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New York Times Rolling Stone Tammany is restored! The incomparable Another unfortunate misunderstanding Another Olympian feat--the idealistic Times endorses Hillary, noting her leaves Vice...
...OcToBER 15, 2,000] December 2ooo/January 2ooi 9 The American Spectator 72 The most remarkable statistic to come out of the Sydney Olympics...
...Artisan, 166 pages, $181 The Nation Once again the venerable Nation plays A1 Gore never used first names when liberalism's historic role of the forlorn responding to questions, preferring, if anytruth seeker, against the mob...
...During the debate George W. Bush consistently called women-and a black man--by their first names...
...Bill incompetence of the man...
...He filled my Senate years with purpose...
...Well aware that the voters are enough of those people, then Bush won sick of the whole thing, they have flushed :his debate by losing it, by demonstrating impeachment down the Orwellian memlis hapless incompetence and almost daffy ory hole...
...Clinton it was just devastating...
...Bush may assert that it is time Bill Clinton, perjurer...
...Pheofficers who had beaten King and been presidency is appalling beyond words...
...Had anyone, even a friend, ever called him "George W."-or, as the candidate pronounced it, "George Dubya"--the august general would have cut him dead with a dignified glare...
...I think the mindless rep- else falls into place, in this case, the attackers a travesty of justice...
...believed in the legitimacy of national war...
...Because it was not has a lamentable tendency to treat political only the loss of a great man, it was the loss opponents as enemies...
...It was the fact that so many young people believe in using condoms...
...OCTOBER 18, 2000] The Great Books Series An aesthetic milestone--the Hon...
...Another example of that revelatory imbeverdict, which exonerated white police That this man could be close to the cility that Tom Wolfe calls the Aha...
...Bottom line: The evidence is insufficient to show criminal wrongdoing by President Clinton or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...Happy appropriately enough, with a five-page Days are here again: For anyone with an open eye and ear, M Gore revealed himself to be an intelligent, thorough and confident figure who one could imagine--without much difficul- Whatever the First Couple's duck-andty-mastering the Oval Office...
...and alumnus of the Summer of Love years before the Clintons arrived at the beholds Governor George W. Bush and White House is indeed over...
...OcToBER 16, 2ooo] NewYorkTimes tell us more than their stated positions...
...She has clearly been of a true genius...
...Asked by RS possessed of all the political talents nec- where he was when he heard of the essary for honest graft: death of"Lennon," surely the Vice President of the United States thought his interviewer was referring to Lenin, Vladimir [lvich...
...Not the 15 world records that fell during a furious week of swimming...
...Once the thing, more formal forms of address...
...from: The Journey From Here, by Bill Bradley...
...an dictators believe this...
...benefieiay was Alger Hiss, perjurer, this While Mr...
...Washington was famous for his stern public bearing and punctilious manners...
...Now it's evident that haters, which were accorded respectabilthere are a substantial number of Ameri- ity by the Congressional Republicans...
...The incomparable Another unfortunate misunderstanding Another Olympian feat--the idealistic Times endorses Hillary, noting her leaves Vice President A1-Gore, Cam- columnist Miss Susan Reimer adduces record as a bully, a liar, a corrupt paign 2ooo's intellectual colossus, soundfundraiser, and a stonewaller--in sum: ing like a hansdoodle...
...Do only totalitari- protected sex...
...Not the ratings for NBC's telecast, lowest in 32 years...
...The biggest shock was not the gold medal victory of the American baseball team, not the first Olympic loss ever by the U.S...
...For a self-declared patriot achieve political ends...
...OCTOBER 9, 2000] [AUGUST 5, 2000] innocent people as a justified means...
...contributed to the bad ethical reputation of [NOVEMBER 9, 2000] the Clinton administration...
...New York Times Rolling Stone Tammany is restored...
...women's soccer team...
...joked about George Washington--"or, as Service is shocked by Lenin's belief in the his friends called him, George W." (tran- use of state-administered mass violence to script, Aug...
...And God help us all...
...It was that they had The most uplifting message to the --SEAN WILENTZ accept mass violence and the death of and their lives by using condoms during Princeton, N.J...
...Afterward, the predictable happened-I got a lot of hate mail...
...Mainly this: He believed nor in Cathy Freeman's win in the 400 - in the legitimacy of class war while they meter race...
...At one point etition of Republican pieties is what he has wrong place: in the speech, I stopped talking and simply to offer...
...The loss of any chance the Beatles campaign donations...
...When answering a white man, however, he used "sir...
...men swimmers in the 4XlOO relay, and not Norway's victory over the World Cup champion U.S...
...In fact, AnselI International, which supplied free condoms, had to make an emergency supplemental shipment of 20,000 before the games ended...
...of language highlights a patronizing attitude toward women and black men but a --Roy R. ROBSON Philadelphia [OCTOBER 19, 2OOO...
...their convention, where the Henry Hydes Salon Prof...
...But among the positive letters was one from a man in Philadelphia who told me he had written a symphony called 5 6 Blows in honor of my speech...
...What is the difference between ship to earn a place on an Olympics team, them and Lenin...
...We :ans, especially in the contested states, who can expect no regrets or self-scrutiny from eeant their president stupid...
...Atbans to Harvard to the Temple of Buddha, Al-Gore walks with giants: The hesitancy among some voters, however, has been understandable, and we share some of those concerns...
...If there are the latter...
...But it ended is beset with grim visions of Governor not with a bang or even a whimper but, Ronald W. Reagan circa 198o...
...It was the unspoken lesson that all those For a political end such as the defeat of physically gifted young men and women Nazism or Imperial Japan, most of us were smart enough to protect their futures Cape Cod Times evidence that athletes at the Sydney Games engaged in 70,000 acts of sexual congress with strangers, or the largest water-balloon fight of all time: [OCTOBER 22., 2000] Washington Post Book World And while on the subject of the great Vladimir Ilyich, a Professor Lars T. Lib New York Times reviews Robert Service's biography of the great musician and erupts into moral idiocy: Professor Scan Wilentz--he who would be A. Schlesinger--proffers still more proof that the letters-to-the-editor page is a paradise for cranks: And it was not that some of the lo,ooo robust young athletes living in the close quarters of the Olympic Village found the opportunity for sex...
...and would-be president, Governor Bush had better bone up on his American his- youngsters watching the Olympics was not tory...
...George W. md not a divider," then they will see that AI Bush had no comment oll the Ray report...
...part of his folksy style, I wonder if his use The six-year investigation of an obscure press release from special prosecutor Robert Ray...
...Todd Gitlin of New York University Arkansas land deal that occurred fifteen serious attitude toward white men...
...The most wonderful surprise at the Sydney Games was not the upset of Russian wrestling champion Alexander Karelin, undefeated in 13 years, by American farm boy Rulon Gardner...
...It was not even mentioned at ncapacity...
...2,ore is up to the task of governing, and V. should return to running ball teams, :specially with public subsidy...
...And if there are enough Republihit my lectern fifty-six times to symbolize cans out there who think intoning "tax and The unconscious actions of the presidential the blows King had received at the hands spend, tax and spend" is the answer to the nominees in Tuesday night's debate may of members of the Los Angeles Police problems of the modem world, then Bush Department...
...Service also treats the key question of In his acceptance speech, George W. Bush Lenin and violence in superficial fashion...
...If the maiority of the American mblic is unstampeded by the argument and Bob Barrs were kept out of sight like :hat this emptd,-headed jokester is a "uniter the crazy uncle in the attic...
...The investigative literature of Whitewater and related scandals is I was at home, in Arlington, Virginia, and replete with evidence that Mrs...
...Her health care task force failed to deliver the promised reform...
...from the standpoint of that tions about financial or legislative matters incredible gestalt that they had...
...How nomenon, a flash of insight that hits the caught on video doing it, I gave a speech any serious person could find him persua- dumbfounded recipient, and everything in the Senate calling the acquittal of his sive is beyond me...
...In couldn't budge from his script, and he 1992, on the day after the Rodney King seemed like a drugged Step ford husband...
...I was trying to Bradley establishes communication with figure out how he could have been so the Johannes Brahms of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: This personal commitment to racial unity surprisingly feeble and diminished...
...Her fondness for would come back together and bring us a stonewalling in response to legitimate ques- new sensibili...
...From St...
...Minimal decency would suggest that those who committed oceans of ink and eons of airtime to premature conviction 73 heAmerican Spectator 9 December 2ooo/January 2005 of the President and the First Lady would now confess error or at least tip their journalistic hats to Joe Conason, Gene Lyons, Lars-Erik Nelson and the handful of others who turned out to be right after all...
...And I have to say that I'm less than truthful in her comments to im,es- sure that I'm not the only one who felt the tigators and too eager to follow President loss of all the music that he had yet to Clinton's method of peddling access for write...
...Instead, it was the fact that 7o,ooo condoms were distributed in the Olympic Village...
...lamd George cover games, they pale beside the huge W. Bush revealed himself to be a sham- partisan blasts of the ultraright Clintonbling, evasive babbler...
...I'm aghast at the shallowness and sheer dopey, and I'm wondering if he got some disturbing news or a punch in the head before the debate, because he struck me as wins...
...No: The most admired 2oth-century political leadersChurchill, say, or Roosevelt--not only found in the profiles of athletes who had believed the same thing but are celebrat- overcome great heartbreak or great harded for it...
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