not to promote you." A change in policy does not guarantee that harassment will immediately stop: some gay servicemen reported last week that insults and physical attacks have increased since President Clinton...
These days Roger is under orders from the Clintons to refrain from political comment and decline all interviews, including one for this story. His music associates, meanwhile, want Roger to get cracking on the record: since the deal was signed, he has spent thousands of dollars flying five of his oldest friends out to visit him in Los Angeles. He has also bought a sleek Dodge Stealth, in which he was stopped for speeding on Christmas Day. Yes, his brother beat him to the cover of Rolling Stone, and his mother beat him to the cover of the Daily Racing...
Under law, government agencies can access card key information through a subpoena. Although no law restricts the College from accessing card key information, CLUH is asking the College to voluntarily refrain from using...
...nonfiction, in fact, his principal role has been that of a warning bell and an elegist, trying to rescue traditional values and forgotten instincts from the ravages of progress. ("Modern time, mon, modern time," runs the knelling refrain of Far Tortuga.) "The world is losing its grit and taste," he says with feeling. "The flavor of life is going." And he rises to highest eloquence when talking of the way ever brighter urban lights have caused a "loss of the night" -- the fading of the stars he knew as a boy and of the dark waters on Long Island Sound...
Pannell and his staff offer a constant refrain. "What is the rule?" he asks. "No hitting, kicking, fighting or other types of negative, violent behavior," answer the students. Even among Malcolm X kindergartners, tempers can flair into serious combat with little or no provocation. In the community around Malcolm X, fighting often escalates in an instant. "There are no more fisticuffs," says Pannell. "It's maiming, stabbing, shooting immediately. This is the kind of learned behavior, the environment in which these children are growing up." At Malcolm X, the short-term objective is to intercede and present a peaceful resolution...