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New York Times Photo caption of the decade: After almost 30 years of delays caused by planning and environmental challenges, the last stretch of Interstate 287, between Montville and Mahwah, N.J.,...
...Ribbon Control," that silly article by Jamie Malanowski (Op-Ed, Sept...
...But they long ago abandoned such obviously racist labeling...
...Maria Lucia Balcazar, niece of Bolivia's new president, said she would never wash her hand again after shaking hands with Castro on Saturday...
...She even rocked slightly in her chair...
...And what color might that be exactly...
...It saved lives, limbs and minds...
...CLINTON: Right...
...Why...
...KING: No...
...And I was in law school, and my car had a battery that did not like to be left in the car overnight...
...June 1993] Minneapolis Star Tribune In the pages of a great American daily, Deb Price reports on things Minnesotans need to know: Gay men are passionate fans of strong women—tough cookies like Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich...
...What they told you in kindergarten was true...
...The list wouldn't be complete without the New York City gals who recently gave me a little something to remember them by...
...It was also, in the dream, a protective mechanism for cleansing the uterus of infectious organisms carried there by sperm...
...I oversee the various ministries of the different faiths that have representatives on campus and student constituencies, and am available to people who want to discuss the range of issues that people might bring to someone who they hope would have an impartiality in a complex system...
...Todd Gitlin, to compose yet another authoritative opuscule: Conservatives tend to crow or bemoan—we told you those kids would come to naught...
...Justice David Souter waited three weeks before speaking...
...Seated at the far right end of the bench, six down from her only female colleague, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Ginsburg repeatedly asked for clarifications and went over fine points in the case, which examined whether federal agencies may be sued by people who claim their constitutional rights are violated...
...They have highly developed senses of justice and fairness, rejecting stereotypes and embracing oddities in their peers, whether a hair style or a disability...
...October 16, 1993] Larry King Weekend Hillary recharged: KING: Your first car—We were talking about first cars...
...Whose "flesh" is this anyway...
...It would drain out if it were—especially in the New England cold...
...When President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada asked why, his niece said, "Fidel is more important than Walt Disney...
...Instead, America's second female Supreme Court justice asked question after question today-17 in all during her first hour on the bench...
...CLINTON: "Julius," yes...
...She smiled only a few times—once, softly, when she first took her seat and looked out at the rows of people before her...
...Of course, if we note the non-canonical writings of Jesus' romance with Mary Magdalene, then perhaps Jesus was a bisexual...
...While other justices like Clarence Thomas leaned way back in their tall black leather chairs, cupping their chins on their hands and gazing at the ornate chamber ceiling, Ginsburg sat absolutely still...
...The idea of starting a women's wrestling team originated at Gay Games III, an Olympic-style international competition that drew 7,300 athletes to Vancouver in 1990...
...And since our talent for denial allows us to munch ourselves to disease as easily as we puff or sip, it may behoove government to help us face the facts in a way we seem able to recognize: by imposing a financial penalty...
...4) about how every inane cause will soon sport its own colored ribbon, contains a racist blind spot you seem to have missed...
...August 5, 1993] Stanford Magazine Another inane passage in a full-blown interview with Dean Robert Gregg, Episcopalian chaplain of Stanford University who in vapid remark after vapid remark tastefully refrains from all mention of God or even God Is Dead—onward Christian Therapists...
...Mom, please don't buy Ivory soap anymore" was his most recent environmental request...
...KING: You Ms...
...Only wrestling was closed to women...
...Eating fat is no more sinful than smoking or drinking, but its overall impact on our nation's health is just as enormous...
...October 10, 1993]Washington Post The prosecution of a 1960s radical for manslaughter and armed robbery occasions the 1963-64 president of the radical SDS, Mr...
...On her first day as a Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have surprised no one if she sat quietly, just taking in her new surroundings...
...KING: "Julius...
...SM: What is the job of the chaplaincy...
...Castro, clearly delighted with the remark, bent down and kissed the 8-yearold on the cheek...
...But the Clinton bean counters ought to uncover one more sacred cow as a source of sin tax revenue...
...September 22, 1993] New York Times Magazine The ebullient Lucinda Franks catalogues the many fine achievements of her prodigy son and all his peers, creating a list that quite properly does not include the ability to read, to write, to make simple mathematical calculations, to speak only when spoken to, and—apparently—to use bar soap: In spite of the confusion these children experience, few would disagree that they are, in many ways, a splendid generation...
...So we offer a proposal of our own: To help finance the new national health care system, lay a modest surcharge on any food that derives more than 25 percent of its calories from fat...
...KING: Did the battery have a name...
...As long as high-level war criminals are still lionized in Washington, and war veterans beg for work on the street corners, as long as Americans wrestle with questions about authority and materialism and violence and whether the world can be saved, the antiwar movement as a whole remains one of the most successful such democratic movements in history...
...KING: You know, it's been a long week...
...My car had a personality—my first car...
...Margie Profet, 35, a self-described evolutionary biologist, wondered more than most...
...CLINTON: I did not name the battery...
...October 4, 1993] New York Times A missive from one of the millions of very nice people who make American Liberalism a veritable gold mine for psychiatry and for Valium-mongers: Excuse me, but your color is showing...
...KING: Mine was a '55—'53 Ford...
...he replied...
...Boys really do have cooties," says Profet...
...So should you...
...They are disdainful of smoking and drug use, can sniff out hypocrisy and have social consciences that are poignant...
...They are so worried about the few trees on their block that last year they formed an earth club to keep them free of litter...
...My job involves being a dean of Memorial Church and all the events that take place in there and teaching in the Classics Department and the Religious Studies Department...
...I think it was Eveready, or something like that...
...I asked...
...By the end of the first hour, Ginsburg appeared well settled into her new role...
...New York Times Photo caption of the decade: After almost 30 years of delays caused by planning and environmental challenges, the last stretch of Interstate 287, between Montville and Mahwah, N.J., is to be opened in the next month, six months ahead of schedule...
...And you were telling me you had to take the battery out...
...Because they shoot elephants to get the ivory, don't they...
...It did...
...laughs] KING: Did it have a name...
...I called my car "Julius...
...The first came just nine minutes into arguments in the first case of the new term...
...Both John 13:23 and 21:20 acknowledge Jesus' love of John, one of his three closest associates...
...And they are afraid to use it," says Hofmann, who jokes he's the only male president of a lesbian group...
...Most women don't realize how much strength they have...
...And yours was a '63 Olds...
...Would that be a pallid pink and peach, an ebony black or perhaps a nutmeg reddish-brown...
...The club exists because two gay men, Bob Hofmann and Ed Unger, thought women should be encouraged to unleash their physical power...
...Michael S. Kimmel New York [September 20, 1993] Associated Press AP reporter Nita Lelyveld goes berserk at the word processor—or is it that Justice Ginsburg is a psychopath...
...CLINTON: And it made a very happy battery and a car that worked...
...When I was a child, my box of 64 Crayola crayons had a color called "flesh...
...October 3, 1993] Japan Times Fidel meets the Rosa Luxemburg of Bolivia: Cuban president Fidel Castro won a surprise endorsement in Bolivia over the weekend...
...CLINTON: No...
...Thomas stayed silent until his second day...
...At times, the child in our children pokes endearingly through the veneer of sophistication...
...That's right, a fat tax...
...October 4, 1993...
...CLINTON: So, I unhooked it every night and took it to my dorm room and kept it warm, and then I put it back in the next morning...
...But the expression on her face was one of concentration...
...I think we're losing it here...
...CLINTON: It did have a name, yes...
...They're the Knights Wrestling Club for Women...
...Many justices take a while to find their voices on the court...
...It was a lousy revolution, but it was, on the whole, a remarkable human triumph—and a hard act to follow...
...A "flesh"-colored ribbon...
...Then an aide pushed her chair way in and she got down to business...
...Hamburgers, ice cream, milk, eggs, cheese, lamb chops, hot dogs...
...My son, Joshua, 9, and his friends are amazing in their generosity, sensitivity, ability to stretch across an intellectual canyon and meet adults on their own terms...
...CLINTON: Yes...
...CLINTON: Well, anybody listening to this will probably write and say, you know, "This just shows you how crazy she is...
...KING: So, what did you have to do with it...
...When I arrived here, it dawned on me that given the wonderful diversity of Stanford's population—student, staff, and faculty—it was important to me to have a chaplaincy staff that was diverse in terms of gender and race, and that we have done...
...That would be the products of our giant, powerful meat and dairy industries...
...October 2, 1993] Toledo Blade In a column entitled "New Age," the Nutrition Nazis speak out: It makes sense that smoking and drinking, both acknowledged causes of some of society's major diseases, ought to be somehow penalized—and sales taxes generally are difficult to deny...
...KING: Right...
...After reading copiously on this subject, Profet last week presented her 52-page scholarly article in the Quarterly Review of Biology—and so set off a squall about a process so ordinary that few researchers have even thought to question it...
...She kept a fixed gaze on each of the lawyers before her—blinking often but looking away only to take notes or glance down at her papers...
...In John 21:21,22 Peter affirms the relationship between Jesus and John was different...
...Having presided over the gold-leafed decay of the 1980s, they cannot grant that the antiwar movement, for all its (relatively few) sins, its many failings and its occasional fugitive, saved the soul of America...
...August 10, 1993] Duluth News-Tribune Up in the Great North, original biblical research proving that, though the Nazarene was a gifted publicist, his gay rights position has been lost for 2000 years...
...September 26, 1993] Newsweek Another unanticipated scientific breakthrough—The MacArthur Foundation gave a $225, 000 "genius" grant to this doltish charlatan: Every month, women wonder why menstruation has to be such a mess...
...CLINTON: It did...
...Gregg: There are three of us who work full-time on campus and another person who works in the biomedical ethics center at the Medical School and hospital...
...In 1988, she says, an early-morning dream gave her the answer: that menstrual bleeding was not merely the body's way of shedding the built-up uterine lining when no baby has been conceived...
Vol. 26 • December 1993 • No. 12
