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 Vol. 054 Issue 005 (May 1 1990)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 MEMO
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MEMO from the Editor Strange Fruit One of the more remarkable products of perestroika and glasnost is a superslick English-language periodical called Vestnik that arrived here at The Progressive a...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers Respond to *Why Worry About the Animals?' Thank you for Jean Bethke Elshtain's excellent article, "Why Worry About the Animals?" (March issue). I have often wondered...
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cOMMENT
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Comment Beyond Earth Day, 1990 'Measured on virtually any scale, the world is in worse shape than it was two decades ago. How could we have fought so hard, and won so many battles, only to find...
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NO Comment
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no Comment Horning in America From an article in Soap Opera Weekly about a daytime drama called Santa Barbara: "When Augusta was temporarily blinded on the show, then-President Ronald Reagan, who...
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WHO'S ON FIRST?
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Hentoff, Nat
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WHO'S ON FIRST? Nat Hentoff A Pyrrhic Victory The most widely publicized punishment for "offensive" speech in years ended on March 2 when Andy Roo-ney was restored to his perch at 60 Minutes. He...
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DATELINES
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DATELINES Attorney for the Doomed SUMMERTOWN, TENNESSEE On January 15, Albert Bates published a book about the greenhouse effect called Climate in Crisis. Bates is no literary observer pondering...
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Journalistic Jihad
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Knoll, Erwin
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AFGHANISTA Journalistic Jihad Holes in the coverage of a holy war BY ERWIN KNOLL arly last fall, Mary Williams Walsh had what she thought was one of the best jobs in American journalism. At age...
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Strained Mercy
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WALSH, MARY WILLIAMS
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Strained Mercy A 'relief agency' dispenses propaganda AFGHANISTAN BY MARY WILLIAMS WALSH ^Hy dear friend," the letter begins, "Even as I write to you now, a child is struggling between life and...
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Afghan Stalemate
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AHMAD, EQBAL
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Afghan Stalemate Why Kabul didn't fall BY EQBAL AHMAD y the summer of 1989, the United States and Pakistan had already ¦ managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Afghanistan. Victory...
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AIDS AND THE INS
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RAMIREZ, MARC
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AIDS AND THE INS BY MARC RAMIREZ Luis is nervous and his hands are sweating. Ben, his lover, sits quietly at his side. Neither has given his real name. As Luis talks, he pulls at his fingers, one...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH WENDELL BERRY
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POLSGROVE, CAROL
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Wendell Berry Tm a person who is very badly scared/ BY CAROL POLSGROVE AND SCOTT SANDERS Wendell Berry was born in Henry County, Kentucky, in 1934, and lives there...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins A Fairly Normal Spring The transsexual torch murderer who's in a run-off for chairman of the Harris County (Houston) Democratic Party here in the Great State was my man...
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BOOKS:Helping Children Learn
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Sheffer, Susannah
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BOOKS Helping Children Learn AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN by Tracy Kidder Houghton Mifflin. 340 pp. $19.95. by Susannah Sheffer School-reform efforts in recent years— the kind that capture national...
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THE LAST WORD
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Engelhardt, Tom
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THE LAST WORD Tom Engelhardt Pantheon Purge No call preceded Ariel Dorfman that morning in 1981. He simply took the elevator to the fifteenth floor of the Random House building and walked through...
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