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In A Crisis Of Sexual Harassment, Whither The Office Romance?

Efforts to eliminate harassment in the workplace target a site where couples tend to meet and fall in love — but also a place where power can be abused.
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell starred in the 1940 farce <em>His Girl Friday,</em> where a newspaper editor tries to win back his ex-wife, an ace reporter.

Given that I work in a newsroom, maybe I shouldn't be surprised by how many office romances take place there in the movies: say, Broadcast News from 1987, or His Girl Friday from 1940.

A real-life copy editor might have had these films in mind when she started a new job about 10 years ago.

"I got to the paper and I noticed this really cute boy who was a senior editor," says Carolyn

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