Word: suit
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...refreshing hour and 12 minutes feeling like a country again. For once the talk on the screen was not of oral sex, but of our lives and fortunes and sacred happiness. He had become all human nature, the best and the worst, standing there naked in a sharp, dark suit, behind the TelePrompTer. That which does not kill him only makes him stronger, and his poll numbers went through the roof...
...begin with sexual harassment. Last May, when the Supreme Court rejected President Clinton's claim that Paula Jones' sexual-harassment suit should be delayed until he left office, the Justices unanimously dismissed the President's claim that allowing the suit to proceed would generate unrelated litigation that might hamper his ability to do his job. The events of last week suggest that the court's optimism was misplaced...
...elastic nature of sexual harassment itself, which is defined so expansively (it includes "unwanted advances" that create an "offensive working environment") that no one is quite sure what it means. After the court ordered the Jones case to proceed, President Clinton's lawyers made a plausible argument that her suit should be dismissed without a trial. Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that her allegations were true, the President's lawyers said they didn't add up to illegal harassment...
...story in Wednesday's issue incorrectly reported a decision made by an appellate court on Monday in the U.S. government's anti-trust suit against Microsoft Corporation. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington granted Microsoft's request for a stay of hearings run by Professor of Law L. Lawrence Lessig, special master for the case. Oral arguments on Lessig's permanent removal will not take place until April...
...November 7, 1997, Billy Jack Saylor, a Campbell University wrestler, died of a heart attack while trying to shed pounds before dawn. Saylor was riding a stationary bike while wearing a rubber suit--a common technique used to lose water-weight. While Saylor's death through dehydration may have seemed like a tragic fluke to some, November had yet another shocking event in store...