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NO COMMENT This Hurts Me More Than It Hurts You Steven Berglas, a Boston psychiatrist, quoted in The Wall Street Journal: "Firing someone is an incredibly painful experience." A Shrine for the...

...The damage isn't being done by our enemies...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Constructive Engagement In response to protests against the name of the "Darkie" toothpaste it markets in Asia, Colgate-Palmolive has changed the name to "Dakkie...
...A Shrine for the Great Pumpkin The National Park Service has granted national landmark status to the Maryland pumpkin patch where Whittaker Chambers hid the microfilm used to convict AJger Hiss of perjury in 1950...
...Two-Party System Barry Goldwater on the Watergate break-in (as quoted in The New Yorker): "The Democrats and the Republicans, we get money from the same people, we know each other by first names...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...If the Bomb is dropped, all that will be left are cockroaches and coins...
...Hole in One At the Kings Bay, Georgia, nuclear submarine base, the Navy used $4 million in taxpayer money to build a golf course that appears on the books as a sewage treatment plant...
...The package still features a drawing of a grinning minstrel in black-face...
...One Chicago television channel reported receiving a call from a homeowner near the school who offered to let a TV van park in his driveway—for $100 an hour...
...Chambers, says Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel, is "a figure of transcendent importance in the nation's history...
...I can walk into Democratic headquarters and I'm very friendly with everybody...
...The images on them portray the history of our times, our hopes, our aspirations as a nation...
...They're Everywhere, They're Everywhere From a fund-raising letter sent out by Senator Orrin Hatch's National Defense Task Force: "Our national defenses, and our ability to defend our freedom and stop the spread of communism are under assault...
...Anything else is considered 'un-American.' Ivan Glucksman, legal counsel for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, also suggests that interested groups be aware of and avoid the political overtones usually associated with peace initiatives...
...You know, a store with a little more prestige...
...Guilt by Mediation From a report in The Washington Times on a National Conference on Education and Mediation: "Many parents, teachers, and principals view mediation as the least desirable way of resolving conflicts, preferring the 'old-fashioned' method of corporal punishment...
...Why break in...
...Local lawyers hired to conduct the prosecution and defense were paid $ 1,150...
...Legal Tender When a truck owned by Ravalli County, Montana, was cited by a state officer for exceeding load limits, the county prosecuted itself, found itself guilty, and fined itself $350...
...Ask the Expert Richard M. Nixon, in his recent interview with 60 Minutes: "There is nothing wrong at all with greed, provided that greed is one that contributes to the wealth of the country, so that the wealth of the country can then handle some of the problems that people want...
...Opportunity Knocks When an intruder shot six pupils at Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Illinois, news crews and law-enforcement officers descended on the neighborhood, jamming traffic and filling all available parking spots...
...Commission on Fine Arts...
...Many supporters of the mediation process are also involved in other activities such as preventing nuclear wars, and some people refuse to recognize the benefit of mediation for fear of being associated with liberal causes,' he said...
...Let me tell you, if some people weren't greedy, we wouldn't have the tax money that we could even be talking about more for education, more for health, and the rest...
...Not to Worry "Coins are our calling cards around the world," says Diane Wolfe, a member of the U.S...
...It's being done by the Liberal Left here at home...
...Clear Days at the CIA William Baker, spokesman for the Central Intelligence Agency, explaining to reporters why the CIA has been reviewing George Bush's tenure as director of the agency: "In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond 'no comment' with some degree of knowledge...
...A Touch of Class John Rosenbaum, work-study coordinator at Boca Raton High School, quoted (in The Miami Herald) on students who don't care to work at McDonald's: "They'd rather work for Bloomingdale's...

Vol. 52 • July 1988 • No. 7


 
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