A Muslim psychology graduate student is suing Southwest Airlines for discrimination because Southwest employees kicked her off a flight in March after a stewardess misunderstood her phone conversation. Irum Abbasi claims in the suit that the stewardess thought she said “It’s a go,” on her cell phone before hanging up for take-off. Abbasi actually said, “I’ve
Continue reading …Since the Occupy Wall Street protests began last month, there’s been some debate about whether they can develop into a mass movement capable of creating significant change. When The Lookout checked out the Lower Manhattan demonstration, we weren’t convinced. And here’s another piece of evidence that suggests the Occupiers could struggle to organize themselves into
Continue reading …A 52-year-old boxer wrongly imprisoned for 26 years is fighting his first professional match on Saturday. Dewey Bozella was convicted of the grisly murder of a 92-year-old New York woman in 1977 on the testimony of two convicted criminals. Since he insisted he was innocent, Bozella refused to admit any remorse over the crime–a gesture
Continue reading …A 52-year-old boxer wrongly imprisoned for 26 years is fighting his first professional match on Saturday. Dewey Bozella was convicted of the grisly murder of a 92-year-old New York woman in 1977 on the testimony of two convicted criminals. Since he insisted he was innocent, Bozella refused to admit any remorse over the crime–a gesture
Continue reading …President Obama’s jobs council is set to propose help for new start-up companies as a key component of its recommendations for encouraging hiring. But one expert on entrepreneurship says that’s the wrong approach to the present jobs crisis. The panel, which will hold its third meeting Tuesday, will propose that Congress eliminate taxes on income
Continue reading …President Obama’s jobs council is set to propose help for new start-up companies as a key component of its recommendations for encouraging hiring. But one expert on entrepreneurship says that’s the wrong approach to the present jobs crisis. The panel, which will hold its third meeting Tuesday, will propose that Congress eliminate taxes on income
Continue reading …Rick Scott, the Republican governor of Florida, said this week that he wants to move funding at the state’s colleges away from the humanities and social sciences and into engineering and the sciences. Scott singled out anthropology as an example of a field of study that should get less money from the state government because
Continue reading …Rick Scott, the Republican governor of Florida, said this week that he wants to move funding at the state’s colleges away from the humanities and social sciences and into engineering and the sciences. Scott singled out anthropology as an example of a field of study that should get less money from the state government because
Continue reading …Occupy Wall Street may lack a firmly articulated policy agenda or set of demands, but the movement may have something stronger–a individually created portrait of its numbers. “We Are the 99 Percent” is a blog created by the organizers of Occupy Wall Street; it consists of user-submitted testimonies of how ordinary Americans are coping with
Continue reading …Occupy Wall Street may lack a firmly articulated policy agenda or set of demands, but the movement may have something stronger–a individually created portrait of its numbers. “We Are the 99 Percent” is a blog created by the organizers of Occupy Wall Street; it consists of user-submitted testimonies of how ordinary Americans are coping with
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