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...Hill followed Thomas to the EEOC as his special assistant, but surprised colleagues a year later by leaving to take a job as law professor at Oral Roberts University. Five years ago, she moved over to the University of Oklahoma, where she specializes in commercial law, one of the least glamorous subtopics of a buttoned-down field. Hill is happiest when teaching contract law, discussing how to promote economic development on Indian reservations, or writing papers on topics like "The Relative Nature of Property in the Context of Bankruptcy." She works on the faculty senate and the dean's committee...
Even as her charges were electrifying the country, Thomas' defenders were rushing to his side. Dolores Rozzi, director of the office of federal operations at the EEOC, worked for Thomas for seven years. Through hundreds of meetings together, she says, she never saw him listen to anyone tell a dirty joke, let alone tell one himself. "People thought he was a little uptight and conservative," says Rozzi. "The word was, 'You have to go to Clarence with clean hands...
...just one of the ironies of his situation that while heading the EEOC, Thomas strongly urged the Justice Department to back the commission's sexual- harassment guidelines in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court. But while he strongly denies it, Thomas has been accused of dragging his feet on the 1983 case of an EEOC attorney who was accused of making unwelcome sexual advances to several women in his office. After an internal investigation found the charges to have substance, Thomas urged that the attorney be fired, but the dismissal never took place and the accused man eventually retired...
...perhaps the most revealing testimony came from J.C. Alvarez, former special assistant at the EEOC...
...That was not the Anita Hill I knew and worked with at EEOC. On Friday, she played the role of a meek, innocent, shy Baptist girl from the South who was a victim of this big bad man. I don't know who she was trying to kid, because the Anita Hill that I knew and worked with was nothing like that. She was arrogant. She was a relentless debater. And she was the kind of woman who always made you feel like she was not going to be messed with, like she was not going to take anything from...