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Unfortunately, it's useless to confront themwith this. Unlike their female counterparts,they'll just make excuses

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Bad Karma | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...that I care anymore what she thinks. But I am starting to wonder. If an hour a week is too much, what's safe? Afraid to directly confront Sara Kiesler, one of the authors, I review her printed remarks on the university's website, where she artfully dodges the question. "Many people do things 'too much,'" she points out. "Eating quarts of ice cream at night, smoking three packs a day and sitting at the computer 10 hours at a time." I wait in vain for her to get to the too-much part. Later I screw up my courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bummed Like Me | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...still confronted with a glass ceiling. We were being discriminated against. There was no reason we shouldn't have been associate editors. This is discrimination, can't you see? When you confront these things, you can change them...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Conference Teaches Importance of Leadership | 9/8/1998 | See Source »

...Republicans must hope that impeachment will float in the air until November so the voters will remember them as the Party of Zipped Pants. Ordinarily, the voters need to sense danger before they get ginned up about politics: you receive a newsletter in the mail from the Committee to Confront the Present Crisis, and it is full of outrages committed by godless Washington pinheads, and your collar heats up, your toupee flies up in the air, your pants fill up with bricks, and you send in a check for $50 to save the country, but there are not so many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Get On to Something Serious? | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...thing to have an abstract notion that he actually had an affair and covered it up (and to have that leak from Starr's grand jury). It's another to hear it from his own mouth, to have the fig leaf of doubt removed and be forced to confront our own moral laxity in being willing to overlook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth, | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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