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 Vol. 059 Issue 011 (November 1 1995)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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EDITOR'S NOTE Matthew Rothschild Good Intentions Icome home the other night and turn on the CBS Evening News With Dan Rather. Like Stephen King, I watch Rather just so I can be there the night...
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HONEST LIVING
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Kroninger, Stephen
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HONEST LIVING · Stephen Kroninger THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT! SOURCE: Forbes. September 25, 1995 Average Public Schoolteacher:...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Catty and Misplaced Adolph Reed Jr.'s parenthetical aside sneering at Jesse Jackson ("Lessons from a Demonstration," August issue) not only did nothing to support his...
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NEEDLEPOINT
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Colescott, Warrington
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NEEDLEPOINT* Warrington...
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COMMENT
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Comment Washing Their Hands The "Pontius Pilate approach" is what Senator Carol Moseley-Braun called it, and she's right. By doing away with the federal guarantee of welfare assistance,...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Melting Pot From a story in The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, on the General Mills company's decision to put a new face on Betty Crocker: "The resulting face, predict some...
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OFF THE MAP
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Professional Jealousy You know what scares me? Television. No, I don't mean what's on it. Full House going into syndication, OK, that is frightening. But what really...
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ON THE LINE
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SLAUGHTER, JANE
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ON THE LINE Detroit on Strike Detroit, Michigan The strike at Detroit's daily newspapers this summer and fall raises two big issues, whether De->y. troit will continue to be one of the coun\...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Colinitis Colin Powell's got most of the nation's press corps down on its knees. The same folks who have helped make cynicism, especially about politicians and the...
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Red Herrings of the Wise Use Movement
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HELVARG, DAVID
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Red Herrings of the Wise Use Movement BY DAVID HELVARG Have you heard about the spotted owls seen breeding on the roof of a Kmart? The man who was fined for shooting a grizzly bear that was...
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Taking It AII Away
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Ness, Erik
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Taking It AI I Away The private-property movement carves up America BY ERIK NESS Florence Robinson arrived at the Louisiana state capital one day last May, a sheep in wolf's clothing. She was...
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BASHING the Disabled
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WOLFE, KATHI
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BASHING the Disabled The new hate crime BY KATHI WOLFE Move, blind lady," a man hissed at me as he twisted my arm and grabbed my cane. He threw my cane down the escalator, which was taking me to...
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Getting Tough on Kids in Wheelchairs
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Getting Tough on Kids in Wheelchairs It is a sign of how depraved things have gotten in Washington that Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress are whipping up resentment against people with...
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A Voice in the Wilderness
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LANCHARD, BOB
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A Voice in the Wilderness BY BOB BLANCHARD The author of fourteen books, Gary Snyder is one of our most respected living writers. Riprap, Myths & Texts, Earth House Hold, and the 1975 Pulitzer...
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Eleanor Smeal
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Koeppel, Barbara
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Eleanor Smeal BY BARBARA KOEPPEL Interviewing Eleanor Smeal is a delight. Unpretentious and passionate, she gesticulates, springs out of her chair, and paces back and...
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POEM
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Espada, Martin
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POEM Martin Espada Sleeping on the Bus How we drift in the twilight of bus stations, how we shrink in overcoats as we sit, how we wait for the loudspeaker to tell us when the bus is...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping A Bad Ride at Disney World I'm going to Disney World," said Lorena Bobbitt cheerily upon being released from the particular set of ordeals that had become her life. It's...
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UNPLUGGED
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED Kate Clinton Twenty Questions Despite all its vaunted promises, Windows 95 has not helped me manage the recent info of this late half of 1995.1 feel like there's a scrambler on my...
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BOOKS:All Old, All Fighting On
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Gilbert, Ronnie
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BOOKS All Old, All Fighting On Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It by Studs Terkel The New Press. 468 pages. $25.00. by Ronnie Gilbert Studs was a local...
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Program for Change
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Sklar, Holly
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Program for Change Chaos or Community: Seeking Solutions, Not Scapegoats for Bad Economics by Holly Sklar South End Press. 222 pages. $15.00. Holly Sklar's provocative new book goes well beyond...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins The R's and Re-Form Boy, these Republicans in Congress can just re-form up a storm, can't they? Two-to-five years on welfare, and then it's out to get a job, no...
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