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Heidi Stevens: Harvey Weinstein verdict shows us Oscars, wealth — even that walker — weren't enough to shield him from a fed-up world

In the end, none of Harvey Weinstein's accoutrements were enough.

Not the Oscars. Not the wealth. Not the walker.

Not the well-placed friends. Not the Gloria Steinem endowed chair he helped fund at Rutgers University in honor of his late mother, Miriam. Not the private security agencies he hired to spy on the women and the journalists trying to expose him.

Not the defense attorney who tried to put the #MeToo movement on trial.

"The pendulum is swinging

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