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...necessarily about dating someone in the office. One of the things we found very intriguing this summer is that Clarence Thomas' autobiography came out in tandem with the Isaiah Thomas mess here in New York. One thing stood out to us. In both cases, the guys tried to defend their position, their indefensible position in my view, by claiming not that Anita Hill or Anucha Browne Saunders was a slut wearing short skirts and behaving provocatively. In both cases, they tried to denigrate the woman's job performance and claim that the women were incompetent, and this was how they...
...their seats open to challengers and, in many cases, divisive and expensive primaries. Republicans also have four vulnerable Senators running in purple states in 2008: New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and Oregon; some of them are trailing in polls. Senator Ted Stevens' corruption woes in Alaska may force Republicans to defend that once lock-safe seat. And Democrats have even vowed to go after Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, whose protégé just lost the Kentucky Governor's mansion to a Democratic insurgent. But if resignations are weakening the party, the party's weakness is also encouraging more resignations...
Grassley rejects the criticism. "We're not looking at doctrine. I don't know much about the words Prosperity gospel," he says. But he acknowledges that religious-freedom concerns may make an investigation a "little more difficult to defend." Fellow Senators--"I won't give their names"--have asked what they should tell the preachers. Says Grassley: "My answer was, 'Tell them to do what all the other nonprofits do--answer my letter.'" And hope for a different kind of grace...
...good season,” Moretzsohn says.Now, Moretzsohn and her teammates have turned their attention to the upcoming season. Though she suffered a brief setback in June when she broke her foot, she was back on the court by August, and has spent the last three months preparing to defend Harvard’s Ivy title.Last year’s successful campaign has only served to raise the bar for Moretzsohn and the rest of the squad.“I think as a team we clearly expect to get ourselves back in the position to win the Ivy League...
...national workforce, and have seen their influence steadily wane over the years. Should they fail in their traditional "last stand" defense of the "special regime" pensions, they'd allow Sarkozy to storm what has been considered the unions' last bastion - and leave them with little ground left to defend...