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Scrapbook The Sudden Delicacyof the Washington Press Corps Last month, the son of a senior Clinton administration official was suspended from one of Washington's toniest private high schools after...
...It comes from Publisher's Weekly, the bible of the industry, whose short reviews are usually the first a book receives...
...Glad to see the folks at Yale are finally catching on...
...He then went off into an impossible-to-follow disquisition on incest and Louisiana...
...Now, Dole has run away from it...
...Actually, he and Mary Matalin have a new baby...
...Not Marion Winik's, though...
...When you spend $25,000 or so for a Carville speech, you get the spice...
...Scrapbook The Sudden Delicacyof the Washington Press Corps Last month, the son of a senior Clinton administration official was suspended from one of Washington's toniest private high schools after teachers caught the boy and a few of his friends drinking vodka and smoking dope at a school dance...
...With pain so acute and constant that even morphine was minimally effective, he requested her help to end his life...
...Are you married to a Republican too...
...But the blurb does put us in mind of remarkable works by people who spent some considerable time in, shall we say, altered states of consciousness: Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
...So far, so normal, say veteran MLA-watchers, who long ago stopped expecting intellectual seriousness from the organization...
...Despite efforts to keep the embarrassing event secret, it didn't take long for just about every major news outlet in town to find out-including the city's two daily newspapers and at least one national newsweekly Yet nobody ran the story...
...Its resolution describing the strike and the students' intolerable working conditions was classic MLA: outraged, self-righteous, and inaccurate in every particular...
...Showing unexpected spine, the faculty and administration resisted, and the strike petered out...
...They married in 1986 in Manhattan...
...Did you know that Democratic senators are filibustering Republican efforts to continue investigating Whitewater...
...Can you doubt that if Republicans ever attempted to block an investigation into a Republican White House it would be front-page news daily until they relented...
...The audience was growing embarrassed for him, and finally a man shouted out, "Knock it off...
...The greatest opium dream ever put to paper...
...Well, Forbes froze out any other alternative to Dole such as Lamar Alexander by siphoning off votes...
...Which may account for the curious silence on the matter...
...Either way, let's hope the next time the child of a prominent Republican finds himself in the dean's office, reporters remember the new precedent they've set...
...At its annual convention, shortly following the strike, the MLA voted overwhelmingly to support the strike and condemn the administration...
...The same principle holds with any conceivable Republican scandal in the next administration, considering the extraordinary way the press is covering the Whitewater hijinks on Capitol Hill...
...Carville, having taken advantage of the liquid refreshments at dinner, got crude fast in the ensuing debate...
...The mainstream media seem to have conjured up a nifty defense for themselves: Nobody's interested in Whitewater, so we're not covering it...
...In the past 20 years we have come to expect press oversight as well, but if a new standard is being set, the press should apply it fairly in the next few years, or there will be yet another outbreak of that talk about "liberal media bias" they hate so much...
...Carville was invited to debate Robert Novak at a Forbes magazine get-together for its advertisers...
...In fiery letters to MLA directors, they call the resolution "groundless" and "pointlessly damaging...
...Tony Heubach, a former ice-dancer, was a considerate person, although after the couple had two sons, his interest in heterosexual relations waned and the marriage began to unravel...
...In Xanadu did Kubla Khan his stately pleasure dome decree...
...But some of Yale's faculty have declared themselves "appalled...
...Or perhaps the press decided in this case to exhibit a little restraint, maybe even some manners and consideration for the private lives of others...
...He capped it off by joking that since he'd married a Republican he'd "been celibate since 1994...
...What's more, there's nothing there...
...The Reading List The Reading List wishes this week to share with you what is surely the book review of the year...
...But not before the Modern Language Association could get in on the act...
...Carville Acts Up The James Carville stories just keep flowing in...
...How so...
...And they were delighted with those Forbes ads trashing Dole...
...Maybe it took a one-time cocaine addict to see the logic in the dream state...
...More realistic types will wonder why Winik, although a heavy drug user at the time, allowed herself to be courted by a flamboyant homosexual junkie...
...At Yale, 95 percent of graduate students receive free tuition and nearly $10,000 a year for teaching one course per semester...
...she obviously felt the need to ensure that her two sons get teased regularly as they journey through grade school and high school...
...The Interpretation of Dreams, by Sigmund Freud...
...This magazine is hardly a fan of senatorial inquisitions, but we have to say that the behavior of the White House in the past few months-with all those documents under subpoena suddenly popping up in boxes, on desks, in other offices-is an object lesson in why congressional oversight exists in the first place...
...Hoo boy...
...Then again, maybe he was wrong...
...This is for a tome entitled First Comes Love, by Marion Winik, in bookstores next month: "National Public Radio commentator Winik's memoir will appeal primarily to romantics who believe in the primacy of love and who can empathize with a woman whose husband in a rocky marriage committed suicide...
...She prepared the bowl of strawberry-banana yogurt with 60 capsules of Nembutal that killed him in 1994...
...she was subsequently to learn that he had been HIV-positive for two or three years before they met...
...The Clinton camp loved this...
...Let's You and Him Fight The favorite of the Clinton White House in the Republican presidential race was not Pat Buchanan, despite the harm he's done Bob Dole...
...Carville leered at the man and his wife: "Why...
...There's a story we can all relate to...
...You may not, because this obstructionism is going mostly unremarked in the press...
...Nope, they believe Steve Forbes had a much bigger and more deleterious impact on the race...
...The boy's well-known father, it turns out, had called various editors and asked them to keep his son's name out of print...
...Boola Boola, We Want Moola When graduate students at Yale University went on "strike" at the beginning of the year, all manner of delicious comedy was sure to result...
...Usually, marriages between heavy drug users, one of whom is a flamboyant homosexual, that lead to assisted suicide come under the heading, "I'm so ashamed I could crawl into a hole and die...
...Deciding they could no longer tolerate such oppression, some of the grad students unionized (with the dining workers' union) and struck...
...Clintonites feared it might click, but Forbes's advocacy of it led to sharp attacks and sinking popularity for the flat tax...
...That's a neat description of almost everything that comes out of the MLA...
...Also, Forbes managed to take the flat tax off the table for the fall campaign...
...His drug use increased sharply and, as his HIV turned into AIDS, his addiction became alarming: periods of catatonia alternated with prolonged sessions of weeping and, on a few occasions, assaults on his wife...
...Dozens of teaching assistants even withheld their students' grades for a time...
...We have not been disappointed...
...Forbes hurt him," says a Clinton aide...
Vol. 1 • March 1996 • No. 27
