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...JUSTICES ON THE U.S. SUPREME Court discovered one of their own was a criminal, they would shun him, refusing to appear in court until he resigned. That is how they should treat Justice Clarence Thomas. He is unfit to serve. Several of Anita Hill's former colleagues have corroborated her allegations of Thomas' sexual harassment. As a feminist, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be the first to demand Thomas' resignation from the court. Male Justices will be reluctant to blow the whistle on Thomas because they may be guilty of similar sexual harassment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking At Clarence Thomas | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...editorializing, unfit for a news article, was also disappointing. Lines such as, "In fact, the College has made it easier for students to get the computer porn," as a way to describe Harvard's recent installation of the campus-wide network is like describing Out of Town News, a local newsstand which sells Playboy and the like, as a commercial effort to bring pornography on campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Internet Coverage Is Sensationalist | 10/8/1994 | See Source »

...lesbian regained custody of her son in a Virginia State verdict that could make sexual orientation less relevant to parental fitness. An appeals court judge returned 24-year-old Sharon Bottoms' 3-year-old son a year after another state judge decided she was an unfit mother because she and her live-in lover engaged in oral sex. The judge in the earlier case called the act a "crime against nature." That ruling sent the child to his maternal grandmother Kay, who now plans an appeal. "I think it's a tragedy . . . to put him back in that environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LESBIAN . . . AND A FIT PARENT, COURT RULES | 6/21/1994 | See Source »

Officers also exposed poor working conditions in the department's 29 Garden Street headquarters. Puddles gathered in the station dressing room, asbestos tiles buckled and cracked and the department's shower was, in the words of one officer, unfit for canine use. "It was a morale issue." says the officer...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: After Two-Year Deadlock, Cops, University Sign Contract | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Visual aids are important devices in journalism, but the ghastly photograph that accompanies your article on Rwanda goes too far. The horrors of bloodshed may be sufficiently communicated through writing, without employing photographs unfit for publication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rwanda's Killing Hell | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

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