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Sensing an untold story, Sidey hit the rails to interview people at all levels of the freight industry. He rode a Conrail train up the west side of the Hudson River Valley, getting an engineer's-eye view of spectacular scenery; half a continent away, he observed the switchings, couplings and uncouplings at a vast freight yard in North Platte, Nebraska. These experiences called up memories of his Iowa childhood and his long romance with railroads: "I remember as a four-year-old hearing the train whistle on a winter morning and pressing my nose against an icy windowpane...
This at least is one of the theories stated as fact by David Brock in his controversial book, The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story. Its publication has sparked a flurry of charges and countercharges. The Real Anita Hill sprung from an extended article which was first published in the conservative periodical The American Spectator...
...vaccine would have clear virtues. Despite its less-than-fearsome reputation, chicken pox causes up to 100 deaths a year, can in rare instances produce birth defects, and is responsible for untold millions of dollars in wages lost by parents staying home to tend to their sick children...
...else to explain the surprising success of The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story, which maintains that Hill's claims of sexual harassment were just an escalating series of brazen falsehoods? Published in April, the book gradually garnered positive reviews, is now into its sixth printing and is lodged in third place on the New York Times best-seller list. Brock, who works ; for the conservative magazine American Spectator, depicts Hill as a left-wing feminist, a woman of "radical views and inflamed sensitivities," who is also a working-world bumbler pushed by affirmative action into jobs she was unequipped...
...wretched excesses as well as its moments of glory: the personal tragedy of lives undone by drugs and sex, the heavy cost of riots and destruction. One might easily conclude that the ancient rules and hierarchies are there for a reason -- they've worked, more or less, for untold millenniums, so there's no point in changing them...