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...think Senator Hatch crossed a line in his questioning. But I am not a black woman." -- JOSEPH BIDEN, CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, COMMENTING ON AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN SENATORS CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN AND ORRIN HATCH DURING THE GINSBURG HEARINGS
...first black woman to sit in the Senate, Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, had amassed a spotty record in her first seven months. But she took command of the Senate floor last week as she demanded that the legislators reconsider their approval of the patent. "This vote is about race. It is about racial symbols, the racial past, and the single most painful episode in American history." Her voice shaking, she declared, "It is absolutely unacceptable to me and to millions of Americans, black or white, that we would put the imprimatur of the United States Senate on a symbol...
Carol Moseley-Braun foils one bit of Southern nostalgia...
...Carol Moseley Braun is the Democrats' new wild card. It may be that wild-card is not the word to describe her, since the Senator from Illinois does not seek to deceive anyone about her almost fanatically progressive and refreshingly liberal views...
...housecleaning ones. After all, the problem of these Harvard women could simply be the yuppie, baby-boomer hubris that says this generation of upscale Americans is going to make easy what their parents found hard. Or it could be just plain Harvard hubris. "In the Harvard community," says Suzanne Braun Levine, a Radcliffe graduate and editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, "there is such a historic sense of people with a need to overachieve and with a streak of self-criticism. A lot of people feel that they didn't achieve everything they could...