ANITA HILL MAY HAVE SENSITIZED most people to the fact of sexual harassment, but it was an obscure legal secretary at the giant firm of Baker & McKenzie who sensitized corporate America to the consequences. The precedent-setting $3.5 million award that Rena Weeks won last year against the law firm could not have have been far from the minds of directors at W.R. Grace & Co. when they ousted the firm's president and CEO, J.P. Bolduc. Last week the board acknowledged that evidence of sexual harassment was the real reason for his March 2 departure, and in the process created a...
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