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 Vol. 060 Issue 012 (December 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 Matthew Rothschild Caverns of Clinton On the morning of November 5, I took my youngest son, William, to the polling place with me. We stood in line in the basement of Blessed...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Give Bill a Break Your expected weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth concerning the President's signing of the welfare-reform bill (Comment, "Who Needs Proof?" September...
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COMMENT
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Comment 'The smaller the electorate, the more vulnerable a democratic government is to the influence of large special-interest groups or factions.' —William Kimberling, deputy director of the...
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FURTHER COMMENT
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Conniff, Ruth
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FURTHER COMMENT Ruth Conniff Let's Have Fewer Rules My alma mater, Madison East High School, made the national news recently. Perhaps you saw the story. It was about a painting in the school art...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Values Lesson I An A.P. story from Inkster. Michigan: "Getting a D-minus in class is nothing to be proud of, but neither is losing 55-0. So the Inkster, Michigan, school district has...
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OFF THE MAP
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Heights of Chutzpah During the Persian Gulf war, U.S. commanders sheltered themselves behind special filters while telling their troops to disregard all reports of toxic...
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ON THE LINE
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Hoffmann, Marcelo; Foley, Dylan; Keller, Adam; Ervin, Mike
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On the line Sweatshop Haiti Port-au-Prince, Haiti Chancerelles. Inc.. a U.S.-owned garment factory, is surrounded hv barbed-wire fences. Armed guards protect the complex, which from a distance...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas The Rush Is On I've been listening to Rush Limbaugh. "I'm fed up with the exaggerations and lies from the Administration about their achievements," he ranted one day....
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DISSING THE UNDERCLASS
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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CLASS NOTES Adolph Reed Jr. Dissing the Underclass Political pundit Joe Klein gained notoriety not long ago when he was exposed as the anonymous author of the political novel, Primary Colors....
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THE RIGHT'S NEW' MESSIAH
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Novosad, Nancy
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The Right's New Messiah BY NANCY NOVOSAD Forget Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson. The ascendant figure of the radical religious right is James Dobson. At sixty, Dobson is an unlikely revolutionary. A...
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OVER THE RAINBOW
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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Over the RalnDow Jesse Jackson's supporters keep hope alive BY JOHN NICHOLS Just weeks before the 1996 Presidential election, on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, more...
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THE CITY THAT DAYTON FORGOT
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Cohen, Andrew
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The City that Dayton Forgot Bosnia's imaginary peace falls apart in Brcko BY ANDREW COHEN If there's another war in Bosnia, it will begin here in Brcko. We're in the Zone of Separation, near...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW THE INDIGO GIRLS
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Perkinson, Robert
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW The Indigo Girls 'We like to entertain, but when we're doing political work, we advertise it.' BY ROBERT PERKINSON When Bob Dole and company rant about the "cultural...
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POEM
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Rudman, Mark
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POEM Mark Rudman Early Deliveries No One Receives ("The United States and three other nuclear powers negotiating a comprehensive ban on atomic testing would all allow tiny blasts. But they...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping Burrowing Within Would you believe that at my corner newsstand—in the heart of Manhattan, where trees, not to mention privately owned gardens, are rare—there are no fewer...
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BOOKS
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Rampton, Sheldon
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BOOKS The Circus Hawkers PR! A Social History of Spin by Stuart Ewen Basic Books. 480 pages. $30.00. by Sheldon Rampton Stuart Ewen, a professor of media studies and chair of the Department of...
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UNPLUGGED
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED Kate Clinton Surprise! It's Evolution Hold the presses! Big news out of the Vatican. Almost 150 years after Darwin hypothesized that the human body might not be an immediate creation of...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Soul-Searching Time With the Bill and Bob Show off the air, your faithful political correspondents are now engaged in their traditional post-election ritual of beating...
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