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NHL, players join with You Can Play to fight homophobia in hockey
Maybe it really is as simple as it sounds. That for the NHL and its players, establishing a partnership with the You Can Play project — which fights homophobia and advocates for the inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual athletes in...Tags: Ice Hockey, ESPN (tv network), Social Issues, Minority Groups, Homophobia
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Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker advocates paying parents for student performance
Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker could never win an election in this town. In a 30-minute speech Thursday to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the 82-year-old University of Chicago economist proposed that keeping "the American dream alive" would...
Tags: Mexico, Washington, DC, Melissa Harris, Social Issues, Minority Groups
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Fired East Hartford Police Officer Files Racial Discrimination Complaint With State
The Hartford CourantJuma Jones, who was dismissed from his job as a town police officer, has filed a racial discrimination complaint with the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities charging that he was punished more severely than white department employees who...Tags: East Hartford, Politics, Racism, Computer Crime, Human Rights
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Iowa jury returns record $240-million judgment in ADA abuse case
A jury has awarded $240 million to 32 mentally disabled former workers at a turkey processing plant in Iowa, in what officials on Wednesday said was the largest such judgment in a federal abuse and discrimination case. After a week-long trial, the...
Tags: Social Issues, Labor Legislation, Trials, Turkey (animal), Des Moines Register
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Well-meaning USDA program implodes on taxpayers
In 1999, President Bill Clinton set out to right a wrong: the government's widespread discrimination against black farmers, particularly in the South. The victims had applied for farming loans but, owing to bias on the part of federal loan officers, had...
Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Trials
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CORRECTED-Ex-Ogletree VP sends scathing email to clients, colleagues
Reuters(Corrects paragraph 7 to remove reference to the shareholder's being in Ogletree's Kansas City office.) By Casey Sullivan (Reuters) - Partners who defect from one law firm to another usually keep any hard feelings about their former firm to themselves....Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues, Career and Workplace
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Bill O'Reilly's bigotry
Why does the bigotry of Bill O'Reilly deserve the exposure of a regular column in your paper? The defense of Catholicism has a new leader in Pope Francis I, who has more than enough to cope with within the Curia. O'Reilly writes, "The prince of peace... -
Hilary Koprowski dies at 96; developed oral vaccine for polio
Hilary Koprowski, a Polish-born researcher who developed the first successful oral vaccine for polio, has died. He was 96. Koprowski died of pneumonia April 11 at his Philadelphia home, said his son, Dr. Christopher Koprowski, a radiation oncologist....
Tags: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Biotechnology, Disease Prevention, Medical Research, Pharmaceuticals
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1993 ruling paved way for shifting views on marriage equality, former justice says
The Honolulu Star-AdvertiserAs a younger member of the Hawaii Supreme Court at age 46, Steven Levinson wrote the landmark opinion issued nearly 20 years ago that launched the debate over same-sex marriage that still reverberates today across the country and in the nation's highest...Tags: Government, Lawyers, Social Issues, Trials, Minority Groups
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COOL not ruled illegal by WTO but finds label wording to be a problem
On Friday, March 8, 2013, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a new rule to bring the mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) regulations into compliance with the July 2012 decision of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Politics, Consumer Goods Industries, Social Issues, International Organizations
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Openly gay athlete Jason Collins is what 'we've all been waiting for'
National political leaders, gay rights groups and entertainment icons on Monday spoke in support of Jason Collins, the first active professional athlete to come out as gay. The 34-year-old Los Angeles native, who helped lead Harvard-Westlake School to...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Baltimore Ravens, Minnesota Vikings, Football, Bill Clinton
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EDITORIAL: Support for ENDA: Anti-discrimination law's 40-year trip
Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.On Thursday, Boulder's Rep. Jared Polis, a Democrat, and Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley from Oregon introduced a bill that would bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. With states legalizing gay marriage, and others crafting...Tags: Tammy Baldwin, U.S. Congress, Labor Legislation, Social Issues, Susan Collins
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