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CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post In his syndicated column, Richard Cohen, virginity's grim threat and adultery's constant temptation, begins another hilarious pronunciamento to the populo minuto of...
...DECEMBER 7, 1997] The American Spectator • February 1998 93...
...Although an STD diagnosis may give rise to other issues in your relationship, it's important to stay calm and to deal with the health issue first...
...So when you go home and people ask you why you did this, say because they tried to end the two-party system in America by forcing the Democrats to spend all their money hiring lawyers...
...Conceding that "we don't have all the answers" for ending bigotry, Hillary Rod-ham Clinton yesterday talked about racism with high school students and spoke openly of her own encounters with prejudice...
...I live on a ranchette...
...Firstly, Acker was born in 1947, not 1944...
...SPRING 1998] The Great Books Series What every girl should know about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), as elucidated in this elegant post—sex education monograph composed by Lauren Hartman, a woman of vast experience: If you think you have an STD or you have been diagnosed with an STD, you may be shocked, ashamed, saddened, angry at yourself or at the person you believe transmitted the disease to you...
...Could the Jewish soul of Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone be trapped in the body of a rebellious Catholic...
...Clinton said she told the goalie she shouldn't dislike her because she didn't know her, and the goalie replied, "I don't have to know you to hate you...
...An STD can lie dormant for months or years without being detected...
...REEI mobilized funding from IREX and the Kennan Institute, plus added some resources of our own...
...Topics covered a wide spectrum, beginning with Fran Bemstein's "Making Sex Soviet," which discussed health workers' notions of proper Soviet hygiene and eugenics, and Paula Michaels' exploration of the cultural mission that accompanied health delivery to non-Russian nationalities...
...It's also important to remember that a sexually transmitted disease is just that—a disease —not a reflection of your moral character...
...CURRENT WISDOM Washington Post In his syndicated column, Richard Cohen, virginity's grim threat and adultery's constant temptation, begins another hilarious pronunciamento to the populo minuto of the Republic: "Never turn down a chance to have sex or be on television," Gore Vidal is supposed to have once said...
...I know where mushrooms grow and where flickers nest...
...Don't let a disease harm your sense of self-worth and sexuality...
...Also at the dinner and screening, she says, "were about 40 or 5o people the president had chosen because of the political significance of the picture...
...And I think the idea that the Republicans found out about it and sort of said this is a great idea, let's accuse them of going after Arlington Cemetery, was the kind of thing that I don't think a group of women Republicans would ever get up to...
...There were problems addressed by Barbara Keys...
...DECEMBER 5, 1997] The Guardian A Charles Shaar Murray pauses to make several scholarly points en route to another nervous breakdown for Art's sake: While I commend Gary Pulsifer's obituary for Kathy Acker as an insightful and sensitive piece of writing ("Punk, Power and Porn," December 1), and whilst I know Ed Vulliamy to be a fine and conscientious journalist, a few things need to be said about your coverage of Acker's life and death ("Outrageous Author Acker Dies...
...The conference was built on an original proposal by a recent IU history Ph.D., Choitali Chatterjee, who is now teaching at California State University, Los Angeles...
...From Solutions: The Woman's Crisis Handbook, by Lauren Hartman...
...After he saw it, says the Oscar-winning actress, "He said that he wants to show it to Congress because it makes it all so real—as the arts do—bringing the horrors of that country to a very human level...
...The only reason she mentioned it in her 1996 Guardian interview with Jessica Berens was that she was under the impression that she was speaking off the record...
...Taking care of yourself includes attending to your emotional needs as well as your physical health...
...Politics is about real people and their hopes and their dreams...
...DECEMBER 4, 1997] Los Angeles Daily News Marisa Tomei wins her second Oscar: President Clinton is going to be inviting Congress to the movies...
...Marisa Tomei, who co-stars with Woody Harrelson in "Welcome to Sarajevo," was at the White House the other night for a dinner and a screening of the heartbreaking film that exposes the horrors of the Bosnian war...
...I once turned down an offer to be on the Geraldo Rivera show...
...Clinton said as a teen-ager she once tried to make small talk about the cold weather with a soccer goalie who replied: "I don't care if it's cold...
...DECEMBER 19, 1997] Nightline The Unknown Soldier, the Iwo Jima Memorial, and some 260,000 little white crosses get a good, brisk demythologizing from Miss Sally Quinn, one of feminism's most highly decorated gasbags: "Well, Ted, you know what struck me about this—and I don't know whether it's occurred to you or anybody else, and this may just be my own read—but it seems like a total guy thing that's going on here: This whole idea, this whole macho thing of wanting to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery...
...I ran for a very clear reason: I thought our country was divided and drifting...
...I feel whole and hopeful and incredibly blessed watching mule deer rest near the house or catching sight of the resident ermine running by with a vole in its mouth...
...That's what you taught me...
...we don't have a cat...
...It's also possible for both partners to have an STD even when only one member of the couple has symptoms...
...Houghton Mifflin, 670 pages, $25 ] REElfication (Indiana University) Scintillating scholarship as recollected by Dr...
...David Ransel, director of Indiana University's Russian and East European Institute and Professor Emeritus of Five-Year Planning: A conference, "Inventing the Soviet Union: Language, Power, and Representation, 1917- '945," was held November 7-9 at REEI...
...She adds, "It's such an important time for Bosnia—when a decision will be made whether peacekeeping forces will remain in Sarajevo...
...Millions of people have contracted STDs and have learned to cope with both the physical and emotional effects...
...Escorting Marisa was her significant other, actor Dana Ashbrook...
...They are ordinary people who came into contact with an STD...
...Did she tell the president how she felt...
...I hope people like you freeze...
...Should the body be deployed in peaceful, collective activities or in competitive sports...
...The Jewish mystical tradition, which you have been exploring, teaches that the souls of all Jews for all generations — including converts to Judaism —stood at Mount Sinai when our covenant with God was affirmed...
...In the growth-pained, environmentally conscious West, this is as serious a confession as alcoholism or cruelty to animals...
...So, to me, all this stuff—you all always say, gosh, I don't know how you put up with it...
...He really loved it...
...Some argue it is cruelty to animals, in the form of competition with wildlife for habitat...
...DECEMBER 3, 1997] Washington Times Our callipygian first lady, Hillary Milhous Clinton, talks candidly and personally about racism and how soccer goalieism has touched her life (and they said it couldn't happen here...
...Laughter...
...Thirdly, Acker did not "like to remind journalists" about her pierced labia...
...Mrs...
...How do you put up with mosquitoes in summertime in Arkansas...
...Several contributors chose as their subject literary and photographic representations of the "Soviet body...
...Choi (as everyone here knows her) got help in directing the project from Karen Petrone, a young Russian history professor at the University of Kentucky...
...I felt honored that the president wanted to see it—and that he was as touched by it as he was...
...DECEMBER 10, 1997] The Idaho Statesman On the op-ed page of the venerable Statesman, a communiqué from indigenous columnist Susan Ewing, writing from her dangerous, smelly, rural ghetto: My name is Susan...
...That's what you do...
...Over the years, native shrubs, grasses and wildflowers have reclaimed their roots...
...that we were clearly the greatest country in human history...
...that we were not succeeding...
...When asked about her own experiences, Mrs...
...Acknowledging that we disrupted wildlife patterns by building our house here, we have tried to amend our presence: our dogs never go out of their small, fenced yard...
...Anna Krylova analyzed representation of the Soviet (male) body mutilated by war and the effect that this had on identy/personality both for the mutilated person and those who loved him...
...Those particular piercings were for her pleasure and the pleasure of her lovers...
...NOVEMBER 24, 1997] University of California Press A hip publisher identifies the prized author of Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth-Century America: Judith Stacey is Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California...
...That's why we're all here after five years and that's why the country is in better shape...
...NOVEMBER 21, 1997] Wall Street Journal To a group of Arkansas galoots visiting Washington, Our President delivers another version of his Mein Kampf to whoops of good ol' boy laughter, exclamations of "Golly Dog," and many boohoos over how he has suffered: And sometimes I think what our adversaries, that are almost pathologically obsessed with personal destruction, don't get is that that's what politics is about...
...and that we were too dominated, completely paralyzed and in the grip of the mosquitoes instead of the planting...
...You just swat them and go on, it's part of living...
...we conserve water and participate in water-use studies...
...No one who believed as strongly as KA did in astrology would give false information to her astrologer (let alone her friends), because that would have rendered the resulting chart utterly worthless...
...And so we would endure the mosquitoes so that we could plant and reap...
...I, though, have done both...
...we limit trips to town...
...Instead, that quote kept returning to haunt her, and she always found it a major embarrassment...
...That's what I thought then...
...Never—I have a sense of decorum," she responds...
...Mountain cottontails lounge under the car and chickadees are a constant, cheerful influence...
...Be good to yourself during this time...
...Secondly, KA's long-time friend and publisher in New York is Ira Siverberg, rather than "Silverberger...
...Twenty scholars from throughout the United States and Canada contributed papers that laid the groundwork for an intense and two and a half day series of discussions on the formation of a Bolshevik culture and identity...
...A central issue for the builders of Soviet culture was the proper communist expression of the body in sport...
...Remember, many people do not know that they have a sexually transmitted disease, even when they have given it to another...
...DECEMBER 1997] 92 February r 9 9 8 • The American Spectator The Jewish Journal In the pages of a Hebraic journal (published, not surprisingly, in California), a Yosef I. Abramowitz attempts epistolary contact with Madonna for purposes of an obviously psychotic nature: Dear Madonna: Is it possible that I saw you at Sinai...
...making her 5o rather than 53...
...But oh, my God, I'm still tingling...
...I pull Canada thistles until my hands are too sore to grip a pencil, and weeds that won't pull, I spray carefully with the most benign herbicide I can find...
...Should the USSR compete with the Western world in international sporting contests or stay clear of them and promote a different ethic...
...Never mind the first, it is the second where I will name names...
...She giggles when she mentions this fact and then confesses, "It's a little bit of a joke between us, because I thought the president was so heavenly...
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