Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Putnam and Clark contrast strongly with their predecessors in administrative style. Putnam won praise as Government Department chair for his handling of sensitive issues like minority hiring and sexual harassment, while Allison--credited with the Kennedy's School explosive endowment growth--was often criticized for ignoring ethical considerations...
...Buckley's friend had been a woman, it is doubtful that she would have pressed sexual harassment charges and been awarded the support that he is now getting--and if the gay student involved had been a woman rather than a man, I doubt further that anyone would have said anything at all. The reaction to the approaches of the gay student were thus contingent on both students being male. And this reaction is what Defeat Homophobia and the BGLSA are taking about. The issue with this reaction is homophobia...
...crusade began in January, when Terry Rakolta, a mother of four, first tuned in to Married . . . With Children because the title seemed to promise wholesome family entertainment. Instead, Rakolta discovered the raucous and sometimes raw adventures of the Bundy family. Horrified by the sexual and scatological humor, Rakolta became an avid monitor of the program and began sending its advertisers hundreds of protest letters...
Oscar Wilde's aphorism comes close to summarizing John Tower's last-ditch defense. Forget the sandstorm of charges swirling around the diminutive former Senator; ignore the serious questions of sobriety, sexual escapades and the sale of Government expertise. To the beleaguered nominee for Defense Secretary, the real issue is the motivation of his judges in the Senate, who he implied were hypocrites pursuing the partisan politics of personal pique. "Is it an acceptable standard for Senators late in the evening who've had a few drinks . . . ((to)) vote on vital issues of nuclear deterrence?" Tower asked with rhetorical venom...
...dispute. Certainly America cannot afford a Defense Secretary with an untreated drinking problem. The issue is how closely this description fits Tower. There are also legitimate concerns raised by the widespread, but not unequivocally documented, tales of Tower's predatory behavior toward women. If true, the allegations of sexual high jinks seem to reflect a pattern of reckless and perhaps unbalanced behavior that should disqualify Tower for such a sensitive post...