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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charging that he was dismissed from his job as a result of "personal animosity," a former Law School employee is suing the University and his supervisor for reinstatement and unspecified damages...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Former Researcher Sues Harvard | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Shure said the Rutgers organization "had some problems" with the university administration as a result of their action, but added that he did not know how the issue was resolved...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: COCA Spared By Ad Board | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

...actors throw good lines away or overlap them in ways that work in the movie's naturalistic context. But Herbert Ross insists on theatricality. His editing even provides awkward little pauses for the audience to fill with laughter, just as if this were still a play. As a result, some very good performers (Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah, Dolly Parton) function less as full-scale sorority sisters than as chorus members who elbow their way up front in a crowd of even sketchier characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festive Film Fare for Thanksgiving: Steel Magnolias | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...result of all the violence, school administrators across the U.S. are searching through tight budgets to find money to beef up school security. If nothing else, the schools will face legal liability if they have not taken steps to be prepared. The New York City schools now operate the eleventh largest security force in the U.S. Most city schools have locked doors; 15 of them use metal detectors; ten schools allow entry only with computerized ID cards. Cost of all the security: $60 million annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shootouts in The Schools | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

Thomas Stoddard of Lambda counters that "history by itself cannot justify % an unduly limited definition of family, particularly when people suffer as a result." Yet even within the gay-rights movement, there is some disagreement about the goal. Paula Ettelbrick, the legal director of Lambda, argues that the campaign for domestic partnership or gay marriage is misdirected because it tries to adopt traditional heterosexual institutions for gays rather than encouraging tolerance for divergent life-styles. "Marriage, as it exists today, is antithetical to my liberation as a lesbian and as a woman, because it mainstreams my life and voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Should Gays Have Marriage Rights? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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