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 Vol. 060 Issue 003 (March 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 A Find, A Spat, A Slip David Barsamian is a one-man operation. As host of the program Alternative Radio, he tirelessly produces shows of great interest to those...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Weapons to Die For Peter Cassidy's article ("Guess Who's the Enemy." January issue) on operations other than war (OOTW in military jargon) states that nonlethal weapons are...
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COMMENT
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'The new voice of labor has laryngitis.* —Dave Watts, former president of the Staley workers' union Comment Labor Takes Its Lumps In late January, some Staley workers came through Madison,...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Frontiers of Technology From an advertisement in MucWorld magazine lor Parsoft flight-simulation software: "A-10 Cuba! ... is locked, cocked, and ready to rock. Pepper tanks with a big...
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IT'S PARTY TIME
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst It's Party Time Hey. government's broke, everybody. Stay home. You know. I'm thinking if we're so broke, maybe we should start acting like we're broke. When families go...
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ON THE LINE
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SLAUGHTER, JANE; Ness, Erik; Jacklet, Ben; McKissack, Fred; Sadtler, Carol; METZ, HOLLY; Mitchell, Chip
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ON THE General Strike in Ontario London, Ontario Battered by a Gingrich-stvle provincial government, the union movement in Ontario. Canada, is striking back—liter-7^a">'- A one-day. citv-\ wide...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Hillary as Diversion Iknow that I have no choice. Given the Newsweek cover—"Saint or Sinner?"— the "bombshell" David Watkins memo portraying Hillary Rodham Clinton as...
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YOU SAY YOU WANT A DEVOLUTION
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Chomsky, Noam
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You Say You Want a Devolution BY NOAM CHOMSKY Imagine yourself in the office of a public-relations firm trying to turn people into ideal, manipulatable atoms of consumption who are going to...
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BANISHING THE DISABLED
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Conniff, Ruth
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Banishing the Disabled BY RUTH CONNIFF On New Year's Day, hundreds of disabled people in Wisconsin suddenly confronted the prospect of entering nursing homes. The state budget, passed last fall,...
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CLOSING THE DOOR ON HOME CARE
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Ervin, Mike
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Closing the Door on Home Care BY MIKE ERVIN Last winter, Constance Barna of Syracuse, New York, received a letter that knocked the spirit right out of her. Barna is in a wheelchair because of a...
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IN THE JUNGLE WITH MARCOS
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Landau, Saul
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IN THE IUNGIE WITH BY SAUL LANDAU Do you know where Reality is and how to get there? Fly to Tuxtla Gutierrez, capital of Chiapas, take a bus to San Cristobal de las Casas, an old colonial city...
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CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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California DREAMIN Government BY JOHN NICHOLS David Lysy will cast his first-ever vote for President this November. But if the contest shapes up as the pundits are predicting, the...
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POEM
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Fries, Kenny
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POEM Kenny Fries . . . then the wasting begins and die disappearance a day at a time. — Mark Doty To the Poet Whose Lover Has Died of AIDS The night of vour reading I notice he has carved a place...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW URVASHI VAID
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Cusac, Anne-Marie
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Urvashi Vaid 'What we need to do is transform the mainstream, not just integrate ourselves into it.' BY ANNE-MARIE CUSAC Urvashi Vaid is one of the lesbian and gay...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elavne Rapping Women on the Big Screen Well, what do you know? As Oscar time approaches, 1 can actually name—tor the first time in memory—more than ten actresses cast in meaty enough roles...
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UNPLUGGED
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED KATE CLIMON Freedom Not to Marry Kit Recently. I was reading one of the many glossy ga\ magazines I gut. There's a sentence you ne\er used to hear. No more plain brown wrappers for us!...
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BOOKS
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BOOKS Obligation to Die A Chosen Death: The Dying Confront Assisted Suicide by Lonny Shavelson Simon & Schuster. 240 pages. $23.00. by Kathi Wolfe At a recent party. I met a doctor who...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Mollv Ivins Trickle, Trickle Oh boy, fun, fun, fun. Look, Dick. Look, Jane. See the Republicans break out in class warfare. Our Man Phil Gramm declared he's a "'blue-collar...
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