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Lawyers, politicians and citizens left the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings last month with a heightened awareness of the issue of sexual harassment, but a myriad of questions about the effectiveness of a male- constructed legal system in dealing with crimes that victimize women...
...within the mountain. Often he kneels in mud and water. He has worked in low- seam coal, a claustrophobic 29 inches from the mine floor to the roof. To eat his dinner, he has had to lie on his back. To relieve himself, he squats in one of the myriad byways. When the day is done, coal dust covers his face and permeates his overalls. Ruby takes a scrub brush to the washer, the dryer and the bathtub, trying to remove the sooty coal...
...staff could have focused on Thomas's qualifications. It could have mentioned any one of his myriad conservative stances, with which it strongly disagrees...
...errors that have caused endless dispute over such basic matters as Columbus' course on his historic sail and where his little fleet made landfall. Candidates for this honor include San Salvador, Grand Turk, East Caicos, Semana Cay, Conception Island and half a dozen others. In these, as in a myriad other matters, we still don't know enough about Columbus and never will...
...Washington toward Western water. The federal Bureau of Reclamation was principally responsible for the development of the Colorado; it planned and engineered the % big building projects, all funded by congressional appropriations. Critics say the bureau has become an anachronism, no longer able to manage the Colorado and its myriad problems. "They're a bunch of dam builders," says former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, "and there aren't any dams to build. They have been unable to adjust to the new reality...