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Whitehead is on target. Nominally, there is legal recourse to deal with just such a scenario. The Supreme Court decided in a landmark case in 1986 that hostile working environments constitute sexual harassment. However, at the same time, as Mansnerus argues, the legal language for sexual harassment is vague and flexible and open to political vicissitudes. Judge Wright dismissed Jones' claim in part because of Wright's stringent definition of the offense of "outrage," which Jones claims she suffered. Wright argued that "outrage" is "emotional distress so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure...
...ambiguities in the legal lexicon of sexual harassment indicate, despite the finality of Wright's decision, the more salient issues of the case remain undecided...
...legal standing of women claiming to have been sexually harassed and the validity with which our legal system and our culture at large treat claims of sexual harassment continue to be contested areas...
...broader vision of TBTN mirrors some of the questions that the Paula Jones case has brought to national attention. Sexual harassment, as the blurred borders and uncertain legal language testify, is a murky area that is profoundly affected by more than narrow descriptions of physical violence. If we are to create an effective, compassionate and just system with which to deal with sexual violence of all kinds, then the broader implications and manifestations of physical violence must be addressed...
Clinton's argument seems shakier than Starr's, but White House aides from Washington to Africa, where the President was traveling last week, insist he is not making this legal maneuver to push off Starr's investigation. "We want to get this [investigation] over with as soon as possible," says Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel. But delay has been enormously helpful to Clinton. By refusing to explain his relationship with Lewinsky, he created a time-release capsule that aided the public's digestion of the scandal, giving people the leisure to sort out which parts of the President's character...