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CU,'R:R E N T , W ' : : I :S:,D:O$A ~ NewYork Review of Books Fondly remembering the harsh days of the Clinton Martyrdom, young Jeffrey Toobin speaks of the "historical consensus" that he has...
...JULY zo, 2,000] Larry King Live Just when things were looking up for the British monarchy, Larry King interviews two experts on the famed family and uncovers portents of doom: KING: Rocklin, California, hello...
...Ateshia Brevard continues to be active in theater as an actress and director...
...The alleged remark took place only a few years after Mrs...
...Great topic...
...KELLEY: I'm afraid he has been known to take a cigarette now and then, which is absolutely anathema to the queen, and ironically, to Prince Charles, although Camilla smokes all the time...
...July 6, :ooo] Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Paul Greenberg, Yankee and Clinton-hater, is smart]} swatted about by Jane, Razorback and Clinton-lover-though chaste: Shocking and repugnant are all that can be said of the May 23 editorial regarding the president of the United States...
...KING: A-ha...
...Those not present can never be absolutely certain about what was said at the campaign headquarters that day...
...Bush was pressed during his years at Yale, 1964 to 1968, to take sides in the great battles then unfolding over politics, civil rights, drugs and music...
...Shovel in hand, I wonder where to begin...
...Consider his opening assertion that the Clinton administration is "the most criminal, most corrupt, most cynical administration in American history...
...Clinton's expansively humanistic commencement speech at Wellesley and soon after she had worked in a sophisticated legal environment for the impeachment of a president, Richard M. Nixon, who did use anti-Semitic language...
...I have a student in my 11thgrade American literature class who has been failing...
...We as women are oppressed," she proclaimed...
...KING: Thank you...
...Take her offthe stage...
...FALL 2000] Meet the Press Asked if he would support laws forbidding the execution of women heavy with child, A1 Gore displays the prodigious intellect that has amazed and stupefied the liberals of academe: "Well, I don't know what the circumstances would be in that situation...
...HOARE: She certainly wouldn't...
...How about claiming that the impressionable young Wellesley graduate thought "Jew bastard" a term of salutation that she had picked up whilst reading the plays of William Shakespeare...
...Clinton when she says she never used such language...
...What's a gal to do...
...Do we know, Robert...
...JEROME HENKIN Yonkers, May 28, 20o0 [JUNE 4, zooo] 80 September 2000 _9 The American Spectator NewYorkTimes In a ros4 lead editorial defending Hillary whatever her present surname might be, the venerable Times goes all the way back to her famed youthful idealism to exonerate her of using the term "f---ing Jew bastard...
...KING: Princess Di wouId certainly not have approved, would she, Philip, of Prince William or any of her children smoking...
...I am glad to be living where I have two other choices...
...You just--you know, it doesn't mean he's going to end up being an addict of anything-- I don't think it's a problem...
...Men yelled things like 'F--k her...
...She created the role of Tex on the daytime soap opera One Life To Live...
...Surely there is a more plausible defense...
...Brevard writes frankly about the degree to which she organized her life around pleasing men, and how absurd it all seems to her now...
...And I think it is -- well personally, I certainly wouldn't either, but I think-when you're 18, I mean, you just go through those phases...
...no computerized test can measure her pride and joy...
...This girl had created a poem and shared it with her friends...
...Brevard's autobiography as announced by a leading academic publisher: The Woman I Was Not Born To Be: A Transsexual loumey Aleshia Brevard Told with humor and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual's wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard ("Buddy") Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood...
...Now I know why my prominent Little Rock friends subscribe to the paper only to read the obituary page...
...You can't separate this policy from sexual harassment," says Michelle Benecke, a former captain of US Army defense artillery-- and a Harvard-trained lawyer -who is the co-founder and co-director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN...
...In the wake ofLt...
...The current complication centers on the report in a new book about the Clintons' marriage, "State of a Union," by Jerry Oppenheimer, that she used an anti-Semitic slur in an argument with the manager of her husband's losing Congressional campaign in 1974...
...As a woman, Brevard returned to teach theater at East Tennessee State, the same university she had attended as a boy...
...But learning is far more complex than comparing before and after tests...
...Under the stage name Lee Shaw, Brevard worked as a drag queen at Finocchio's, a San Francisco club, doing Marilyn Monroe impersonations...
...JUNE 21, 2000] Salon Variations on a theme of excrement by the agelastic Joe Conason, gamely pursuing his first laughs: NewYorkTimes In a biographical piece on Governor George W. Bush, more evidence that he is our kind of guy: Urging the hyperbolic Salon columnist David Horowitz to calm down and cite facts instead of spewing insults seems as pointless as asking a dog not to defecate on the sidewalk...
...Claudia Kennedy's high-profile sexual harassment case against another Army general...the mainstream media have given a substantial amount of coverage to the appalling rates of sexual harassment of women in the armed forces...
...Later, she worked as a stripper in Reno and as a Playboy Bunny at the Sunset Strip hutch...
...KING: She does...
...To her horror, she watched as "fist fights broke out...
...Like Marilyn, she sought romance all the time and had a string of entanglements with men...
...Mostly he was a noncombatant in those upheavals, but when forced to choose, he ultimately retreated to the values and ideals established by his parents' generation, and to their accepted methods of rebelling...
...But the circumstantial evidence inclines us strongly toward believing Mrs...
...My annoyance turned to delight when I discovered that she had written a poem in class and was making copies for her friends...
...In either instance, the result is aMays and predictably the same: Somebody has to clean up a stinking pile...
...They have no choice...
...Shouts followed, along the lines of "Take it off...
...CALLER: Yes, Larry...
...This memoir is a rare pre-Women's Movement account of coming to terms with gender identity...
...But you would be hard pressed to find in these news reports any mention of one of the principal spurs to this harassment: the policy on gays in the military, popularly known as Don't Ask, Don't Tell...
...JULY m, 2ooo] Temple University Press From the butcher's block to stardom, Ms...
...I know he is a Yankee Republican, but to call the president "boy" goes beyond the pale...
...JUNE 19, 2.O00] New York Times On the correspondence page of the Times another inscrutable communiqu4 from a reader: Leon Botstein (Op-Ed, May 28) suggests that computer programs that measure learning progress for each student also be used to evaluate teacher effectiveness...
...JULY 17, zooo] The Nation Silence as the root cause of harassment-and bad reputations...
...The famous sexual surgery pioneer Harry Benjamin himself broke the news to Brevard's parents...
...No one can take that accomplishment away from her...
...July 18, 2000] TheAmerican Prospect A gifted TAP writer tells a grim tale of suffeting three decades ago at the hands of the kind of young men who grew up to, well, to become subscribers to TAP: In January i969, the day before Richard Nixon's inauguration, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) veteran Marilyn Salzman Webb began her speech at a rally against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C...
...It was written with hate and malevolence by Paul Greenberg, I was told...
...Suddenly, pandaemonium broke out in front of the stage...
...CU,'R:R E N T , W ' : : I :S:,D:O$A ~ NewYork Review of Books Fondly remembering the harsh days of the Clinton Martyrdom, young Jeffrey Toobin speaks of the "historical consensus" that he has perceived all across Manhattan and even up into yon Queens: ...we are moving toward a first historical consensus about the meaning of these tumultuous events: that Clinton's impeachment, and the events leading to it, amounted to a constitutional and culturai disgrace for this country...
...In short, while some students took to the barricades, Mr...
...Bush took to the bar...
...lot of the perception that women in the services are gay stems from the fact that they're not sleeping with anyone in their unit," Benecke says...
...I would--you know, it's an interesting fact situation...
...My colleague has blanketed an extensive area with his rhetorical excretions...
...After playing opposite Don Knotts in the movie The Love God, Brevard appeared in other films and broke into TV as a regular on the Red Skelton Show...
...Rape her in the back alley!'" Rosen writes...
...JULY 16, 2,000] The American Spectator _9 S ep t e m b e r 2 o o o 81...
...How best to respond to this banal, flatulent oratory...
...JANE COCKRILL TAYLOR FayettevilIe [JUNE 7, 2ooo] Born at the earliest fringe of the baby boom, Mr...
...Kitty, does he...
...1 he Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy pressures young women into sexual activity with their superiors by making them subject to the threat of discharge as gay...
...CALLER: My question is, does Prince William really smoke cigarettes...
...To make my own bias clear, I should add that this is the thesis of A Vast Conspiracy...
...A much more accurate, although subjective, gauge of teacher effectiveness is change in a child's conception of himsdf as a learner...
...This chore is left to me, since Horowitz blurted my name while unburdening himself...
...KELLEY: She does...
...Aleshia Brevard, as she is now known, underwent transitional surgery in Los Angeles in 196z , one of the first such operations in the United States...
...This t??e of so-called journalism belongs to the American Spectator and Paul [sic] Mellon Scaiffe [sic], certainly not the Democrat-Gazette led by Griffin Smith Jr...
...We, as women [who] are supposedly the most privileged in this society, are mutilated as human beings so that we will learn to function within the capitalist system...
...I'd want to think about it...
...Does he...
...Webb plunged on, denouncing a system that treated women as objects and property...
...Last week, she kept writing notes and passing them to other students while I led the class in analyzing several modern poems...
Vol. 33 • September 2000 • No. 7
