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Utah Historical Quarterly Professor Patricia Ann Owens, whilst reviewing a little-known monograph of feminist pith, Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild West," reminds us of the late George...
...MARCH 6, aOOO] Seattle Post-lntelligencer An inscrutable economic bull from downtown Seattle: I congratulate the Republican Party for finding a way to get Seattle voters to contribute to the Bush campaign...
...He didn't seem upset," said Yegge...
...We, especially New York, do not need more spiteful claptrap from Bill and Hillary haters, those paragons of virtue...
...APRIL 16, zooo] St...
...The Beijing Youth Journal said: "The male panda can only mate for ten to 2o seconds at a time, and hence the chances of getting the female pregnant are very low...
...PETER ERDMANN Seattle [MARCH 17, 2000] Audubon Your typical Gore superdelegate hits the road, so to speak: You'd probably avoid Jan Lundberg on the street...
...There, his anti-road campaign is achieving some results...
...Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life--marriage, work, relationships with family and friends...
...They owe Bush senior...
...Corny...
...Rather, they offer the reader an inside view to Strasser's pathetic Ricki Lake-esque personal life...
...The losers of the American Revolution did not flex their political muscle to force the leaders of England to hold a perpetual grudge against the United States...
...By an}-international standard it was a failure...
...They preferred a confrontational escalation of the arms race, which they believed the United States would win...
...23 edition of the SF Weekly, raised eyebrows even in a city that tolerates extreme forms of sexual expression...
...APRIL 26, 2000] NewYork Times Book Review Essays in the fantastical-- Professor Alan Brinkley explains how President Ronald Reagan lost the Cold War and turned the world into the present Marxist Utopia governed by Microsoft: In the first two years of the Reagan administration, the United States redefined its relationship with the Soviet Union and, in 80 Ju~e 2o o o " The American Spectator the process, produced not only a heightened levd of hostility between the two superpowers but a complete stalemate in the slow progress of arms control negotiations that had then been in progress for over a decade...
...1." Yegge's project--performed Jan...
...As for Strasser's column, it belongs in Cosmo#olitan...
...Most of the leading military and foreign pal_ icy figures in the administration's early years did not believe in negotiating with the Kremlin...
...With a pant leg stuffed in his sock and a black bowler hat perched over his ponytail, he looks like the sort of person who might grab your lapel and warn you of the Second Coming: In fact, his goal- an end to all new roads and parking lots-sounds just about imminent...
...First Dr...
...APRIL 13, 2000] The American Spectator _9 Ju r~ e 2 o o o 81...
...Jonathan Yegge...
...Starting in the 196o's Soviet elites had a chance to see the outside world and thus to measure their own country accordingly...
...AeRzL ~8, 2OOO] Jewish Journal A scholarly dispute over the quiddities of the Mosaic Law as discovered in the correspondence page of an eminent journal of Israelite Thought: Teresa Strasser is a whiny, bonrbastic narcissist who trashes her family, friends and ex-boyfriends...
...WINTER 2000] Minneapolis Star Tribune The learned Elaine Tyler May, upon espying the bearded jailer of the Caribe, beholds visions of George Washington, famed agricultural reformer: So what, really, is at stake...
...We think if new roads are stopped, a lot of good things will follow from that" Lundberg says....Toward that end, Lundberg started the Alliance for a Paving Moratorium, setting up headquarters in the college town of Areata, among the California redwoods...
...Strasser's columns rarely, if ever, contain an iota of Jewish content...
...The poor pay the heaviest price for that domination...
...With Viagra, the male could mate up to 20 minutes...
...MAY 8, 2000] Late Edition Another bizarre moment with the Clintons as Hillary confides in Wolf Blitzer a little-known fact: I am a very strong supporter of law enforcement...
...Allies in other cities followed suit, blocking roads and turning driveways into gardens...
...The classmate, who volunteered for the performance without knowing its details, signed a waiver befbrehand consenting to "actions of a violent and/or sexual nature" and agreed not to sue Yegge or complain to school officials...
...No doubt, when the Tories found themselves on the losing side of the American Revolution, and the new government confiscated their homes and proper~, the losers went to England and fumed against George Washington...
...I was given no chance to do that...
...Scientists are said to be experimenting with the impotence drug after traditional Chinese herbal medicine failed to lift the animals' libido...
...Laura Schlessinger is suppressed...
...Jonathan Yegge, z4, was forced to drop his performance art class and advised to seek counseling, get tested for AIDS and share the results with his sex partners after school officials learned of his "Art Piece No...
...Big problen-t is Republicans live by inflation and this keeps the workers' paychecks losing ground while at the same time keeping them in higher tax brackets...
...But when you sit down in his cramped storefront office and listen to him talk, it's the SUV-driving, forest-chopping, mall-building mainstream that looks nutty...
...They have partners in the Middle East slowing down oil production in an election year...
...At his suggestion, Areata tore up half a parking lot at its waste-treatment marsh....Then the town depaved part of a city street...
...APRIL 12, 2000] Associated Press A cautionary tale...
...Yegge insists that he intended the piece as an exploration of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and Kant's theories on freedom of thought and action...
...Most importantly as a 27-year-old Jewish adult, I am offended by Strasser's violation of one of Judaism's most vital commandments --t'shon hara or in colloquial terms, thou shall not gossip...
...But the war was over, and it did not take 5o years for the United States and England to make their peace...
...MARCH-APRIL 2000] London Times The benefits of most favored nation status prove immediate and long-lasting: Chinese pandas are to be given Viagra to improve their sex drive and save the species from extinction...
...of how the Cold War was peacefully concluded not by Aane> ican power and diplomacy but by one Ludmila Putin, the New York Review of Books' candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize: What then precipitated the Gorbachev revolution...
...As societies' caregivers, women perceive nature in a distinct manner and offer more nurturing views of preserving the earth, its natural features, and its native peoples than do most men...
...They say you can do whatever you want as l o n g as you can justify it artistically," said Yegge...
...Then it is the forward-looking Mr...
...Putin studied German in grammar school and was accepted into the KGB...
...Will not civil libertarians act before America is at one with the Mullahs' Iran...
...Poachers and environmental changes have reduced the worldwide panda population to about z,ooo and the notoriously coy animals have frustrated the efforts of zoo-keepers to reverse the decline, turning their backs both on their intended mates and the world's press photographers...
...They should be in the lead of the movement that dislodges it...
...One answer can be found in the memoirs of the new Russian president, \qadimir Putin...
...Utah Historical Quarterly Professor Patricia Ann Owens, whilst reviewing a little-known monograph of feminist pith, Women and Nature: Saving the "Wild West," reminds us of the late George Jean Nathan's ground-breaking insight, "Women have dirty minds": Riley contends that the inclusion of women, including women of color, in the history of the environmental movement presents a holistic view and forms a more complete store...
...The dictator they supported, Fulgencio Batista, lost to the dictator now in power, Castro, who confiscated their property...
...A mnltifaceted movement seems to be emerging to challenge the corporate-reactionary alliance that has dominated the United States for the past two decades...
...The object of this tactic is obvious: to slow the economy, create unemployment and reignite inflation, at least until Election Day...
...These helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves -who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be...
...Bit by bit, human beings are covering the globe with concrete...
...Looking at the major contributors to the Bush campaign, I did notice that some of the major Texas oil execs are at the top of the list with unlimited amounts of money and why not...
...If The Jewish Journal wants to lend a voice to Jewish adults I suggest it hire a person with some knowledge about Judaism...
...For the last, I guess, z 7 or so years, I have basically lived with a lot of professional law enforcement officers who have been assigned to my husband and myself...
...25 on an open-air stage and observed by about zo other students, two professors and passersby--involved unprotected oral sex and exchanging excrement with a bound and gagged classmate...
...If you pump enough gas into your SUV, you should expect a big thank you from the Bush campaign...
...The performance, first reported in the Feb...
...A small group of Cubans who were on the losing side of a revolutionary war came to the United States, and now control political power in Miami...
...Everything was great...
...The Seattle educational level is far too high to be Bush country...
...Perhaps...
...I can watch talk shows for that...
...It can all happen again, this time led by that paladin of today's poor people, the squeegeeman: Now may be the right time for poor people to re-enter national politics...
...This gives these same execs windfall profits to throw at the Bush campaign and the great news is we are paying for it at the pump...
...His only foreign posting was in Dresden, East Germany, in the mid-198o's , but even that exposure to a European Communist country gave his wife, Ludmila, grounds to complain about the empty shelves she found when she returned to Leningrad...
...Petersburg Times Star columnist Bill Maxwell enlivens his truly gruesome prose with the sparkling poesy of one of America's greatest living human beings: Describing her feelings after her daughter Chelsea was born, she writes: "Every uncertainty and doubt I had was mixed with wonder and astonishment...
...Sure, they are angry at Fidel Castro...
...But it is absolutely the kind ofstuffwe need a senator saying these days...
...NAME WITHHELD UPON REQUEST [APRIL r4, 2ooo I New York Review of Books Professor Lars-Erik Nelson divulges the hitherto concealed stoo...
...MAY 11, 2000] The Nation A nostalgic and ever-hopeful Professor Frances Fox Piven recollects the good old days when the United States Senate was dominated by hoboes, a score of governors' offices were in the hands of our nation's gypsies, and panhandlers sat malodorously on the Supreme Court...
...Wonren described nature and pictured it in feminine terms and thus offered and developed alternative ways of viewing the landscape and making environmental decisions...
...A student's sexually explicit performance at the San Francisco Art Institute, a school that long has prided itself as a center for artistic innovation, is forcing even the most avantgarde to acknowledge that art has its limits...
...He didn't yell at me or anything...
...Families began enrolling their children in foreign-language schools in hopes of qualifying them for the highest reward their socie~' could give: a job in the outside world as a diplomat, foreign trade official, Tass correspondent, or KGB spy...
Vol. 33 • June 2000 • No. 5
