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...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 was a figment of Hill's X-rated imagination...
...settle the mystery at the heart of those hearings. In front of the whole country and under oath, one of two people had lied. Since one of those people is now a Supreme Court Justice who cast a vote making George W. Bush President, the point is far from moot. And last week the mystery took another turn, thanks to former American Spectator character assassin David Brock, the man designated by the right to destroy Hill's reputation and scrub Thomas'. Brock confesses in a Talk magazine excerpt of his new book, Blinded by the Right, that he had printed...
...even at that optimistic pace the measure may be rendered moot before it's law. SunAmerica, a financial-services giant with $142 billion of managed assets (though a relative upstart in the area of 401(k) plans) is sure to make a splash with its application last month for an exemption that would allow it to bring a third-party adviser to the plans it administers. I'm told that Labor is looking favorably on the prohibited-transaction exemption and could approve it by September...
...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 was a figment of Hill's X-rated imagination...
...hiatus in violence that kicks off a six-week "cooling off" period began last Wednesday; the Israelis say it has yet to begin. A weekend that included Palestinian militants killed in an Israeli rocket attack and two car bombs detonated deep inside Israel appeared to render the discussion moot, and the more immediate countdown now may be the one that ends with the collapse of the U.S.-brokered cease-fire, which will be followed by a race between Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Secretary of State Colin Powell to be the first to say "I told...