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...Anita Hill like character assassination. (Republicans dredged up the infamous John Doggett 3d, a lawyer who testified that Hill was an erotomaniac for thinking he would ever condescend to date her.) To the rest of us, the hearings felt like must-see TV. Hill said Thomas was a frequent consumer of pornography whose conversations with the female staff were laced with sexually suggestive remarks. It is moot whether that constituted sexual harassment. But Republicans, by their vociferous denials, suggested that demonstrating the first would prove the other. To prevent a Thomas defeat, they had to show that Long Dong Silver...
...Brock in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in downtown Washington in 1994. A book titled Strange Justice, by reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, had just come out--and it used on-the-record interviews to argue persuasively that Thomas had indeed subjected a number of women to frequent sexually explicit remarks about porno videos. Savage, a black mid-level aide in the Reagan Administration, told both the authors and the Judiciary Committee (although she wasn't called to testify publicly) that when she went to Thomas' apartment in the early 1980s, the place was littered with graphic photos...
...Internet makes it easier for people to broker information about people they don't like. In Seattle, a battle is raging over Justicefiles.org a frequent critic of local law enforcement. The group began posting police officers' Social Security numbers on its website. A state court has ordered the group to stop, holding that it was infringing on the officers' privacy rights. Free-speech advocates are fighting the ruling, arguing that there is no basis for preventing the dissemination of truthful, legally obtained information...
...which at the time just seemed like a good thing. Then I got a call from the AmEx fraud department asking me about some charges on my Optima card. I had never used my Optima card. It's just one of many credit cards I ordered because I got frequent-flyer miles for signing up. I would agree to just about anything for miles...
...ALGERIA Protests Banned The government banned all demonstrations in Algiers following violent clashes during a pro-democracy protest. Since a student was killed in police custody in April, frequent Berber demonstrations against police brutality, unemployment and poor social conditions have left some 90 people dead. In a separate incident, Islamic insurgents killed at least 13 soldiers...