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...oath, one of two people had lied. Since one of those people is now a Supreme Court Justice who cast a vote making George W. Bush President, the point is far from moot. And last week the mystery took another turn, thanks to former American Spectator character assassin David Brock, the man designated by the right to destroy Hill's reputation and scrub Thomas'. Brock confesses in a Talk magazine excerpt of his new book, Blinded by the Right, that he had printed "virtually every derogatory and often contradictory allegation" he could to make Hill seem "a little bit nutty...
...interview with TIME last week, Savage recalled her meeting with Brock in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in downtown Washington in 1994. A book titled Strange Justice, by reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, had just come out--and it used on-the-record interviews to argue persuasively that Thomas had indeed subjected a number of women to frequent sexually explicit remarks about porno videos. Savage, a black mid-level aide in the Reagan Administration, told both the authors and the Judiciary Committee (although she wasn't called to testify publicly) that when she went to Thomas' apartment...
...people knew the details of Savage's divorce battle--her friends Hill and Thomas. Was there any way Brock could have got this information from Hill? "Absolutely not," Savage says. "Anita's mother brought vegetables in her suitcase to my house to cook dinner. They both know my children. They are my friends." Brock says he knows where the dirt came from--Thomas, by way of a mutual friend, former White House assistant counsel Mark Paoletta. Brock met Thomas at Paoletta's house when one of Paoletta's children was being christened (Thomas is a godfather) and claims Paoletta later...
When do you believe Brock--then or now? Lying is easy. Recanting is hard. Brock Then was a lone, unverifiable challenge to what Mayer calls "the facts as we always knew them to be." Brock Now provides enough detail to fact-check his current version. Even if that version proves true, Thomas probably broke no law. But nominees for the Supreme Court should meet a higher standard than that...
...Winners KOFI ANNAN U.N. Secretary-General gets reelected to second term with almost no discord. His simple platform: Lap-Dancing Fridays ANITA HILL David Brock apologizes for sleazing her in articles and a 1993 book. Anita celebrates by beating him senseless?then apologizing SHEIK HASINA Bangladeshi Prime Minister finishes full term in office, the first ever in country's history. Holds last-minute coup "for old times' sake...