Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Premiere Whilst explicating the artistry of her role in the film Holy Smoke, aclxess Kate Winslet demonstrates that decency was maintained: And yes, the character does go a bit bonkers in the...
...The fit is amazing...
...Imagine my surprise when, in the opening chapter of the Conason/Lyons book, I read stuff I never, ever saw covered anywhere about the Flowers "affair...
...Cough, cough...
...What they did was rig a saline-drip fluid bag at the center of my back...
...A doctor said if he continued to stand his muscles would be damaged beyond repair...
...Rebecca Moore Howard, an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University, discusses the implications of this conceptual blurting in two forthcoming scholarly books...
...But another, more significant, little-mentioned tendency of the ex-President was his fondness for genocidal murderers...
...He called the sheriff...
...I just couldn't handle the sound of those cows...
...Howard calls on fellow scholars to embark on the "revisionary/revolutionary" task of making room for less novelty, "Let's get out of the business of valorizing an elusive originality, criminalizing imitation, and reinforcing prejudices of gender and sexual preference," she concludes...
...He likes jazz and serious rock--for instance, the work of King Crimson, which he says is "rhythmically and harmonically extremely complex and doesn't get played on the radio a lot...
...If he were alive today, he would be praising Bill Clinton...
...An then there's this tube, which you wedge up your bum...
...His areas of specialization are philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics, but he is best known for his work on philosopher Gottlob Frege...
...I was rigged...
...He simply rests his head on a swing to catch some sleep...
...It was so funny...
...FEBRUARY 28, 2000] Harvard Magazine An Ivy League professor evolves into a grownup, at least in matters presentational: Philosopher Richard Heck earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Duke, studied philosophy at Oxford, and got his Ph.D...
...APRIL 10, 2000] The American Spectator May 2 o o o 89...
...It seems that Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican in name only, actually being a Democrat opposing big interests and hugging trees...
...On the other hand, Clinton has spent himself in worthy causes with great devotion for the common people such as in the medical insurance attempt...
...Conason and Lyons need to keep beating t h e i r drums until the rats responsible for this debacle are exposed and dealt with properly under the law...
...It is almost prophetic...
...Howard locates in writing guides new and old, describe plagiarism as a kind of sexual disease that threatens the male writer and his work...
...One of the greatest joys of life was sleeping comfortably in my bed," he said...
...These people should be tied to straight-hacked chairs and have this book read to them as many times as necessary until all traces of Clinton scandal misinformation have been flushed from their ditto heads...
...I dreamt one night of the crime I had committed in my past life and confessed to a priest who said I must pay for my sins...
...Students can and should find their grades lowered, or even be flunked, for these offenses...
...Premiere Whilst explicating the artistry of her role in the film Holy Smoke, aclxess Kate Winslet demonstrates that decency was maintained: And yes, the character does go a bit bonkers in the film...
...Then, one day, Motz looked over her picket fence and saw Varozza and his ranch hands rounding up newborn calves...
...Varozza raised cattle while Motz cared for stray cats and restored her El Dorado County farmhouse...
...They create regulations that punish students for borrowing language from another text, yet agree that no writing is fully original...
...MARCH-APRIL 2000] The Nation Why didn't we think of that...
...By that measure, Gore is fully grown...
...As psychiatrists and Shakespeare would have it, a son comes into his own when he surpasses his father...
...He does not rest his feet, even at night...
...MARCH 21, 2000] South China Morning Post A West Bengal villager gets caught up in the apology craze: A 2o-year-old man has been standing for the past eight months in a West Bengal village as penance for sins he believes he committed in a previous life...
...A senior colleague, conservative in matters presentational, was said to have remarked that with hair like that, Heck had better be good...
...Or they go further, and turn the stealing of language into a kind of rape, in which the author of the original text, and his readers, are violated...
...MARCH 27, 2000] Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) The definitive case for National Greatness Clintonism, as penned by Emmanuel P. Papadakis of New Holland, PA: I think the following piece by Teddy Roosevelt quoted in "Chicken Soup for the Soul" is an ideal encomium for Bill Clinton...
...After he got tenure last summer, he cut his hair to just below his shoulders...
...Madhusudhan Jana has been on his feet for more that 5,700 hours in Panipras village, 3okm from Calcutta...
...The President's famous cluelessness was so obvious during his years in office that his defenders would attempt to deploy it as a defense of his actions, as if he were a small child or a beloved but retarded uncle...
...To adjudicate plagiarism in these circumstances is to work against the liberatory, democratic, civic, and critical pedagogies that prevail in English studies;' she writes...
...These metaphors, which Ms...
...Gore, to preserve his father's career, did what few sons of privilege had to do...
...In a new piece, she suggests that scholars discard the term plagiarism altogether, in large part because eft:otis to regulate against it mn counter to the political aims of their teaching...
...Recreationally, Heck is a computer programmer and an audiophile, favoring sound equipment designed by Nelson Pass...
...He intends to carry on for another 13 years and four months to reach 14 years...
...FEBRUARY 5, 2000] Chronicle of Higher Education In the "Magazines & Journals" section of its Daily Report, an explicator of academe describes hot copy available in the March issue of College English: English professors are of two minds about plagiarism...
...In all of these cases, "plagiarism represents authorship run amok.., and thus incites gender hysteria in the community in which it occurs," she writes...
...Let's leave sexual work out of textual work...
...I do not use the term "genocide" lightly...
...And here she is seven years later, none the wiser, bubbling on about another moral advance over yet another version of Bushman: However formal the father-son relationship, it was strong enough that A1 went off to war for him...
...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat...
...Or, as Winslet puts it, using the common British euphemism, "She loses the plot...
...It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better...
...Jana believes that he murdered his brother in a previous life and hid the evidence...
...It wasn't really me weeing," Winslet says...
...When he came to Harvard that year as an assistant professor, his reddish hair fell almost to the small of his back and he had an enormous beard...
...It was awful...
...Motz was told to back off...
...at MIT in 1991...
...He is no longer occasionally accused of being a draft dodger...
...But Ms...
...Has the new look changed his life...
...Howard's problem is that plagiarism depends on "gendered metaphors of authorship" that equate originality with masculinity and diminish the benefits of collaboration, a strategy often employed by women writers...
...Feeling that an equivocal act, just before Christmas he cut it to where it is now...
...At heart, Ms...
...Motz was horrified...
...He has dared greatly in striving valiantly for good things and opposing his critics who have the cold souls...
...True, he also gave every impression of being an unbelievable moron...
...Howard suggests replacing the term plagiarism with "more specific, less culturally burdened terms" like "fraud" "excessive repetition," or "insufficient citation...
...Now I can see that it's almost a certainty that there was never any physical relationship between the two...
...MARCH 15, zooo] Amazon.com Reviewer F.J...
...Obviously Clinton has had critics, and he has erred and come up short...
...Ruth seduces her captor, played by Harvey Keitel, by walking toward him, buck naked in the desert, urinating on herself...
...Despite [Lou] Cannon's solid historical reconstruction and Edmund Morris's nutty nonfiction novel, the key question about Reagan remains not only unanswered but unasked...
...Jonathan Schell is joining the magazine to head up our department of peace and disarmament...
...The spat is the latest flare-up in a range war that pits city transplants against farmers...
...MARCH 5, 2000] 88 May 2o o o _9 The American Spectator Sacramento Bee Adult sex education as offered in the great outdoors of the Golden State: For years, urban refugee Kathy Motz and rancher Wayne Varozza enjoyed a peaceful co-existence...
...When most kids wouldn't come to the dinner table wearing a clean Tshirt, Al signed up for Vietnam to diminish the impact of his father's opposition to the war in his unsuccessful fight to keep his Senate seat in 197o...
...In a bout of anger, she called Varozza and asked what he would do if bolt-cutters were used on a portion of his anatomy...
...The first clue...
...As an antidote, Ms...
...The duration of the punishment is significant as Hindus consider 14 an auspicious number...
...It is just this: How did this childlike fantasist and friend of genocide convince a nation of reasonably intelligent, God-fearing and generally decent citizens to avert its eyes from the heart of darkness that beat beneath Ronald Reagan's congenial smile...
...Unlike the breezy George W. Bush, who was on a career respirator much of his adult life, Gore has worked up a sweat getting to where he is...
...Calandra, he of the Clintonite jihad, awards five stars to the book of books: The real shame is that those who should be reading [The Hunting of the President] will treat it like treasonous poison and not be caught dead with it...
...With a swipe of a knife, they turned young bulls into steers...
...I just couldn't take it anymore," said Motz, a 5a-year-old vegetarian who never previously realized how calves are turned into steers...
...NOVEMBER 1999] The Nation Grisly revelations for Nation readersEric Alterman catalogues what it takes to be one of the two or three most successful presidents of the Twentieth Century: For Ronald Reagan was many things, but most undeniably he was a pathological liar...
...From the beginning, I was totally opposed to the investigations and ultimate impeachment of the Clintons, but following the presidential Monica Mea Culpa, I had come to accept that it was very likely Gennifer Flowers' story was true...
...MARCH 15, 2000] T~me The gentle aging of Margaret Carlson's bilge: In her May lo, !993, column she shrewdly observes the happiest married couple since Winston and Clementine Churchill and writes: She [Hillary Clinton] is happiest when she remembers time alone with the President: just the two of them on Valentine's Day going down to the movie theater to see The Bodyguard, and then offto the Red Sage restaurant for dinner, where the manager, Don Senich, estimates they touched more in two hours than the Bushes did in four years...
...He has a listening room in the basement of his home--which he shares with his journalist wife, Nancy Weil, their daughter lsobel, and cats Gosmo and Bob--filled with nothing but audio equipment and recordings including 1,5oo vinyl records...
Vol. 33 • May 2000 • No. 4
