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 Vol. 057 Issue 002 (February 1 1993)
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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 Spitting Image Birtukan Alemu, a twenty-six-year-old native of Ethiopia, lives alone in a North Hollywood apartment. One day late in December, Los Angeles police kicked in...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Four More Years The thesis of The Progressive's December editorial, "Four More Years," seemed overblown to me at the time. But now, after Somalia, it appears to have been...
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COMMENT
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Comment End of the Affair It seems captious to carp and cavil at Bill Clinton when he hasn't even been inaugurated yet. American tradition calls for a kinder course—a grace period or "honeymoon"...
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NO COMMENT
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No COMMENT A Match Made in Heaven Letter to advice columnist Ann Landers: "On April 30, the Los Angeles riots were in full swing. I was with a couple of friends and we got carried away with all...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Islam and the U.S.A. Today The woman weighs forty-six pounds. She is too thin to breathe. What's left of her flesh barely covers her bones. Her eyes persist as...
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WHO'S ON FIRST!
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Hentoff, Nat
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WHO'S ON FIRST! Nat Hentoff When Students Teach Professors Connecticut College in New London is a state school with high admission standards and a student body of fewer than 2,000. The campus has...
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ON THE LINE
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Countryman, Carol; METZ, HOLLY; Bixpa-Vazào, Aldina
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On The Line Worried Mom Cleans Up Dallas In December 1989, Lorrie Coter-ill, a housewife and mother of four, began worrying about odors coming from a gravel pit near her home. So she scaled the...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Two Demons in Cahoots In 1992, more ink and more verbiage were devoted to Hillary Clinton, pro and con, than to any other woman in the United States—even Madonna....
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CLASS NOTES
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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CLASS NOTES Adolph Reed Jr. The Trouble With X Spike Lee's long-anticipated Malcolm X is now shaping the remainder of the climate of Malcolmania that his advance marketing and merchandising...
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A NEW AMERICAN SOCIALISM
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Marable, Manning
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A NEW AMERICAN SOCIALISM BY MANNING MARABLE mericans who identify themselves as 'the left'—independent progressives, radical feminists, democratic socialists, marxists, and others—have never...
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LOOTING THE MEDICINE CHEST
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NADER, RALPH; Love, James; Hines, William
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Looting the Medicine Chest How Bristol-Myers Squibb made off with the public's cancer research by ralph nader and james love Taxol, a drug made from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, may be the...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW ARLO GUTHRIE
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Dreifus, Claudia
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Arlo Guthrie 'I'm not saying that we shouldn't participate in the world and do everything we can to make it better. But we have to reserve a part of ourselves for...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping The Year of the Young In what we like to think of as "the real world," 1992 was called "The Year of the Woman." In the world of series television, a kind of parallel...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Douglas, Jason
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JOURNAL ENTRY Jason Douglas A Marine at War Now that U.S. Marines have been dispatched to Somalia, I've been thinking about the Corps' last great mission—the one in which I had a part. Some call...
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BOOKS
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Puette, William J.; Cook, Christopher
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BOOKS What News of Labor! THROUGH JAUNDICED EYES: How the Media View Organized Labor by William J. Puette ILR Press, Cornell University. 240 pp. $38.00, cloth; $16.95, paper. by Christopher...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins The New World Disorder The nice thing about the Transition Period is that it gives Democrats something to gossip about. Take the situation here in Texas, where Bill...
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