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The breaking news last night alleging that Herman Cain sexually harassed female employees while heading the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, surely gave the Cain campaign quite a spook this Halloween.

Still, in this post-Watergate era, in which we freely rely on unnamed sources, we are left with very little information from which to gauge the accuracy of these claims. While I absolutely condemn sexual harassment â€" especially in the workplace â€" the details of this particular case remain unclear. “The sources,” according to the original article, “describe episodes that left the women upset and offended.” No one should be subject to inappropriate sexual conduct at work, but it’s really hard to make out if much â€" if anything â€" actually happened from these vague descriptions.

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