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Coach Joe Paterno was fired in the wake of a harrowing child sex scandal, after concerns arose that he had not done enough to protect the children involved. But he is still cashing some very large checks. A Penn State spokesman said yesterday that Paterno"remains employed by the university as a tenured faculty member."
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In a landmark Supreme Court decision released yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld the right of religious institutions to make hiring and firing decisions that would otherwise violate discrimination laws.
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At a recent meeting of the Modern Language Association, a controversial proposal was rejected by a vote of 87 to 37.
