Pitt's Bitter Battle Over Benefits

A struggle for health insurance for same-sex partners sullies relations between professors and administrators

By ROBIN WILSON

Pittsburgh

Shortly after Deborah M. Henson was hired as a legal-writing instructor at the University of Pittsburgh in 1994, she and another of the law school's new employees went to the human-resources office to sign up for benefits.

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