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Scrapbook Alter Bad Boy Playing "gotcha" at the slightest sign of hypocrisy is a game for journalism's cheap shot artists. Nonetheless, the case of Newsweek's Jonathan Alter deserves special...
...contest, we're happy to report, has far exceeded our expectations...
...Attracting female voters, says Karl Lofquist of Bethesda, Md., "all depends upon Dole's close resemblance to Humphrey Bogart...
...Jeremy Boorda, Alter gave his magazine and his profession a bye...
...Even when they approve a waiver it's often only after a laborious process...
...Lofquist suggests a television spot that opens this way: "A morose Dole sits brooding over a shot glass of milk...
...The president's semi-hemi-demi-endorsement of the Wisconsin welfare plan devised by Gov...
...Last week, in a piece on Newsweek's role in the suicide of Adm...
...Wind up with a funeral with grieving friends...
...For starters, says Ms...
...ME-TOOING THEMSELVES TO DEATH Some White House aides, only recently reveling in their president's amazing recovery in the polls, are starting to get worried that the president's daily "inoculation" against Republican attack by stealing Republican talking points is going to backfire...
...And there's a catch even with approved waivers: They're time-limited, meaning the old system is automatically restored...
...The freshman Republican senator first took a swipe at President Clinton in a splashy article the Washington Post led its op-ed page with...
...Nonetheless, the case of Newsweek's Jonathan Alter deserves special mention...
...Waiver denied...
...Donoho, who boasts she never met a Bob she didn't like: "My father's a Bob, my brother's a Bob, my husband's a Bob, my sister married a Bob, I have two cousins named Bob, I work for a Bob...
...It hasn't been good," says state welfare director Eloise Anderson...
...We'll keep you posted...
...In a letter to Grams, White House legislative director John Hilley described the barricading of Pennsylvania Ave...
...Give us cancer victims being told they can't have their pain medicine because the trust fund can no long cover prescriptions...
...A white male named Joseph Ray Terry was awarded $150,000 in damages and back pay after a judge ruled that he had been discriminated against by none other than the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission-the federal agency charged with investigating workplace discrimination...
...Hilley seems to have left a letter out of that word...
...California has had two requests pending for 545 and 785 days respectively...
...You may recall that Foster had scribbled "WSJ editors lie without consequence" in the days before he killed himself-referring to the Wall Street Journal editorial page and its pursuit of information about Whitewater and Travelgate...
...Hail Bob...
...EQUAL DISCRIMINATION Be careful what you wish for, it's said, because you might get it...
...While Clinton boasts he'll approve waivers he doesn't agree with, Bane and Shalala take a different view...
...Cut...
...So why didn't he think of that back in 1993, following the suicide of Clinton White House aide Vincent Foster...
...That must be the thinking of civil-rights activists after a May 16 district-court ruling handed down in Memphis...
...Laura Fletcher Donoho of Fairfax, Va., a self-described "Bob fan," says Dole's advisers should simply let "Bob be Bob...
...A major artery for local commuters, the street was closed to traffic by the president in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing last year, creating perpetual rush-hour gridlock in downtown DC, besides being a concession to terrorism and all that...
...If Alter doesn't apologize to Bartley now for changing his tune when it comes to his own bosses and place of employ, he will prove less of a human being himself...
...We can't really accept this," one aide said, and pointed out that Mary Jo Bane, the official at the Department of Health and Human Services in charge of welfare policy, is a leading critic of de-entitlement-the act of cutting welfare recipients off...
...Fear not, said Hilley: There will still be "free and pubic tours of the White House...
...FREE AND PUB . . . Rod Grams of Minnesota scored a rare twofer last week...
...Jerome Reppa of Munster, Ind., recommends Dole take the opposite tack and promise every full-time mother in America a $10,000 tax credit for each child she raises...
...While all the entries were worthy, the prize goes to Mary Lane of Washington, D.C., who says Dole should take the empathy route to appeal to female voters...
...Next, "he must buy bags of Baked Lays and remark on how great it is that they only have 550 calories for the whole bag...
...This is where the talk really departs from the policy...
...as "a practical step to preserve the freedom and peace of mind of all Americans...
...We promise not to crack wise about the typo but wonder where, exactly, in the White House such tours might take place, and at what time of day (or night...
...I even had a Bobcat when I was a kid...
...They fear the policy appropriation that is already being called "me-too-ism" around Washington has the potential to boomerang on Clinton...
...The flood of responses to our Let's Close That Gap...
...And though Clinton had told NBC this would curb illegitimacy, Bane and Shalala frowned on the idea...
...Tommy Thompson (with a big hand from the Hudson Institute, the think tank based in Indianapolis) took many of them aback...
...Lane, Dole "must shave his legs and wear pantyhose so he can identify with the daily inconveniences and rituals of the American female...
...It seems Terry, a Louisiana-trained lawyer, applied in 1984 to be a district director, but in the years that followed he was repeatedly passed over in favor of blacks-one of whom did not even possess a high school diploma...
...Memo to Mark Helprin...
...in front of the White House...
...He grumbles, 'Play it, Sam.' A reluctant Sam then breaks into 'God Bless America.' The door opens and in walks a beautiful Miss Liberty...
...Alter went into apoplexy, implicating the Wall Street Journal with this sentence: "If Robert Bartley, the Journal's editor, hasn't been sleeping fitfully, he's even less of a human being than his worst enemies imagine...
...The White House has taken great pains to defend the closure in all possible terms except the personal safety of Clinton himself...
...The president may say he's bent on bringing welfare reform quickly to America by waiving federal regulations in state after state-but his administration isn't...
...LET'S CLOSE THAT GAP...
...The Post then piled on with an unsigned editorial two days later, taking the Republican's side against Clinton...
...Finally, she adds, Bob Dole "must ask the American people if he looks fat...
...Fine suggestions all, and we urge the Dole camp to take note...
...Acouple of weeks ago, having plumbed the depths of our own ideas, we asked readers to suggest how Bob Dole might close the yawning gender gap that threatens to swallow his campaign for president...
...And indeed it is...
...There's a real disconnect between what the president says and what the administration does...
...No matter what we resolve," he said, "we journalists can't guarantee that tragedies won't happen...
...As it happens, the present Mary Matalin has not yet agreed to cooperate...
...Take California's experience with waivers...
...Grams wants Clinton to reopen Pennsylvania Ave...
...Unfortunately, Mary Lane may have to forfeit the prize we originally promised, an opportunity to be the new Mary Matalin...
...Marguerite Snow of Stockton, Calif, says the Dole campaign should stress fear in its pitch to women: "Show aged heart-attack victims being turned away from emergency rooms because Medicare is broke...
...Which is not surprising advice coming from Mrs...
...California wanted to cut off cash payments to unmarried teenage moms...
...What issue sparked this unprecedented alignment of the Post's editorial page and a Republican senator against the White House...
...It's a natural...
...As part of the settlement, Terry will also now be granted his district-director position at the EEOC Let's hope his experience sensitizes him and his colleagues to what qualifies as genuine discrimination...
...Take a look at the word in the last sentence that begins with "p...
Vol. 1 • June 1996 • No. 37
