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Kitt N. Hirasaki '96, for example, wore a black bra stuffed with toilet paper and a short black skirt which he described as "rolled up in the Catholic girls' school style...
...month, Baker & McKenzie, the nation's largest law firm, was ordered to pay $7.1 million in damages to a secretary who endured the repeated breast groping and buttocks grabbing of a senior partner. Other women had previously complained about the unwanted advances made by this partner (he plucked at bra straps; he tickled feet), but the firm did little beyond reprimanding...
...militiamen. The move came hours after pro-junta Haitians in the southwestern town of Les Cayes shot and wounded a U.S. Special Forces soldier. After the raid -- in which about 100 U.S. Army personnel detained at least 10 armed Haitians, including a woman who packed a pistol in her bra -- a crowd of club-wielding pro-democracy demonstrators surged into the compound, trashing and smashing anything within reach. The U.S. soldiers let the frenzy continue for an hour before dispersing the crowd. The American commander in Haiti, Lt. Gen. Hugh Shelton, said the detainees would be released into custody...
...marriage persisted through the fights, separations, reconciliations. The most public explosion came at around 3 in the morning on New Year's Day 1989 when police received a 911 call to the Simpson estate. Wearing only a bra and sweat pants, Nicole came running out from the bushes to let them in. She was badly beaten with a cut lip and a black eye, the officers reported, and kept saying, "He's going to kill me, he's going to kill me." Police asked whether he had a gun. "He's got lots of guns," she replied, and later complained...
This would be soap opera if the author were not unusually good at transforming acute, intuitive perceptions into sentences. Writing, this is called. Alice, half cracked, notices an overweight townswoman: "Her partially exposed freckled bosom, confined in its pushup bra, was barking and whining to get out." She slaps a hostile child: "He had absorbed the blow. It was as if the sting had gone right to a spot inside where he stored his wounds." And here is Alice's tiny daughter putting a clammy hand on her arm and trying to console her: "When I was your...