Word: estrich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Susan Estrich, who was elected as the first woman president of the Review in 1976, says while she is not familiar with current circumstances at the Review, she "Found it no worse there than any place else" during her tenure...
...Sexism exist in our society as a whole," says Estrich, now a law professor at the University of Southern California...
...other infrastructure at the party's chaotic office in San Francisco. That performance seems to clash with Brown's current lecturing. "Only last year he spearheaded an effort to throw out contribution limits. He was against many of the things he now says he's for," says Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis' campaign manager in 1988. Concurs Republican political consultant Ed Rollins: "Right message. Wrong messenger...
...some feminists argue that Hill lost the ideological battle in part because she lost the tactical one. For one thing, she missed prime time. "Anita Hill spoke to 5 million Americans during the day. Thomas spoke to 30 million that night," says University of Southern California law professor Susan Estrich. More important, perhaps, Hill's putative Democratic allies on the Senate Judiciary Committee sat back as judges while the Republicans played the role of prosecutors, ultimately painting the Yale-educated law professor as a delusionary careerist with a split personality and a tendency to cull lawbooks for references to pornographic...
What is lost in the ideological debate over date rape is the fact that men and women, especially when they are young, and drunk, and aroused, are not very good at communicating. "In many cases," says Estrich, "the man thought it was sex, and the woman thought it was rape, and they are both telling the truth." The man may envision a celluloid seduction, in which he is being commanding, she is being coy. A woman may experience the same event as a degrading violation of her will. That some men do not believe a woman's protests is scarcely...