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Scrapbook Fun in Florida: No, it's not too early to talk 1998. So get this: Florida Democratic Sen. Bob Graham hates the Senate (and what rational person wouldn't?). He was happier being governor,...
...Racial division has become increasingly institutionalized," the Times noted...
...One of the country's worst presidents wrote what is certainly the greatest presidential memoir, one of the few books that really capture life in 19th-century America...
...Answers: 1a...
...Oct...
...A special prize goes to those who have actually read all three books for pleasure...
...Baker, current president of the Columbia Black Students Union, has a beef against Jewish "tricksters...
...Jews are "always on our backs like leeches sucking the blood from the black community...
...3) Kurt Waldheim c) In the Eye of the Storm Answers below...
...12: "When you come to the end, you are talking about defaulting on the full faith and credit of the United States for the first time in the history of this country...
...Alexander Hamilton is rolling in his grave...
...But how come it took the New York Times two full weeks to notice this stinkbomb in the Spectator, which has been graduating top editorial talent to the paper of record for more than 100 years...
...Thucydides began another military tradition in the book's first line by referring to himself in the third person...
...More on Bloodsucking Leeches: On October 12, editors at the Columbia Daily Spectator, one of the nation's oldest and most fabled college newspapers, ran Sharod Baker's fortnightly "Blackdafide" column...
...Lift up the yarmulke" and you find "the blood of billions of Africans...
...secretary-general with his memoir...
...Lawton Chiles can't run again...
...Memoirs, by Ulysses S. Grant...
...sometimes they meddle in academia...
...25: "Those people are basically trying to undermine the democratic process by threatening to default on the federal debt...
...We're not sure it's literature, but we learned Latin by it and chances are our grandchildren will too...
...The debt-limit gambit is to force Clinton to behave in a responsible manner on budgetary matters, something his Treasury secretary really ought to support...
...Boring From Within: With the 50th anniversary of the UN...
...He was happier being governor, a job that conveniently comes open in '98 because sitting Gov...
...If you're a "distinguished senior scholar" fluent in "issues such as sexuality, the family, the nature of power in relationships, etc.," this could be the job for you...
...Oct...
...Graham runs basically unopposed in the Florida primary...
...Sure, it may be simply another attempt by a pillow-headed entertainer to buy undeserved legitimacy, but there is good news-the position has not yet been filled...
...Buddy McKay, who presumably wants to be top dog in Tallahassee...
...So here's one scenario being bandied about by Floridians: Come 1997, Graham resigns his seat in the Senate...
...Eeeek...
...The Reading List: With Colin Powell's book still topping the non-fiction charts, all those who are buying it and not even opening it might consider these genuinely great works of non-fiction by generals past: The Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides...
...So why does he sound as though he really, really wants some panic to break out...
...Okay, so Baker is a repulsive creep...
...Applicants, according to an ad in the Chronicle of Higher Education, should "submit letter of interest, C.V, and list of references to Dean Nancy Vickers, Co-chair of Streisand Professorship Search Committee, ADM 304, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4012...
...The Clintonites have been accusing House Republicans of posing a threat to the very fate of the world itself, should the Gingrichites demonstrate their seriousness about getting the budget they want by tying it to the "debt limit"-that is, the amount of money the federal government can borrow to pay back some of the interest on the money it has already borrowed...
...Happily, the markets don't appear to be panicking...
...now happily over, we offer the following One-Worlder pop quiz: See if you can match the former UN...
...The post-literate can call her at: (213) 740-6104...
...Watch out...
...Give it a shot...
...And that the Times is prepared to let those editors brag, uncontradicted, about how "excited" they are to "discuss the issues...
...It might not matter all that much anyway...
...Florida is rushing so quickly into the Republican camp that neither Graham nor McKay might win-in either race, for either job...
...The Gallic Wars, by Julius Caesar...
...17: "This is no way for a great nation to conduct its financial affairs...
...There is "evilness" hidden "under the skirts and costumes of the Rabbi," he writes...
...No big deal...
...We've heard of carrying water for a president, but this is ridiculous...
...Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, for one, is deeply concerned about the possibility of panic gripping the markets...
...The latest evidence comes from Los Angeles, where the University of Southern California has just announced the creation of the Streisand Professorship of Contemporary Gender Studies...
...Five long days after being scooped on this story by the weekly Forward, the Times finally bundled Spectator-gate into a broader "trend story" on student racial tensions nationwide...
...Who's Spooking Whom...
...3c...
...Arguably the most important book ever written by a military man, The Peloponnesian War is the account of the conflict between Athens and Sparta that marked the end of the greatest experiment in democracy until our nation's founding...
...1) Tryvge Lie: a) In the Cause of Peace 2) U Thant b) A View from the U.N...
...Chiles appoints McKay to take Graham's seat...
...Consider his rhetoric: Oct...
...The story is that the editors of a leading American college newspaper don't have sufficient sense and courage to spike a gutter-level rant by a black activist...
...Max Frankel, Spectator alum, class of 1952, call your former office...
...The Engelbert Humperdinck Chair in Hermeneutics: Unfortunately, unlike old soldiers, aging lounge singers don't just fade away...
...That's not the story...
...One problem for Graham: Lieutenant Gov...
Vol. 1 • November 1995 • No. 8
