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 Vol. 061 Issue 010 (October 1 1997)
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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 The Rushdie File Three years ago, I started to search for a writer who could do an interview with Salman Rushdie. My first thought was Christopher Hitchens, since...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Serving the Establishment Matt Rothschild has a strange notion of the function of lettwing writing and a leftwing, critical journal. It is apparently not to contest...
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COMMENT
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C O M M E N T Ending Welfare: Were We Wrong? 'It hasn't been a disaster for adults so far. But it has been a disaster for kids.' —Nan Br/en of the Wisconsin Council on Children and...
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NO COMMENT
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N O C O M M E N T Clothes Make the Man An Associated Press story from Liberia headlined "General Butt Naked Gets Religion": "Nude except for lace-up leather shoes and a gun, the general led his...
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PITY THE IRAQI SOCCER TEAM
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Pity the Iraqi Soccer Team Mr. Clinton has given some great speeches during the year, but I've written one for him to use in case of extreme duress. Now he can finally hand...
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ON THE LINE
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Corr, Anders; Hudson, Michael; Armstrong, Bob; Day, Sam; Nixon, Ron
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ON THE LINE Homeless Takeover San Francisco Since 1994, Homes Not Jails has demanded that the federal government stop a planned demolition of 466 vacant units at the Wherry Housing complex in the...
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THE MAKING OF A BABY
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Douglas, Susan
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TALKING BACK Susan Douglas The Making of a Bully The man was screaming at a teenage boy. "Why are you being so nice to him?" he yelled. "Why?" The boy looked sheepish, and was silent. "You hit...
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THE DESCENT OF BLACK CONSERVATISM
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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CLASS NOTES Adolph Reed Jr. The Descent of Black Conservatism Beware the proliferation of a peculiar political species—the black conservative crusader against "race-based" policies. Shelby...
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POEM
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Piero, W. S. Di
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POEM W.S. Di Piero The Apples The city budget squads have trimmed its hours. "You can't get in, just go home why don't you." I couldn't tell how old she was. Chalky braids crisscrossed her...
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SENATOR CLINTON?
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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Senator CULiNToN? BY JOHN NICHOLS On January 20, 2001, after smiling gracefully through the inauguration of his successor, William Jefferson Clinton will begin a retirement very different from...
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STOP BLAMING KIDS AND TV
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Males, Mike
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Stop Blaming Kids and TV BY MIKE MALES Children have never been very good at listening to their elders," James Baldwin wrote in Nobody Knows My Name. "But they have never failed to imitate them."...
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GANGING UP ON CIVIL LIBERTIES
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Siegal, Nina
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Ganging Up on CIVIL Liberties BY NINA SIEGAL Sixteen-year-old Claudio Ceja of Anaheim, California, is an eleventh grader at Loara High School. From 8:00 a.m. until 2:35 p.m., he is in classes....
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CONFESSIONS OF A CYCLIST
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McCarthy, Colman
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Confessions ns of aCyclist. BY COLMAN McCARTHY If you want to know what the wind sounds like to an eagle when it dives at thirty miles per hour, get on a bicycle at the top of a steep country...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW SALMAN RUSHDIE
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTE R V I E W Salman Rushdie 'Even this colossal threat did not work. Life goes on.' BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If it were not for the threat of murder, and the fact that this...
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ALL POLITICS IS LO-CAL
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED Kate Clinton All Politics Is Lo-Cal On this mere shuttle we call Earth, the big topic is weightlessness. Not the slo-mo, hair-waving, tethered float of daring-doomed astronauts in...
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BOOKS
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BOOKS Misdiagnosing War Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich Henry Holt & Co. 280 pages. $25.00. by Joanne handy Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the...
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STORY OF THE YEAR
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Story of the Year Ialways advise young journalists never to vacation in August. This August, those journalists who weren't on vacation spent most of the month gritching...
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