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To: chalu2 who wrote (20604)	6/11/2000 10:39:00 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769670

youth have always been youth. but here is a glimpse of the future in a country where microsoft is considered a robber barron on the par of companies that led to where people were eating spoiled meat and dieing because of true monopoly companies that were the ONLY ones in existance. Workers were falling into gear boxes from exhaustion after 15 and 18 hour work days. Human rights violations and working conditions were appalling at the time. College rules against 'lady' as a PC word United Press International - June 11, 2000 22:26 Jump to first matched term By SAJID RIZVI LONDON, June 11 (UPI) -- It's official, at least in parts of Manchester, England. The use of words such as "lady" and "history" and "slaving over a pot" are not only political incorrect but cause offense, a college in Greater Manchester has ruled. The Stockport College issued the directive in a document titled "Equal Opportunities: Policy into Practice," which also urged its teachers and 15,000 students to desist from using words such as "mad," "manic" or "crazy" -- lest their utterance or usage in text was misconstrued as insulting to the mentally ill, the Telegraph newspaper said Sunday. A college hit list of about 40 words explained that "lady" was just as bad as "gentleman" since both words implied class -- particularly in Britain's class-conscious society if not everywhere else. But that did not mean students or teachers could go for a "woman" -- oh, no. The right word to use would be a person -- as in a person in the street (not, repeat not, a man in the street). "History" was out because, the college explained, the first syllable of the word was glaringly sexist. But it is perhaps not as bad as a "normal couple" -- an unthinkable indiscretion for those aspiring to be politically correct. The college said it decided to abolish "slaving over a pot" because the term was often used by students during practical work but sadly invoked memories offensive to ethnic minorities -- oops, another term completely out of bounds under the new directive. The expression "nitty gritty" was targeted as being particularly offensive to people of African origin and the phrase, "taking the mickey" was banned out of deference to the Irish, the college said. "It is political correctness of the worst kind," Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, told the Telegraph. "It is amazing that academics are still indulging in this sort of nonsense," he said. "They should be concentrating on teaching their students, instead of trying to ban words which any ordinary person would regard as an everyday part of the English language." The college said it intends to make adherence to its policy a condition of service and admission for teachers and students. It admitted that pursuit of politically correct language could sometimes go too far. However, Worldwide Web surfers found that the college has yet to update its own website and continues to use banned words such as "blind" for "visually impaired" and "ethnic minorities." The college guidelines came to light a few days after a state-run employment facilitation center in Walsall, England, refused to accept an advertisement in which an employer said he was seeking a "hard-working" recruit. Jonathan Stevenson, the center's manager, argued the phrase could offend the disabled but relented after David Blunkett, the senior education and employment minister, intervened. In September last year, the Roman Catholic Church accused a priest of "absurd political correctness" for refusing to wrap babies in white christening shawls because he said the color was offensive to black parents. The priest, who was not named, dropped traditional prayers and other parts of the baptism ceremony because they contained references to "white" and "darkness" which he said were "dangerously divisive" words in multicultural Britain. The priest's views were published under a pseudonym by The Tablet weekly newspaper. Joel Edwards, general director of the Evangelical Alliance which represents more than a million Christians Britain, accused the pastor of suffering from "cultural paranoia." He said, "This is going back to the time a few years ago when you couldn't call a blackboard a blackboard because somebody found it offensive. We have to be sensitive about the use of language but this is going overboard. Those comments are not an expression of multicultural sensitivity but patronizing and out of step with what black churchgoers believe." But some senior black Catholics backed The Tablet for publishing the article. Musgrave Caesar, chairman of the Birmingham group of the Catholic Association for Racial Justice, said, "A lot of the Church's language associates black with sin and white with goodness. That can have a particularly strong effect on children. Many priests are not conscious of this and if they are they seem afraid to rock the boat." --

To: chalu2 who wrote (20604)	6/12/2000 10:32:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769670

McCain re-opens door to taking VP, craves media spotlight: suntimes.com

To: chalu2 who wrote (20604)	6/14/2000 10:09:00 AM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769670

Gore can't make the toilets works. Plumbers depart when the cameras turn off: Gore Tenant Claims Repairs Not Getting Done When Tracy Mayberry complained about the conditions in her home, she was given an eviction notice. When her story made national headlines, her landlord, Vice President Al Gore, promised he'd get everything fixed immediately. But, Mayberry's toilet still isn't working. When she flushes it, water and, she says, sewage spill out around the base. "That's just nasty," Mayberry said Tuesday. newschannel5.com