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...These are our heroes—men who are drugged often, men who are so big and so strong that they are caricatures of men, really," Ms...

...Daufin (of the faculty at the University of Denver, if you want to know where your sons and daughters might go to college for a few laughs): The recent Focus article about a woman who sued her employers because they refused to accommodate her stress-related body odor ended with an unsympathetic jury foreman's quote that the trial was a "waste of time...

...As we became friends, I saw that she showered each day, used deodorant, and was unaware of her periodically horrible body odor...

...I am very remorseful and apologize to anyone I've affected in the community for this," he said...

...As he spoke these words, I recall Livingston held up a huge knife for all to see—even the children—a symbol to him, no doubt, of new-found Republican power...

...John Robbins, the 27-year-old program coordinator for SCAN, was arrested after he offered a female police officer $22 for a sex act, according to a police report...

...I knew no one would smell like that on purpose...

...This might entail having people who identify themselves as white get together to reflect on the meaning of their whiteness...

...Tom bears an uncanny resemblance to Jordan Hope...

...March 5, 1995] Santa Barbara News-Press Mr...

...Nelson said...

...Men who ignore their own pain...

...Just as the 1960s was a time when African-Americans explored the depths of blackness, European-Americans should now take a close look at what it means to be white in America...

...or whether one should...

...To be honest, SCAN has never really represented itself as a moralistic organization," Rotkin said...

...Police allege he rode his bicycle up to the officer in the 600 block of Riverside Avenue about 9:30 p.m...

...From this, little boys get the message that the most prominent, most revered men in this culture are men who beat each other up...

...Robbins said Sunday that the arrest was "one of those situations in your life when you feel terribly embarrassed...

...Tom Hamilton is caught up in the usual undergraduate concerns—his car, his girlfriend, his courseload—when a chance discovery throws his paternity into question, and his life into turmoil...

...She, like Shaw, only needed a loving reminder that stress had overcome her regular hygienic habits...

...Bryan Rosen makes his literary debut in the correspondence section of the illustrious News-Press, hoping to "lift" the spirits of the homeless, though he is apparently quite ignorant of just how inspiriting a shot and a beer can really be: When people give money to help the homeless, a high percentage of the time it's used for alcohol and cigarettes...

...Men are trying to hurt each other...

...has she lied about his parentage as well...

...Do you really consider yourself to be white...

...Persons who want to help could give them to the homeless for use at a health food store or restaurant...

...Robyn Sisman deftly evokes both the frenzied tumult of a modern Presidential campaign, and the more innocent political passions of the generation that came of age in the sixties...

...For the sake of discussion let's call it project 2000...

...his mother, a successful literary agent, concealed his illegitimacy from him...

...With that sentiment clearly declared, Livingston and the Republican House proceed to abolish federal food programs for the needy children—programs that have ensured America's children of their school lunches and its pregnant women the nutrients they needed to avoid tragic and costly premature births...

...If it is decided that whiteness as an identity should be relinquished, those in agreement might want to sign a proclamation that would be shared with the public...

...March 1995] Publishers Weekly An urgent correction in the pages of PW, lest readers get off on the wrong foot: Correction: The review of John Gray's Mars and Venus in the Bedroom (Nonfiction Forecasts, Mar...

...She added: "Football represents a world where men are strong, men are violent, men are worshipped...

...In these days of Hard Copy and The American Spectator, there is no story too bizarre, or thinly researched, that it cannot be piped into our homes each evening," Nussbaum said...

...I will ask for their blessings, anticipating some will read poetry, others may play a song on the guitar, or read something they have written especially for me...

...April 1, 1995] Hartford Courant Dr...

...What does it mean to be white...

...You don't look white...

...Having the time of my life...

...Violence doesn't excite us, and that's what is going on in football...

...Instead of being depressed about hitting "the big 3-0," and being unmarried, which is something I have decided against, I'm having a different kind of wedding party...

...It's better to give them food—healthy organic food if possible...

...This takes me to my modest proposal...

...A lot of women are turned off by that...

...This is the symbol of the new Republican Congress that I shall never forget [March 3, 1995] Editor and Publisher Shocking sentiments hurled against two pillars of American journalism by former White House chief of counsel Bernard Nussbaum, whose dubious behavior with the Foster papers, the RTC referrals, and Whitewatergate were even too egregious for Bill and Hillary...

...And our established news outlets, as they compete for a place in the sun in the world of hundreds of cable channels, are increasingly taking their tone and their stories from the fringes of the national media...

...These are the men who get the attention, who are on television, in the commercials...

...February 24, 1995] Rocky Mountain News "Brutish sentiments" encountered by E.-K...

...20) erred in stating that the book lacked a discussion of safe sex...

...It is this type of culture, Ms...

...The next time one of your friends or colleagues refers to himself or herself as being white say, "That's funny...

...Then I will place a beautiful jade band on my "ring finger," symbolizing my marriage to myself...

...For Annie Hamilton, Tom's accusations are a shock of the worst kind: she is happily married, with two other children—and a devoted husband who thinks he fathered all three...

...Noel A. Cazenave, a sociologist on the faculty at the University of Connecticut, makes public ideas Forrest Gump would be incapable of but college students have to master if they are to escape this idiot's classroom unbeflunked: If you still don't think whiteness matters in America today, try this little experiment...

...March 27, 1995] 76 The American Spectator June 1995 San Francisco Chronicle Senator Barbara Boxer loses her Innocence: "I'm having the time of my life," says the new Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Representative Robert Livingston of Louisiana...

...Nelson has argued, that helped produce someone like O.J...

...These people eat a lot of junkfood, so nutritional food is important...

...It would be nice if health certificates could be sold for the homeless...

...Syracuse Herald American To the advice column of an honored American daily, the Hillary Rodham Clinton of greater Syracuse pens a bold bull: Dear Pat: My therapist has encouraged me to write you and share a ritual I conceived of to celebrate my decision to lead a single life...

...Steve Clark said...

...Men who don't cry in response to normal pain...

...Nelson said...

...So giving money to the homeless is likely to help them get into the hospital or graveyard...

...There's nothing like a delicious fresh-squeezed juice, for example, to lift up a person's spirits...

...Sound familiar...

...Maybe it's time for so-called white Americans to wake up from the nightmare we have all been living and just let their whiteness go...

...Often we, like the jurors, are too willing to dismiss a problem we don't understand, especially if it's just another case of an "unclean woman...

...The arrests came during a 10.5 hour operation in the Beach Flats and Lower Ocean Street areas of Santa Cruz, with plainclothes cops playing the roles of prostitute and customer, police Sgt...

...Simpson .. . [January 29, 1995] The American Spectator June 1995 77...

...I became a college buddy's best friend because my yogic breathing practices made me the only one in our department who could bear to be near her when her bromhidrosis acted up...

...Next month I will be 30...

...We shall send him a gift subscription when the gates of justice clank shut on this knave: He also lashed out at establishment journalism for taking their news cues from what he saw as irresponsible elements of the media...

...Often there is the assumption that if only women would wash, we wouldn't be so musky and "unvirgin like," at least olfactorily...

...By their relinquishing their whiteness, we can all experience some release from the bondage of racial oppression...

...August 21, 1995...

...City Councilman Mike Rotkin, a founder of the progressive political organization which has fielded several successful City Council candidates, said Robbins' arrest likely won't have much impact on the group...

...Unfortunately, many readers may share his brutish sentiments...

...Hard Copy is a nightly, syndicated tabloid television program, and The American Spectator is a conservative publication that has published a series of allegations over White House handling of the Whitewater case...

...But plaintiff Beatrice Shaw has a real and demoralizing problem...

...Annie has spent twenty years guarding her secret, and now her private life may be turned into lurid tabloid headlines . . . with the American elections only six days away...

...And men who talk about women with contempt in the locker room...

...April 10, 1995] Santa Cruz County Sentinel A Politically Correct leftie aboard Politically Correct transportation commits a capitalism in a public place: A Santa Cruz Action Network official and 14 other people were arrested in a police prostitution sting Saturday, police said...

...November 10, 1994] New York Times The disorderly pensees of Professor Mariah Burton Nelson, author of The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football: Sexism and the American Culture of Sports, and one of the women of the fevered brow who have decided to make their bundle haranguing big beefy guys and the pigskin: "I think a lot of women are afraid of male violence, personally, and don't celebrate male violence, whether it's in war or in football," Ms...

...As an author, feminist and spiritual healer, I think the jury's notion that the case was frivolous and their agreement with the defendants that the plaintiff should just practiceminimal personal hygiene, reeks of sexism and inhumanity...

...January 16, 1995] Dutton (Division of Penguin USA) Advance notice of a new novel every Clintonite will want to read before Our President and his lovely wife Bruno are extradited to Arkansas: A star-struck young boy from the wrong side of the tracks shakes the hand of President John F. Kennedy, and his feet are firmly set on the political path...

...22.95), political golden boy Jordan Hope, favored candidate for the Oval Office, is faced with a hitherto unknown souvenir from his time in England as a Rhodes scholar: a twentyyear-old son...

...It doesn't quite face the same crisis as other, right-wing groups do when something like this happens," he said...

...If the Republican House gets its way, these successful programs will be turned over to states at drastically lower funding levels and no standards will be required...

...Whiteness is, of course, difficult to relinquish because of the huge economic, political, social, psychological and emotional investment millions of Americans have in this identity and status...

...The reader is referred to pages 9 and 10 in the Introduction...

...and propositioned her...

...In front of close friends, I plan to marry myself...

...In SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, by Robyn Sisman (Dutton...

...A handsome young man full of burning ambition seeks the nation's highest office, vowing to create a new Camelot . . . But a scandal from his past threatens to topple his promising presidential bid...

...And women are absent, or sex objects—the only women are those on the sidelines, showing off their underwear...

...SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP is a compelling first novel that explores the tangled structure of a modern family, and asks whether it's possible to resuscitate an old love...