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 Vol. 061 Issue 012 (December 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 Limits on Speech? There is no issue I've spent more time thinking about this year than campaign-finance reform and free speech. I've read every article I could...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS to the Editor Dimwitted Activism The decline of intellectual coherence evident generally seems reflected all too well these days in the pages of The Progressive. I must take note, though,...
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COMMENT
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C Q M M E N T Red-Carpet Treatment When President Bill Clinton rolled out the red carpet for President Jiang Zemin in October, it marked the triumph of commerce over human rights. Clinton did...
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NO COMMENT
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no C omment STUART GOLDENBERG T-Shirt Costs Fifteen Years An Associated Press item datelined West Palm Beach, Florida: "A woman who stole four packages of undershirts was sentenced to fifteen...
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POEM
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Bogin, Nina
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POEM Nina Bogin The Stillborn The stillborn have no claim on this world. They are quiet and distant, taking care of themselves, perfect as whorled shells, as starfish navigating point by...
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OFF THE MAP
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP Will Durst Tricky Dicks Hey guys, this is Durst with your Alan Greenspan Watch. Following a heavy meal, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan reportedly burped yesterday, sending...
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ON THE LINE
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Ervin, Mike; Swissler, Mary Ann; Lurie, Jon; Armstrong, Bob
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ON THE LINE A Memorial for Stolen Lives New York City Iris Baez was at home in Or-fendo, Florida, just before Christmas in 1994 when she got a call telling her that her twenty-eight-year-old son,...
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TALKING BACK
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Douglas, Susan
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TALKING BACK Susan Douglas Brutality, Bochco-Style It is Monday night, 10:00, and there you sit, exhausted, and turn on the TV to see the much-hyped latest offering from Steven Bochco, Brooklyn...
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CLASS NOTES
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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CLASS NOTES Adolph Reed Jr. Yackety-Yak About Race So what the heck is a "national conversation on race," anyway? Like so much in what passes for public discussion in America these days, the...
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WE REFUSE TO SACRIFICE THE FIRST AMENDMENT IN A DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO ADOPT REFORM LEGISLATION.'
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Murphy, Laura W.
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THE ACLU VS. PUBLIC CITIZEN: A DEBATE ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE 'We refuse to sacrifice CON the First Amendment in a desperate attempt to adopt reform legislation.' BY LAURA W. MURPHY In early...
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THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS NOT A STOP SIGN AGAINST REFORM'
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Schiff, Bob
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THE ACLU VS. PUBLIC CITIZEN: A DEBATE ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE 'The Firest Amendment PRO against! reform.' BY BOB SCHIFF Campaign-finance scandals dominate the headlines. Public sentiment for...
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D. C.'S INDENTURED SERVANTS
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Honey, Martha
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D.C.'S INDENTURED SERVANTS BY MARTHA HONEY The brick townhouse with its aluminum front door blends into northern Virginia's suburban sprawl. From the outside it doesn't look like what it is: a...
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A GENIUS FOR ACTIVISM
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Blanchard, Bob
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A Genius for Activism BY BOB BLANCHARD Winning the MacArthur Award hasn't changed anything in my daily life," says Mark Harrington, the thirty-seven-year-old co-founder and policy director of the...
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LOBBYIST-IN-CHIEF
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Washburn, Jennifer
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Labbyist -in Chief For weapons sales abroad, the U.S. arms industry goes to the top BY JENNIFER WASHBURN Since December 1995, President Clinton has placed at least two personal telephone calls...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW PATTI SMITH
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Patti Smith 'To me, rock 'n' roll is a totally people-oriented, 'grassroots music. But it's not ours anymore.9 BY JOHN NICHOLS Almost thirty years have passed since...
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UNPLUGGED
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED Kate Clinton Getting Steamed The annoying El Niftoistas danced a brisk "We told you so" to an Apoca-lypso beat the day forty-eight inches of snow fell on Denver. The magnitude of the...
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BOOKS
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BOOKS There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Dead Talk-Show Hosts and No Skid Marks Here's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos byJimHightower...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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A Heritage of Survival Reinventing the Enemy's Language: North American Native Women's Writing by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird W.W. Norton and Co. 448 pages. $27.50. by Mark Anthony Rolo In their...
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