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...Like his, their hunger isn't reducible to pure need, pure greed...

...One way is the male Eurocentric view...

...Buttressed by a presidential hug and kisses on the cheek, the first lady drew audience tears as she sought to put things in perspective with the story of an Arkansas woman with cancer in both breasts who said she had enough money to have lumps removed from only one breast...

...The most important thing we must teach is nonviolent confrontation and peaceful resolutions of differences...

...She proceeds to berate President Clinton's proposed health care plan for not having a provision to charge recipients differently on the basis of lifestyle...

...King: Hold on, hold on .. . Woman: . . . she has backup...

...Each phase refers to teaching from a different perspective...

...He has said that as an undergraduate at Georgetown University, he was asked to consider the priesthood by a professor who thought Clinton's term papers the work of a serious Catholic...

...We have barely heard from those groups...

...Ultimately that is the shock of this new presidency...

...January 24, 1994] New York Times An editorialist to the scepter born invokes the august name of philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and calls for prohibition of another word the liberal brethren find painful...

...Peter D. Relic, president of the National Association of Independent Schools, .. . urged educators to dissolve barriers between academic departments such as English and mathematics and let education become one experience...

...The Washington Times article provided many graphic details from the Brock account, focusing heavily on allegations about oral sex...

...in the name of dissent one can then attempt to use the First Amendment to defend that speech...

...February 28, 1994] New York Times The metaphysical dropping of La Quindlen the morning after an evening of reading the German romance philosopher Heinz Joseph Elbow (1613?-1700...

...Clinton urged 300 White House staff members not to let the case distract them from their jobs...

...Jackson, who I know well, in Arkansas, has had a lifetime hatred with Bill Clinton...

...That's good advice, especially for people who write about politics...

...Today's political discourse is thick with notions that meet Peirce's test for expulsion...

...another, for example, would teach by looking at different cultures the way people in those cultures look at themselves...

...Ma'am, I—let me tell you something about this...

...But what about those layers of society that have been deeply silenced, among them sexually violated women, including prostituted women, including groups who are kept illiterate and thus not given access to speech from slavery times through the present...

...February 25, 1994] Insight On the correspondence page of Washington's leading political weekly, a politically correct euphemism unimagined even by Anna Quindlen: In the piece "Clinton's Health Reforms Fail to Cap Irresponsible Behavior" [Fair Comment, Jan...

...Peggy McIntosh, associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, and founder and co-director of the K12 National Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity project, divided education into five phases...

...Laura A. Acerra Grand Rapids, Mich...

...Yet Clinton is a Southern Baptist...

...When I look at Clinton, the memory of Reagan and Bush's toxic paternalism and appetite for destruction fades...

...He ain't running anymore...

...The death sentence was overturned and in a second trial she received a 15-year sentence...

...March 5, 1994] 84 The American Spectator April / May 1994 Village Voice A colossal boost for Boy Clinton's 1996 presidential prospects from the venerable Voice's Manohla Dargis, rampant philatelist: I don't believe for a second that Clinton's been a better or worse president because he's femme—only that he's been cruelly and suggestively skewered because he is more like a woman than not...

...McIntosh said teachers must "teach as a co-learner...

...So our reader felt compelled to track down a copy of the Spectator itself...

...Given the changed nature of the world, teachers' capacity to rethink, relearn and re-envision is called upon every day...

...King: Let me tell you...

...Taken alone, Clinton looks more like people I care for than people I fear...

...December 5, 1993] The American Spectator April /May 1994 85...

...February 14, 1994] Washington Times Hillary's latest whopper: At the closed rally in the East Room, Mrs...

...Taken together, the Clintons embody the changing nature of politics, sexual and otherwise...

...March 10, 1994] New York Times Magazine From Bruce Handy, "a senior editor at Time magazine," still more risible riffs on that awkward and embarrassing, if omnipresent, male member: Fewer men still will leave their penises to museums, though it has long been rumored that the Smithsonian Institution includes John Dillinger's among its exhaustive collections of Americana...

...He went out immediately and bought a newspaper that was certain to have reported any vulgarities about Clinton that were available—the Post's hard-right rival, The Washington Times...

...That's my best guess, 'cause I know this guy, and he's warped...

...when a political party chastens an errant member...

...However, the museum's extensive collections do include a number of unfamous penises, as well as bone fragments left over from Abraham Lincoln's head wound...

...We have no famous penises...

...Bill Clinton looks more like the future, as uncertain as that seems...

...Only that speech that can be expressed is speech that the government can attempt to silence...

...31], Cherie Harder worries that the government is not capable of making citizens more virtuous...

...The term is now invoked at every turn: when racial or sexual intolerance is called into question...

...March/April 1994] Washington Post The Age of Innocence: Brown's father, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, remains a beloved figure here...

...Then he reread certain of these passages...

...King: Hold on...

...Perhaps the curators had had it appraised...

...Harder fails to answer how she intends to separate these morally challenged individuals...

...Perez was paroled in 1971...

...But this was an imagined tyranny, dreamed up just as right-wing politics reached its apex on campus and in the White House...

...And if all the conservatives have to go on is Bill Clinton with women years ago—which to me was already an issue in the campaign—see, he's elected already ma'am...

...Clinton incarnates a generation of men who came of age under feminism and the civil rights movement, men who don't always wear privilege with ease...

...He closely read the most graphic passages—e.g., one in which Clinton is alleged to have said that one woman "could suck a tennis ball through a garden hose...

...March 7, 1994] Columbia Journalism Review Whilst discoursing on David Brock's account of Bill Clinton's libido, Christopher Hanson divulges that he too has feet of clay and perhaps could use a pedicure: One reader recalls how the Post's reference to "vulgarity" piqued his curiosity...

...Calling assimilation a thing of the past, Clarke said a greater emphasis needed to be made on teaching children to understanddifferent people, customs and religions rather than trying to mold them into what is accepted as a universal norm...

...This reader prefers not to be identified, but probably should be: it's me...

...What is more, the government is interfering with the speech of those who cannot speak...

...March 13, 1994] Houston Chronicle The rise of Miss Leslie Perez, a singularly compassionate, progressive Democrat from the intellectual wing of the party: Leslie Perez was leading six opponents Tuesday in early returns in her bid to become the Harris County Democratic Party chair...

...We have no penises," said a spokeswoman for the institution...

...They need equality to get access to speech—to get to the point where the First Amendment could help them by keeping the government from interfering with their speech...

...She read his later stuff: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a change in the political landscape makes an enormous difference in the world view of some part of the electorate...

...Perez, under the name Leslie Douglas Ashley, was convicted of the 1961 murder of a local businessman and later underwent a sex change operation...

...January 25, 1994] Larry King Show Once again, Larry King caught in flagrante delicto in his White House courtier mode: Unidentified Woman: Remember back in December, the twe—this American Spectator came out and said—and you said nobody has come forward to say that they were telling the truth...

...In the 80s, right-wing ideologues stripped the term of irony and began using "political correctness" to describe what they saw as a systematic effort by liberals to crush free and open discourse...

...King: And yesterday, that same guy brought forward one woman, and all it is is one woman, but I'll tell ya—I'll tell ya . . Woman: No, no...

...Nevertheless, "politically correct" caught on as a term of derision, aimed at discrediting ideas associated with liberalism...

...Strike 2. "We are not the home of the Dillinger penis," said an official at the Walter Reed museum...

...She referred me to the museum at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which she said contained many "disgusting anatomical specimens" and might be the source of the Dillinger rumors...

...February 13, 1994] Philadelphia Inquirer In celebration of its centennial year, the revered Shipley School brings together a cross-section of America's glassy-eyed educationists, whose public remarks, unfortunately, the Inquirer neglected to translate into English: "We must not teach life skills and ethical lessons that were once taught at home," said Pamela J. Clarke, head of The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y...

...But it left some incidents out for lack of space...

...when people encounter ideas they don't like...

...Those groups the First Amendment doesn't help...

...Only then was he ready to declare the piece to be irrelevant trash...

...It emerged in the 1960s, when remarks that were judged to be racially or sexually insensitive were sarcastically referred to as "politically incorrect...

...Orwell is never far away: When an idea becomes a hindrance to clarity, Peirce said—even when the idea is one's own—it's best to pat it on the head and send it away...

...They hadn't...

...Religious language "comes naturally to him because it's so woven into his life and experiences," Stephanopoulos said...

...Perez, 56, a transsexual who was once convicted of murder, had a narrow early lead on incumbent Democratic Party Chairman Mike Charlton...

...What exactly is she proposing, that government target people who are sexually active, who are homosexual or are from impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhoods and charge them more for health insurance...

...A smiling, back-slapping Irish pol, Brown had two terms as governor, from 1958-1966, that coincided with the prime of California, before the Beach Boys gave way to Altamont, and New Deal liberalism was rejected in favor of Ronald Reagan's conservatism...

...The term "politically correct" is clearly the front-runner...

...The clichés are subtly invasive and, ultimately, blinding...

...When he stands next to his vaguely butch, breadwinning wife, Clinton looks less power-hungry than accessible, mortal...

...March 10, 1994] New York Times Magazine Feminist sage Catharine MacKinnon espies another deficiency of the First Amendment, to wit, that it does not protect unutterable utterances or inexpressible expressions...

...when someone advocates expanding the study of Western culture beyond the classics...

...Something must be done: The First Amendment only protects that speech that can manage to get itself expressed, and often that is the speech of power...

...Jefferson never thought of this...

...I can only guess that Bill must have taken a woman away from him back in Oxford...

...Advisers say Clinton speaks from conviction, not calculation...

...Woman: . . . she has lawyers...

...We must teach children to play and sing and work together with children of the universal nation...