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...have limited what counts as sexual harassment, they and their liberal counterparts have consistently broadened the grounds on which Americans can sue for it. Every time the Supreme Court has ruled on workplace sexual harassment, it has broadened the scope of "standing" for those claims: from the simple, easily understood quid pro quo (if Clinton had said, "Kiss it, or you're fired," for example) to the more convoluted cases like those involving a "hostile work environment." Just last month the Supreme Court, usually hostile to gay rights, even allowed same-gender sexual-harassment cases to proceed. So the attitude...
...America's ability to regain control over its future. His New Deal swiftly introduced measures for social protection, regulation and control. Laissez-faire ideologues and Roosevelt haters cried that he was putting the country on the road to communism, the only alternative permitted by the either/or creed. But Roosevelt understood that Social Security, unemployment compensation, public works, securities regulation, rural electrification, farm price supports, reciprocal-trade agreements, minimum wages and maximum hours, guarantees of collective bargaining and all the rest were saving capitalism from itself...
...need to have these interactions, to meet these people and others. Just like race and region, religion is an important distinction between students that must be respected and better understood. As intelligent people we are obligated to be as conversant about religions as we are about political parties or the classics of English literature. And it doesn't prove you know anything about religion to note that Easter and Passover overlap this year...
...assault on genetic research has sometimes been like this: passionate, premeditated, but maybe driven by anxiety more than anything else. As a society, we tend to be nervous about knowledge, especially that which concerns the very building blocks of existence. Genetic engineering is exactly the kind of vague, little understood subject that can scare people with its Orwellian implication...
Mercy knows only part of what then happened, and most of her memories are too terrible for her to face directly. So the reader, like the parents who have found their way to Outer Maroo, is disoriented for much of the novel, menaced by half-understood threats, never sure what ground is solid. The horror here is peeked at slantwise, through a girl's splayed fingers. What appears to be true is that Oyster bound dozens of young believers into a cult whose elements included an underground life of opal mining, ecstatic prayer and patriarchal sex. And that...