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...Americans have picked over the detritus of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill bonfire and found something they can use. The owners of Spytech, a firm that supplies pocketbook-size recorders, came up with a new ad campaign: "Sexually harassed? Prove it. Stop it. Sue." Jesse Jackson, the sloganeer of American politics, is now talking about "economic harassment." And law schools such as the University of Miami's are preparing courses on sexual harassment...
...impulsive act. Sexton tried to kill herself many times in the course of her adult life. Or anyway, she had a long flirtation with death by overdose. She carried a virtual pharmacy around in her pocketbook. She drenched herself with alcohol. As she wrote in an early poem, "the odor of death hung in the air/ like rotting potatoes." She checked in and out of sanitariums. Doctors tried to minister to her hysteria, depression, anorexia, insomnia, wildly alternating moods, lacerating rages, trances, fugue states, terrible confusions, bouts of self-disgust...
...doctors, already beset by nit-picking insurance companies, shrinking Medicaid payments and malpractice lawyers, the gag rule seemed the final intrusion -- one that was doubly galling because it came from an Administration many had supported. Says Alan Altman, a gynecologist in Brookline, Mass.: "((The government)) bothers me in the pocketbook, it bothers me in the delivery room, but it has never before bothered me in the consultation room." Dr. Laura Sirott, a Pasadena, Calif., obstetrician- gynecologist who describes herself as a past supporter of Bush, complains that the gag rule violates a patient's right to be fully informed. "This...
...spas are a lot easier on the pocketbook than the residential variety, where prices can zoom to more than $3,500 for a week's stay. Day-spa regimens can start as low as $35 for a 40-minute facial or head toward the $100-plus range for a massage or cleansing treatment. At the Burke Williams urban spa in West Los Angeles, attendants smooth on plant and flower oils, each with its own purpose: some stimulate fatigued muscles; others soothe them. While classical music plays softly, clients are pummeled into tranquillity with a deep-tissue sports massage, followed...
Student disregard for the council affected not only its reputation, but also its pocketbook. The council's budget--much of which gets funneled directly to student organizations--was hurt by a large increase in the number of students who chose to withhold council dues from their tuition checks...