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Scrapbook It Takes a Village to Arrange a Marriage When liberals seek increased government spending these days, they're less apt to cite the latest Brookings study than to offer up a bit of simple...
...With Big Labor dollars and manpower, GESO promises to rise again...
...At Yale University, the Graduate Employee and Student Organization has been at it for nearly six years-trying to call themselves "workers," thereby deserving of a union...
...Who could forget Banquo's ghost...
...The usually weak and tractable Yale administration held firm to its original position: Graduate students are students first, not workers...
...Thomases: I don't remember...
...Nixon would have been proud...
...Their most recent job action, withholding fall semester grades, ended when the organization voted 36 to 35 to end its strike against the administration...
...Melanie Kirkpatrick writes of the Jan...
...Lauren Weiner points out that "Laura Kennedy was in Phineas Finn, and she was torn between a man who deserved her and excited her (Phineas) and a real drip ( Kennedy...
...But then a few weeks later, the CATO Institute (among others) put out another index, "Economic Freedom of the World," which had the Czech Republic at number 51, down around Colombia and Pakistan...
...Tricky Hillary (cont'd) "I was workin g fo r the c ommittee that imp each ed P resident Nixon, for whom Mr...
...Yale has been driven to financial crisis and chaos several times over the past two decades by ruinously generous union contracts, and just as "compassion fatigue" soured liberals on the homeless, so "strike fatigue" may now be afflicting the Yale community...
...15 Reading List: "Alice Vavasor, not Laura Kennedy, is one of the two ladies with suitable and unsuitable suitors in Can You Forgive Her...
...Freedom Houses When the Heritage Foundation released its "Index of Economic Freedom," citizens of the Czech Republic could be proud that their economy was rated the 12th freest in the world, up with Canada and the Bahamas...
...They first appeared in a major newspaper in 1984, when the Washington Post quoted one Sylvia Steed: "I think it was Maya Angelou who said it takes more than two parents to raise a kid-it takes a whole village...
...CATO has Bangladesh up in 66th place with Israel and Turkey, while Heritage has Bangladesh at 107 with Nicaragua and Cameroon...
...Clinton a week after Vince Foster's death: Q: And, according to the records we have, you arrive there at around 3:00...
...Thomases: No...
...There are methodological differences, of course, but probably the central lesson has to do with the inefficiencies in the foundation sector of our economy...
...Boola, Boo ...Boycott This Item The latest enemy of higher education comes from within the ivy walls-disgruntled graduate students who want to unionize for more pay, better benefits, and empowerment...
...Now Hillary Clinton has appropriated the saying for the title of her new book...
...When residents of Ghana observe that it takes a village to raise a child, says Dei, they aren't talking about fully funding Head Start...
...It takes a village to raise a child," they'll say, "village" being shorthand for "federal government...
...My, how progressive...
...they're students...
...Haldeman: You have the same perjury thing on the Hill, don't you...
...And with tuition waivers worth nearly $19,000 in addition to their teaching stipends of $9,940, they're not exactly oppressed either...
...Ubiquitous they may be, but where do the words actually come from...
...Good work, Susan...
...Dean: That's right...
...Thomases: I don't remember seeing the first lady that day...
...The poet Virgil must remain a shade, forever outside of Paradise, because he was not baptized-kind of like being denied a White House pass...
...Before we realize it, we have connected them...
...Dean: Sure, but you are chancing a very high risk for a perjury situation...
...But they're not...
...Most likely, they're discussing the terms of an arranged marriage, usually between minors...
...On March 21, 1973, in the infamous "We Have a Cancer" meeting, Nixon, Bob Haldeman, and John Dean discussed how Dean should conduct himself in testimony before the grand jury: Haldeman: You can say you have forgotten too, can't you...
...The Divine Comedy...
...The Yale Daily News has repeatedly run editorials opposed to the action...
...Even Peter Brooks, chairman of the comparative literature department and notorious for his opposition to the Bass Grant for the study of Western civilization, called Yale grad students the "blessed of the earth" and confessed to sometimes feeling "annoyed" at them for seeing themselves as exploited...
...And higher education will continue to sink...
...Dei describes the process: "I say, 'I like your son, he's a very nice young man.' You say 'I like your daughter, too.' And so I'll give her to you...
...Q: Did you see her that week...
...Hillary's claim that she is the sole author of her book is so ludicrous that even the moronic ghost-hunting detectives of this long-running Saturday morning cartoon could break the case...
...Indeed, the exploited have lost this battle, but AFLCIO Locals 34 and 35 are standing by the students...
...Nixon: But you can say I don't remember...
...Well, since she brought it up, let us examine what the First Lady and her associates might have learned from her experience...
...You remember that...
...Scrapbook It Takes a Village to Arrange a Marriage When liberals seek increased government spending these days, they're less apt to cite the latest Brookings study than to offer up a bit of simple folk wisdom...
...Cathy and Heathcliff meet again only as ghosts on the moors, which is probably where Barbara Feinman had to stash her copy of the original manuscript...
...Wuthering Heights...
...Okay, find that error...
...Maybe, more than two decades later, the Clintonites have...
...Dean, of course, didn't take the advice...
...Safire worked, and best I can tell is still working," Hillary Clinton said of her nemesis William Safire in a recent radio interview...
...According to Horace Dei, an information officer at the Embassy of Ghana, the phrase is indeed both ancient and African, though its meaning seems to have been garbled a bit in the translation from the original Akan...
...Do you remember coming to the White House...
...Q: What were you doing up on the second floor for an hour and a half...
...Heritage listed the welfare-laden Dutch economy at number 6 (above the United States), but CATO put the Netherlands at 11...
...Nixon: Oh hell, yes...
...The flap over the authorship of It Takes a Village puts the Reading List in mind of works featuring ghosts: Macbeth...
...Last month, Hillary intimate Susan Thomases testified before the Senate Whitewater Committee and was asked about a meeting she had with Mrs...
...Thomases: No...
...The Reading List All you Trollopians out there sure know your stuff...
...Q: Did you see the first lady...
...Q: You came up to the second floor of the residence...
...The phrase has become a favorite of Jesse Jackson, metro-page columnists, and Amitai Etzioni, self-described "founder of the communitarian movement...
...Thomases: I don't remember seeing her that week...
...I can't give any answer to that that I can recall...
...Is Barbara Feinman a dagger Hillary sees before her...
...In the years since, the phrase has almost invariably been described as an "ancient African proverb...
...You can say I can't recall...
...Scooby-Doo, Where Are You...
Vol. 1 • January 1996 • No. 19
