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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most explosively, her lawyers plan to say Jones doesn't even have to prove she was mistreated so long as she can show the inverse: that other women were given favorable treatment after they "succumbed" to Clinton's advances. The two examples are Gennifer Flowers (who got a state job) and Kathleen Willey (who reportedly has said President Clinton kissed and fondled her in 1993 and who later traveled on foreign junkets and got a job on the USO board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's Her Turn | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...reinstates the case of oil-rig worker Joseph Oncale--earlier thrown out by an appeals court--against Sundowner Offshore Services, a Houston firm that drills for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Oncale had worked on offshore rigs before (and does today), but says he never encountered such abusive treatment as when he signed on with Sundowner in 1991. He claims, for instance, that three male co-workers held him down in a shower and shoved a bar of soap between his buttocks. One of them threatened rape, he says. He quit and later was found to have posttraumatic stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harassed Or Hazed? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Last week most lesbians and gays praised Scalia's ruling--a first for the Justice--for treating same-sex harassment no differently from that between a man and a woman. But some scholars were worried that the court's insistence on showing a disparity in treatment of men and women could have a perverse effect: "If you see a sexual harassment claim coming, you can just start abusing women too," says Deborah Epstein, who teaches law at Georgetown University. And that could inspire a new legalism: equal-opportunity harasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harassed Or Hazed? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

Already as a result of this campaign, wages have increased, workers have paid holidays, drinking water and bathrooms are finally in some of the fields and the treatment of workers by the companies has slowly begun to improve. Much, however, remains to be done. Wages are still unjustifiably low, sexual harassment continues to persist in the fields and the vast majority of the workers, while still affected by the widespread use of pesticides, have no access to basic health care...

Author: By Daniel R. Morgan, | Title: Fighting for Strawberry Workers | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

Many common Western surnames have also gotten numerical treatment. There is a smith30, johns17 (short for Johnson), jones6 and perez3. And even not so common last names have been merged into half-word, half-number 'borgs: ahmed2, malliar2, das2...

Author: By Jennifer . Lee, | Title: Me and My Number | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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