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Vol. 060 Issue 010 (October 1 1996)
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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 I Matthew Rothschild Internal Affairs Above my computer at work, I have a book propped up for inspiration. That book is Representations of the Intellectual by Edward Said, who joins...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Send Up a Flare Iam a career female (Heaven help me!) with two college degrees, women's wages, and a second job to supplement my inadequate pay. I am proud to say that both...
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COMMENT
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'We felt we had a very effective strike, but, as you do the bomb-damage assessment, sometimes other factors such as clouds get in the way, and if there was any doubt at all as to whether we reduced...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Takes One to Know One Conservative pundit William Kristol, quoted in The New York Times on Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd's political skill as a partisan leader: Dodd "is good...
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OFF THE MAP
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Volleyball or Death Yours truly was one of the zillions of VIPs who made it to the Republican convention floor. Well, OK, not the floor exactly. In order to get down there,...
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ON THE LINE
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ON THE LINE Independent Monitoring in El Salvador San Salvador A Salvadoran shirt factory could change the way industries built on sweatshop labor operate—if it doesn't shut down first. David...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Cynicism on Stage Here's my idea: Let's reduce the voting age to eight. That way, instead of listening to the pundits ooh and aah over Elizabeth Dole's ability to ape...
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CLASS NOTES
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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CLASS NOTES Adolph Reed Jr. The Existential Dilemma Here we are again—stuck with trying to figure out what to do about another Presidential election, another choice of a lesser evil in which the...
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REPUBLICAN WOMEN ON AND OFF THE YACHT
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Conniff, Ruth
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Republican WOmen on and off the Yacht BY RUTH CONNIFF It is perversely fascinating to watch the Republican Party attempt to fill in the "gender gap" and mollify female voters. At a special...
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NO MORE ANGRY FEMINISTS
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No More Angry Feminists Culturally, anyway, if not always on a policy level, the Democrats are a far more appealing crowd than the Republicans—more racially diverse, more populist in their...
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WHEN GOD LAUGHS, IT'S NOT FUNNY'
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Abramsky, Sasha
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'When God Laughs, It's Not Funny' The U.S. Taxpayers Party prepares for doomsday BY SASHA ABRAMSKY Monty Python's Flying Circus used to run a skit introduced by two newscasters entitled, "And...
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A LITTLE GREEN
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Armoudian, Maria
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A Little Green Shaky start for the Nader campaign BY MARIA ARMOUDIAN Chants of Go, Ralph, Go filled the auditorium at the University of California at Los Angeles, where more than 350 Greens...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW JOEL ROGERS
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Joel Rogers 'The relationship between progressives and the Democratic Party is an abusive one—they take our votes and go south. The way to end abuse in a relationship is...
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POEM
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Seibles, Timothy S.
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POEM Timothy S. Seiblex What You Really Want: To seem normal. To believe normal. To feel full of normalness. And not to worry secretly that someone might read your Tin-okay face like a...
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PROFILE OF A SEX RADICAL
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Cusac, Anne-Marie
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Profile of a Sex Radical BY ANNE-MARIE CUSAC "The things that seem beautiful, inspiring, and life-affirming to me seem hateful, ugly, and ludicrous to most other people." So writes author Pat...
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UNPLUGGED
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED Kate Clinton Screened Images One August morning four years ago, as I was rushing out my gate, I was intercepted at the fence by my seventy-two-year-old Portuguese neighbor, Peter, in...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Not a Good Girl She's not thirteen. She learned a long time ago that you improve a messed-up situation by inventing your own rules. She runs on champion stamina...
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BOOKS
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BUELL, JOHN
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BOOKS Getting Out of the Mess The Party's Not Over. A New Vision for the Democrats by Jeff Faux Basic Books. 260 pages. $24.00. by John Buell The upcoming elections present a distressing...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins God Loves Irony Bathos was the predominant key at both the San Diego and the Chicago conventions. While the Democrats had some pretty good chin-tremblers, they did not...
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