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...confrontation. For both Hill and Thomas, it was the hardest ordeal of their lives. But one of them was shouldering the burden unfairly -- and it may never be known which one. While both had been sullied and injured by the proceedings, only one had been dragged through the mud on the strength of a very convincing...
Washington Post staff writer Juan Williams's characterization of the sexual harassment accusation as a "speck of mud" flung at Thomas misses the point. He characterized the alleged exchange between Thomas and Hill as a "sexual conversation between two adults...
Where no written records exist, restorationists turn to the geological record. Pollen preserved in layers of mud, for example, enabled a University of Arizona scientist to determine that a thousand years ago, the Nature Conservancy's Hassayampa River Preserve near Phoenix was covered by a marshy grassland unique to the Southwest. But the presence of corn pollen indicated that 500 years ago, Native Americans had farmed the site. "So do we restore this area to the way it was before the Native Americans disturbed it?" wonders the Nature Conservancy's Richter. "If it's not natural now, then when...
...other contexts, Bush's obsession with prudence and caution sometimes makes him seem like a stick-in-the-mud. But recently, when even the most exhilarating events have often seemed to be moving too fast for anyone's good, Bush's go-slow instincts were welcome. Given the manic tempo of the times, it's been comforting to know that George was there, working the phones, talking with his old friend Mikhail and his new friend Boris...
...tile floor, which tends to get a little sticky. And there's a depression in the middle. When there's a party, the depression fills up with what Peppercorn describes as "kind of a combination of beer and mud and other bodily fluids." It's known, in 10-Man lore, as "Lake Sereika," in honor of a former 10-Man resident who passed out there once...