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Vol. 058 Issue 012 (December 1 1994)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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MEMO FROM THE PUBLISHER
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memo from the Publisher Erwin Knoll July 17,1931-November 2,1994 Today, we are in mourning. Yesterday, November 2, 1994, our beloved Editor, Erwin Knoll, died in his sleep of an apparent heart...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor What Shall I Wear? Dr. Elizabeth Karlin, as an abortion doctor, states, "My patients are bruised women who have the worst abusive relationships" ("What Shall I Wear,"...
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COMMENT
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the Progressive Comment 'Don't celebrate and think that the U.S. army is here to liberate us. Only Haitians can free Haiti.' —Chevannes Jean-Baptiste, leader of Haiti's largest peasant...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Don't Clock Those Swift Couriers Sandra Harding, spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service, explaining (in Newsweek) why clocks have been removed from the lobbies of some post offices:...
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ON THE LINE
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ON THE LINE Getting Out the Vote for Cities St. Paul, Minnesota On election day 1995, in cities across the country, urbanites will be voting for a variety of local offices. But unlike previous...
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CLASS NOTES
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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CLASS NOTES Adolph Reed Jr. Intellectual Brown Shirts In The New York Times Magazine, Charles Murray recently tried to defend himself against charges that he doesn't like women by jovially...
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REFLECTIONS
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Said, Edward W.
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REFLECTIONS Edward W. Said Ignoble Prize That the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two Israelis, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and—grudgingly—to one...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Dumbing Down in America Things haven't been all bad this past month. In fact, there have been a few deeply gratifying moments. Take, for example, the well-deserved...
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BIGBROTHER ©CYBERSPACE
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Ness, Erik
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BigBrother ©cyberspace Will your freedom "Have you ever renewed your driver's and privacy license... at a cash machine? be roadkill on Fixed your car... with a television? the...
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WE HAVE YOUR NUMBER
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Cassidy, Peter
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We Have Your Number The push for a national ID card BY PETER CASSIDY The U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, headed by widely respected former Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, turned in...
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RWANDA
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Cohen, Andrew
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RWANDA The agony continues but the press is gone BY ANDREW COHEN In Rwanda, you learn that terror has a kind of geometry. You approach death in increasing increments of fear. You can follow your...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW KATHA POLLITT
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Conniff, Ruth
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Katha Pollitt 'Although feminism came out of the Left and naturally belongs on the Left, sometimes you wouldn't know it.' BY RUTH CONNIFF Like Broadway, the novel, and...
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BOOKS
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Franklin, H. Bruce
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BOOKS Plausibility of Denial IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS by Tim O'Brien Houghton Mifflin. 306 pp. $21.95. by H. Bruce Franklin Besides the well-deserved guilt and shame and anguish evoked by the...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Jollifications in the Voting Booth What a festive electoral season we have just survived. You could have knocked me over with Michael Huffington's brain when I realized...
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