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Scrapbook A DIFFERENT SORT OF WORLDWIDE WEB The Taliban, the militant rulers of Afghanistan who also play benevolent landlord to terrorist Osama Bin Laden, are in an undeniable public-relations...
...Will no one give voice to the voiceless...
...Their two-year reign, if you believe infidel Western foreign correspondents, has been a roundelay of compulsory dress codes, public amputations, executions, and other displays of ill temper...
...English professor...
...MTV interview, August 11,1995 WOMEN OF THE TIMES Another revealing sign of the incredible parochialism of the New York Times...
...Tax credits that cover the full cost of private school are less popular—only 56 percent in favor...
...This may explain the narrowing "education gap...
...It looks like Democrats are secretly more supportive of Republican school reforms than Republicans themselves...
...Perusing www.taliban.com, one quickly discovers that the Taliban is misunderstood, a devout group, a single-minded group...
...Of course, it's never actually been used for a commercial purpose, but who's to say the Sudanese aren't great pharmaceutical innovators...
...Again, more Democrats than Republicans (61 percent to 57 percent) favored full compensation...
...Scott Shuger of Slate listed them by occupation: shareholder activist...
...When asked specifically about vouchers that would pay for tuition, 52 percent favored the idea...
...JUST DESERTS So what's Bill Clinton's reward for pushing the (ill-advised) Chemical Weapons Convention through the Senate last year...
...author and editor...
...But at heart, the Taliban, it seems, is a band of peace-loving nest-builders...
...BILL CLINTON'S GREATEST HITS "I would hope every American adult, even those who smoke, would think, as I had to when I became president and I had this occasional bad habit of having my cigar once in a while, I would hope they would think about not doing it in public, not doing it around children, not setting a bad example...
...this year it fell to only 11...
...The story found that while "women" are disappointed in the president, many would vote for him again...
...Click here to join...
...In 1994, when asked which party was more interested in education, the Democrats had an edge of 17 percentage points...
...This type of sophistic quibbling, endemic to the "arms-control community," shows how little multilateral agreements like the Chemical Weapons Convention can be expected to accomplish...
...I think we adults have a responsibility to try to set a good standard for our young people and to basically say everybody's got a lot of problems but being self-destructive is not a way to deal with them...
...At least as freely as one dare exchange ideas on a Web site that encourages visitors to "Strike a Dharb [deathblow] to the Enemy of Islam...
...On August 28, the Times ran a story on how women view Clinton, based on "dozens of interviews across the country...
...graduate-school dean...
...But it was so stupid of me to say things like that without knowing the whole story...
...novelist...
...So along come the OPCW bureaucrats with an excuse for the chemical's presence in the soil samples...
...university public-relations executive...
...Section headings include "Jihad," "The True Meaning of Jihad in Islam," "The Types of Jihad," "Propagating, Publicising and Informing on Jihad," "Financing the Jihad," and "Jihad: The Forgotten Obligation...
...I just want to apologize for my comments...
...That's up from 45 percent in 1994...
...volunteer...
...The poll showed that 66 percent of Americans favor tax credits that partially cover the cost of sending a child to private school...
...It's appalling that there's not one feminist performance artist on that list...
...A similar story emerges with educational tax credits, another Republican-led reform...
...As one Mohammad Tajik writes, "The other day I wrote comments criticizing the Taliban...
...And even though vouchers are a pet policy of Republicans, 51 percent of Democrats (and only 47 percent of Republicans) favored vouchers that would pay all of a student's private-school tuition...
...But the unintentionally interesting aspect of the story was the sort of women the Times saw fit to quote...
...hair-salon owner...
...Not as little, however, as what the Clinton administration is likely to learn from the experience...
...According to a story in last Thursday's New York Times ("Possible Benign Use Is Seen for Chemical at Factory in Sudan"), agency spokesman Donato Kinigi-er-Passigli said an exhaustive search of scientific literature showed Empta might have "legitimate commercial purposes," including as an anti-microbial agent and fungicide...
...Being undercut by the arms controllers at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons—the bureaucracy that oversees compliance with the chemical-arms treaty...
...The annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll on attitudes toward public schools found that 51 percent of Americans now favor the government's paying part or all of a child's private-school bills...
...THE VOUCHER CONSTITUENCY Support for school vouchers and education tax credits is on the rise—and not just among Republicans...
...writer...
...Other headings include "Why Women Should Stay in Their Houses" and "Taliban Restrict Women to their homes because . . ." There is even a chat room to foster understanding and the free exchange of ideas...
...Wise move, Mohammad...
...To combat these negative stereotypes, the Taliban is now circumventing the American media and (rather as Charles Manson recently did after his ninth denial of parole) taking their case straight to the public at www.taliban.com, their new Web site, which is part of a larger Islam WebRing ("Got a neato Islam site...
...producer...
...Scrapbook A DIFFERENT SORT OF WORLDWIDE WEB The Taliban, the militant rulers of Afghanistan who also play benevolent landlord to terrorist Osama Bin Laden, are in an undeniable public-relations tailspin...
...It was not Coia but rather his pal, New England mafia boss Raymond L. S. Patriarca, who was overheard by the FBI meddling in union elections and espousing the operating philosophy, "Hit them, break their legs to get things your way...
...In the aftermath of the missile attacks on the Sudanese factory implicated in the production of VX nerve gas, the administration very publicly staked its credibility on soil samples taken outside the factory that contained a chemical known as Empta, used to make VX...
...CORRECTION Last week's article on the Laborers' International union, "A Corrupt Union and the Mob," mistakenly attributed a quotation to Arthur E. Coia, father of the union's current president...
...So sue them—they like holy war...
Vol. 3 • September 1998 • No. 49
