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CUR ENT WISDOM_ Amazon.com An admiring review on Amazon's book review site of Boy Clinton: The Political Biography from another member of the Clinton Brain Trust, recently emerged from a remedial...
...Once it gets going, it can't stop itself...
...Behind and beside her, security cars struggled to keep her covered as Palestinians stopped on the street to stare: a woman driver is a strange enough sight in this poor, Islamic society, but Madame Arafat chauffeuring herself...
...This is how low Rupert Murdoch will go...
...FEBRUARY 3, 1999] Amherst Bulletin AY2K disaster in the making as discerned by one of old Amherst's diversity evangels, now institutionalized: I was riveted by the announcement in "Around Town Hall" (Bulletin, Jan...
...Too punitive...
...If you aren't one of those insipid morons, you won't want to be guilty of contributing to the coffers of this shill...
...Paul Mattick, author of Social Knowledge, an encomium to a soused has-been...
...No mothers, no teachers, no nurses...
...Listen to this...
...at the Art & Java Cafe, 1517 E. Seventh Ave...
...Arafat said...
...I come from the world of rock'n'roll where it kind of takes a lot to shock us...
...There is no known cure: The events of the last six months have profoundly troubled me in a way that I have never felt before...
...Call Stageworks at (813) 251-8984...
...And whether she was truly wronged or not, we all knew it was a politically motivated case...
...So Rupert has a New York Post writer follow me around, and the guy follows me in the bathroom...
...More troubling are the conditions that allowed this to happen than the small group who precipitated them...
...I think that $40 million could've been a lot better spent on education, on feeding people, on giving the homeless advantages, on jobs...
...FEBRUARY 5, 1999] Tampa Tribune A notice of artistic happenings in progressive Tampa that explains why Our President had that great city on his travel schedule in early March while Hillary applied herself to the ethnic foods of Gotham: You can catch excerpts from the upcoming Stageworks production of "The Vagina Monologues" today from 4 to 6 p.m...
...It was too juicy...
...It can't help itself...
...a paragon of post-modernity dedicated to the power of the "master narrative" of national history...
...2— Suha Arafat, the First Lady of the Palestinian territories, maneuvered her blue BMW through the chaotic streets of Gaza City, blond hair flying as she dodged donkeys and peddlers...
...a mocker of pop culture who spends a lot of time in Hollywood...
...JANUARY 25, 1999] Red Herring (red herring.com) Whilst commenting on the ClintonLewinsky effort to humanize the White House, Ted Turner explicates the origins of one of the biggest news stories of the 1990's and, incidentally, banishes any doubts about his sanity: I think it's a great tragedy...
...Read it from the library...
...What is so profoundly disturbing is not that this small group of Clinton-haters hatched this plan...
...15) that a new town team, the Emergency Management Team, is being formed...
...Everyone is entitled to some privacy...
...The team will concern itself with "planning for the Y2K as well as other emergencies...
...He's a living dialectical synthesis: a populist patrician...
...Papa...
...Joseph News-Press Another sexy Clinton babe, bikini clad, sensuously taps out her scholarly lucubrations in the only Playboy Club in the Missouri countryside: As I studied the cartoon on the editorial page, Wednesday, Feb...
...They could have let this option go —but apparently, they just couldn't...
...a ferociously educated person who scorns academics...
...The pope, however, seeks to keep birth control methods out of the hands of women, even poor women in developing countries...
...I think it's just a supreme waste of money, energy, time, power and resources...
...FEBRUARY 12, 1999] Philadelphia Inquirer A leather-lunged ayatollah of progress, the Rev...
...It is the small group of lawyers and zealots in organizations like the Rutherford Institute who decided that they would invest time and money to exploit a personal weakness that people knew the President had, find a case to air it publicly, investigate the President's private life to the point of obsession and use it to bring him down...
...Rupert would do that...
...It's that this group—or any group equally dogmatic and cunning—came so close to succeeding...
...There are also no old people, no poor people, no people in wheelchairs, no people in business, no black people, no Hispanics, no Cambodians, no students, no tenants, no landlords, no clergymen, and no women...
...I think people are going to become more apathetic about politics...
...His character and his thinking are complex, even contradictory, in ways that keep 3o-yearold texts as fresh as his latest writing—sometimes fresher...
...The team consists of seven white middle-aged home owners drawn from the upper echelons of town departments, primarily hardware intensive departments like Fire, Police, Maintenance and Public Works...
...Such is the defense of many convicted rapists...
...a gay man who refuses not only identification as "a homosexual" but the validity of the category...
...In those few cases where the allegations that he repeats are founded on more then [sic] greatly strained circumstantial evidence and shameless innuendo, Tyrrell, like Ken Starr, is quite pleased to pass along, without qualification, the word of paid convicted purjorers [sic] as if it were reliable fact...
...As the new millennium approaches, there is no question which man is most capable and prepared to lead people forward to a better future, a man who seeks to elevate humanity, not mire it down...
...It has shaken me that we stood at the brink of removing the president not because of a popular groundswell to remove him and not because of the magnitude of the wrongs he's committed, but because conditions in late zoth-century America has [sic] made it possible for a small group of people who hate Bill Clinton and hate his policies to very cleverly and very doggedly exploit the institutions of freedom that we hold dear, and almost succeed in undoing him...
...Learn how sexism works...
...Because of him, women have made great strides in government, business and all walks of life...
...GAZA, Feb...
...This condemns them to perpetual poverty, misery and overpopulation...
...2—President Clinton supports and funds programs to promote safe and effective birth control methods for all women...
...FEBRUARY 13, 1999] New York Times Book Review From Dr...
...The reason why people have freedom to attend a church or synagogue is because it's an individual choice to believe what you want to believe...
...Tampa actors Maureen van Trease, Marie Hyman, Angela Romero, Venus McElroy, and Mardie Schaefer will perform segments from the work by award winning playwright and activist Eve Ensler...
...The small group is not the House managers or particular officeholders of the Republican Party...
...Gore Vidal hasn't just written a lot, and he doesn't just write very well...
...JANUARY 22, 1999] St...
...80 April 1999 • The American Spectator "The Vagina Monologues" opens March 5 as part of a monthlong "She Art and Erotica Celebration" saluting Women's History Month...
...First of all, he said I was insane, which obviously I am not—or at least my psychiatrist says I am not...
...a ruthless critic of politics who ran for public office...
...GLORIA SAUNDERS Savannah, Mo...
...It's sort of a detailed catalog of the kind of often baseless, always careless, allegations the spastically critical Tyrrell has been spouting for all these years in his slander sheet, The American Spectator (who's [sic] publication has been funded largely by covert rabid-right wingers with known links to racist organizations...
...Talk about a low blow...
...We could do that...
...she becomes a Hester, with an A-plus on her breast...
...Nor is it their fault that women bring on the sex—even though men are also involved...
...3, 1999, depicting President Clinton walking with the pope, and their foot prints, it dawned on me that the shoe print sizes should be switched...
...the president...
...A real authoritarian...
...She is totally her father," Mrs...
...The free program is part of V-Day, a national event protesting violence against women...
...Can the pardoning of Henry Hyde be far behind...
...People have to answer to their own version of god...
...FEBRUARY 2, 1999] Seattle Times Belles-lettres from the pretty pen of Miss Carla Desantis, "editor-in-chief of the Seattle-based music magazine Rockrgrl," and an Anthony Lewis understudy: Now that this is over, the religious right has no one to go after but the Teletubbies...
...Sitting in a bodyguard's lap, her daughter, Zahwa, bilingual in French and Arabic, chattered away until they rounded a corner under a giant billboard of Yasir Arafat...
...Donna Schaper of the United Church of Christ, lets out a yell for Monica or Bill or, maybe, rapists...
...FEBRUARY 14, 1999] New York Times On the floor of the United States Senate the Hon...
...So they found Paula Jones...
...There's no one from the university on the team and no planners...
...Not even Amherst's talented finance director, Nancy Maglione...
...a patriot who is an expatriate...
...On the other hand, the pope has effectively shut the door on women advancing in the Catholic Church, relegating them to the bottom of the totem pole...
...Clinton's scandalous behavior is nothing compared to the profane, outdated notions of a man that belongs in a long ago century...
...Too mean...
...And there it was in the Post, the very next day: Turner takes a pee without washing his hands...
...I know I'm more shocked by Kenneth Starr than Marilyn Manson...
...That's a bigger judge than Kenneth Starr...
...It was, however, the managers' responsibility to call or not to call her to testify...
...CUR ENT WISDOM_ Amazon.com An admiring review on Amazon's book review site of Boy Clinton: The Political Biography from another member of the Clinton Brain Trust, recently emerged from a remedial reading course in the Hoosier state: MirrorBlue@yahoo.com from Indianapolis, Indiana, January 25,1999 Reckless disregard for facts If you love to hate Bill Clinton, this book is for you...
...FEBRUARY 4, 1999] The American Spectator • April 1999 81...
...For example, we don't put cameras in the bathroom to show our world leaders taking a dump...
...Because for the first time, I've had doubts about whether our governmental institutions can withstand the rancorous currents of the present political climate...
...Comparison No...
...Charles E. Schumer, junior senator from New York, suffers a bout of Hillary's syndrome...
...Bill Clinton remains a lucky guy...
...Just based on two comparisons, the pope could never begin to fill the shoes of President Clinton...
...We shall interview her in the drunk tank upon the morrow: It is not the managers' fault that the country itself has enough residual sexism that the very appearance of a woman who has been "outed" for enjoying oral sex (as though there were no others) will kick off a new round of salaciousness...
...a writer determinedly of our time with a bibliography that is 19th century in its varied magnitude [JANUARY 14, 1999] New York Times After all these years, radical chic comes to dusty Gaza, and on the front page of the Times a good word for an "authoritarian...
...she said merrily, looking herself like the image of the Palestinian leader—if he could be reimagined as a 3-year-old girl with a blue hair ribbon...
...Now I had just taken a shower—I was clean as I could be—so I left the bathroom without washing my hands...
...The first comparison—President Clinton is a champion of women all over the world...
Vol. 32 • April 1999 • No. 4
