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...believe Anita Hill? The reality at the time when Hill worked for Thomas was that she could not easily bring a suit against her boss for sexual harassment. There were no witnesses, and a court would require witnesses. Had Hill, an ambitious woman with serious career goals, become known as a complainer, or even a "feminist"--God forbid--she undoubtedly would have experienced greater obstacles...
...addition, he proposed negotiations to reduce the number of remaining strategic weapons by half, while at the same time announcing that from now on Soviet mobile missiles would be kept stationary. The Soviet leader further announced a one-year moratorium on nuclear tests and called on others to follow suit...
...bleak Roma district. For reformers, the chief ally has been state courts, which have ruled in many cases -- Kentucky, Texas, New Jersey and Montana, for example -- that inequalities are unconstitutional. In Tennessee, 77 school districts asked a state court to take the same approach, and won. A similar suit has been launched by 108 of Michigan's 500 school districts...
Bush ordered an immediate cutoff of the U.S. aid program for Haiti, which was to provide $85 million in 1991 and $90 million in 1992. The European Community followed suit, suspending a $148 million aid package, and France, . Japan and Canada halted bilateral programs totaling about $77 million...
...saying anything clever about Matt Groening's brilliance, I'd like to look at the Simpsons' relationship to the Fox network. What makes the Simpsons so funny, at the most basic level, is that they are losers. Given an opportunity to screw-up--lose a million-dollar law suit, lose a bet, louse up on the job, fail at school--the Simpsons, at least Bart and Homer, will almost invariably come through. No matter how stupid our children are at school, they will never match Bart. No matter how badly we do our jobs, Homer does his worse. (In fact...