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Scrapbook THREE STRIKES FOR THE FRTARS When Florida State finished its 14-3 drubbing of Providence College in the second round of the NCAA regional baseball tournament on Memorial Day, it wasn't...
...rather, they have declined to participate at the same high rates as the male students...
...he wants the Senate to move quickly and to do so in open session...
...There is no evidence that Providence has denied athletic opportunities to its female students...
...Cuomo was actually the last member of the Clinton cabinet to get grilled in these pages...
...He's also notoriously rude...
...Tensions between the two parties are sure to escalate as more and more Republicans declare that Sandy Berger, the national security adviser, is not up to the job...
...So after 78 years of Providence baseball and a 49-16 season that saw the team ranked as high as 26th in the nation, the Friars have hung up their cleats for good...
...But it's still an instructive lesson for our warfighters: By all means, don't shoot Moses...
...The story is by now familiar: Women constitute 59 percent of the student body at Providence but only 43 percent of the athletes...
...His suggestion: shoot NRA pitchman Charlton Heston "with a .44-caliber Bulldog...
...He once referred to Rep...
...Lott is said to be concerned that the committee would be slow and might opt for closed hearings...
...Nancy Johnson, the very model of a moderate Republican, as a "whore for the insurance industry" because she dared to oppose his plan for a government takeover of the health-care system...
...Michelle Hackmer, a varsity swimmer for Providence, told the N^'w York Times, "Sure, we want women athletes to be treated fairly, but at this expense...
...Most interesting is the question of whether high-level Clinton administration heads will roll...
...However the debate proceeds, it will likely get rocky when America's trade policy with China comes up...
...He was only joking he said later...
...didn't they realize that Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was just like Israel's treatment of West Bank Palestinians...
...I don't think this is what Title IX was supposed to be about...
...Hateful rhetoric is nothing new for Stark...
...THE STARK DIFFERENCE At a May 27 subcommittee hearing, California Democrat Pete Stark became visibly agitated during an upbeat presentation on welfare reform...
...Berger didn't help himself with Lott by hiring Ken Pollack, a former RAND Corporation analyst who co-authored an article in the January/February issue of Fo'reign.Affairs that was highly critical of the Lott-spon-sored Iraq Liberation Act...
...So, like such bastions of putative sexism as Brown University, Providence is rolling back men's sports...
...To which The Scrapbook says, Basta...
...The foundation bills itself as "entirely non-partisan...
...But minority leader Richard Gephardt, who has regularly voted against renewing China's privileged trading status with the United States, gave a speech last week in which he said a WTO deal "shouldn't be held hostage to the desire by many Republicans in Congress to embarrass the president...
...If the administration strikes a deal with Beijing on accession to the World Trade Organization, Congress might take a more hawkish line...
...Shortly after the letter was published, we learned something interesting: Andrew Cuomo's mother, Matilda, sits on the board of the National Italian American Foundation...
...Both these traits made for a poisonous combination: Invoking Eloise Anderson, the esteemed former director of California's welfare agency and a pioneer of recent welfare reforms, Stark said she would "kill children if she had her way...
...Some version of this is strongly favored by Republican senators Arlen Specter and Bob Smith, but committee chairmen in the House and Senate are resisting it, fearing it would cut them out of the debate...
...Does Mr...
...Indeed, neither Lott nor Hastert is inclined to curtail America's trade with China...
...Surprisingly, the race-baiting director, who celebrated nymphomania in She's Gotta Have It and phone-sex operators in Girl 6, has delivered rather milquetoast goods...
...At the Cannes Film Festival, just days before the ads were launched, Lee was asked how to prevent school violence...
...Scrapbook THREE STRIKES FOR THE FRTARS When Florida State finished its 14-3 drubbing of Providence College in the second round of the NCAA regional baseball tournament on Memorial Day, it wasn't just the end of the season for the Friars...
...Like all recruiting ads through the ages, Lee's steer away from the realities of front-line military life: bad pay, bad food, bad hours...
...A resolution seeking to deny China most-favored-nation status will be introduced in the House—^probably by Dana Rohrabacher—but it's unlikely to win a majority (the resolution may not even be considered in the Senate...
...Cer-rell's main complaint was that The Weekly Standard had targeted Andrew Cuomo, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, for special abuse in a recent article because of Cuomo's Italian roots...
...SPIKE'S NAVY When director Spike Lee, everybody's favorite bug-eyed militant, successfully bid to produce five recruiting ads for the United States Navy, it signaled a sea change in the Navy's hipness quotient the likes of which haven't been seen since it nearly appropriated the Village People's "In the Navy" as a late seventies recruiting song...
...But unequal participation is tantamount to discrimination under the Clinton Education department's Title IX enforcement guidelines, not to mention the egalitarian theories of feminist litigants...
...Maybe not, but it's exactly what Title IX now is about...
...Philip A. Smith, Providence's president, declared that the men's baseball, tennis, and golf programs would be discontinued at the end of this school year in the name of gender equity and compliance with the federal law known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination at schools that get federal funds (i.e., practically all of them...
...WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COX REPORT...
...In 1991 he singled out for condemnation his "Jewish colleagues" who had voted to support the Gulf War...
...It was the death of the team...
...VENDETTA POSTSCRIPT We published a letter last week from Joseph Cerrell, a longtime Democratic operative who's also the president of the National Italian American Foundation...
...One idea under review is to create a joint House-Senate bipartisan committee and dump the whole thing in its lap...
...The representative of San Francisco's East Bay communities never met a welfare program he didn't like...
...Cerrell's letter fall into that category...
...But Spike has a little fight in him still...
...Last October Rev...
...Instead, his stylish, verite spots feature sailors seeking tuition assistance and Internet training, performing in a band on-board their ship, and even landing plum jobs as telecommunications supervisors after their brief hitch in the service...
...When Congress reconvenes, right near the top of Trent Lott's and Denny Hastert's "to do" lists will be figuring out how to respond to the Cox committee's report on Chinese espionage and the transfer of sensitive technologies by U.S...
...And in 1990 Stark referred to Louis Sullivan, the Bush administration's (black) secretary of Health and Human Services, as "a disgrace to his race" because of his support for Republican health-care policies...
...It is the standard warfare-to-workfare approach the military has favored since killing one's enemy fell out of fashion some decades ago...
...companies...
...In this era of the Third Way and the New Democrat, Stark is a throwback, an embodiment of that old party symbol, the jackass...
...That was before the Department of Defense realized the song was a gay anthem...
...He also avoids the kill-people-and-break-things side of the job (except in one ad where Navy Seals stand heroically with their guns drawn in the surf, obviously not there to boogie board...
...A letter is currently circulating in the Senate calling on Berger to resign, while over 80 House Republicans have said he should step aside...
Vol. 4 • June 1999 • No. 37
