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...case of Robert Packwood (R-Ore.), the senator accused of sexually harassing 20 women over the past 25 years, is a "parable" that demonstrates society's acceptance of sexual harassment, according to panelists at an Institute of Politics forum yesterday...
Florence Graves, an IOP research fellow and one of the Washington Post investigative reporters who broke the Packwood story, moderated the discussion, held at the Kennedy School...
Lawmakers from the Northwest did not agree. "This is a sellout," said Oregon Senator Bob Packwood, who vows to fight the plan. "The ratio of common sense is inversely proportional to the number of scientists and bureaucrats involved," declared Oregon's other Senator, Mark Hatfield. But it appears that Clinton will not need to submit his plan to Congress, and for that, many on Capitol Hill may be grateful. They can publicly attack the proposal for the consumption of the audience back home, deflect the heat, then quietly draw some measure of comfort from the fact that, at last, there...
...biggest change of our college career has been the nation's move into a world where scandal is now establishment journalism. Woody and Mia, Charles Stuart, the Jackson family, Pamela Smart, Amy Fisher, Bob Packwood, Tawana Brawley, Patty Davis, Clarence Thomas, Milli Vanilli--you name it, we've read headlines about it in the past four years...
...Packwood will emerge from the treatment center to face some new realities. Sexual harassment of female aides is no longer a tolerated perk of his traditionally macho club: the six women Senators, four of them just elected, will surely do their best to see that the locker-room ethos of the upper house goes the way of cloture. Members of both House and Senate now worry that more past indiscretions will surface. Thanks to Anita Hill, Washington women have greater assurance that their careers will not suffer if they call a powerful boss to order. And experts on sexual harassment...