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Jackasses, Assorted
New York Surprising confessions of an isolationist and skinhead, Tom Brokaw: What really distinguishes the broadcasts is Peter Jennings's continuing commitment to foreign news. Brokaw counters...
...Nation readers usually understand: The notion that some women "make it on their own" in our sexist society seems naive to me...
...Like Chief Joseph, "my heart is sick and sad...
...JANUARY 6, 1997] The Progressive The agreeably schizoid cogitations of columnist Anne-Marie Cusac, who would very much like to marry but doesn't dare, but would, but wouldn't, but might, but maybe no, but— egads, this is the claptrap that clangs and clatters through the pages of America's intellectually superior Progressive: I met my friend Tandy two-and-a-half years ago at a small wedding...
...Senator Bill Bradley raises the issue of making civil rights and racial harmony a priority, an idea whose time has certainly come...
...Did you ever wonder what happened to all the ancient civilizations whose art and artifacts we treasure so much...
...we said to Gumbel on Friday will certainly On more than one gloomy night, I've turn out to be temporary, it was still like say- been known to say, "Let's go to bed...
...Whether one is a political wife, a courtesan, a woman governor, senator, lawyer or writer, one operates in the context of sexism...
...inappropriate behavior, but he didn't punish her for refusing him—if in fact that's In 20 years of counseling and studying what happened," said Anne Conners, presHispanic women and their problems in the ident of the National Organization for bedroom, Dr...
...Caleb Schaber Seattle [JANUARY 1, 1997] The American Spectator • March 1997 85...
...JANUARY 6, 1997] [JANUARY 2, 1997] March 1997 • The American Spectator The Nation Erica Jong, fearless champion of the oppressed and despised of the earth, the neurotic and clinically insane, the public nose pickers and victims of terminal halitosis, makes one more inscrutable point, this time about women on asteroids, or incarcerated in culture or something like that...
...In my moral and intellectual giants of Our Time: household, we call him by his first name...
...B]ecause in the United States marriage even today remains strongly identified with financial security, I am wary...
...Humans are social animals...
...WINTER 1997] Washington Post Columnist Ellen Goodman demonstrates why there was once in every great newspaper in this great land, a Women's Page: I have become a stranger in my hometown, an alien in the birthplace of the American Revolution, where Sam Adams is now better known as a beer than a rebel and where the common enemy this week is not a redcoat but a Jaguar...
...Chief Joseph did not say the things he is quoted as saying in your article...
...What I've seen is a network show, he will inevitably get a promi- man whose weight goes up and down and up nent place in TV history, but there's the again, who loves golf almost more than life additional accomplishment of remaining itself, who chokes up at the stories that choke defiantly and unapologetically himself, a me up, too, who delights in the wit or pro-perfectionist who wasn't afraid to reveal his fundity of some guests, who is easy to tease imperfections...
...She lives in Argentina...
...If any of you took the time to step out of your culture's paradigm and hold yourself accountable for being awake and alive, perhaps you could truly see that the Emperor has no clothes, and you can quit your job as his indentured tailor...
...Bradley would be an excellent choice for the office after retiring from the Senate...
...By denying us the right to many, the government effectively denies us a whole list of benefits: family-insurance coverage, tax breaks, special rates on joint credit and banking accounts, the ability to visit an ailing partner in the intensive-care ward or emergency room, child custody, and inheritance and immigration privileges —the kinds of rights many people take for granted...
...But in an era when a to percent gender gap in the presidential vote is calculated as a chasm, football is a fair gauge of a truly great hormonal divide...
...Everyone is happy because we get to have toys and candy...
...Camino al Orgasmo helps Detroit Free Press Hispanic women understand their feelings Confessions of an imbecile — columnist and overcome their fears about sex...
...What administrations have done in the past to signal commitment to a single crucial and fraught problem is to appoint a government overseer, or "czar": a drug czar to lead the war on drugs...
...I know you exist...
...You featured "My heart is sick and sad" directly above the "Gift-Guide: Tips for Tightwads...
...As one who worked passionately and effectively within the system while hewing to his morals and integrity, Mr...
...Have you ever been to a museum...
...Sonia Blasco Garma often Women in New York...
...Everyone wants to feel all of the earth's pleasures, but few are willing to suffer with the earth and feel the pain our civilization has manifested...
...5, 1997 [JANUARY 8, 1997] News Release True Love, preserved and enhanced by the lawyerly mind: With Valentine's Day quickly approaching, couples may be thinking of taking their relationship into marriage...
...If you did that, it would hurt...
...SONIA BLASCO GARMA ferent from "The way I understand it, she [Jones] A sensation when published in South agreed to come to his room, he asked for America and Spain, Dr...
...Bryant is a member of the family...
...Tom Shales, TV connoisseur for the fabled He'll spend two hours with me if I let him, Post, confers sainthood on another of the while the other guy goes off to work...
...3. Remember, the time to agree to disagree is when there is a smile on your lips and love in your heart...
...A new office of "race czar" would be responsible for assessing major government decisions for their impact on racial equality and harmony...
...And I defy anyone to tell me about what's going on in the foreign arena that is so compelling that it has to force its way on the air these days...
...They are also identified by their chromosome: Y. Now, spare me the letters from women who love professional football and men who hate it...
...and prone to blush, and who asks the quesGumbel spoke with us and to us and tions I want asked...
...Marriage still has a lot of unappealing connotations for me...
...When we are sad, there is always Prozac, lest anyone suspect this world is dying and be disturbed...
...They died...
...Deborah Schupack New York, Jan...
...Our society forcibly took away the language, culture, and spirit of those people...
...The other is witty, wise and well-read, always impeccably dressed, and Washington Post introduces me to the newsmakers of the day...
...grumpy or happy, but brings me hot coffee [ SUMMER 1997] from the kitchen...
...Bryant ing farewell to a part of ourselves...
...A good half of the people surrounding me are currently obsessed by the fervent hope that the Patriots will go to and through the Super Bowl...
...They abused their environments and were not awake and alive when it became essential to see that they must be responsible for the world they create...
...I live in a society based on lies, among a people who are spiritual zombies, and within a civilization that is a cancer to this planet...
...He has the stature, experience, vision and commitment to healing racial fractiousness...
...For centuries, marriage was a means of securing property and legitimizing ownership...
...2. Get your own lawyers, not one recommended by your fiance...
...Chief Joseph, along with most Native Americans, fought this country, sometimes to the death, to avoid such bull...
...This society is wrong...
...Sonia Blasco Garma, doctor, psychoanalyst, Each morning I wake up in bed with two and sexologist, is Director of the Sexual Health and fabulous men...
...They ran out of resources...
...Brokaw counters that "we're more serious about what goes on in the interior of this country than he is, frankly...
...Everything we have is based on abusing the environment and dipping into loo million years of solar energy in the form of oil...
...One is sometimes sleepy or Education Investigation...
...This half is identified by their password: How 'bout them Patriots...
...Susan Ager in the venerable Free Press: Dr...
...It is important that you have an accurate picture of your future spouse's financial profile...
...Noted divorce attorney and women's rights advocate, CECILE C. WEICH, has compiled some tips to keep in mind, as couples contemplate the most important step they will ever take...
...The oil is going to run out...
...sometimes for us...
...31 Op-Ed article offering resolutions for President Clinton ("Be Resolute, Mr...
...Sonia Blasco oral sex, she said, `I'm not that kind of girl,' Garma's Camino al Orgasmo can help and he said, 'Okay.' any woman achieve orgasm and enjoy a "That's not sexual harassment...
...The Nez Perce were not English speakers...
...Bryant Gumbel succeeded greatly without All I know for sure, and all I care about, ever having to stop being Bryant Gumbel...
...The violations we have committed against this planet and ourselves will be present when all of us are on trial for being asleep...
...A premarriage contract sets forth what each partner brings into the marriage and how these assets will be divided or not divided in the event of a dissolution of the relationship...
...JANUARY 1997] 84 Simon & Schuster New York Daily News Libros en Espanol Modem romance as posited by the Grand A new role for Madonna, coming right up: Kleagle of the National Organization for Women in the Empire State: CAMINO AL ORGASMO (The Road to Orgasm) Feminists said Hill's accusations —that her Las Sexualidad Feminina sin Secretos boss repeatedly made advances that put her (Feminine Sexuality Without Secrets) in fear of her job —were substantially ones...
...JANUARY 11, 1997] Seattle Weekly Another sufferer of Karl Marx disease works out his problems: After examining your article on Chief Joseph ("My heart is sick and sad," 12/n), I was struck by what a wonderful example your newspaper is for what Chief Joseph was fighting against...
...We're more serious about issues like the environment, we're more serious about a lot of social movements that are going on in this country...
...finds that cultural and religious barriers pre- [JANUARY 13, 1997] vent open, frank sexual relations between men and women...
...Translation of Chief Joseph's words is only another reminder of the horrible society we live in...
...And though the farewell Bryant is not with us only in the morning...
...will cheer us up in eight hours...
...No woman is an island...
...dif J - DR...
...i. Each party should get a full disclosure of the intended's assets and net worth...
...an energy czar during the energy crisis...
...Here's How...
...As two out lesbians at a mostly heterosexual event, Tandy and I sat and commiserated during the reception...
...DECEMBER 30, 1996] New York Times An excruciatingly sincere statement of the banal: In the Dec...
...But when the wedding aisle is finally in sight, prenuptial agreements become an issue that many should consider...
...It may be more satisfying, fulfilling sex life...
...Clinton...
...One way or another, we are all prisoners of our culture's sexism...
...To imagine that it is possible for any woman to inhabit an asteroid, like the Little Prince, is delusional...
...This means women are judged more harshly than men, subject to ad feminam attacks and, most painful, scolded by other women for not being sufficiently "independent...
...To realistically consider the terms of the prenuptial agreement, your attorney should act in your best interest at every point of the negotiations...
...As is what I've seen on the air for the 13 years the first African American to co-host a daily I've watched "Today...
Vol. 30 • March 1997 • No. 3
