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The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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