Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Dallas Morning News On the correspondence page of a great gazette, another ebullition of sonorous stupidity from a cow of the New Age herd: The report that Christian students giggled when Carl...
...As part of a sex-education course at the Cazadero Academy last spring, a school official distributed a one-page handout to 14- to 19-year-old students on how to induce an abortion with an herbal tincture...
...The American Spectator, which panders to this crowd, feeds the panic in an advertisement for itself with claims that would embarrass the National Enquirer...
...Clinton is influenced by radicals like Mack McLarty and Maurice Smith...
...Students learn to defend faith," July 1...
...Jim Stowell, a Minneapolis storyteller, and Lisa Port and Errol Edwards, organizers for Pastors for Peace, a Minneapolis group that has become a household word in Cuba because of its fight to end the U.S...
...She swears they aren't made up—"You can tell a bogus dream from a real one"—and has collected more than 200 dreams...
...type fin...
...and she sent her regards to the women...
...I hurried into the bookstore 15 minutes before Quindlen's scheduled appearance, parked myself on a footstool, when, all of a sudden, there she was, coming up the stairs with her 4-year-old daughter, Maria...
...She also maintains that "racism is, in fact, the norm," and so the legal tendency to assume the accused isn't racist skews the process...
...How the Democrats will move to 'gerrymander' all of America to ensure a liberal dynasty...
...It was created to play on racial stereotypes: big, ugly, dumb, violent, black—"Willie...
...Does the zoo think that girls and women are invisible or aren't human beings...
...As Castro put it during his greeting at the airport: "Minnesota is an Olympic champion of humanitarian aid...
...They have been sympathetic to suggestions that even the wealthiest among us should help pay the costs of a just society...
...One by one, they walked off the plane and shook the hand of the man who has been Washington's nemesis for over 30 years: Kori Lane, a former missionary, from Edina...
...But the sheet contains no instructions on what to do if any emergency arises or any suggestion that a woman should consult a parent or a physician...
...Twice a week, millions of readers—the majority of these women—turn to the opinion page of the more than 100 newspapers (including the Star Tribune) in which her Public and Private column appears to see what Anna Quindlen is saying...
...I really liked them, but at the end I got very sad and mad...
...Neither the president nor his wife has declared war on productive, successful Americans, a class to which they and their closest friends belong...
...Sign this, and this and this, and I want your signature here and here and I want your picture and I have a. story to tell you...
...You can see that the Spectator mixes moonshine and quotation marks in equal parts...
...Quindlen added that most of the 100 letters she gets each day are from people who loathe her .. . [June 28, 1993] But hold...
...Alexandra Eisberg Minneapolis [August 8, 1993] Incidentally, when it comes to men, Minnesotans know who they like, as reported in the indispensable Star Tribune: The weary travelers who stumbled off the airplane in Havana could hardly believe their eyes: Fidel Castro—in his trademark military fatigues—was waiting to greet them in the blazing noonday sun...
...Use for storage or Halloween while alive...
...The detailed instructions explain how to mix herbs such as cohosh and pennyroyal with vodka, then describe a daily and weekly regimen for drinking the tincture until bleeding begins...
...Was St...
...And speaking of Hillary Clinton, you'll finally learn the covered-up truth about her hard-left past...
...July 19, 1993] The Nation From an interview that not even Playboy would have dared to run: JE: When you finally did speak out, you took strong exception to being referred to as "Willie" Horton...
...So traffic couldn't move fast enough to get me to her noon reading at Border's Books...
...WH: The fact is, my name is not "Willie...
...He is a centrist in any meaningful measure...
...199, while supplies last...
...We reveal the hidden agenda of the Clintonistasincluding plans the liberal press wants suppressed by all means possible...
...I'm certainly more mature than when I was initially incarcerated...
...I don't think boys would feel good if the zoo showed women...
...The Clintons have declared war on productive, successful Americans," the Spectator screams...
...First in line was a demanding woman with a slew of requests...
...Francis funny when he referred to his brothers and sisters, the birds and animals...
...August 9, 1993] Prince George Citizen The influence of Lani Guinier spreads to parts foreign: People and companies accused of racism should be deemed guilty until proven innocent, says a private report prepared for the Ontario Human Rights Commission...
...Carol Miller, administrator and teacher at the small school, conceded that the omission was unwise but said that she covered that information in the classroom...
...How they'll expand the judiciary and load the courts with political favorites of Hillary Clinton and other radical feminists...
...Now the Far Right is hysterically afraid that President Clinton will restore equity...
...Mary Sheldon Dallas [August 9, 1993] Publishers Weekly How a great book is born in this stupendous Augustan age: After dreaming that Bill Clinton had given her a terrific neck massage ("When I awoke, my neck felt better"), Julia Anderson-Miller, art director at Academy Chicago Publishers, placed ads in newspapers around the country asking for Clinton dreams, and began receiving several letters a day from others with the same nocturnal tendency...
...asked an excited Liisa [sic] Roeder, a Minneapolis retiree who was one of about 300 people who joined a caravan last month to bring humanitarian aid to Cuba...
...No one deserves that...
...I read more, care more, feel more...
...Immediately fans lined up with their books...
...I understand myself better...
...Quindlen, the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist, was in the Twin Cities to address a conference on the Betsy-Tacy books and to read from and sign her own new book, Thinking Out Loud...
...I went to the Minnesota Zoo with my mom to see the dinosaurs...
...Oh my God...
...The commission should learn to tell the difference between racist name-calling by minorities—which Young describes as understandable—and racist name-calling by whites, which Young says is far more serious...
...I was horrified...
...August 4, 1993] Arkansas Times A "Far Left" editorialist for the Arkansas Times, the Marxist-Leninist organ of Arkansas' Communist elite, abominates and execrates one of America's most sensible and sedate journals of Enlightenment: The great achievement of the Reagan and Bush administration was to shift taxes from the rich to the poor, a longtime goal of conservative ideologues...
...They created a fictional character—who seemed believable, but who did not exist...
...The commission should also develop "novel investigative techniques" to uncover workplace discrimination...
...It was Aug...
...The shockingly over-reported truth of Hillary's "hard-left past" is that she left the Young Republicans to take up with the Young Democrats, a common and naturalprogression...
...Quindlen was patient and friendly, repeatedly telling her fans how grateful she was...
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...trade embargo against Cuba...
...I know who I am...
...The public does not know the real William Horton...
...In the same Minnesota daily a successor to Anna makes her first public pronouncement: I am 8 years old...
...July 5, 1993] Washington Post The ghoulish side of environmentalism, found in the classifieds of Washington's number-two paper: ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CASKET— Swiss engineered, recycled cardboard, no trees must die when you do...
...1 when the "caravanistas" arrived after a grueling trip...
...In her column, we find ourselves...
...Another parent, Terri Carpenter, said her daughter had discussed the handout with her—but, she added, "I didn't know about the vodka...
...I have to admit I'm a big fan of Bill's and I can see dreaming about him...
...The name irks me...
...No tool assembly...
...The report also states: • The commission should stop demanding corroborating evidence from witnesses before adopting a complaint as genuine...
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...August 15, 1993...
...Most of the time being a columnist is very lonely work in which you can only imagine readers," she explained...
...Many years ago I had the experience of wading in tidal pools among the starfish and sea anemones on the ocean side of Vancouver Island, Canada, and observing whales swimming by...
...It's basically a good school," said one parent, who asked not to be identified...
...It's part of the myth of the case...
...After interviews on CBS and the Fox network about the project, Anderson-Miller and her husband, Bruce Miller, pitched the book to Steve Schragis of Carol Publishing, who made an offer to publish Dreams of Bill in the spring of 1994, tentatively in trade paper...
...July 15, 1993] Minneapolis Star Tribune Susan J. Berkson, humorist and broadcast commentator, pays tribute where tribute is due, in fervor unmatched since the reign of Joseph Stalin: Anna Quindlen was in town this month...
...The report says the presumption of innocence—guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms—should be tossed out the window, the Toronto Sun, which obtained a copy of the document, reported today...
...I am honored to be a cousin to the starfish and the anemone and a sister to the whale...
...August 23/30, 1993] San Francisco Chronicle Alarm in old Sonoma County as demon vodka spreads even into progressive parts: An attempt by a tiny private high school in rural Sonoma County to provide students with complete information on issues relating to their sexuality has alarmed parents and county authorities...
...Where it showed the Ice Age, there were charts on the wall called "The Evolution of Man" and "The Faces of Man" that showed only men...
...It was a day to remember for a lifetime and I do...
...Dallas Morning News On the correspondence page of a great gazette, another ebullition of sonorous stupidity from a cow of the New Age herd: The report that Christian students giggled when Carl Sagan referred to our cousin the starfish made me sad...
...They stripped me of my identity, distorted the facts and robbed me of my constitutional rights...
...I'm certainly wiser today...
...I told the kids if they are going to attempt an abortion on their own," she said, "they should also have guidance from a midwife...
...It's hard enough to be a girl when almost all the kids' shows have boy heroes and boy cartoon characters, and even all boy Muppets, and the books at school hardly ever talk about any famous women...
...We turn to her because what she would say—to her children, to Bill Clinton, to the world—is, without fail, what we would say if we were as articulate as she...
...The truth is that the bankers and bond dealers and utility executives who supported Bill Clinton were not looking to put a radical in the White House, nor would they permit one to take up residence there...
...Schragis told PW: "This caught my eye...
...I resent that...
...But this is too much...
...I think I'm intelligent, sensitive, caring and honest...
...It puts the economic royalists in a sweat...
...Ninety percent of the time it's me writing in this little room...
...Instead, the commission should presume "the complainant has a legitimate complaint and oblige the respondent to demonstrate otherwise," says author Donna Young...
...Was God making a joke when he created the starfish...
...I haven't yet, but who knows...
...But now all the boys and girls who go to see the dinosaurs this summer will believe that even the zoo thinks that girls don't matter very much in the history of people...
...Anna Quindlen has given women a voice...
...Young says commission investigations are different from legal proceedings "where an accused's right" must be protected...
...Can I kiss him...
...Quindlen, wise, articulate and compassionate, is the preeminent syndicated columnist writing today...
Vol. 26 • October 1993 • No. 10
