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Scrapbook With Enemies Like These . . . If you can judge a cause by its enemies, the California Civil Rights Initiative is looking pretty good. Campaigning prominently against it has been...
...The title character has lost 21 sons in battle and personally dispatches another and a daughter on stage...
...Fleming argued that America was a great nation as long as it followed the isolationist policies of Washington and Jefferson...
...Yet so emphatic was the Academy's verdict that the Reading List felt chastened-and reminded of the enduring entertainment value of exuberant killing fueled by motives low and high...
...Now Walsh has done it again: on the front page of USA Today's March 26 edition...
...Farrakhan In the six weeks since Rep...
...Starr, it seems, in his private practice, represents a number of tobacco companies opposed to Clinton administration smoking proposals...
...Meanwhile, Pat Buchanan seems to be following in the radical chic footsteps of Leonard Bernstein...
...Payne also told The Hill, a Capitol Hill weekly, that "this whole thing smells like . . . Willie Horton...
...The 11th-century epic grandly recounts the ambush of Charlemagne's rear guard by Saracens as the army leaves Spain...
...Wow...
...Could any of this taxpayer money, perchance, be going to support Davis's political activities...
...No it doesn't...
...Professor of the History of Consciousness in the Women of Color Research Cluster...
...In response to King's work for a congressional resolution condemning Farrakhan's travels, Rep...
...Titus Andronicus, attributed to Shakespeare...
...This is on top of the $68,000 salary Davis already receives for nourishing young California minds...
...It's good,of course, to see Angela Davis back in the news...
...You might expect this to prompt concern from some of the House members who are aligned with Farrakhan...
...The noble Roland, too proud at first to summon help, realizes too late the French have been betrayed...
...How could men with blue faces storming fortresses in kilts top Emma Thompson's exquisite Sense and Sensibility...
...Earliest and bloodiest of the histories...
...How, after all, can her official title be improved on...
...Gruesome from first scene ("Alarbus' limbs are lopt, and entrails feed the sacrificing fire . . .") to last ("Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him...
...Campaigning prominently against it has been University of California at Santa Cruz professor Angela Davis: Communist, Black Panther, gun-runner, darling of the Che-Lumumba Club, and recipient of the Lenin Prize...
...Therefore, Walsh concludes, he has a conflict of interest...
...But you would be mistaken...
...The story of William Wallace, of Braveheart fame, and an 1810 bestseller, even before the hugely successful Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott...
...They have denounced the initiative-which would abolish race and gender preferences in California's public institutions-and reviled its backers as brownshirts...
...Sources say the Institute's next newsletter will be devoted to neoconservative adventurism in the Horn of Africa and the recent American imperialist assault on the peace-loving Fidel Castro...
...Wyeth, back when young people were nourished on romantic tales of patriotic valor...
...Actually, King's courage puts into particularly vivid contrast the cowardice of so many others with regard to Farrakhan...
...Last year, Davis was selected to hold the "Presidential Chair" at Santa Cruz, whose benefits include a $30,000 stipend and research assistance...
...The connection raises "a question" about whether Starr is "corrupted" as Whitewater's prosecutor...
...From an item in the March newsletter of the Rockford Institute-center of paleo-conservative endeavor and source of intellectual firepower for Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign-it looks like the veer is here...
...Smoking Dope Lawrence Walsh, famous as the world's worst-ever, least successful independent counsel, has slung another arrow at Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr...
...All of the callers mentioned King's Farrakhan-related work, and one said he would come to King's office and "put a bullet in the head of every white cracker...
...Right Meets Left Students of "paleoconservatism" have long argued that the paleos' radical dissatisfaction with contemporary America could eventually veer into an anti-Americanism almost indistinguishable from the more familiar variety on the left...
...Unless you believe, as Walsh's argument implies, that Whitewater is a mirage created by tobacco companies intent on torpedoing Bill Clinton...
...The current expansionist path of American foreign policy, he concluded, is similar to that of the U.S.S.R...
...When Starr was first named to the Whitewater post, replacing Robert Fiske, Walsh dumped on Starr in print: inexperienced and too partisan, an altogether "terrible" appointment, he said...
...later the mother is served their heads up in a pie...
...The Reading List The Reading List was a tad chagrined when Braveheart swept the Oscars...
...Buchanan met last week with his advisers to plot strategy for his populist crusade on behalf of working Americans...
...But she does make right-wing satire more difficult...
...Your parents or grandparents may have been given the edition splendidly illustrated by N.C...
...in the 1970's...
...Highlights of a millennium of mayhem include: The Song of Roland, anonymous...
...The Scottish Chiefs, by Jane Porter...
...The location: the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at Tysons Corner, Va., a pitchfork's length from the dreaded Beltway...
...You might think they would distance themselves from the death threats, or communicate their displeasure over the calls to King personally...
...In the course of detailing the Institute's often interesting activities, the newsletter reports on editor Thomas Fleming's trip to Moscow to attend a conference on the Balkans: "Dr...
...Davis has been stumping the state with Eleanor Smeal, former strongperson at the National Organization for Women...
...Peter King began pressing for an investigation into Louis Farrakhan's travels to Libya, Iran, and Iraq, the congressman has received four telephoned death threats...
...Don't miss Tamora, Queen of the Goths, commanding her sons to rape and mutilate a Roman maiden...
...Not only have Farrakhan's friends in Congress failed to say anything to King, they've turned up the volume against him...
...King vs...
...Donald Payne (chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus) has charged King with being motivated by race-baiting and fund-raising...
...Walsh has been carrying Bill Clinton's political baggage for more than three years now, ever since he chose October 30, 1992-five days before the presidential election-to issue a dubious indictment of Cap Weinberger...
Vol. 1 • April 1996 • No. 29
