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...point most rigorously pursued by the Senate panel, particularly Pennsylvania's Senator Arlen Specter, the chief Republican interrogator on the committee, was why Hill decided in 1982 to follow Thomas from the Education Department to the EEOC. At that point, Hill said, she thought "the sexual overtures which had so troubled me had ended." Besides, she noted, there was talk that President Reagan was thinking of phasing out the Education Department, and she feared she might wind up jobless...
...Senators tacked with the political wind -- and a few were frank enough to admit it. "The Senate is on trial," said Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. "What is at stake is the integrity of the Senate," said John Kerry of Massachusetts. "We don't have the votes" to confirm Thomas, said minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas, explaining the Republicans' willingness to delay. Clearly, if the Senate really does awaken to the issue of sexual harassment, serendipity should be credited...
...Hill change her answers to questions about whether Senate staffers ever discussed with her the possibility of Thomas's withdrawing over her allegations? Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), a former prosecutor, says such flipflopping constitutes perjury. We agree...
...Michael J. Arlen '52 wrote in his book The Living-Room War (which coined the common phrase) that television coverage of Vietnam "all sounded very safe and institutional, and rather like a rerun." Arlen chronicled a history of rigged enemy casualty figures, over-statements about the effectiveness of "search-and-destroy missions" and air raids, and lies by senior administration officials about the need for more troops. All the while, this information went unquestioned by TV news. The military's war had become the media...
Would such a stance wash? Perhaps, but "the stakes are much higher this time," says Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican whose opposition doomed Bork's 1987 court nomination. "Bork's vote to overturn Roe would not have made the difference. Souter's would...