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Rolling Stone Three weeks after the death of a pop idol, hope springs eternal: According to Nirvana's booker, it's still too early to determine whether Cobain will be well enough to participate in...
...It describes how Hillary became one of the nation's top lawyers while she helped her husband succeed as the governor of Arkansas and then as the president...
...The cats are "often sick and starving...
...Overall, despite the fact that twice as many women as men work at desktop computers, men are much more active on-line users...
...Stuck doesn't mention another factor that makes women reject computer services: Much of the terminology of computer technology was invented by men to appeal to men...
...I admire his love of politics, the pleasure he takes from being in crowds, looking at people, shaking hands, and his great love of talk...
...You would have to have your street person spayed or neutered, unless you qualified for a $15 annual "unaltered street person certificate...
...Some women report being sexually harassed on mainstream on-line systems...
...Therefore I offer a modest proposal...
...I'm amazed by that fact...
...By contrast, New York's graffiti subculture began from an urge to compete through art...
...Rather than identify and guide this energy, adults see graffiti only as a vandalism issue...
...Rolling Stone Three weeks after the death of a pop idol, hope springs eternal: According to Nirvana's booker, it's still too early to determine whether Cobain will be well enough to participate in this summer's Lollapalooza tour, on which Nirvana is tentatively scheduled to perform...
...And he has not, as in previous administrations, assigned [anyone] as chief foreign policy-maker in his administration: There is no John Foster Dulles...
...We associate warm climate with lack of intelligence—our way of justifying living where we do...
...So are the street people...
...April 11, 1994] Capitol Gang Shocking ebullitions of a racist and highly judgmental nature: SHIELDS: Al Hunt, hasn't it really been necessary, though, for the United States to show some resolve to the Serbs, the U.S...
...March 25, 1994] Chicago Tribune Carol Kleiman, in her celebrated "Women at Work" column, yet again advances the surprising proposition that men and women are not equal: Sociologist Mary Frances Stuck of the State University of New York at Oswego has found that women "tend to think of computers as productivity tools," to be used only to get the job done...
...Let's think about the parallels...
...Kids will learn about Bill and Hillary's shared views on raising their daughter, their mutual support in hard times, their defense of one another against the harshness of public life, and their communication about all the issues the president faces...
...I mean, otherwise, just you're turning everything over to them...
...In the same spiel, the federally subsidized Mr...
...There's another problem, too...
...I hope that my proposal will be taken in the humorous spirit in which it is offered...
...Santa Cruz County has a lot of stray cats...
...But one audience member said he was not prepared to see one performer cut another, mop up the blood with towels and send them soaring above the audience on revolving clotheslines...
...This is a feeling women did not get from Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, or Bush...
...I think that the county Board of Supervisors has unwittingly suggested a fresh approach to the issue of panhandling...
...Liberals tend to value tolerance highly, so there's a greater reluctance to destroy enemies than among the right," he said...
...There is no Henry Kissinger in this administration...
...Last year, students criticized Calabresi for issuing a memo in which he denounced as vulgar posters one student had displayed in the Law School depicting a penis...
...Caroline Whitelock Capitola [April 1994] Washington Post Addressing the Radio and Television Correspondents Association, Garrison Keillor reveals himself as essentially a Hegelian, with a strong leaning toward the Great Man of History theory: I like this president...
...Before we elected him, we knew that he'd had affairs, that his wife condoned them, and that, according to what his longtime mistress Gennifer Flowers told Penthouse, he adored performing oral sex on women...
...For many, family, school and work are irrelevant, if not downright miserable, and don't come close to the brotherhood of graffiti in providing, believe it or not, a sense of respect and accomplishment...
...and its allies...
...But women pay a price for being turned off by terms such as "hardware" and "software" or by systems described as being "up" or "down...
...Furthermore, writing graffiti is a better choice of activities than pure violence...
...It would be your responsibility to trap your street person on a regular basis, and cut off the tips of his or her ears...
...it's no surprise that graffiti writers carry weapons...
...That's why, I believe, 90 percent of the 700 subscribers to Women's Wire of San Francisco are female—and unharassed...
...I discovered that graffiti writers around the world are highly organized: they hold conventions, publish magazines and establish international reputations...
...Where else but Yale would you have a dean dance about on stage with a penis on his head...
...The book also chronicles Bill's appointment of Hillary to head a commission on education and later to chair a special committee on health care...
...Men, on the other hand, "tend to look at computers as things to be explored . . . as toys," Stuck says...
...HUNT: Look, the Serbs are atrocious people...
...I like him, even though I didn't go to his church...
...If conservatives thought these charges would be a turnoff to the women of America, they were sorely mistaken...
...Clinton put up with it—because she was getting good sex at home...
...This last bit was of paramount importance because it explained several things to us, like why, perhaps, Mrs...
...ages 7-10, 48 pages, $6.95 [Spring 1994] Santa Cruz Sentinel A California cat-lover begins to question authority, without losing her sense of humor: Two stories in the front page of the March 23 Sentinel caught my eye: "Panhandling law passes," and "Cat-feeding ordinance passed by supervisors...
...Rush Limbaugh voted in a presidential election for the first time in his life in 1988, when he was 47 [sic] years old...
...It must be fun to say what Rush Limbaugh says, but imagine having to believe it and base your life on it...
...Downtown Santa Cruz has a lot of street people...
...March 24, 1994] 92 The American Spectator June 1994 Associated Press An A.P...
...April 15, 1994] New York Times The triumph of art as discoursed upon by the beauteous L. Daniella on the correspondence page of the esteemed Times, only a column or two away from such equally gifted literati as A. Lewis, F. Rich, and A. Quindlen: "In a City of Graffiti, Gangs Turn to Violence to Protect Their Art" (news article, March 13) captures the exuberance young men experience as graffiti writers, or taggers, as those you describe in Los Angeles call themselves...
...and throughout the world...
...why women were so drawn to him—because he enjoyed giving them pleasure...
...But I like this president, and I think the country does...
...I guess it took him a while to figure out what he thought, and if I thought what he thought, I'd still be puzzled by it...
...Keillor rebukes Plato to declare an examined life not worth living: It's a big country, and there is more to life than politics...
...They see computers as a challenge to be conquered...
...I'm a northern liberal, one of God's frozen people, and we northern liberals tend to be a stiff and sour bunch, who are in favor of humanity in principle but don't love anybody in particular...
...at home, women often are too tired or too busy with household responsibilities to enjoy the luxury of "playing" with the computer...
...To get the certificate, you would have to prove that you were providing proper housing, medical care and exercise for your street person...
...He's far more interested in health care...
...People thought he was so great for doing that...
...Women reportedly believe that using networking systems at work may be a waste of valuable time...
...court of appeals, won the minds and hearts of his students, boys and girls alike: Still, law students are more familiar with Calabresi's non-administrative side, especially his unabashed willingness to poke fun at himself...
...April 16, 1994] Yale Daily News How Guido Calabresi, dean of Yale Law School and Clinton nominee to the U.S...
...He's full of soul and he doesn't check out...
...April 20, 1994]McLaughlin Group The complicated wit of Eleanor Clift, FOB and closet foreign policy adviser: MR...
...April 17, 1994] The American Spectator June 1994 93...
...Chandra asked...
...You would be responsible for providing regular meals, vaccinations and screening for contagious diseases...
...Los Angeles has had a violent gang subculture for years...
...If you give handouts to a street person for more than 30 days, you would be required to register with the city as his or her legal guardian...
...I have been a teen-age counselor for six years, mainly in New York City...
...March 24, 1994]Blackbirch Press Preview of a young people's biography of two unindicted co-conspirators: BILL & HILLARY Working Together in the White House Keith Elliott Greenberg Lavishly illustrated with many large, full-color illustrations As this book traces Bill and Hillary Clinton's lives together as students, lawyers, parents, and public figures, it illuminates the serious commitment they share: making life better in the U.S...
...This president has been nothing but bold in bringing major divisive issues into the public forum and declaring himself on them...
...What conservatives fail to grasp, stuck as they are in their puritanical morality, is that Clinton is our second-sexiest president ever (Kennedy was, of course, the sexiest), and for women, that is good...
...I had no idea what I was in for," said Jim Berenson, a Twin Cities sculptor who called health officials to ask whether spectators were at risk of contracting the AIDS virus if blood had dripped on them during the March 5 performance...
...April 21, 1994] Penthouse The heirs to Edmund Burke and Billy Sunday get a condign intellectual pummeling from the sagacious Emily Prager, whose sophisticated thoughts appear monthly among the buttocks, bosoms, and armpits of Penthouse: Late last year, the right-wing magazine American Spectator accused President Clinton of having six mistresses while he was governor, of engaging in steamy scenes with them in the back of cars in parking lots, of using troopers as personal valets (to arrange trysts, deliver gifts of lingerie, et cetera), and of calling these women over and over again...
...KONDRACKE: . . . Now, the problem here is that the president is not interested in foreign policy...
...CL1FT: Thank God...
...April 1994]Time Historian Alan Brinkley makes another effort at enunciating the precise opposite of the truth: Brinkley says Clinton is also a victim of a political fact of life: he's on the wrong side of the tolerance fence...
...We're not comfortable with southern politicians...
...report on culture in Minneapolis, where art mixes with medicine and the gutter: An art center warned that a show- it was sponsoring incorporated "erotic torture" and used medical devices and bondage and discipline techniques...
...In the annual Law Revue comedy show later that year, Calabresi ran up on stage and donned a penis hat as he danced with the student impersonating him...
...If you were found to be maintaining an unregistered street person, you would be subject to a schedule of fines...
Vol. 27 • June 1994 • No. 6
