WHEN asked how he went broke, Mike Campbell, a drunken lout in Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", replies, "Two ways...Gradually and then suddenly." That is how the ongoing spate of sexual-misconduct scandals feels: the sudden breaking of a dam held too long in place. It went six weeks ago, after the New York Times and New Yorker reported multiple, decades-long allegations of sexual assault, harassment and rape against Harvey Weinstein, a film producer. The waters remain roiled. In the past week more women have accused Al Franken, a Democratic senator from Minnesota, of groping and John Conyers, a Democrat who has represented Detroit in Congress since 1965, of sexual harassment (he denies doing anything wrong). Glenn Thrush, a reporter, and Charlie Rose, a television host, were suspended and fired respectively after sexual-harassment allegations. More cases are doubtless coming.
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