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 Vol. 060 Issue 007 (July 1 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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EDITOR'S NOTE Matthew Rothschild The Prison File Stories come to The Progressive in a variety of ways. Most we assign, others float in, still others arrive by query or referral. The idea for our...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Slime or No Slime? Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair are wrong to assert that the Republican Congressional leaders' attempt to weaken environmental standards was...
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COMMENT
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COMMENT Competition in Cruelty 'Programs for the poor have been transformed into potential profit centers as enterprising business executives—from Fortune 500 defense contractors to family-run...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT God Supports Slavery From an article datelined Montgomery in The Tuscaloosa News of Tuscaloosa, Alabama: "One of Tuscaloosa County's state senators wrote a speech saying the Bible...
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KEEP RECYCLING
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Keep Recycling I'm so excited that Bob Dole resigned from the Senate. It's a start. Now if only Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and Trent Lott would follow suit. Hell, to make...
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ON THE LINE
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Laskin, Tom; Shard, Randel; Kupfer, David; Fantle, Will; NICHOLS, JOHN
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ON THE LINE Stereolab: Doing More With Less Tim Gane can't quite believe that his London-based band. Stereo-lab, has been dubbed a Marxist act in the United States. Sure, Gane's partner, Laetitia...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Human Nature and the Newsroom One recent morning, I curled up with a New York Times column— Get Thee to a Mental Gym —by Max Frankel, recently morphed from editorial...
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LIFE IN PRISON STUNNING TECHNOLOGY
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Cusac, Anne-Marie
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LIFE IN PRISON Stunning Technology Correction cowboys get a charge out of their new sci-fi weapon BY ANNE-MARIE CUSAC Introducing the penal industry's latest toy: It's called a stun belt. An...
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LIFE IN PRISON SEXUAL ABUSE
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STEIN, BOBBIE
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LIFE IN PRISON Sexual Abuse GUAROS let paosts into women's cells BY BOBBIE STEIN When Ardella West got a phone call from her granddaughter, Robin, asking her to visit her, she knew that there...
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LIFE IN PRISON PAY NOW, PAY LATER
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Parenti, Christian
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LIFE IN PRISON Pay Now, Pay Later BY CHRISTIAN PARENTI Kenneth Stewart Sr. is distressed. His son, Kenny, is on Virginia's death row and owes the state $57,756.20 for the cost of his jury...
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REVOLUTION IS A PREGNANT COW'
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SLAUGHTER, JANE
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'Revolution is a Pregnant Cow' A conversation with filmmaker Ken Loach BY JANE SLAUGHTER There's something odd about seeing your own politics on film, if you're a radical or a socialist. You...
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POEM
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Berry, Wendell
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POEM Wendell Berry The Air of the Free TV, computers, and the Internet Democratize our sins, so that The smallest child may have a dirty mind, And this is progress for our kind, Enriching...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Cynthia McKinney 'Money can't buy votes, so at the end of the day, we're going to win.' BY JOHN NICHOLS On a hot Saturday in May, several dozen women, many of them...
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CULTURE
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Rapping, Elayne
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CULTURE Elayne Rapping The Jane Austen Thing Would you believe that 55 percent of women between the ages of twenty-five and forty-five, would, if they had the chance, trade their present...
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UNPLUGGED
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED Kate Clinton The Mummy Track Amummy of a fourteen-year-old girl found perfectly preserved high in the Andean ice was put on display recently in Washington, D.C. "The Ice Maiden," she...
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BOOKS
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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BOOKS Why We're All a Bunch of Losers Left for Dead by Michael Tomasky Free Press. 240 pages. $23.00. by Barbara Ehrenreich There are books that a reviewer feels condemned, rather than...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Rip-offs and Hissy Fits Ah, the Presidential campaign is off to a roaring start. So far the vital issues of third-trimester abortions, gay marriage, and teen smoking have...
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