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 Vol. 055 Issue 011 (November 1 1991)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
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MEMO from the Editor Inner Circle Let me tell you where I won't be on October 28, and what I won't be doing. I won't be in Washington, D.C., having lunch with Dan Quayle. Not that I haven't been...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Kristofferson's Fans Kris Kristofferson has millions of fans around the world, myself included. I saw his first performance in Los Angeles years ago at the Troubadour. Your in-depth interview by...
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COMMENT
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Comment the Progressive Bombs Away If there were a Nobel Prize for slick public relations, George Bush would win it hands down. His dramatic late-September announcement of "bold" reductions in...
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no Comment Model Public Servant From a Washington Post story about Clair E. George, the former chief of covert operations at the CIA, after he was indicted on ten felony counts in connection with...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Thomas Was Not the Point The law of the land governs all of our disparate lives. Against the chaos of conflict and above the passions of self-interest, the...
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ON THE LINE
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On The Line Breast Cancer Politics Ithaca, New York When Ann Maguire found out she had breast cancer in 1989, she decided to learn all she could about the disease. What she discovered, she says,...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Dykstra, Peter
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PUNDIT WATCH Peter Dykstra Gray Pages and Dim Bulbs Tough times abound in the newspaper biz. The recession hit hard, but The New York Times has compounded its woes by repeatedly hitting...
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WHO'S ON FIRST?
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Hentoff, Nat
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WHO'S ON FIRST? Nat Hentoff Execution in Your Living Room An increasingly intense, often bitter debate focuses on whether television cameras should be allowed to cover executions. The press is...
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BLACK AMERICA IN SEARCH OF ITSELF
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Marable, Manning
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BLACK AMERICA in Search of Itself BY MANNING MARABLE Conspiracy theories always tell you something, if not historical truth. They abound at present in the black community. Many believe that...
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FREE SPEECH STOPS AT THE COMPANY DOOR
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Parkison, Jami
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STOPS Free speech at the Company Door BY JAMI PARKISON He knows it's against the law. But that little voice inside him says, "Keep your mouth shut." The company Larry Dwight works for has a...
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WHAT THE GULF WAR TAUGHT
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Berry, Wendell
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What the Gulf War Taught BY WENDELL BERRY The war we waged in the Middle East was said to be "about peace." So have they all been said to be. This was another of our series of wars "to end war."...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW JOHN SAYLES
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW John Sayles 'In this country, there's a real suspicion —sometimes a real resentment— of content.9 BY CLAUDIA DREIFUS John Sayles manages to do what no one else does in...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping Boys of Summer Ispent the summer at the movies, as usual. I love the ritual of slipping into the darkened, icy cool theater in late afternoon, when it's not too crowded,...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Caesar, Judith
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JOURNAL ENTRY Judith Caesar Slaves in the Gulf If you could rent a slave cheaply and no one would criticize you for it, what would you do? To the thousands of Americans working in Saudi Arabia...
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BOOKS
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Rocawich, Linda
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BOOKS Gulf War History: Off the Mark THE GULF WAR READER: History, Documents, Opinions edited by Micah L. Sifry and Christopher Cerf Random House. 527 pp. $15.00, paper. THE MARCH TO WAR edited...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Debating the Obvious There is a certain hilarity to recent debates about the obvious that necessarily strikes anyone who is not in the United States Senate. Gosh,...
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