Word: insist
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...also suffered from what has been called the "disuniting" of America, the balkanization of our ethnic melt, the belief that each group should seek its own interests in the zero-sum game of political power. This rising cult of ethnicity is promoted by intellectual ideologues of different nationalities who insist on defining community and belonging strictly in terms of religious, ethnic or sexual identification...
Hill, who is single, allows few diversions from her work. But her friends insist that she has never been prudish or hypersensitive. "She was not a church mouse," says William Kennard, a Washington lawyer who was a close friend at Yale. Bill Hassler is a Washington attorney who was a friend of Hill's at law school, where he would confide to her the details of his romantic ups and downs. She would listen, he recalls, without embarrassment. "I wouldn't hesitate to invite her to an R-rated movie," he says...
Former colleagues insist that if anything, Thomas had a special sensitivity toward women's concerns. Janet Brown, who met Thomas when both were on the staff of Missouri Senator John Danforth, recalled that when she was subjected to sexual harassment some years ago, Thomas was the most sympathetic of her friends. "Outside my immediate family, there was no one who exhibited more compassion, more outrage, more sensitivity, more caring than Clarence Thomas...
Thomas' defenders insist that he could act decisively in dealing with cases of sexual harassment. Rozzi cites one case of a male field supervisor under her supervision who she felt had been unfairly charged with harassment. "I tried to convince Thomas that I didn't feel this gentleman was guilty, but he wouldn't listen," she says. "He downgraded the person two grades, which is a very severe punishment." If Thomas is the man his friends say he is, that penalty might have been pure justice. If he is the man Anita Hill says he is, it was pure hypocrisy...
Despite the losses, Chang and Shyjan insist they are enjoying themselves...