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...worth what I've been through -- no job. No horror in my life has been so debilitating. Confirm me if you want. Don't confirm me if you are so led." Said he: "I will not provide the rope for my own lynching. These are the most intimate parts of my privacy, and they will remain just that, private...
...Senators tacked with the political wind -- and a few were frank enough to admit it. "The Senate is on trial," said Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. "What is at stake is the integrity of the Senate," said John Kerry of Massachusetts. "We don't have the votes" to confirm Thomas, said minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas, explaining the Republicans' willingness to delay. Clearly, if the Senate really does awaken to the issue of sexual harassment, serendipity should be credited...
...countless innuendoes just slide. Nonetheless, the alleged language used by Thomas made Hill uncomfortable, and that counts as sexual harassment. The character witnesses presented in defense of Thomas are not enough to disprove these allegations. With such pending allegations it would be incomprehensible for the Senate to confirm Thomas...
...SENATE will vote today whether to confirm Clarence Thomas as a justice of the Supreme Court. There are many independent reasons why the Senate should vote against Thomas. The sexual harassment issue that has arisen of late is yet another...
With only one day remaining until the scheduled vote to confirm Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, many Harvard students yesterday remained as divided as the rest of the nation...