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New York Times Beyond Friedman, beyond Keynes, even beyond Marx—Mrs. Clinton, the "uhless" economist: A sampling of speeches, supplied by her office, can be preachy. Mrs. Clinton recounts stories...
...The only time the cops have been to our house since the divorce was to tell me that I was being sued by somebody, but that's another story...
...Our first project has been to define the term "environmental justice...
...She did so only after The American Spectator, a journal of political pornography, alluded to her in a story about Clinton's allegedly rambunctious extramarital sex life...
...GREENFIELD: First of all, it would be good to make the point that we ought not to talk about the media monolithically...
...The music begins to take on a haunting quality that may suggest the reflectiveness and compassion the composer hopes this American tragedy will inspire...
...When she missed a cue, I'd growl and if she then went blank, I'd accuse her of feigning stupidity just to be uncooperative...
...But with a little help from outer space, this woman becomes huge and therefore very powerful, and finds a way out of her situation...
...I followed the advice of my spirit," says the man born Prince Rogers Nelson...
...Simpson . . . and me...
...Wilson assays the state of the culture in his usual prose style, a combination of Dostoevsky, Gide, and Charles Manson: The beatings I gave her were rooted in the netherworld between those two concepts...
...Pardon me for suspecting that Jones is more interested in clearing—or promoting—her name than in proving she was sexually harassed...
...I also hope each of you will elevate awareness of environmental justice in your community, and help your colleagues achieve our goals...
...is his response to the Rodney King beating and the initial acquittals of Los Angeles police officers charged in the assault...
...and the Community Relations Service...
...Is that a problem if one wants to address him...
...I don't know who that is, 'Nell's son,' . . . I would wake up nights thinking 'Who am I?'" He also wanted to close the door on Prince The Artist and go in new musical directions, he tells the mag...
...Today, however, Buckley has pals from all walks of life and political persuasions who insist he's no snob and call him "a regular guy...
...A. William Francis Buckley Jr., 68, graduated from Yale with honors in 1950, but we'd rate him a 6 at best—since he is as much a performer as an intellectual on his TV show, "Firing Line...
...In the end, she did the only thing she could have done if she wanted to stay alive...
...July 2, 1994]USA Today In the pages of the 1990s' newspaper of record, an update on developments that could prove to be a communications disaster for Generation X's Caruso: In the new Vibe magazine TAFKAP (The Artist Formerly Known as Prince) answers pop music's million-dollar question: Why on earth did he change his name to an unpronounceable symbol...
...The Cynics were fed up with their society and its social conventions and wanted everybody to know it...
...Woman" is not at all scary compared to her husband's mistress, Diekman says...
...You can reach the environmental justice team via email at SM002 (envjust...
...The root of the word cynic is the same as the Greek word for "dog," and some scholars say the Cynics got their name because they barked at society...
...To say the least, those are not worthwhile reasons to damage a presidency or to financially bust the Clintons...
...June 26, 1994] 80 The American Spectator September 1994 Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Responding to Senator Lauch Faircloth's despotic suggestion that unemployed residents of public housing perform four hours of community service monthly, the Hon...
...The laws and regulations should be applied with equal vigor in Biloxi and Beverly Hills...
...I should add that I moved back in with her and the kids about a year after she divorced me and we've been living together ever since—PEACEFULLY...
...The team consists of attorneys from the Civil Rights, Environment, and Civil Divisions...
...The point is, nobody should feel sorry for O.J...
...His 12-minute score is sparely notated...
...But she is quite capable of appealing to logic as well...
...June 19, 1994]Washington Post A blurt from columnist Richard Cohen, another suffering victim of Elders Syndrome, a syndrome named for our historic surgeon general and referring to her capacity to speak passable English despite having no brain at all, not even a headache: More to the point, she [Paula Corbin Jones] waited until the very last minute to file her suit...
...As drive-in fare goes it was pure spectacle, but the underlying theme of a wife who overpowers her unfaithful husband can be seen as triumphant, if we ignore all those mangled bodies...
...The woman who gains super-strength in "The Attack of the 50 Ft...
...Because I know God is just, I'm fully confident there's a special hell reserved for guys like O.J...
...July 1994] The American Spectator September 1994 81...
...He adds: "I don't mind if people are cynical or make jokes...
...Before the Economic Club of Washington last week, without a prepared text or notes, she gave an almost seamless economic analysis of health care for some 30 minutes, never even pausing for an "uh...
...Nevertheless, I am reminded that similar serious economic problems prevailed in Athens in the fourth century B.C., when the philosophical school we now know as Cynicism was born...
...And does he bat his eyelids for effect, or is it an involuntary reflex?—Eileen Loranger, Bellvue, Wash...
...June 27, 1994] Philadelphia Inquirer The City of Brotherly Love gets a dose of high culture from Alvin, virtuoso of "bathroom noises": Composer Alvin Singleton has often used music to make comments on the circumstances of our troubled times...
...January 15, 1994]Harvard Magazine Our unmuzzled vice president, sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts: History is a precarious source of lessons...
...There's an old joke where a guy says, "Do you want a book for your birthday...
...Clinton recounts stories of people who were denied care for lack of insurance, including one heartbreaking account of a child who died of meningitis as a result...
...and the other guy says, "No, I already have a book...
...KINSLEY: But The Washington Times is The American Spectator...
...it gives prominence to the brass and strings, though its overall textures are thin...
...June 30-July 6, 1994]Justice for All In a "Message From the Attorney General," delivered to captive Department of Justice employees along with their biweekly pay stubs, Janet Reno upholds the law—Parkinson's law: As concern about the impact of environmental pollution has grown, there is a widespread belief that minority and low-income populations may bear disproportionately high and adverse human health and environmental effects from pollution...
...The American Spectator is not The Washington Times and it's not The New York Times...
...Simpson...
...July 12, 1994] New York Times Magazine You've never met a physician like Michael Kinsley: STAHL: I just want to make the point that we're handling Paula Jones completely differently by really holding back and trying not to jump out of the gate before we know and by saying in almost every story that maybe she isn't telling the truth: let's really look at this...
...We're all stuck here living in this sick, male-dominated, misogynistic, war-mongering, indifferent-to-suffering, cesspool of a culture but that's no excuse for beating and killing the women...
...This process is another visible example of how the Department is refocusing on our responsibilities from the standpoint of our clients and customers...
...You don't," he says...
...I frankly would oppose the amendment as being too close to the evil empire for me to vote for it...
...In August, the team will produce a strategy stating the specific and coordinated components of the Department's plan, including a time line and workplan...
...It was mostly yelling, screaming and slamming inanimate objects around but if I'd been drinking, she could be in real trouble...
...July-August 1994] Pitch Weekly In his column in Kansas City, Mo.'s own Village Voice, reformed wife-beater albeit lifelong progressive K.C...
...Sounds almost like some of our talk-radio shows...
...Other than incest, it's the most destructive thing that can happen to a family...
...For our purposes, environmental justice is a commitment to ensuring that minority and low-income communities do not bear an undue and unacceptable share of environmental risks...
...I'm not the son of Nell...
...Senator Carol Moseley-Braun reveals herself as an exuberant champion of the martyred Joe McCarthy: I would suggest, therefore, that any time we get to the point where the Government dictates that people have to work in order to receive a taxpayer subsidy for housing is something so reminiscent and reflective of communism that I would be stunned that any member of this committee would want to support—(laughter)—such a dictatorial, such a Government intrusion on the time-honored subsidies for home ownership and for residential purposes that our Government allows both to poor people as well as middle-class people...
...Laughter...
...We have made the attainment of environmental justice a priority at the Justice Department, and I am proud to report that the Department is well underway in carrying out the Executive Order...
...By the end of the year we hope to have a strategy completed, guidelines for line-attorneys published, a comprehensive education program established, and cases for litigation identified...
...This movie was made in the '50s when the norm was to celebrate women being at home," Diekman says...
...In my mind, the "wife-thing" was vaguely supposed to be a combination wet nurse, whore and business partner and psychic enough to know in advance which role I was in need of...
...QUINDLEN: Is that why we're handling the Paula Jones story differently, Jeff...
...Buckley's assistant said it may be caused by his contact lenses...
...I have asked Gerald Tones to head a Department-wide team in developing a strategy to fulfill our obligations under the Order and to set a course for this Department to support the attainment of environmental justice in America...
...Those expecting a frenzied, brutal work were likely surprised by the sparse and elegiac nature of Singleton's music...
...So how do you pronounce his new name (a combination of the male and female symbols...
...July 1, 1994] San Francisco Chronicle Professor Doktor Shelley Diekman, "publicist for the Pacific Film Archive," discourses cogently on "scariness" in film for the enthralled morons who read the arts page of the risible SFC: Scary also can mean empowerment from a feminist point of view, Diekman says...
...It is most compelling during a midsection for solo percussionists that beautifully suggests the sophistications of African drumming...
...July 5, 1994] Parade The reverend Walter Scott in his authoritative Q&A column injects still more politicized fumes into the Kultursmog—and they, alas, are not the politics of WFB: Q. On a scale of 1 to 10, how intellectual would you say the conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr...
...Office of Legislative Affairs...
...the FBI...
...Is he as big a snob as he appears...
...Attorneys...
...As for batting the eyelids, his sister Patricia said Bill mimicked many upper-class mannerisms of his beloved father, an ultraconservative oilman, but she didn't mention the eyes...
...It had its first performance under guest conductor David Loebel Thursday night at the Academy of Music...
...was commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...The work, whose subtitle is a Latin epigram that means "Who guards the guardians...
...the Office of the Legal Counsel...
...In May, nearly 30 attorneys, professors, residents, and other experts came to the Department in a day-long discussion about issues and life experiences involving environmental justice...
...His latest work, 56 Blows (Quis Custodiet Custodies...
...It opens—weakly, to my mind—with brass instruments, sometimes paired, uttering single tones that sound embarrassingly like bathroom noises...
...As a child, little Bill was considered somewhat obnoxious by his older brothers and sisters, and he had few friends...
...but this is what I choose to be called...
Vol. 27 • September 1994 • No. 9
