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...volition. She was reassigned after a maternity leave but to a similar data-entry job at the same rate of pay. Jones' team has not effectively disputed this. She alleges on-the-job insults--not getting flowers on Secretary's Day, being moved to a desk closer to her boss--but the slights "don't rise to the level of an adverse action under the law," says Lynne Bernabei, a respected employment-rights litigator in Washington. "The guy may have acted boorishly, but that's not sexual harassment. The law is not there to control behavior, it's there...
...been an issue all year, of course, but I write now because I have a new problem to share: the Second Sun is failing. The Second Sun system has been Lowell J-52's secret plan to light its room: turn on the overhead light and the two desk lights in the common room, bring both torchiere halogen lamps out of the bedrooms, and place the halogens in front of the doors. For the piece de resistance, we close the doors to reflect the light and voila!--there is almost enough light to make reading bearable. Months of experimental positioning...
...other kind of sexual harassment, which is more difficult to prove, is quid pro quo harassment. "Quid pro quo" is Latin for "Sleep with me or clean out your desk." Jones isn't saying that Clinton threatened to fire her if she didn't "kiss it," but her lawyers are expected to argue that the atmosphere in the state office where she worked turned chilly after she said no. Clintonites chuckle over an example she offered in her deposition--that she didn't get Secretary's Day flowers...
...will offer other examples too. Her boss wasn't as friendly. Someone moved her desk so her supervisor "could watch me at all times." She was given less to do. Though Bennett has records showing that Jones received raises and a promotion after the alleged incident, she is likely to say that she peeked at colleagues' paychecks and saw that they were bigger than hers. She will also say that Clinton implicitly threatened retaliation when he allegedly asked her to keep the incident quiet and when a state trooper later asked about her husband by name, even though...
...tests and conducted a search of his home. A source told TIME that the FBI asked a State Department official about a brown tweed jacket, which was never found. FBI agents found no evidence linking the diplomat they questioned with wrongdoing, and he is back at his State Department desk...