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Lives, jobs and careers have simply become too interdependent, too interwoven for anyone to claim pure self-reliance (even Clarence Thomas needed nuns, Yale's affirmative action plan and the patronage of Sen. Jack Danforth to succeed...
...Thomas last week. In Congress pro-choice activists have helped pass a bill to overturn the gag rule that now forbids doctors to discuss abortion at federally funded clinics, but they cannot muster enough votes to override Bush's veto. Next week the Senate will take up Senator John Danforth's civil rights bill, which for the first time would award compensatory damages to victims of sexual harassment. But even after the recent outpouring of testimony about the problem, congressional lobbyists are not sure the Senate will produce the votes to override a presidential veto. When a similar bill came...
...Thomas' as well.) She visited Thomas another time after she left the EEOC, she explained, to get a recommendation from him. And what of the 11 phone calls she made to Thomas over a six-year period, publicized earlier in the week by Thomas' Senate champion, Republican John Danforth of Missouri? Those, she explained, were work-related calls, and each "was made in a professional context...
After it became impossible to ignore the charges, the Senate's major preoccupation, like that of an exclusive club, was an infraction of its bylaws. Senator John Danforth, Thomas' chief handler, harrumphed, "The cloud of doubt was created by a violation of the rules of the U.S. Senate"; so Danforth maintained that the doubt was not valid. Anyway Thomas had given Danforth his gentleman's word, and that was enough for him. Says Woods: "It's the male, Yale, class response. It's infuriating to women because it's the club they never belonged...
...read Anita Hill's charges of sexual harassment and tossed them into the circular file. Probably nobody ever asked Joe Biden why a cute little number like him would want a career in politics. Chances are no officemate ever let his or her hand drift languorously over John C. Danforth's derriere or inquired as to Orrin Hatch's vital dimensions...