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"Current Wisdom" Washington Post Funereal rites in modern Third World America: About 1,500 people attended the funeral yesterday of Damion Blocker, 14, who was shot to death last week inside a...
...The D'Amato performance is right out of the Joe McCarthy book...
...When it's balancing the budget, let Novak or Sununu take on a nun who runs an inner city women's shelter that now turns away more poor people than it takes in...
...SPRING/SUMMER 1996] The American Spectator • March 1996 81...
...left, change it to a vertical top vs...
...The Nazis provided an example of a group which considered itself victimized by the wealthier around them...
...Heck, if any tax breaks are given, they should go to folks who don't have kids...
...When it's Medicaid or Medicare, let the well-insured rightists debate a laid-off coal miner who has no money to pay the medical bills for his father who has black lung...
...DECEMBER 21, 1995] Wall Street Journal Another sermonic outburst from one of Washington's most gifted power sniffers, Albert H. Hunt, the handsomest man in these here parts: Hillary Clinton is a brilliant, well-intentioned, compassionate, tough, arrogant and intimidating First Lady who has made important contributions and a few major mistakes...
...DECEMBER 18, 1995] New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis, another of the Kultursmog's trained seals, claps his flippers and lurches for a mackerel: From the moment Bill Clinton took office as President, Republicans set out to destroy his legitimacy...
...Pre-Divorce Program: SOC 376 Gender and Crime Douglass 6:00-8:45 W 3 Credits This course focuses on the relationship between gender and crime and gender identity, and being a professional in the criminal justice system...
...In the end, Pearl Harbor was bombed, not as a prelude to occupying America, but to get the needed materials to overrun Asia...
...Mayor Marion Barry told the mourners, many of them classmates and neighbors of Blocker's, at Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Southeast: "Young people, nothing is wrong with talking it out...
...Their method was to attack his honor, principally through charges about the long-ago deal known as Whitewater...
...bottom...
...Japan was pretty much an isolationist country until the U.S...
...When the issue is gun control, let Novak or Sununu, who live in safe neighborhoods, debate a cop who risks his or her life everyday on America's gun-ridden streets...
...Eleanor Holmes Norton and Chief Superior Court Judge Eugene N. Hamilton also attended the service...
...Clinton has not been shown to have done anything wrong in Whitewater...
...I'm simply fulfilling my duty...
...They will teach us how to age in a society in which 65 is too young to retire from work or the world and too old to be appreciated...
...What we ought to be doing is charging those who have children extra...
...They reasoned that the best form of self-defense was to become like the Western powers...
...But, of course, that wouldn't be much of a crowdpleaser, would it...
...DECEMBER 22, 1995] 80 March 1996 • The American Spectator Sacramento Bee A Californian has his day of infamy: Re "Pearl Harbor Day," letters, January 7: Some responsibility for the bombing of Pearl Harbor must rest with the United States and Europe...
...Blocker was remembered as a young man who loved sports, community activities, and his 1-year-old daughter, Diamond...
...Louis Post-Dispatch Two centuries after America's Founding Fathers, a report on the pontifications of late twentieth-century America's Founding Mothers, stating the obvious, prescribing the preposterous, withal having mucked up their own lives, still intent on mucking up the lives of others: Imagine Pat Schroeder, Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem at 80...
...One charge after another has evaporated...
...JANUARY 15, 1996] The Free Press There is such a thing as a free press: Introducing Michael Lind, a.k.a...
...Then it will examine whether or not the female offender is treated more benevolently than the male offender by both the criminal justice system and corrections...
...It may save your life...
...Some may be reluctant warriors against ageism—still catching their breath from climbing over those boulders of sexism—but she predicts they will come through...
...At show's end, let Novak or Sununu sign off, "And from the top where all is well and where I intend to stay...
...The lesson learned from them and what we must teach to future generations is to value women and men, regardless of age...
...In doing this, it will focus on the female crime victim's probability of being a double victim (i.e., a victim of crime and a victim of the criminal justice system...
...This would give the rest of us, the living, a needed break...
...He has taken the teachings of Christ, the common working class hero, and distilled them in song...
...Instead of a horizontal right vs...
...Schroeder pointed to the problem when she announced her retirement from Congress earlier this month: "At 55, you've got to go fairly soon or suddenly people start saying, `That's interesting but you're too old.' Ageism is still alive and well in America...
...John Winston Lennon, Man of the Century, no question about it...
...These handouts are silly...
...It was about abuse of the CIA, illegal wiretaps, criminal conduct in the White House...
...JANUARY 18, 1996] Saint Mary's College A preview of one of the gloomy courses offered to those unhappy co-eds at Saint Mary's of Notre Dame who would pursue that famous institution's Women's Studies Program, a.k.a...
...DECEMBER 15, 1995] Los Angeles Times Three years into his last presidential term, Our President looks into the eyes of the credulous editors of the Times and enunciates a whopper: "What was Watergate about...
...They use more resources, don't they...
...HARRY L. BLACKWELL Dunsmuir [DECEMBER 27, 1995] Washington Post In the course of solving CNN's apres-Kinsley problem, Colman McCarthy, the Post's resident Trotsky, does what the progressive left has been doing for decades, to wit: advocate a proposal that is bold, innovative, pernicious, and absurd: If CNN had a taste for unhoked debate, it would alter the "Crossfire" format...
...DECEMBER 22, 1995] Indianapolis Star Dorene Jackson Caudill, a voice of Revolution, rings out on the pages of a great American daily: I have to ask: What is it with our nation's fixation with giving people financial incentives just because they have kids...
...When it's education, let Novak or Sununu debate a public school teacher from the South Bronx or East St...
...The press breathlessly reports that—and fails to point out that the document, when produced, is not what Senator D'Amato said it was...
...Senator Alfonse D'Amato, the New York Republican who chairs a committee on the subject, announces that a document will show something terrible...
...They are the bridge between two generations...
...CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post Funereal rites in modern Third World America: About 1,500 people attended the funeral yesterday of Damion Blocker, 14, who was shot to death last week inside a District school in the Naylor Gardens neighborhood of Southeast Washington...
...It's important considering where this generation has come from and where it is leading as we head into the 21st century...
...JANUARY 26, 1996] Vancouver Sun The comic genius of Dr...
...The day I'm released of that duty, I will not be unhappy, believe me...
...Then it will focus on the victimization of females by the criminal justice system as both victims and offenders...
...Jean-Paul Sartre, Jr., and Up From Conservatism, his book for July: The premier independent intellectual of his generation tells the story of his evolution away from right-wing orthodoxy, as it became more and more apparent to him that conservative support for appar-ently benign ideals such as free markets and unrestricted immigration was thin ideological cover for policies that favor the rich over the poor...
...I'm not allowed to retire...
...It will also examine the differences between being a male crime victim versus being a female crime victim...
...I do not want to sound insensitive, but perhaps we should give Pearl Harbor a rest...
...Promise horrors and prove nothing...
...It will then look at the differences in theoretical explanations of male and female crime behavior...
...But the Whitewater accusation machine grinds on...
...It will first examine the differences in male/female crime rates and types of crimes committed...
...And across the desk, let us hear, "From the bottom...
...STEVEN YOSHIDA Davis [JANUARY 21, 1996] Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattleans get word of an Uncle Tom's Cabin for the modern television-trained nitwit: The new animated film "Balto" is an unusually adult and heart-rending fable that gamely tackles the subject of racial intolerance from a canine perspective...
...It is Pat, Jane and Gloria's generation—those older than baby boomers but still not classified as senior citizens—who are likely to alter the concepts and needs of old age...
...JANUARY 3, 1996] St...
...There has not been a single, solitary soul accuse me or my wife of doing anything illegal not only in the White House, in the presidential campaign, or in the governor's office," Clinton said...
...Loosely based on a true incident that occurred in 1925, Simon Wells' handsome animation follows the exploits of its dog hero, an outcast named Balto (voice by Kevin Bacon) who is derided by the other dogs of Nome, Alaska—all full-bred huskies—because he's half wolf...
...Navy forced open its borders in 1854...
...This brought about one of the most spectacular examples of modernization in history...
...FALL 1995] San Francisco Chronicle Who doubts that Harry L. Blackwell is college educated...
...Not until she appreciates all those facets will she be able to restore her credibility...
...Louis...
...The Japanese knew how Asians were being exploited by their European colonial masters, and about the treatment of nonwhites in America...
...Japan also believed, based on European expansionism, that to be a modern Westernized culture with a thriving economy one must harshly exploit others...
...Lind warns us that the fulfillment of the real Republican agenda will produce a class-divided country in which the government is subordinate to a few wealthy families and powerful corporations...
...Fidel Castro, the Louis XIV of Cuba: Asked if he might soon retire and if Cuba might move to democratic elections, Castro said: "The people forbid it...
...Just imagine, giving peace a chance...
...When the evening's topic is the economy, for example, let the well-off and job-secure Novak or Sununu debate a homeless person who had a job six months ago until the owner took the factory to Mexico...
...It's not like we need to encourage people to have children so we can tame the Wild West or run family farms...
...Finally, it will focus on the role of the female professional in the criminal justice system, and the problems she encounters due solely to her gender identity...
...The prejudicial caste system of the dog world prevents Balto from being a sled dog, and making matters worse is the fact that even humans shun him...
...Three years and innumerable investigations later, Mr...
...I'll retire when I'm told to, when the party and the national assembly have decided I will retire...
...Carol De Vita, a demographer for the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, predicts that the 50-something generation will start sowing the seeds necessary for change...
...D.C...
Vol. 29 • March 1996 • No. 3
