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...against his former employer, insurance brokerage Rollins Hudig Hall International. The company fired Cotran in 1993 after two secretaries alleged sexual harassment. He denied it and claimed that he and the two women had been involved in consensual relationships. "I didn't do it, but the company ignored every shred of evidence on my side," he says today...
Humorously, Trosper offered the only shred of feeling, the only attempt at connecting with the audience as an afterthought: "Thanks for coming out, we always enjoy playing the Middle East." This parting remark could be construed as an extension of their successful scheming to keep fans reeled in, but Unwound wasn't that egocentric. At least for closure the band shed their impersonality...
...Tripp's own credibility came into question the next night, when Ginsburg went on ABC's 20/20 and tried to shred her account, which he said sounded like "prepublicity for a book." "Based on my investigation of the entire situation," he said, "Miss Tripp was never privy to any conversation Monica Lewinsky ever had with the President of the United States." He said that Lewinsky did occasionally talk with Clinton by phone but that the content was innocent. "It was a hi, hello, how are you, fine, and that's it. They were colleagues. I know that's hard...
...there was a shred of innocence left in their warped little hearts and minds--and there is no reason to suspect there was--we have probably driven it out of them over the past two weeks with dispatches that sound as if they were pulled off the walls of public rest rooms...
...first-years stands at the edges, fully clothed, staring, violating. I wave them away with curses I've never used before, but they stay anyway, chuckling and looking to each other for reassurance, emboldened by swelling ranks behind them. I laugh--at least I've made them feel some shred of shame...