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 Vol. 058 Issue 010 (October 1 1994)
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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 The Public Be Bland A radio listener in Slinger, Wisconsin, wrote to his public radio station, WUWM in Milwaukee, suggesting that it air Insight, my brief...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Big Bad Welfare Not many voices are raised in opposition to the mainstream rhetoric about welfare reform. The articles in the August issue of The Progressive represent an...
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COMMENT
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Comment America's New Enemy 'It's redundant. We will now be in place to run the world's largest retirement home for chronic misfits. We may soon be moving to a no-parole public policy, which is...
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NO COMMENT
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No COMMENT A Thousand Points of Light From a report in the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, on marijuana plants growing wild at a state prison farm: "[Prison officer Brian] Franson said he's...
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ON THE LINE
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ON THE LINE The Incredible Shrinking Man Males of all species are experiencing dramatic reductions in fertility because of common household chemicals, says Theo Colborn (right). Baby alligators...
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CLASS NOTES
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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CLASS NOTES Adolph Reed Jr. Black Leadership in Crisis The debacle of Ben Chavis's appointment and tenure at the NAACP, finally, mercifully ended, underscores the troubled state of the national...
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WHO'S ON FIRST?
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Hentoff, Nat
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WHO'S ON FIRST! Nat Hentoff The Breyer Coronation On the Friday before the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearings concerning Judge Stephen Breyer's nomination to the Supreme Court,...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas It's Howdy Doody Time One Senator, in a flawless imitation of a jackass, sang "Old MacDon-ald" on the Senate floor, much to the delight of the television cameras....
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THE RIGHT RIDES HIGH
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Berlet, Chip
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The Right Rides High BY CHIP BERLET As the United States slides toward the Twenty-first Century, the major movements offering a critique of the bipartisan status quo are to be found not on the...
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ANTI-ABORTIONISTS AND WHITE SUPREMACISTS MAKE COMMON CAUSE
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ROSS, LORETTA J.
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Anti-Abortionists and Whit The third shooting of an abortion doctor in less than eighteen months embarrassed many in the anti-abortion movement. The murders of Dr. John Britton and his volunteer...
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NOBODY HERE BUT US ROADBUILDERS
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Watrous, Steve
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Nobody Here But Us m. Roadbuilders The Pentagon keeps busy in El Savador BY STEVE WATROUS The Pentagon has a little problem since the Cold War melted. So do the Salvadoran armed forces now that...
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WHO GETS TO LIVE?
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Ervin, Mike
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WHO GETS TO LIVE? WHO Who Will Decide! BY MIKE ERVIN People with disabilities are in a war for our lives," says Carol Gill, a clinical psychologist in Chicago who specializes in disability...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW SARAH SCHULMAN
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METZ, HOLLY
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Sarah Schulman 'Young lesbians think they're included in the culture. Then they find out they're not. So they have a different kind of anger—an anger of entitlement/ BY...
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CULTURE
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Blanchard, Bob
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CULTURE Bob Blanchard Playwright of Pain and Hope ALL theater is political," says playwright Tony Kushner, the author of Angels in America. "If you don't declare your politics, your politics are...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Karlin, Elizabeth
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JOURNAL ENTRY Elizabeth Karlin What Shall I Wear! Agood friend sent me a baby-blue bulletproof vest after Michael Griffin killed Dr. David Gunn, so that I would have something to wear to work at...
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BOOKS
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Knoll, Erwin
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BOOKS How the Left Was Lost by Erwin Knoll As we survey the barren, desolate landscape of the American Left at the end of the Twentieth Century, we have every right and reason to ask, What...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins The Good Old Days We're having a flappette here in Texas because Governor Ann Richards referred to her opponent, Shrub Bush, as "some jerk." Not, her campaign promptly...
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