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New York Times Arkansas chic sweeps Manhattan: Judge Patricia M. Wald and Robert L. Wald of Washington have announced the engagement of their daughter Frederica Nora Wald to Roger Sherman, a son of...
...When you do prank phone calls, it's a way of fighting back...
...It will become a reality...
...The apparent gender gap in physician-assisted suicides can also be explained by...
...They also kill themselves four times more frequently than women...
...Women's methods are more passive," he sags...
...We dare not fail in the terrible battle that has begun...
...Remember how Casablanca ends...
...When I first realized I was growing a beard, not just a few chin hairs, I was shocked...
...Bogart's power over Bergman and her husband ennobles him...
...I Aiave had it for about sixteen years...
...She and her fianc6 received MBA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania...
...It is still true that this is the safest place in the world, that you have the best law enforcement people, the best fire service people, the best public employees, the best federal investigative unit in the whole world...
...March 3, 1993] Dear Friend, It is our pleasure to inform you that the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) has decided to hold its historic National Congress from 27th January to 2nd February 1993...
...You have on the state side—I assume this will happen with other governments as well—all state officials working harder to enforce codes, working more diligently at every security measure that you can take...
...I identified strongly as a feminist, but was not ready for this test of my will and resolve not to appear at least moderately feminine in this world of strict masculine/feminine dichotomies...
...February 27, 1993] San Francisco Chronicle Beyond the devilry of R. Limbaugh...
...We have been called to take up arms...
...Times have changed, Styles have changed...
...Besides, until the beard came, I did not realize what deep recesses of desire to be "pretty" in a traditionally feminine way I harbored...
...I will leave my other reactions to the fur coat and to the overall promotion of Harvard's unfortunate and incorrect image as an elite and snobbish institution for another time...
...As one who is concerned with educating Harvard-Radcliffe men and women about responsibility in drinking, I find the glorification of Kershaw as a "partygoer par excellence" extremely distressing...
...But there could be other factors at work...
...A September wedding is planned...
...17 must never be forgotten...
...They use drugs, which usually require a doctor's prescription...
...Because as he says at the movie's end, otherwise, his life doesn't amount to a hill of beans...
...He even recommits himself to fighting the good fight...
...Clinton is Bogart, minus the cigaret and trench coat...
...When you learn to do that, you realize that this juggernaut that we call society is just a construction of words that is very tenuous and illusory sometimes...
...in New York...
...Yours sincerely, Bharat Mohan Adhikari Polit Bureaue Member CPN (UML) [January 14, 1993] Health In a Washington Post supplement written for those with the blues, the sagacious and sightly Miss Abigail Trafford discourses upon yet another area of American life in need of the salutary magic of Affirmative Action: Debbie, Diane, Janet...
...Wald's father . . [February 28, 1993] APA Newsletters (American Philosophical Association) A typical university cosmopolitan, one who knows the ways of the French gourmand, brings her merkin to the barricades: I am a white lesbian, forty-eight years old and I have a beard...
...Mario Cuomo suffers a gruesome case of logorrhea right there in the "safest" city in the world—safer even than Beirut or Washington, D.C.: As far as apprehension is concerned, we all have that feeling—that feeling of being violated...
...As long as he does not break the law (and I hope he was not driving that day), Kershaw of course has the right to behave as he wishes...
...March 1, 1993] Letter of Invitation Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) Good News and Bad News for profs at the Harvard Law School making their summer travel plans: SF Weekly (San Francisco, California) A moral inquiry into crank calling from Mr...
...Undoubtedly there have been Daves, Dicks and Johns, but it fits cultural stereotyping to publicize Debbie, Diane and Janet...
...February 24, 1993] Harvard The official house organ of Harvard gets another puritanical bull from the morally incontinent Thurston Smith: I feel obliged to respond to the full-page photograph on page 76 of the January-February issue, showing Thomas Kershaw, M.B.A...
...62, tailgating before the Harvard-Yale football game, eating a chicken leg and holding out his Bloody Mary glass for a refill...
...Where are the examples of Tom, Dick and Harry in the debate on assisted suicide...
...But why are there so many women on this list of patients who made medical history with their dying...
...Or we can take that leap of faith...
...Lundberg suggests that male patients may also ask physicians to help them die, but doctors are more comfortable writing about women who seek help because it fits the profession's stereotype of the weak, needy patient-female...
...What do these women have in common...
...Hoping that our discussions in the above line will be of interest to you, we extend our cordial invitation to you to cover the proceedings of our congress...
...Every one of us must help our courageous young president with everything he wants done...
...The beard, if let grow, would certainly end the possibility of a purely feminine appearance for me...
...March 10, 1993] the differences between men and women in the methods they choose to kill themselves...
...We've all got our personal fights and fortunes to consider, but Bill Clinton, our Bogart, holds everybody's exit visas—his economic plan—which could free us from dictatorship of the deficit and possibly lead to a happy ending...
...In other words, a man comfortable enough with his own power to share his power with the rest of us...
...But he still believes pranking is educational and—yes, this is the '90s—empowering for America's youth...
...Burton Sherman of New York...
...Right now, according to recent polls, three quarters of Americans are Ingrid Bergman and her husband...
...But is he powerful enough to overcome our cynicism...
...exhorts all Americans to follow Him: Remember, near the end of Casablanca, when Ingrid Bergman and her husband ask Humphrey Bogart to give them exit visas so they can escape to safety and keep working to defeat the Nazis...
...Your magazine, however, should refrain from presenting this picture as the ultimate way to enjoy "The Game...
...He surprises everybody by deciding to send them off together...
...All of that will be done...
...Maybe, just maybe, Clinton is everything he seems to be: a man disciplined and smart enough to have figured out what he thinks will work and strong enough to be able to take that plan to the people and admit that without their support, he'll fail...
...By then I had moved to liking it a lot and putting some effort into seeing to it that it appeared neat and not unkempt by, for instance, keeping crumbs out of it when I ate croissants...
...When you finally find out that you can use words to convince people of things that are untrue, then you realize, conversely, that you've been fooled a lot yourself—through advertisements, business, governments—by institutions that use words to lie all the time, and use untruths to jerk us around, and bully us, and keep us under their thumbs...
...And so, what used to be the safest place in the world will be safer still...
...Answer: They all turned to doctors to help them die...
...They commit suicide by gunshot, hanging or jumping off a bridge...
...Given the paternalism of the medical establishment, "men would be more likely to describe a woman requesting assistance than other men," says Lundberg...
...With poetry and svelte syllogism Miss Susan Margolis (author of Fame...
...Well, we're living in the '90s and not the '40s...
...New York Times Arkansas chic sweeps Manhattan: Judge Patricia M. Wald and Robert L. Wald of Washington have announced the engagement of their daughter Frederica Nora Wald to Roger Sherman, a son of Justice and Mrs...
...All of them working together...
...Wald, 35, is a senior marketing manager at Time Warner Inc...
...President Clinton is America's last hope for liberation from its cruel bondage...
...Fall 1992] News-Leader (Springfield, Missouri) Miss June McGaughey—apparently a political scientist or historian at some small college—pipes up on behalf of National Salvation: The almighty God has lifted up William Clinton to lead this country through the most perilous times in its history...
...The shortage of men on the list may reflect a more subtle and inherent form of sexism in medicine...
...When you prank people, what you're doing is using words to create this false reality for the person on the other end of the phone...
...You will have now a heightened security in every way that it can be heightened...
...Thurston Smith, C. S. '71 Associate Registrar, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Harvard University [April 1993] Federal News Service In the aftermath of the bombing of the World Trade Center, the Hon...
...Men's methods are active and physical," says JAMA editor Lundberg, a forensic pathologist...
...Wd regret to mention that because of our financial constraints, we are not in a position to provide travel subsidy...
...I think it's healthy sometimes for kids and teenagers to do prank phone calls, in order to realize that they can exert some control over their lives," Trubee asserts...
...She graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University...
...It took me over a year to stop shaving it altogether...
...At a time when world communist movement has met with setbacks following the collapse of the Soviet Union, it should be a matter of significant interest to all that this Congress of our Party is going to address important theoretical and practical issues of the movement...
...The numbers are still too small to be statistically valid, but as JAMA editor George D. Lundberg points out: "There is a pattern that's beginning to emerge...
...John Trubee, rock singer and crank caller, as recorded in a New Age Journal for the catatonically entranced: Trubee has tapered off his pranking activities in recent years, saying he feels "a little uncomfortable" with engaging in a juvenile activity into his late 30s...
...And unless we're willing to sacrifice, his presidency won't amount to a hill of beans...
...It will be tempting for us to adopt Russ [sic] Limbaugh's glibness, focusing on what's wrong with him and how we don't like the way his plan will touch our lives...
...Her mother, who was President Clinton's first choice for Attorney General but declined the appointment, is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and was the first woman to serve as chief judge of that court...
...The vision he unveiled to America the night of Feb...
...And why...
...Sort of a double goatee affair that grows on either side of my chin...
...But only one man holds the exit visas...
Vol. 26 • May 1993 • No. 5
