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Scrapbook But He Left Out "Kiss It" The Clinton legacy becomes clearer each day. According to editor Justin Kaplan, the 17th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, due out next year, will...
...New York Times, March 31,1992 "I am going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky...
...Television interview, January 26, 1998 "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is...
...In a new essay for the webzine Nerve.com, Singer takes his anti-"speciesist" campaign to one of its logical conclusions, with a full-throated defense of bestiality...
...The idea that it could be wrong to use contraception in order to separate sex from reproduction is now merely quaint...
...We should, in fact, be particularly keen to see ourselves included within a truly global system...
...There is a vile section on dead chickens that defies summary (suffice it to say that if Frank Perdue is thinking about contributing to the Princeton endowment, he'll want to think again...
...According to the Harvard magazine interview, a contrite Kaplan has now removed "the stupidest Reagan statement" and added a couple of others, including the famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech that was among Meyerson's suggestions: "Come here to this gate...
...We for our part can hardly expect otherwise...
...Margaret Thatcher's Greatness In her usual bracing style, former prime minister Margaret Thatcher delivered an excellent address to the Royal United Services Institute on March 1. Think of it as instruction in how not to go wobbly...
...Sign us up for two copies of the new Bartlett's...
...Saddam knows the score—even if some of our more faint-hearted allies don't...
...And they can acquire more advanced technology...
...Now they are all but a dead letter...
...If some religions still teach that masturbation is 'self-abuse,' that just shows how out of touch they have become...
...Gorbachev, tear down this wall...
...Harris says she may sue again...
...My own view is that if the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough...
...capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield...
...That was the question before the Arkansas supreme court, which last week sided with the city...
...The possibilities of controlling proliferation by such means were always much slimmer than the optimists thought...
...Indeed, unless that happens soon, the gulf between European and U.S...
...But not for much longer, if Singer has any say in the matter...
...They can move more swiftly to establish professional armed forces like those of the United Kingdom...
...And once we also understand this, "sex across the species barrier" will cease "to be an offense to our status and dignity as human beings...
...We would argue for the inclusion of the one memorable phrase Clinton uttered in the line of duty, in his 1996 State of the Union address: "The era of big government is over...
...If the—if he—if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing...
...If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement...
...To me, it is strange that European states have so enthusiastically lined up with Russia and China in opposing America's plans for a system of missile defense—plans which would increase our safety...
...In a twist, the court encouraged the appellant, a 68-year-old retired housewife and unretiring citizen named Nora Harris, to sue the city again, because what it's doing may indeed be illegal...
...He is neither manageable nor, in the long term, containable...
...A few weeks ago in these pages, Kane Webb told the story of how the land for the Clinton library in Little Rock is being financed...
...One of the problems, the court pointed out, was that Harris's case was filed before the city may have started dipping into tax money it can't legally use to buy land for the library...
...There is learned discourse on faculty society at Princeton: "Who has not been at a social occasion disrupted by the household dog gripping the legs of a visitor and vigorously . . ." Singer concludes with a story about a woman's romp with an orangutan—in which the orangutan makes like a drunken frat boy, and the woman takes it in good humor...
...And I didn't like it, and didn't inhale, and never tried it again...
...On American missile defense plans: "On this side of the Atlantic, there is a tendency to suggest that the problem of proliferation can be solved by diplomatic means and by control regimes designed to halt the flow of military technology...
...According to editor Justin Kaplan, the 17th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, due out next year, will include just three entries for Bill Clinton: "I experimented with marijuana a time or two...
...It's against the law in Arkansas to use tax money to pay off revenue bonds...
...This has to qualify as one of the most gracious responses to criticism in recent memory...
...To avoid a referendum on Clinton by having a vote on new bonds to pay for the land, the city decided to use proceeds from already issued revenue bonds...
...Maybe by then, Princeton will have come up with a less orwellian name for its Center for Human Values...
...That's all part of the joy of sex...
...Sort of...
...This, he suggests, is because—well, mainly it's because "fighting off so powerful an animal was not an option...
...Grand jury testimony, August 17,1998 A self-described Clinton supporter, Kaplan explains in an interview on the website of Harvard magazine, "The president was not a great utterer of his sentiments...
...I strongly support that U.S.-British action...
...Striking a celebratory note, Singer observes that "one by one, the taboos [about sex] have fallen...
...Alas, though, "not every taboo has crumbled...
...If so, her chances of winning now look a lot better...
...But Singer prefers to think that it also "may be because [she] understands very well that we are animals, indeed more specifically, we are great apes...
...The Clinton Library (cont...
...He has to be removed...
...Gorbachev, open this gate...
...On the European Army: "The public could be forgiven for thinking that there are two plans: one for strengthening NATO, and one for creating a rival organization to it...
...And the chances of an early end to the Clinton controversies continue to recede...
...On Iraq: "Recently British airmen have been engaged over Iraq...
...A Princetonian's Defense of Bestiality In his essay on sociobiology beginning on Page 31 of this issue, Andrew Ferguson notes that Peter Singer—the creepy Ira W. DeCamp professor at Princeton's Center for Human Values— has been trying to debunk "the distinction that has traditionally been made between human beings and animals...
...Much of what he goes on to argue is unprintable here (The Scrapbook is still a taboo-upholder...
...Especially since he turns out to be such a good sport on the subject of Ronald Reagan...
...And how...
...But can revenue bonds be used to pay for a project that isn't producing any revenue...
...But it's hard to quibble with Kaplan's choices...
...The 16th edition of Bartlett's, also Kaplan's handiwork, was keelhauled by the Heritage Foundation's Adam Mey-erson for scanting the memorable phrases of Ronald Reagan (although we still enjoy the one in which Reagan likens the federal government to a baby: "a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other...
...They can increase defense expenditure...
...Sex with animals is still definitely taboo...
...It is because he himself knows this that Saddam will never ease up his pressure on us...
...Sodomy...
...There is a cliche-ridden discussion of girls and horses...
...Saddam Hussein counts as unfinished business...
Vol. 6 • March 2001 • No. 26
