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...questions came from a group of Senators who had been disfigured by a failure of both intellect and empathy. Faced with a wounded woman, 14 men merely turned their heads. The most generous explanation is that it was more a political lapse than a human one. But even when the legal arguments and public outcry followed, it took considerable patient explaining to show the distinguished members that they had made a travesty of the confirmation process and a mess of two people's lives...
...managed to negotiate a contract for myself in which I was very generous with the terms of my employment. The document reads...
...ever get up and don't want to come to work, maybe. But that's never happened in 19 years. And I'm lucky to have a very generous husband. The office has come such a long way. In 1972 there were 18 convictions in sexual- assault cases in New York City's five counties, and now, I think, the five counties combined have several hundred successful convictions every year. Women can recover from rape, from the hopelessness and from the feeling that the guy will never be punished. Recovery is helped immensely by a conviction...
...quails to think what torrents of Marxist catalog cant might have drowned this exhibition if it had been done in the U.S. But there is little jargon in the catalog of "Age of the Metropolis" and none in the show itself; it is an intelligent wide-screen movie, generous in spirit, provocative and full of good things...
...role of any university to make prejudgments about what courts and regulatory bodies are going to decide," Badaracco said. "In the interim, a large, generous contribution should probably be accepted...