The American Spectator

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p> I will always be grateful for the assistance I received from the Ty Cobb Foundation for my three years in law school. I was married, had two boys under the age of 4, and worked as an engineer 25 hours per week to fund living expenses while going to law school full time. I have been practicing since 1983 in the field of intellectual property. I wrote the Foundation several years ago thanking them again for supporting my studies. As you might guess from my background, I am a Reagan conservative -- individual responsibility, love for country, less government. br> -- Carl Davis br> Marietta, Georgia /p> p> CRONETTE CHRONICLES br> Re: Linda Scott's letter (under "Crone Troopers") in Reader Mail's Party of Three and Robert Stacy McCain's Crone Wars : /p>

Hell hath no fury like a 60-year-old cronette. Let's see, 60 means withered flower child in hippie years. Poor underpaid, sexually harassed Linda Scott, gazing at the glass ceiling, seeing her bitter reflection. Musing on the Feminine Mystaque ( a little joke -- I know how to spell mystique).

Mercifully, I was all grown up before Gloria Steinem had a chance to warp my outlook. Being "hit on" in the workplace is not sexual harassment. It's a "birds do it, bees do it" pastime. Being offered a salary increase for dalliance is another story. Being denied a promotion because you look like Betty Friedan, likewise. In any case, if a woman can't fend for herself without some kind of arbitration, she ought not to be working in an environment teeming with predatory males.

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