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When Boston Mayor Thomas Menino ended a longtime giveaway program this year, of free golf privileges for 15 local ministers, several black minister-golfers were incensed, like Rev. James Allen, who said, “I don’t want to make it a racial thing, but it seemed like that’s what it was.”
New Frontiers in PC: Sal Santana II, 12, was suspended for three days from an El Paso, Texas, middle school for sexual harassment after sticking his tongue out at a girl who said she wouldn’t be his girlfriend.
The Leander, Texas, school board voted in June to prohibit students from “teasing.”
Britain’s National Society for Epilepsy said in April it had received several inquiries from teachers in training who had been instructed to avoid the term “brainstorming,” as offensive to epileptics (substitute: “thought shower”) (but the society said brainstorming was OK).
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