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New York Times Magazine Miss Marion Hart discourses on her body movements and other grisly matters in Kafkaesque effusions: When I was 23, I conceived a child I knew I couldn't keep. The year was...
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...Sure, having one's business burned is horrifying—but executing people on the street is hardly a civilized response...
...He had torn my flesh, and I was no longer that white teacher come to do her good work among the black children...
...When Dan Quayle tries to ride both sides of this private religious moral issue, he is above his potato...
...May 24, 1992] The Nation Another startling disclosure from a feminist gogue, the lovely Miss Katha Pollitt, on life in the largest all-male club in the world, Amerika: And what about the double standard on violence...
...What did Messrs...
...George Bush and his predecessor Ron Reagan needed 12 short years to triple this nation's debt...
...I lost my job because the conservative rich won't subscribe to the paper...
...Elijah took the book and threw it across the room and then did the same with a chair he had been sitting on...
...Meanwhile, I notice the Buttafuocos have hired separate lawyers...
...Time to tax the rich and feed the poor until they are rich no more...
...July 12, 1992] Philadelphia Inquirer Encouraging spiritual developments in a country once considered depressingly lackadaisical, as reported in a famous American news organ's traditionally swank style: Malaysian officials are considering a plan to introduce strict Islamic laws...
...July 10, 1992] Saginaw News A genius speaks out on the squeal page of a great American gazette for forcing "the rich" to subscribe to the Scottsdale Progress (and why was this not a plank of the Democratic National Cry-In...
...If Mary had aborted the baby, she would have been called immoral...
...I took Elijah to his grandmother's house after school that day to show her what her grandson had done to me...
...Proceed to commit murder...
...Beloved brother of Phillip B. Bernstein and son of the late Sidney and Jennie Bernstein...
...It was Herod, the Quayle of his day, who put no value on the family...
...July 12, 1992] Plastics News Another humanitarian speaks out in the fabled correspondence section of a prestigious intellectual review of the left: I was shocked and appalled that you would give front page coverage (May 11) to the gun-toters of I.M.S...
...Given how few murders and assaults women commit, isn't it curious that female bad actors so frequently end up as major news stories...
...And they mean strict...
...Maybe the best thing that could happen would be if it were to wipe out half or two-thirds of the people in the world...
...As we moved out of the room and into a safer place in the office, the "branding" took place...
...July 13, 1992] #GOP 103 FRONT: "IF "IF BILL CLINTON IS THE ANSWER...
...The government is willing to discuss the problem with the medical association...
...The year was 1984, long after Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in this country...
...Neither she, nor comedian Rich Little, was able to attend...
...Now comes the attack on Mrs Clinton...
...But as an American studying in China, I had the misfortune to get pregnant in a country where modern medical treatment and technology were far from the national norm...
...It took the nation 200 years to accumulate $1 trillion in debt...
...grumbled Boston University's John Racho, 22, holding up a slice of purple paisley silk...
...Jeffrey was a resident of Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C...
...June 22, 1992] 68 The American Spectator September 1992 The Statesman (Delhi, India) In the pages of the esteemed and semiliterate Statesman, a dangerous Yankee muckraker is exposed: Clinton's wife victim of 'dirty' politics WASHINGTON, July 12.—In the "dirty politics" that characterize the 1992 US Presidential election scenario, the latest victim is Mrs Hillary Clinton, wife of the Governor, Mr Bill Clinton, the Democratic Presidential candidate, reports PTI...
...I was picked out and touched more than skin deep...
...And that has local doctors wondering: If a punished thief comes strolling into their office hand in hand, will they be allowed to sew it back on...
...He says the purpose of chopping off hands of incorrigible thieves is to shame them and to deter crime...
...If doctors and surgeons start reattaching the hands, the whole purpose is defeated," he said...
...I have returned to Saginaw for my 20th reunion from Douglas MacArthur, and I have a journalism degree from Central Michigan University, and I have spent the past four-and-a-half years as a sports writer at the Scottsdale Progress, a small liberal newspaper near Phoenix...
...VISA & MC accepted...
...What's next: "A real-life Basic Instinct," film at eleven...
...If I.M.S...
...the savvy that I'd always imagined I could fall back on if it ever happened to me was not applicable to my predicament...
...is so concerned with its (replaceable) inventory, then a more appropriate response would be to install metal storm plates over windows and doors, and put in a sprinkler system...
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...I knew from then on that teaching Elijah and inner city children like him would be my work...
...We have deep social problems in our country—for I.M.S...
...The scare headline promises to expose her "hard-Left past and present...
...But when Mary said Joseph was not the father, she was abused and questioned...
...Kim Taylor Saginaw Township [July 7, 1992] Sunday Oregonian The wild doings and lurid delights of Penny Flenniken, revolutionary kindergarten teacher of northeast Portland: I showed [a friend] the scars on my right hand where I was branded "one of the boys" by Elijah...
...In a profile in the "American Spectator", writer Daniel Wattenburg [sic] calls her "the Lady Macbeth of Little Rock...
...We are hip...
...He had torn away at my complacency...
...Even as we spurn the homeless on the street, remember, Jesus was born to a homeless couple, outdoors...
...I had made the mistake that day of reading a story to the class about a father and his son...
...It didn't hurt me physically, butit touched my heart, and I knew it was a ritual that mattered to both of us...
...On Friday July 10, 1992...
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...July 17, 1992] New York Times An editorial first: BERNSTEIN—Jeffrey Alan...
...In the name of property rights...
...But Mary had family values...
...The Republican party has been built on greed, indifference, injustice and narrow-mindedness toward the lower and middle classes and minorities since tricky Dick Nixon...
...Hartman and Barrett plan to do if confronted with the angry mob...
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...Co., who set themselves up as arbiters of the lives of others...
...But she was visually impaired...
...That plus a clay-tile roof would withstand any firebomb attack...
...Jeffrey died of complications due to AIDS and the lack of care and funding for AIDS research by the Reagan/Bush Misadministrations...
...But at Thursday's celebration, the planned guest of honor was, after all, Shirley Jones, otherwise known as Mrs...
...Then the ones who survived would just be so busy getting things together that they'd have to help each other, and in time maybe the world would recover ecologically, too...
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...The scratch became infected, and it is a visible reminder that we were joined as childhood "blood brothers...
...No, the reason for the coverage is the misogyny that fuels the movies that give these crimes their tabloid names...
...They can follow that up with fire insurance...
...Tell Emmett Tyrrell to [get lost]," piped in Nino Abate, 29, of Arizona State...
...If the downtrodden and repressed classes wise up and stop voting for these vacuous conservatives, who never intend to help these people in the first place, then they would see some economic windfall come their way...
...to set themselves up as the neighborhood executioners is grotesque and only further hurts the work we must do to improve as a nation...
...He went inside of me with his rage, and I became angry for him as well...
...She told me that Elijah's father, who died two years earlier, had loved Elijah the most...
...Clinton himself has overcome charges that he is a philanderer and draft-evader and the public have begun to take him seriously as a man who has economic and political plans worth considering as an alternative to the Republican President Bush's record and independent Ross Perot's refusal to indicate clearly where he stands on issues...
...and the Cameron Glen Care Center, Reston, VA...
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...I would say that executing minority people who vent their frustrations in a riot is part of a fascist mind-set and deeply offensive to the many minority people who work in our industry...
...June 29, 1992] Washington Post At the podium of the tear-drenched, lowbrow, exploited, humiliated, down-and-out-in-Amerika Democratic national convention, the Rev...
...Would you look at this tie...
...Hillary", he writes, "reckons herself as the next Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt" (never forgiven by Conservatives for allegedly turning her husband, Franklin Roosevelt, into a "Leftist" sponsoring such "Communist" programmes as social security...
...Partridge, hardly a performer of the cutting-edge variety...
...July 5, 1992] Publishers Weekly Always darkest before the dawn: "I'd say the biggest hope that we have right now is the AIDS epidemic," offers William Vollmann, sipping from a glass of dark rum in his living room in a quiet section of Sacramento, Calif...
...I became his instrument for change...
...If she had the baby, she would have been called unfit, without family values...
...Novelty—the manbites-dog argument—doesn't explain why these women are invariably portrayed as cold, calculating, sex-crazed and asking for trouble, while in stories about celebrated male murderers, it's usually the female victim who's depicted that way (or, in the case of the Happy Land fire, the male murderer's former girlfriend...
...Jackson puts in a good word for Herod, the ur-Republican: Lastly, there's a lot of talk these days about family values...
...But Abdul Hadi Awang, deputy president of the fundamentalist Islamic party, has strong ideas...
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...And I became his spokesman [sic...
...Unable to speak the language fluently and unsure about which hospital would offer the best care, I was virtually powerless...
...As my body moved toward a biological destiny my mind didn't sanction, I felt trapped inside my skin as all my plans—for passing year-end exams and for future travel and study—fell into jeopardy...
...a child of a single mother...
...Not hip enough...
...Get caught stealing and they'll lop off a hand...
...Stay Tuned...
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...July 13, 1992] Washington Times A great American sociologist's views are vindicated at the 100th Anniversary Dinner of the College Republicans, though to no effect on the dismal cranium of Nino Abate, 29-year-old collegian: Like many of her colleagues, she was doing her best to refute such recent critics as American Spectator Editor-in-Chief R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., who just wrote a book complaining that young conservatives aren't cutting-edge or hip enough...
Vol. 25 • September 1992 • No. 9