Ben Stein's Diary
BEN STEIN'S DIARY SATURDAY Little Rock Here I am at a big football field, maybe I should say stadium, in Little Rock. Rain was predicted, but so far it's blustery but pleasant. I came here two...
...Everybody is in a great mood...
...I like it...
...Yet, he is a smart boy and he loves animals and has on occasion been sweet to us...
...Upon my asking her about herself, I learned that she is a "King Fahd Fellow" at The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville...
...They apparently are very committed to fighting racism...
...Anyway, let's forget all about this...
...Smart kids, especially at the student association that brought me there...
...Free Distribution by Mail: Preceding 12 Month Average: 704 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 100...
...Plus, he can spend money on it like there is no tomorrow...
...But Tommy did not do well in public school, so then we sent him off to a private day school, and he liked it for a week or so, and then he hated getting up to go to school...
...I am sure that every parent sees this kind of behavior in certain amounts, more or less maddening...
...Don't they have summary execution for women convicted of adultery...
...I had a nice evening speaking to the student body at UPenn...
...I am getting to love that apartment, in which Mom and Pop lived for about twenty-five years...
...15g).Total Distribution (Sum of 15c and 15f): Preceding 12 Month Average: 84,124 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 90,233...
...The basic American student is a cheery, happy fellow or woman...
...Extent and Nature of Circulation with Average No...
...Off I go to sleep dreaming of my lover-dog-angel Brigid, and of seeing my sweet son and my wife when I get home...
...amazon.com bn.com iUniverse.com and Pop's hands, holding me, guarding me, guarding us...
...In retrospect, it looks as if the Comintern might actually have had a far more modest set of aims with regard to the United States than many members of the Arab League have...
...Known Bondholders, Mortgages, and Other Security Holders Owning or Holding I Percent or More of Total Amount of Bonds, Mortgages or Other Securities: None...
...In particular, she did well in the Model United Nations and also in the (yes) "Model Arab League...
...It was a model flight except for 88 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001 endlessly talking off-duty flight attendants, a sort of curse in my life...
...So, here I am in our home that we bought so Tommy could go to public schools in Beverly Hills and not have to go to private schools.We never could afford it and it eats us alive...
...Tommy and my wife are going off to boarding school in a simply beautiful part of New Hampshire, near Dartmouth...
...The World Journalism Institute has a number of journalism credit courses scheduled throughout the year in New York City, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, CA, and Asheville, NC...
...Plus a wonderful man named Bob Thomas from the lecture firm that had booked the gig was there lending moral support, which was wildly good of him...
...Life without work is desolation, self-loathing and death...
...TUESDAY Beverly Hills Oh, happy day...
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...This seems like a bizarre role model in a world where we elevate women's rights to iconic status, and rightly so...
...It is as if we were having dinner with four brothers and sisters, and our mom and dad, and two terrorists came in and shot our mom and dad (God forbid) and then said, "We'll be back for the rest of you tomorrow...
...The whole process has been torment, because we love him so much and we are so determined that he get some self-discipline inside his lovely head...
...It was that great guy, Bill Clinton, and his wife, the Senator from Gaza...
...I am not telling you this to brag...
...But everyone there was pleasant and outgoing...
...But Israel does not pay for people to blow up Americans...
...I came here two days ago with my wife and son to attend a reunion of my wife's father's family, the Denmans, and to see the Razorbacks play against the Gamecocks of South Carolina...
...The Pittsburgh airport was also friendly as can be...
...I mean, this kid has a lot to learn...
...Yuck...
...I am afraid they do not fully appreciate just how madly against us the terrorists are, and I am scared that they are focusing on the wrong problem...
...Check us out at www.worldji.com...
...I wonder why we have never heard about this before, or at least I have not...
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...I had been mystified about what was causing them until I looked up Cipro in the paperback version of the Physicians' Desk Reference, only to find that high among the list of side effects are " 'abnormal fear" and "dread...
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...Going away to a place where they actually expect something of him...
...That's great, but I think our new struggle against terrorism is the big one right now...
...A troublemaker misquoted me as saying I don't give a damn about Arab-Americans...
...Grim, vivid and deeply human...
...I cried and Tommy made a gesture with his thumb and fingers to indicate that he was mocking my talking...
...I told her that just by fate, I had been given Cipro a few weeks before, and had suffered simply horrible, dreadful, unbelievably bad psychological side effects: dread, suicidal thinking, panic...
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...By the way, this is why I want Tommy at a structured place...
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...I have a simple view of all this: killing in self defense is entirely different from coldblooded murder...
...She had been an insurance agent, but now she is a legislator in Washington, and she says she likes it far better in Congress...
...But he is being far more accommodating than I thought he would be...
...Owner, Full Name: George Gilder...
...Plus, it's in Baltimore, largest city (but not for long) of my native state of Maryland...
...She is the daughter of my Pop's sister, a few years younger than I am, and we have always been fond of one another...
...15c).Total Paid and/or Requested Circulation (Sum of 15b I and 15b2): Preceding 12 Month Average: 79,170 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 70,042...
...Issue Date for Circulation Data Below: October-November 2001.(15...
...He simply refused...
...The ones that all us Jews voted for so enthusiastically...
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...And it's all symbolic of the pain in our hearts that he just cannot seem to get his little self organized...
...But maybe their whole psychological thing is based on hatred fueled by jealousy, so they would not even remotely be happy if they saw that we were happy...
...Another is studying economics...
...291A Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230 (11...
...Then he is suited to do even less work, and he just plays in his imaginary Everquest world, where he does have some self-esteem...
...I'm kidding, of course, about ever forgetting...
...What happened...
...And if we say that because the killers are not white, we won't defend against them because it would be racism, we deserve to die...
...Well, I cannot really blame him...
...15b2...
...I just hate the whole situation...
...At first, he refused to get up...
...I want to be in a safe place, a place before September 11, before our son had to go to boarding school...
...When I'm with Daddy it's safe...
...When we were in Dallas heading to Little Rock, I asked him if he would carry my briefs case for a few minutes to give his old dad a rest...
...If we don't kill them first, we're crazy...
...Again, to be in the nation's heartland is to feel warmth and peace...
...He has gotten so self-obsessed and self-referential, so utterly unconcerned about anyone but himself, he's a walking time-bomb for self-demolition...
...It was a worrisome event because some students threatened to make trouble over some remarks I hadn't (that's right, "hadn't") made at Loyola a few weeks before...
...Tommy is shining a powerful blue light in my eyes (I bought it for him last night—another stupid move) and he's trying to upset me...
...Pierzchala In the midst of the Christian-Moslem strife and economic turmoil that have devastated the former United States, one man begins a journey where physical danger pales beside dawning spiritual awareness...
...Maybe more important, if we don't lock the doors and windows and buy guns, we are really, really crazy...
...So we have these stupendous tuition bills (his new private school costs more than most colleges) and our stupendous mortgage and our stupendous nanny bills because someone told us he needed a nanny to keep him out of trouble...
...The whole subject seems extremely strange to me...
...The kids have every reason to be proud...
...I5h2...
...We love him to pieces and worship the ground he walks on, but he has, well, stopped going to school...
...Return from News Agents: Preceding 12 Month Average: 7,423 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 6680...
...Any medicines powerful enough to kill bacteria or to elevate moods and change personalities are bound to have some very wild effects...
...It obviously is good for many things, but its effects are not free...
...It was my parents' apartment and I can feel them all over it...
...Signature and Title of Editor, Publisher, Business Manager or Owner: Richard Vigilante, Publisher...
...And, to say this once out of many times, several of its members are actively involved in terrorism against the United States...
...This is what I endlessly marvel at: Americans are such super cheery persons...
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...SATURDAY D-Day...
...I don't think it's treasonous in the slightest to be involved with it...
...Or maybe his problem is that he has parents he can torment so easily with his own wackiness...
...A typical paper might be about how to deal with coercion by a non-Arab nation of a large group of Arab civilians...
...And of course they never could find it on the tape, so they eventually apologized...
...They would just hate us more...
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...The other was in the audience when I spoke last April at Washington & Lee...
...The happiest night I ever had in my whole life was when snow fell, the first snow Tommy had ever seen falling...
...SUNDAY And here is more good news...
...Much more to the point, if I had been born twenty years earlier (or even five years earlier) in Poland or France or Hungary or Holland, I would have been murdered gruesomely by the Nazis...
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...In the car on the way back home, I thought I would just fall into a deep pit of sorrow...
...As if I could hide among my Pop's essays and my mother's endless diary entries, among their clothes, still smelling of Mom's perfume and Pop's after shave.The apartment needs a lot of work, but when we are there, or even when I am there, I feel as if I am in Mom An Adventure of the Near Future by S.K...
...And we are the demon facilitators because we are so happy he's not using marijuana, we keep letting him play his evil Everquest...
...Friends are everything...
...There is a great saying to the effect that, "It's a wise child who knows his own father...
...Instead, I am getting mobbed for autographs at Memorial Stadium in Little Rock...
...Yes, it turns out that throughout Arkansas and in many other states, there are such things as the Model Arab League in high school...
...We are happy...
...Students choose which Arab country they wish to be, and then they have debates and write papers about problems common to the Arab world...
...I love just the air of the place, and I feel safe there in a way I do not feel safe anywhere else...
...Tommy's resident counselor called us this morning to tell us that Tommy is doing well at school...
...I changed planes in Dallas and was met by some lovely folks from American who took me to the Admirals' Club...
...Another lovely, ultra-pleasant group of students...
...15b...
...For completion by non-profit organizations authorized to mail at special rates...
...However, off I went from Dulles to my apartment at The Watergate...
...The game was supposed to be a rout by South Carolina, but in fact it was not at all...
...I wonder if the sweet-faced kids who get the King Fahd Fellowships are aware that Osama bin Laden is a Saudi, that much of his funding comes from Saudi Arabian citizens, and that Saudi Arabia itself has played a highly equivocal role in the terrorists' war on the United States...
...Copies of Single Issue Published nearest to Filing Date: (15a).Total No...
...Paid or Requested Mail Subscriptions, Preceding 12 Month Average: 71,123 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 63,369...
...Isn't King Fahd a somewhat dicey role model for American young people...
...Now, let's see...who the heck was governor of Arkansas then...
...He had been threatening to come home and murder my dog if we did not get him out of there, and now here the counselor is calling to tell us Tommy is adjusting and making friends...
...Leafy trees, well designed buildings, students with big smiles.The only jarring note was a student doing "performance art" about the war in Afghanistan...
...I can still hear his laughing...
...It's a sort of online "Dungeons and Dragons," and he loves it beyond description...
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...Free Distribution Outside the Mail Preceding 12 Month Average: 4,250 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 4,250...
...I5e...
...My plane is delayed by about two hours...
...I am a lucky, lucky guy...
...He dug a very shallow "grave" next to an ice cream stand, hopped into a big plastic trash bag, then lay down in the grave...
...I made a compilation of my work against racism, from demonstrations with CORE (still a great group) in Cambridge, Maryland—passersby would spit at me—to work with the Black Panthers in New Haven, to a strange but fascinating long stint working with Jesse Jackson on a book about his life...
...Our son, God love him, has basically stopped going to school...
...What happened...
...I know there are some cults that do not believe in taking any kinds of medicine, and I have close relatives among them...
...Then he bravely got up and even helped to pack, and now we're in the stretch limo (yes) that's taking us to the airport...
...Office use, left over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing: Preceding 12 Month Average: 6,804 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 6,900...
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...I wonder if the students engaged in the Model Arab League have any idea that many members of that league would endorse the cold-blooded murder of Israeli children...
...I actually prepared in a semi-smart way...
...Total (Sum of I5g, I5hl and 15h2): Preceding 12 Month Average: 94,224 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 81,764...
...We had a lovely talk, and then I boarded my plane...
...I sat next to a simply gorgeous woman member of Congress from Fort Worth, Kay Granger...
...The students have to take Arabic all four years in college and show a continuing interest in Arab affairs...
...I mean, what kind of crazies would hate a country so filled with love and kindness...
...There, he will be in a structured environment (we hope) and he'll pull himself together...
...I often wonder just how deeply Saudi Arabia, with its vast CIA connections and its immeasurable wealth and its appetite for friends in high places, must have its hooks into the ruling class in America...
...I wonder what the reaction would have been in the United States if Khrushchev had wanted to start a "Model Warsaw Pact"or a "Model Comintern," with chapters in high schools in Arkansas and elsewhere...
...And his huge cell-phone bills...
...But, she added, the program got rolling in a big way in about 1990...
...When I emerged from there to get a bite to eat, who should I see, to my total surprise, but my lovely cousin Laura, eating with a friend...
...I feel as soon as I walk in the door that I am within the bosom of my parents, whose spirits I still feel all around me...
...FRIDAY Washington And now my wife and I are at my apartment in D.C., at the Watergate...
...But how many kids simply will not go to school...
...A woman at McDonald's gave me a Big Mac free because it took so long...
...He is simply a demon at it...
...I spoke that night at a large auditorium on campus at the University of Texas...
...Complete Mailing Address of Publication:The American Spectator, 291A Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230 (8...
...When I'm with Daddy, you can't hit me," he cried out...
...He can stay on forever...
...Full Names and Complete Mailing Addresses of Publisher, Editor, and Managing Editor: Publisher, Richard Vigilante, 291A Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230 Editor: Spencer Reiss, 291A Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230, Managing Editor: David Dortman, 291A Main Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230...
...I could easily have been killed on one of those hijacked flights...
...He's succeeding well...
...How many won't do their homework...
...In fact, I had the first real panic attacks I had endured since I stopped taking ben-zodiazepines about twelve years before...
...I pray his new school helps...
...Far better to kill the guilty and the dangerous than for us to get killed by them...
...I could easily have been crushed or burned to death in the World Trade Center...
...Then the spiral goes down and down and he gets ever more self-loathing and angry at us out of his defensiveness...
...But it certainly is true that the Arab League takes a very harshly critical line against the United States on many issues, especially, of course on Israel...
...In State College, cheery college kids and their lovely sponsor met me at the airport and took me to a student-run inn...
...He just refuses to get out of bed and go, and he's too big to pull out of bed...
...I met a woman once who was doing a project on how hormones affect mental health...
...But everyone at the airport is so cheerful, so friendly, so filled with good cheer that I really do not mind at all having this wait...
...It's sort of a big tailgate party minus the alcohol...
...I often think that the worst thing I ever did to him was to promise him I would never hit him after I spanked him a few times when he was small and slapped him once when he bit at me (yes, bit at me, luckily not breaking the skin...
...As far as I can tell, this is unheard of...
...WEDNESDAY Baltimore Off on the Metroliner, to speak at Johns Hopkins...
...He may not know when the Civil War 90 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001 was, and he may not know when the Revolution was, but he sure knows how to hurt his father's feelings...
...I should send her a slice ofTommy's brain...
...TUESDAY Washington Bright and early, I went off on a United Airlines commuter flight from State College to Dulles.The air was turbulent...
...That never was said by me...
...15h I...
...This, someone explained, was to show we will soon be filling body bags in our war against terrorism...
...Boys from South Carolina are flirting with them...
...MONDAY State College, Pennsylvania Along tour of the lovely campus at Penn State...
...Anyway, I am back from my trip, and Tommy is in his room sitting at his fancy computer (but, as he tells me all the time, not fancy enough) playing his goddamned Everquest, the worst thing that ever happened to him, a literal curse, a drug that eats away at every drop of energy and initiative...
...Our plane was tiny...
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...I just wish that the America haters out there could see what great people Americans are...
...And Israel's hooks into America are fairly obvious, and I don't think any serious person would doubt that Israel's goals do not include destruction of "The Great Satan," the United States of America...
...My message is that we should be not just grateful, but very grateful—indeed, wildly, amazingly grateful—that we live in and among such kind men and women who have their hearts open to a wayfaring stranger...
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...As I said to my wonderful audience that evening, far better to fill body bags with people who actually want to die and go to suicide bombers' heaven BEFORE they can get at us than to allow them to make us fill body bags with our mothers, fathers, children, brothers, sisters and friends...
...Then he refuses to speak to me...
...I happen to love college football at Little Rock, and I am in a great mood...
...I hate it, but I know he feels terrible...
...Now, don't get me wrong...
...My message here is that America is an amazingly open, big-hearted place...
...I would add that it's a wise child who knows how much his father and mother love him...
...Maybe there is hope...
...FRIDAY Beverly Hills Here is a large bit of a problem...
...Just sick...
...I don't think the Model Arab League is illegal...
...Intelligent, too...
...The only surprise came from a young woman who is a third cousin of my wife, perhaps even more slightly related...
...This is a kid who would be in major league trouble if he did not have such caring parents...
...Maybe I'm confused because I am an unabashed supporter of Israel...
...This one knows my father-in-law...
...I wanted to lead the students in singing "Maryland, My Maryland," but in that large room, only I knew it as far as I could tell...
...Last night we had an immense dinner party at a fabulous restaurant called Capers in a suburb of Little Rock...
...So, he's going to have to go to boarding school...
...I learned all three verses when I was in elementary school (along with all 23 counties and their county seats).What do kids learn these days...
...Oh, yeah...
...I went to the bar for a ginger ale...
...It was, in a word, terrifying...
...I can see that if he does no work, his self-esteem vanishes...
...Publication Title:The American Spectator...
...Then we met his friend Alex and my friend Peter, and they threw snow balls at each other, and then Tommy would hide behind me...
...Copies Each Issue During Preceding 12 Months and Actual No...
...What would have been the reaction if Stalin had wanted to set up "Lenin Fellows" for persons who studied Marxist-Leninist Theory and Russian for four years...
...So, when I spoke I had the audience with me immediately...
...After all, they want to die...
...Finally our Embraer airliner made in Brazil came in and US Air whisked us off to Pittsburgh...
...Again, laughing, smiling, joking people...
...Date: December...
...Plus he's being extra surly...
...He hates the idea of boarding school, of course...
...Not at all...
...I asked the lovely young lady how the Model Arab League got started in her state...
...My room was quiet and pleasant, and I fell asleep to the sound of rustling fall leaves...
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...BIBLICAL JOURNALISM Christians, are you interested in being a journalist...
...Don't get me wrong: so does Israel...
...Filing Date: December 1,2001...
...Cipro is a tricky thing...
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...I wonder what that might refer to...
...Yes, it helps that I am a TV star...
...One young woman is studying ancient Greek...
...They are much smarter than I often encounter, and I liked them a lot...
...TUESDAY Philadelphia Anyway, here I am...
...The mass murders were a whole month ago, and we are hard at work bombing Afghanistan, and here we all are happy as clams at a football game in Arkansas under threatening skies...
...Anyway, I will leave that to Fred Barnes...
...But they may have a point...
...To refuse to help your old father carry something, even for a few minutes...
...I started crying like a baby in the car, recalling how sweet he was as an eight-year-old, when we used to go to Sandpoint, Idaho...
...It turns out, moreover, that there is a J. William Fulbright Center at the university...
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...How rarely I see my relNOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001 • THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 89 atives...
...What would any of us do without work, which is truly the Lord's blessing upon us...
...This tiny apartment is the place...
...I just put that on the table...
...I miss them so desperately and when I am in their apartment, I feel as if they are still here...
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...What incredibly nice people were there, once again, especially from Hillel of UT, my main host organization...
...And it bucked and fell and soared constantly...
...The fans around us are amazingly polite, as people in Arkansas always are...
...I shared all of this history with the students...
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...After the speech, I met and had drinks with a lot of students...
...Sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors and counter sales, Preceding 12 Month Average: 8,047 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 6,673...
...That one knows a friend from the White House...
...15f).Total Free Distribution Preceding 12 Month Average: 4,954 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 4,350...
...All she wanted was an autograph...
...Just awful...
...We may be Right for you...
...Everyone in a cheery, happy mood...
...But I guarantee you that no one at the giant airports in New York is even close to as friendly as people are in the nation's heartland, the genuinely warm center of the universe...
...However, as I spoke, my beloved David and Julie Eisenhower were in the front row along with my beloved Ona Murdoch and her husband, very smart tax lawyer Steve Hamilton...
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...We walked over the bridge over the Sand Creek, then along the main street and past many houses with fires in their fireplaces, as huge logging trucks rolled by, and we threw snowballs at each other, and he hid behind cars and trucks to throw the snowy missiles at me...
...A woman at a cookie shop gave me cookies, and the man behind me insisted on paying for them...
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...She said she did not know exactly, but she thought it was started by that charmer, Senator J.William Fulbright, a stupendous enemy of Israel and hater of Richard Nixon...
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...I had a lot of credentials, even demonstrating in Biloxi long ago, although that was too scary and I stopped...
...She got to be this sort of scholar because she was a fine student at an Arkansas high school...
...Apparently not our great state song...
...And what a variety: Hispanics, Asians, Arabs, Anglos...
...But aren't Model Arab Leagues peculiar things to have in a country that many Arab states hate and terrorize...
...THURSDAY Texas Up at the crack of dawn for a flight to Dallas...
...Plus, if he does go, he does not do his homework...
...At present he would surely not miss it...
...It's a great song...
...We talked for a long time about the anthrax threat in DC, and then about the medicine of choice, Cipro, that's getting prescribed for it...
...How often I act as if life would go on forever when it's really twenty minutes, as my pal Sid Dauman likes to say...
...I am at the airport in Little Rock waiting for a plane to take me to Pittsburgh and thence to State College, Pennsylvania...
...I signed autographs for about two hours afterwards, and then we went to the bar at The Four Seasons in Austin...
...Sort of like their parents...
...The Razorbacks held onto a slender lead, and we all screamed ourselves hoarse with glee as Arkansas won...
...We feel sick about it...
...It is really sad and stupid of me...
...I like that a lot...
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...It helps a lot...
...I feel safe here...
...My doctor pooh-poohed these effects, but when I stopped taking the Cipro, the effects disappeared, pronto...
...And, he's surly, and desperately unhelpful...
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...Doesn't he have multiple wives and concubines...
...How right parents are who keep stricter discipline than we did...
...A stunning pianist and chanteuse was singing old standards like "Night and Day," and the room was filled with good feelings...
...I am tired of feeling attacked and put upon...
...Except for my parents' deaths, I am not sure I have ever felt so bad...
...Security concerns made me leave Tommy and Mommy at the gate...
...He did not turn to say good-bye to me as I told him I loved him...
...Paid and/or Requested Circulation...
...What a change...
...He thinks we want to get rid of him, but in fact we are in agony about not having his little surly self around the house...
...The newspapers are filled with stories about how Saudi Arabia is just not helping us track down the terrorists' cells...
...There is nothing like being in the heart of America...
...Within this is the King Fahd Center, which gives out scholarships to students in Arkansas and elsewhere...
...Anyway, this is what we are counting on...
...Plus, he's complaining mightily that he's flying in first class but on a narrow-body instead of a wide-body plane...
...A gate attendant told us all to be patient because it was her first day on the job...
...But in the meantime, some concerned young people had planned to picket my appearance...
...Copies (Net Press Run), Preceding 12 Month Average: 96,961 and Single Issue Nearest to Filing Date: 84,129...
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