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CURRENT WISDOM Village Voice Spielberg' s road to capitalism: It goes back to the central fact that the film is not about Jews or, arguably, even the Holocaust. . . . It's a movie about Clinton....
...My wife asked me if I thought there was anything wrong with the advertisement...
...Next came the troopers who themselves are proven crooks, who tried to pull off an insurance scam...
...Octopuses are very determined and intelligent creatures, and to be faced with such a desperate situation would only heighten these characteristics...
...Navy served as our gracious hosts during this trip...
...Ford, who believes strongly in Heaven and Hell, has told more than one of his celebrity golf partners that "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon...
...But they have the same aims as the Roosevelts, the same sense of duty to all the people, the same kind of vision for America...
...May 30, 1994] New Republic A pack of check-kiters, real-estate flippers, sex-harassers, fast-money chasers and liars as seen by Miss Martha Geljhorn, believer in endless New Deals and other Liberal delusions: For the first time in forty-nine years I believe that we have a president and his wife who are the spiritual heirs of the Roosevelts...
...It's stunning that today, even after passing of legislation such as the Americans With Disabilities Act, this publication would alienate a portion of the population with an advertisement of this type...
...I keep hoping for a grassroots groundswell of outrage at the tactics of the Clinton enemies...
...This is just another ploy to bring down Clinton, bait the feminists and cloud the real issues...
...15 each 55 White Towels $ 1.80 each As you know, the ship and the U.S...
...It's silent and deadly...
...First they had Gennifer Flowers with zero credibility and enough holes in her story to make tons of Swiss cheese...
...I keep hoping for a latter-day Ed Murrow, who took on Senator Joe McCarthy, to take on this malignant campaign against the Clintons...
...Susan Elias La Crescenta [April24, 1994] San Francisco Examiner Ruth Rosen, whom no one should confuse with Martha Gellhorn, heaves a metaphor from the Golden Gate Bridge: What we are witnessing is the moral equivalent of a coup d'etat...
...If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call either of us at 456-7560 or Capt...
...When an elected president is assassinated—whether by bullets or by dirty tricks—our democratic institutions are weakened, even endangered...
...It could turn around and bite you in the fleshy parts...
...Fear and cash, fear and cash...
...It is heartbreaking that this promise should be dimmed by a band of mean little minds...
...That drain must have been a constant focus point for an octopus forced to live in a much too small tank, and whose full attention must have focused on getting out of that "trap...
...And the media, to their shame, have taken the bait and been manipulated by his political enemies...
...I have a spare leg in the closet...
...Isn't it time the press and citizens question the motives of this group of vigilantes...
...Where is our illustrious Senator Specter in all this...
...Make any checks payable to the USS George Washington...
...They're not silly...
...If anything with an ounce of integrity stood behind this, we would all take a second look...
...June 27, 1994] 80 The American Spectator August 1994 Rolling Stone Dr...
...Don't damage the country yourselves...
...This is just another attempt to divide and conquer, but this time it isn't working...
...If they want to get Clinton, find something he has done that is damaging to the country...
...If you are responsible for removing one or more of these items from the ship, please remit payment to Michael Lufrano in Room 185 of the OEOB...
...You can't follow their lawyer trail easily, you can't follow their money trail easily...
...An animal with that kind of drive and determination surely must be classified as a cognizant being, and as such has the same rights and freedoms to which we are all entitled...
...With his great leadership abilities, he should be able to control these rats...
...I am absolutely enraged that such a careless accident was allowed to happen...
...They have the face of evil in Bill and Hillary Clinton...
...Institutions such as the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium need to devote themselves to the study and understanding of the world which we co-occupy with so many others...
...The Clintons are young...
...I thought, with joy, that here was a man, helped by a brilliant principled wife, who had the brain, the courage and the will to change America, to set it again on a long-lost path...
...And who knows, that just might actually happen...
...March 29, 1994] The Reporter (Landsdale, PA) Miss Ms...
...The point is, there are many "disabled" graduates of Northeastern...
...Not even Gerald Ford, the unhappy ex-president who pardoned Nixon and kept him out of prison, was immune to the evil fallout...
...Octavia felt she must escape and return to her home at any cost...
...The first page read: "What has 250,000 feet and a multibillion dollar income...
...He was the real thing—a political monster straight out of Grendel and a very dangerous enemy...
...Capitalism can give us a health care program, and it can give us a Schindler...
...When the petals hit the ground, the ice in the men's eyes will melt...
...The American Spectator August 1994 81...
...Rogers at 456-2150...
...When it's over and Paula Jones loses, they'll blame the courts and slick lawyering, and they'll be back in on something else...
...She never would have given up...
...they cannot yet compare to the Roosevelts in experience and wisdom...
...Instead of bullets, President Clinton's enemies are using character assassination as their weapon of choice...
...I'm not offended, but I can understand how other people might be...
...He lied to his friends and betrayed the trust of his family...
...I use quotes because we are all "disabled" in one manner or another, even if the "disability" is only placing mental or physical limitations on others...
...Judi Talbot, Pennsylvania NOW PAC board member, admits she doesn't like to recycle or save the animals: Why is it that reasonable people understand why feminists aren't jumping to the bait of the Paula Jones case...
...When American editors decided to publish Paula Jones' lurid allegations against Clinton, they took a nosedive into tabloid sensationalism from which none of us will recover...
...It is unforgivable that the serious press has not recognized this promise, this chance for the country, and stood behind the Clintons...
...This is water-moccasin-style politics...
...May 17, 1994] Flyer (Change of Heart, Inc., Austin, TX) Announcing a new role for the Yellow Rose of Texas: Austin healing woman and spiritual counselor Shamaan Ochaum had a vision of the Mother asking us to use roses to pray for peace, gather their petals, and drop them from the air over Bosnia...
...Anything Cliff Jackson, Dave Brock, the American Spectator and other right-wing extremists are behind reeks of rotten garbage...
...I realize that sometimes it is easy to forget people are disabled because they don't fit a certain image...
...You don't see it coming until it strikes...
...Hunter S. Thompson reports from the golf course: Richard Nixon is gone now, and I am poorer for it...
...They have hit on a good thing...
...President Clinton inherited a nation in deep social disarray and an economy endangered by a colossal public debt...
...Then we had Whitewater, which has fizzled to a ripple and has, so far, only shown that the Clintons did what so many Conservatives have done...
...June 16, 1994] Los Angeles Daily News On the .correspondence page of the illustrious News, another L.A...
...The Hill case drew its political resonance from the boneheaded attitude of the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee—and from Clarence Thomas's record as a Reaganite...
...I am no expert, but even I am aware of the octopus's agility and perseverance...
...May 23, 1994] New Yorker An inside source warns of the most dangerous conspiracy since the Swiss bankers took over the Roman Catholic Church, the British royal family, and all the Ford automobile dealerships south of the Mason-Dixon line: "The Paula Jones issue is simply a current issue they can use to tie together their talk-show network, their mail, and this undereducated-male anger, and turn it into cash...
...It's about the benign aspects of capitalism—Capitalism With a Human Face...
...I don't shock easily, but I found myself gasping in astonishment...
...June 20, 1994] The White House After Our President's Normandy triumph, the Dog Patch crowd resumes statecraft as usual: MEMORANDUM FOR ALL STAFF WHO STAYED ON THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON FROM: ISABELLE R. TAPIA MICHAEL R. LUFRANO OFFICE OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE RE: Reimbursement for Items Removed from the Ship The executive officer of the USS George Washington has relayed that a number of items were removed from Staterooms on the ship during the White House visit...
...The following items are unaccounted for: 13 Blue Towels with GW Insignia .. $11 each 4 GW Bathrobes with Insignia . . .$35 each 12 Plain White Bathrobes...
...They provided these items for our use, not as souvenirs...
...Organizations who purport to be "pro-animal" should, at the very least, live up to the responsibilities inherent in such a claim and show the respect and concern that all living beings have a right to...
...He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time...
...The sad part is seeing these right-wingers as jokes...
...The next page provided the answer: "The 125,000 graduates of Northeastern University...
...They will keep aiming at that until it no longer pays...
...After thinking about it, I realized that it should really have read: "What has 250,001 feet and a multibillion dollar income...
...We're in Ayn Rand country: the Businessman as hero...
...Patrick M. Pickle, BA '91 Mesa, Arizona [March 1994] The Nation An unusually ingenuous editorialist explains why it was all right to defame Judge Clarence Thomas: The Jones affair is not an Anita Hill rerun any more than Lani Guanier was Judge Bork turned on his swelled head...
...They have requested reimbursement of $562 from the White House for the above items...
...metaphysician lets out a learned yawp for octopus justice: This letter is written in response to the April 14 article that informed us of Octavia the Octopus's death...
...I feel great anger and sadness at this beautiful animal's unfortunate encounter with humans...
...Please bring roses or send envelopes full of petals to this address: 227 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701 [Spring 1994] Northeastern University Magazine An example of the tortuous thought process apparently admired by the editors of this venerable alumni magazine: While perusing the January magazine, my wife came upon the advertisement on pages one and two...
Vol. 27 • August 1994 • No. 8
