Looking At Clarence Thomas

LIBERALS COULD NOT STOMACH THE IDEA of a black conservative Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, because of the intellectual threat he would pose to their racial and social agendas. So they set out to defeat the nomination of Clarence Thomas, and when that failed, they decided to do everything possible to negate his influence. The new book Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas, which you reviewed ((Books, Nov. 14)), shows a part of that scheme. But what is Thomas accused of? Behaving crudely toward Anita Hill. Either it never happened, or it was so minor that it did not...

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