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...only female sergeant in the University police department received a substantial wage increase as part of the settlement this summer of a sexism complaint she filed with state and city agencies...
Citing a confidentiality agreement, Stanford and attorneys for both the sergeant and the University would not discuss the agreement this week. Police sources said the settlement, finalized this summer with MCAD, is worth close to $10,000 per year. Stan-ford made a little over $40,000 in fiscal year...
...than a revolutionary. When he helped found Kiryat Arba, now home to 7,000 Jews near the Palestinian city of Hebron, in 1968, he says, "we felt that God had opened the gates and brought us back to the heart of Eretz Yisrael." As spiritual leader of the Jewish settlement movement, Waldman and a handful of other settlers must decide how they are going to force the Israeli government to renege on the peace agreement. The rabbi is convinced that with demonstrations, the blocking of some roads, interference in the routine workday of government officials in Jerusalem, the settlers will...
...Settlement leaders are caught between the few who embrace violence to continue doing what they believe is God's work and those who have, after years of the Palestinian uprising, lost their taste for the hatred and death that violence breeds. Ahiram Nagar is 18 years old, and has lived in Kiryat Arba for the past three years. He is about to enter the Israeli army, and he is not averse to taking part in violence because "it can help." Far more typical is Michal Petel, 31, a Jerusalem-born mother of five who has lived in Kiryat Arba since...
...rash of birth defects: in one four-month period, 11 deformed children were born; other children suffered serious heart and reproductive-organ problems. Most of the citizens have fled their homes. Many have been compensated by the courts and developers: last year 1,700 plaintiffs agreed on a settlement of $207 million, reportedly the largest-ever out-of-court deal in a toxic-waste case. Meanwhile, after 10 years, liquid and airborne wastes are still flowing from the plant site...