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CURRENT WISDOM Hillary Rodham Clinton Portrait Committee For Yale Law School, its very own Mona Lisa: Dear Graduates, Students, Colleagues, and Friends: We are writing to ask your support for a...
...Very sincerely yours, Paul Gaber Juliette Hirt Alexander Kayne Elizabeth Van Schaack [September 15, 1995] Reliable Sources (CNN) Ellen Hume, another Puritan in Babylon: ELLEN HUME: See, that's the whole point...
...We would be most grateful if you could send your contribution by December 1, 1995...
...His may be the loudest voice, but it is only one of many urging harassed parents to return to "family values," as though there had been some golden age in the past when people didn't abuse or neglect their children, when everyone went to weekly religious services and gave generously to the poor, when politicians did not cheat on their wives or their constituents—in short, as if there had once been in this nation a moral strength that we must strive to recover...
...Afraid that she was convulsing, I pushed every call button within reach...
...troops as part of a NATO peacekeeping force that will go to Bosnia promptly if ethnic Serbs, Croats and Muslims reach a settlement...
...It is not hanging politics on precisely what George and what The American Spectator and so many other of these rags hang it on, which is sex and gossip and flash...
...We will unite our capabilities and effort to achieve this...
...Dean Kronman has enthusiastically endorsed our project...
...I think we learned things from it...
...Will you help by making a contribution...
...The following is a slow-moed creative re/viewing of Lorena's story that lets the spotlight fall precisely on what our logocentric perceptions have no capacity to recognize...
...I think it's actually had a very strong first issue...
...October 17, 1995] New York Times Sportswriter George Vecsey, corseted in political correctitude and looking anile: So now we have the politically incorrect World Series...
...The rabid celebration of Bobbitt for having had the ovum...
...October 18, 1995] Agence France Presse And from our friends in old Persia the usual facetiaie, ha ha...
...One night last summer, for example, when it was extremely hot and humid, we thought it would be nice to go for a dip in the White House swimming pool...
...Suddenly, I noticed foam in her nose...
...Clinton Portrait, and send it in care of Gloria McHugh, Yale Law School Alumni Office, Box 208215, New Haven, CT 06520-8215...
...Jesse Jackson, liberalism's preeminent dope-fetcher, hauls in several million Grade-A dopes with this one-liner, intoned just hours after Mr...
...The only way newcomers tend to notice American Indians is from the growth of casinos on tribal lands...
...You might be able to gtless what it is...
...Shouldn't we trust our children to do the same...
...Please send whatever you can, and remember that all contributions are tax deductible...
...But I think I've come up with an equally romantic way to mark the day...
...can now be a big force, in my judgment, in taking the lead against domestic violence...
...Diane (Mowery) Davis of Old Dominion University expands her playing field: The building frustration over this impasse for feminists has been evidenced recently in the promotion of Lorena Bobbitt to near demigod(dess) status...
...Her portrait will be an inspiration for all Yale Law students, and for women students, in particular...
...1, Fall 1995] The American Spectator December 1995 85...
...14, No...
...So we grabbed our towels, tiptoed through the Oval Office, and sneaked through some bushes in pitch black...
...The administration wants to use 20,000 U.S...
...October 8, 1995] New York Times Book Review Dr...
...Without anybody around, we went for a midnight swim...
...It will be a little too cold this week to celebrate our 20th anniversary with a dip in the pool...
...Well, you improvise...
...How can romance thrive when you live above the office with a 'round-the-clock staff...
...Goodness is the fruit of gracious relationships...
...Ida M. Peters: "Thank you so much for taking the time to let me know your thoughts...
...He wrote to me: "Dear Mrs...
...I hope you will stay involved, and I send you my best wishes...
...Therefore, we look to you to assist with Hillary Rodham Clinton's portrait...
...The leader of the revolution congratulated Louis Farrakhan on the outstanding success realised by the historic march of the blacks which swept and violently shook the American capital by peaceful and civilized means," the official Libyan News Agency, JANA, quoted Gaddafi as telling Farrakhan by.telephone...
...It was very late...
...CURRENT WISDOM Hillary Rodham Clinton Portrait Committee For Yale Law School, its very own Mona Lisa: Dear Graduates, Students, Colleagues, and Friends: We are writing to ask your support for a portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton '73, to be displayed on the walls of the Yale Law School...
...Lorena, this essay suggests, should indeed be celebrated—not because she cuts it off, not because she keeps it—but because she pitches it...
...October 19, 1995] 84 The American Spectator December 1995 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Hillary Rodham Clinton, the D-G's Frank Rich, convenes another erotic 'public policy discussion: I remember lying in bed a few days after Chelsea's birth, when I was still getting accustomed to breast-feeding...
...Katherine Paterson, author of "novels for children," proves herself to be the classic Liberal know-it-all: But there seems to be no end of instruction books...
...Secretary of State Warren Christopher said: "If we want the killing to stop, if we want to end the worst conflict in Europe since World War II, then we must follow through on the strategy that brought us to this point...
...October 5, 1995] Reuters Accolades continue to come in for the Million Man March from friends and well-wishers of Uncle Sam: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi congratulated black Moslem leader Louis Farrakhan on "shaking Washington by staging his Million Man March, saying it would help blacks win back their rights...
...But sorry, I'm not telling...
...The march of hundreds of thousands of black men in Washington was an Islamic "slap in the face" for the United States and its low moral standards, Iran's leader Ali Khamenei said...
...Defense Secretary William Perry told the Senate Armed Services Committee that U.S...
...The Standard is a serious magazine and I welcome it and I plan to subscribe to it...
...October 1, 1995] Chicago Sun-Times Another whopper from the Odd Couple: How do you ever get any privacy as a couple...
...And in pitching it, she dis/covers a way out of the binary system all together, and so a way out of phallocentrism...
...We appreciate matching contributions from employers...
...October 6, 1995] Rhetoric Review Prof...
...Chelsea was away at camp...
...But just as children in reading families tend to become readers themselves, children who grow up in loving, moral homes tend to become people of compassion and integrity...
...Through this the blacks can fulfill their rights in a worthy manner and assert the right of the nation of blacks to enjoy freedom and independence on the American continent...
...However, it is the law school's policy to commission and finance only portraits of former deans, alumni (ae) appointed to the Supreme Court, and alumni (ae) elected president...
...What's worth celebrating here has no/thing to do with revenge...
...All donors will be invited to attend the unveiling ceremony, tentatively scheduled for the fall of 1996...
...The former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett has two more large virtue books: "The Book of Virtues for Young People" and "The Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journey," a huge (824-page) compilation of vintage poems, stories and essays...
...Ida M. Peters Switzer Square, Vevay [October 5, 1995] Associated Press WHAT...
...to bobbit(t)-off with a kitchen knife is symptomatic of an epidemic of feminist ressentiment that's as infectious as the flu...
...Vol...
...October 18, 1995] Washington Times The Rev...
...The series should be about long-suffering Cleveland or long-suffering Atlanta finally winning another World Series...
...Many students have expressed dismay over the lack of women alumnae honored on the walls of the law school...
...Kindly make your check payable to Yale Law School/H...
...Thank you for your help...
...No one of us has the answer on how to teach morality, any more than we have the single answer on how to teach reading...
...We believe that Hillary Rodham Clinton represents some of the finest accomplishments of Yale Law graduates...
...Instead, this so-called World Series—another outdated concept—is going to offend millions of Americans whose roots go back before the Mayflower and all the other ships...
...When the nurse arrived, she assured me that I was simply holding the baby at an awkward angle, making it difficult for her to swallow the milk she took in...
...My real question is, what do we do about these demeaning nicknames for the next week or 10 days...
...Let's zoom in on her dilemma...
...That wasn't the only time nurses came to my rescue during my stay at the hospital...
...The president of the Iranian parliament, Ali Akbar Nategh-Nuri, also praised the march, saying it was a "blow to the myth of U.S...
...Recognition, in this instance, calls for the engagement of an/Other sensibility entirely...
...And you know what's so welcome about it...
...Now I am so proud that we have a President who really cares for us common people...
...Clinton is everything I said he was—a sincere, caring man for all us people...
...infallibility...
...They taught me to bathe and feed my daughter, and also gave me a chance to recover from the emotional and physical toll of a Caesarean section...
...My administration is fighting for the changes we Americans want and need, real changes that will build a more secure and prosperous future, and create a greater opportunity for all Americans...
...September 10, 1995] Vevay Reveille-Enterprise (Vevay, Indiana) Proof you will not be pulling the wool over the eyes of the Machiavelli of Switzer Square: I received a letter from President Clinton, and I am proud...
...It hardly matters that this is a romantic dream...
...troops would not be in the former Yugoslav republic for more than a year...
...I don't know about you Republicans, but this Democrat is very proud of our President...
...I cannot twist my sentences enough to refer to "the team from Cleveland" and "the team from Atlanta" but I respect the writers and even entire newspapers that will perform that enlightened act of contortion...
...I have been touched by the encouragement and advice I have received from people like you who care deeply about the future of our country...
...Sincerely, Bill Clinton...
...But it seems to me that what's worthy of celebration in the Bobbitt bobbing has nothing to do with the rape or the mutilation, with the repayment of a violation with a violation...
...Khamenei, speaking in northeast Iran late Tuesday, said participants in the march chanted "Allahu akbar" (God is great) and other slogans "recalling the victory of the Islamic revolution" in Iran in 1979...
...Simpson's liberation from Judge Ito: O.J...
...We all know how much we have learned from great stories and poetry, how literature has made us grow in understanding and compassion, but the learning was our own choice—not something imposed on the story by someone else but something we gained by entering emotionally, intellectually and spiritually into the heart of a great writer...
...I don't list gambling among the top thousand admirable human activities, but I won't demand that American Indians stop running gambling joints until Trump and Bally and municipalities do...
Vol. 28 • December 1995 • No. 12
