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...chair Tawney B. Pearson '01; publications chair Brandon K. Walston '01; lecture series chair Kamil E. Redmond '00; public service chair Charisa A. Smith '00; online and technology chair Skylar H. Byrd '00, also a Crimson editor; alumni representative Nicole K. Sherwood '00; and senior class representative Dana B. Bennett...
President Clinton has one chance left to avoid the embarrassment of becoming the first sitting President to star in his own courtroom drama. Led by Robert Bennett, his lawyers have asked Judge Susan Webber Wright to dismiss Paula Jones' case. They say that while Jones' claim began with a single thread--that then Governor Clinton harmed her in 1991, when he allegedly exposed himself and asked for sex in a hotel room--it has since been embroidered into a garish tapestry of ancillary allegations intended to mortify. This week Jones' lawyers will respond to the motion and in doing...
...pretty. Jones' lawyers believe that Bennett has waged a nasty p.r. war against them and that it's time for payback. They will probably quote at length from Clinton's deposition, in which he is said to have finally admitted having sex (just once) with Gennifer Flowers. On the merits, Jones is alleging two kinds of sexual harassment. First, she says the President's proposition "impose[d] a hostile work environment" on her. The idea behind such a claim is that sexual advances and physical touching--if unwanted and "severe or pervasive" enough--are discriminatory. Given these general terms, just...
...will offer other examples too. Her boss wasn't as friendly. Someone moved her desk so her supervisor "could watch me at all times." She was given less to do. Though Bennett has records showing that Jones received raises and a promotion after the alleged incident, she is likely to say that she peeked at colleagues' paychecks and saw that they were bigger than hers. She will also say that Clinton implicitly threatened retaliation when he allegedly asked her to keep the incident quiet and when a state trooper later asked about her husband by name, even though...
...appear in the 700-page filing made by Paula Jones' lawyers Friday, part of a bid to explain why her case should go to trial. Clearly, it's not short on naming names. But is it short on evidence? "They have recycled a bunch of old rumors," said Bob Bennett, avuncular attorney for President Clinton. "These are a pack of lies...