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CURRENT WISDOM Wall Street Journal Albert R. Hunt, preeminent mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, makes another bitchy point: Nafta would be dead on arrival if George Bush were president;...
...The CIA says Aristide is a rabble-rouser...
...One curious element about the collective unconscious is that it can be tapped and communicated with...
...What Hugo Young wrote was that Portillo is "in command of a different order of seriousness...
...Having grown steadily more curious, and somewhat less appreciative, I knew the time was ripe to meet directly with John Lennon's elusive essence...
...I' did feel compelled, however, to nose around regularly in record stores and bookstores, trying to discover more about what John Lennon had actually been like...
...Be assured that this process will not delay delivery of your magazine...
...Do you have any reaction to that...
...I guess the faculty can feel proud that they had as few spectacular•failures as Elliott Abrams...
...I think one of the things that is indicative, though, is that whenever we try to make gains on this issue it always seems that we're pulled back away from the issue by trying to focus on things that are not true and that have no merit...
...Was my dream tapping into John Lennon's reality...
...Wandering in the imposing Swiss Alps that same morning, my heart and imagination allowed me to feel closer to the spirit of Carl Jung than ever before...
...Allen in Virginia, but she made some major campaign errors, chief among them a proposed 30% cut in the state's income taxes...
...November 11, 1993] Today During an epochal interview on a recent Supreme Court decision on sexual harassment, the Bertrand Russell of modern progressive thought displays her wizardry at ratiocination and oratory to an awe-struck Katie Couric: COURIC: Some viewers this morning, Professor Hill, may wonder if you're an appropriate spokesperson because this recent book, The Real Anita Hill by William [sic] Brock, they believe, shot some holes in your story...
...Yes, at heated moments he has told followers to give as good as they get...
...President Bush didn't stir up the same kind of passions...
...No president since John F. Kennedy...
...I do not object to Mr...
...November 22, 1993] San Bernardino Sun A scientific elucidation of the greatest threat to female virtue ever to face the Republic, to wit, nocturnal dreams of Our President: Even when the Bill Dreams aren't romantic, many have an intimate flavor...
...But they made certain mistakes by not being aware of certain aspects of the human soul...
...imagine sending Dan Quayle to take on Ross Perot Tuesday night...
...What kept her off the Clinton cabinet...
...He and Michael '60 are the two sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg...
...Possibly...
...Clinton's sex appeal was recently confirmed in a survey of 18- to 30-year-olds conducted by New York City psychologist Carin Rubenstein...
...Pan Publishing, 291 pages, $16.95] 72 The American Spectator January 1994 The Guardian A much needed correction to the mischief wrought by an industrial saboteur in the typesetting department of a great British daily of the left: Owing to an editing error, Hugo Young's column yesterday described Michael Portillo as "a conman of a different order of seriousness and coherence from any of his rivals...
...I mean, to build unbelievably ugly housing with no corners of beauty in it was misguided because people felt depressed in those buildings...
...Brock's book and some of the claims he made...
...Is Aristide emotional...
...I'd have gotten many more votes from conservatives, Republicans, as well as Democrats...
...October 26, 1993] Wall Street Journal In the Age of Clinton, a WSJ reporter diagnoses a catastrophic mistake made by a Republican who apparently believed she was Ronald Reagan and it was tax-cutting debauchery time: In New Jersey, the poll numbers are close enough to suggest Mrs...
...Who cares...
...Back home in the Netherlands I continued to teach intuitive development at my school...
...We apologise to both...
...Whitman, a wealthy former president of the state utilities board, still has an outside chance to squeak through to victory...
...Rex Vardeman Circulation Manager The American Spectator January 1994 73...
...During the transition period, our invoice and renewal notices may mail a few days later than usual...
...1960 Robert Meeropol has created a foundation to benefit children whose parents have been harassed, injured, lost jobs, or have died in the course of progressive activities...
...Has he been depressed...
...Has he been prescribed an anti-depressant...
...HILL: Thank you, Katie...
...No matter what my rational convictions may have been, John was a friend and presence, was growing steadily more genuine...
...This failure, of course, reveals again that learning is not merely accomplished by having excellent teachers, one must provide an open mind as well...
...Since its inception last year, the foundation has awarded nearly $50,000 to several dozen children...
...to 11:30 p.m., Eastern Time...
...In the article, she relates how, in her role as prison educator, she has used the subject of AIDS to incorporate critical literacy teaching practices into the prison's skills-based curriculum...
...1963 In our last newsletter, Peter Orris was quoted praising the "well written" EI 50th Anniversary Book...
...Most faculty and students in the school that I attended would have been embarrassed if it were revealed that the 'Albert Spear' [sic] of our age and country had spent his high school years on Charlton Street...
...Michael, Robert and the Rosenberg Foundation were recently featured in the New York Times...
...He has struck a deep emotional chord...
...Why aren't you...
...I felt totally safe with him and didn't have to think about meddling around in the affairs of a world-famous deceased Beatle...
...Whitman has always had a better shot at victory than Mr...
...You wouldn't want to steal away with him to a hotel for a weekend...
...from John Lennon in Heaven, by Linda Keen...
...And I know that a year later, public opinion polls demonstrated that I would win if the election were held again...
...The American Spectator customer service number 1-800-524-3469 is available between 8:30 a.m...
...September 5, 1993] Boston Globe A curious view of justice from columnist Randolph Ryan, another conventional liberal entoiled in a Crusade for Democracy: But what about the CIA allegations...
...Kathy has also been involved in developing peer-counseling group programs...
...Lennon and settled for the comfortable habit of communing with my familiar, old, intangible guardian, Basil...
...It is my hunch that, even as recently as 1992, if I had made an all-out effort, I could have won the presidency...
...The next round of leftists has to be aware of every aspect of the human soul, including the desire to read People and enjoy it and why we enjoy it and what need it fulfills...
...I guess it's possible...
...I could swear he was taking a strong interest in my daily life activities...
...I'm not going to try to refute, point by point, the book on this morning show because I think what is really important here is that we talk about this issue...
...Kable has an excellent reputation in the publishing industry and is committed to providing the service and responsiveness you expect...
...November 4, 1993] The Great Books Series Miss Linda Keen chronicles the difficulties a shy, highly intellectual, modern feminist has in approaching the ghost of John Lennon...
...I am still embarrassed by this graduate's inability to learn any of the important lessons taught at EI...
...November 10, 1993] Image Magazine (San Francisco Examiner) The intellectual Wallace Shawn, actor, playwright, and pseud, expatiates compassionately on those large-souled progressives who provided such fine housing, especially in the Gulag Archipelago: I feel an incredible sympathy for the maligned communist bureaucrats who tried to provide housing to all the people...
...During the coup in which the generals overthrew and almost killed Aristide a couple of years ago, a Macoute chief died in a jail cell, shot by a guard...
...But this race shouldn't have even been close...
...October 30, 1993]Washington Post An explanation for that odd smile on George McGovern's lumpy face: Nearly 30 million Americans thought enough of my principles to go to the polls and vote for me over the incumbent president, Richard Nixon, in 1972...
...I would have hoped that it was unthinkable for EI's 50th Anniversary Album to be sullied by three paragraphs by this architect of the Reagan Administration's bloody antidemocratic campaign in Latin America...
...In one woman's dream, Clinton is her dentist ("but he isn't taking any new patients...
...One of every four of the women polled was as likely to fantasize about Clinton as about TV heartthrob Luke Perry...
...And what I would like for us to do this morning is to focus on Harris and how to move forward with this issue and those individuals who do have claims out there...
...Morris, Illinois...
...Realizing how the mountain peaks were all connected to the same earth, I started thinking about the collective unconscious, that information which is common to all—the foundation of what the ancients called "the sympathy of all things...
...Who knows...
...That can't be called lawful, but is it unjust...
...Psychologists who specialize in dream analysis say the Bill dreams should come as no surprise...
...COURIC: All right...
...Abrams expressing his opinions in whatever forum...
...Professor Anita Hill, thank you very much for joining us this morning...
...And few are presidential—Clinton usually drops into dreamland wearing his cap and jogging suit or a faded pair of jeans...
...HILL: Do I have any reaction to . . . COURIC: To Mr...
...During the next six months I kept setting aside any ideas about the possibility of communicating with the specter of Mr...
...PROF...
...And that's what I have been maintaining all along...
...November 10, 1993] The Nation The terror that was recently visited upon one of the most moronic of United States senators, as reported in the Mad magazine of the American left: When Jesse Helms serenaded Carol Moseley-Braun with a few bars of "Dixie" in a Senate elevator this summer, his racial taunt was as clear and deliberate as a burning cross...
...HILL: Well, I can just say that those claims are untrue...
...This letter is meant less as a comment on Elliott Abrams than it is on the Editorial Board's decision to include this material within an otherwise excellent booklet...
...PROF...
...You were very quiet when this book came out and did not come forward to refute any of the charges made...
...Clinton is very charismatic and he isn't afraid of a real woman," says Robert Van de Castle, a University of Virginia psychology professor and dream expert...
...PROF...
...November 1, 1993] Newsletter (Elisabeth Irwin High School) Alumni news from a Greenwich Village high school for some reason affectionately known as the Little Red School House: 1957 Kathy Boudin recently published an article in the Spring 1993 Harvard Review called "Participatory Literacy Education behind Bars: AIDS Opens the Door...
...He had not only helped me write my first book, but had continued to assist me in many aspects of my professional and private life...
...Fall 1993] ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS: The American Spectator has transferred its subscription and customer service , operations to Kable Fulfillment Services in Mt...
...In March of 1987, I reached a decision...
...But it still proves nothing to me about Aristide's fitness to be president...
...for another dreamer, the president is a stand-up comic who is bombing ("I wish I could give him funnier material...
...His letter also included the following: "I do not understand what `balance' you thought you were achieving with the inclusion of the `opinions' of Elliott Abrams...
...It proves that sometimes Macoutes die as Macoutes live...
...Did he die, as the CIA claims, by Aristide's order...
Vol. 27 • January 1994 • No. 1
