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...Jones case didn't just drain our collective attention span. It alerted us to just how much the law of sexual harassment had expanded over the past decade. We moved from a time when a boss asking a woman to get the coffee or meet him in the file closet was neither a cause nor a cause of action, to a time when one pass or one bad joke is enough for a lawsuit. Plaintiffs can go on fishing expeditions so extensive that consensual affairs are fair game and totally innocent bystanders can be subpoenaed to prove that they were...
...year career with the Oakland A's and the New York Yankees, Hunter won five World Series, pitched a perfect game, won a Cy Young Award and became the first multimillion-dollar player when he declared free agency in 1974. "He taught us how to win," said his onetime boss George Steinbrenner...
...panic in Moscow isn?t on the streets; it?s in the Kremlin. Top Yeltsin aides have been stoking Russia?s rumor mill all week, hinting variously that their boss is considering declaring a state of emergency, planning to resign this weekend and call early presidential elections, or looking to simply rely on his familiar when-in-doubt-fire-the-prime-minister formula. Yeltsin aides are also warning that he?s facing another life-threatening health crisis and even ?- in the case of one bizarre story leaked from within the Kremlin ?- that the Russian president died last week. "There...
...endless need to taunt and flatter itself. When stars are booked for a big benefit, or for Leno or Letterman, they cry, Get Bruce! Which is also the title of Andrew J. Kuehn's fond, zippy new documentary about the Bruce who, on the Hollywood circuit, is the real Boss...
DIED. LOUISE PATTERSON, 97, vigorous civil rights activist and cultural force in the Harlem Renaissance; in New York City. Patterson's myriad activities included helping her onetime boss and longtime friend Langston Hughes, left, start the Harlem Suitcase Theater and organizing a notable Marxist-friendly salon, Vanguard...