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IssueVol. 057 Issue 002 (February 1 1993)
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Paid articleMEMO FROM THE EDITOR
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...
Paid articleLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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...
Paid articleCOMMENT
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"...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
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...
Paid articleJUST INSIDE THE DOOR
Jordan, June
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...
Paid articleWHO'S ON FIRST!
Hentoff, Nat
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...
Paid articleON THE LINE
Countryman, Carol; METZ, HOLLY; Bixpa-Vazào, Aldina
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...
Paid articlePUNDIT WATCH
Douglas, Susan
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....
Paid articleCLASS NOTES
Reed, Adolph Jr.
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...
Paid articleA NEW AMERICAN SOCIALISM
Marable, Manning
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...
Paid articleLOOTING THE MEDICINE CHEST
NADER, RALPH; Love, James; Hines, William
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...
Paid articleTHE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW ARLO GUTHRIE
Dreifus, Claudia
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...
Paid articleCULTURE
Rapping, Elayne
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...
Paid articleJOURNAL ENTRY
Douglas, Jason
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...
Paid articleBOOKS
Puette, William J.; Cook, Christopher
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...
Paid articleSMALL FAVORS
Ivins, Molly
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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