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IssueVol. 061 Issue 006 (June 1 1997)
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Paid articleEDITOR'S NOTE
Rothschild, Matthew
EDITOR'S NOTE Matthew Rothschild Lemonade Stand The Supreme Court recently pulled the plug on fusion politics. It ruled that states could deny small political parties the right to run major-party...
Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS to the Editor McCain-Feingold to the Rescue There is a line of argument making the rounds these days ("Small Favors," April and May issues) that the McCain-Feingold...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT The Volunteer State 'Compared to what has been removed from the beneficial side, low-income family lives will not nearly be restored by this.' —Jimmy Carter, speaking at the Presidential...
Paid articleFURTHER COMMENT
NICHOLS, JOHN
FURTHER COMMENT John Nichols The English Lesson It's not quite a victory for socialism, is it?" mused Tony Benn, the radical conscience of British politics, as he and I watched election returns...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
N O C O M M E N T juvenile Justice An item in the Boston Globe, datelined Morrisville, Pennsylvania: "Constables are being offered a $500 bounty for each student who they find is illegally...
Paid articleNIKE KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S GATE
Durst, Will
OFF THE MAP Will Durst Nike Knocking On Heaven's Gate So let me get this straight: Newt Gingrich pays off the $300,000 fine he received from the Congressional Ethics Committee for copping a plea...
Paid articleON THE LINE
SLAUGHTER, JANE; Ervin, Mike; Fantle, Will; Laskin, Tom
O N T H E L I N E Victory in Guatemala Guatemala City A coordinated campaign by Guatemalan maquiladora workers and their North American supporters has forced shirtmaker Phillips-Van Heusen to the...
Paid articleSULTANS OF ACADEME
Douglas, Susan
PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Sultans of Academe Ah, springtime. When the journalistic heart turns to themes du printemps, like golf (I am Tiger Woods); graduation (How Colleges are Gouging U); and...
Paid articleIDAHO'S ENEMIES
Clair, Jeffrey St.; Cockburn, Alexander
IDAHO'S E N E M I E S The National Guard counts environmentalists among them BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR AND ALEXANDER COCKBURN On Valentine's Day this year, Pam Allister went out to lunch and returned...
Paid articleGOING NUCLEAR
Middlewood, Erin
GOING Nucle BY ERIN MIDDLEWOOD Your check to the electric company might soon become a subsidy for nuclear weapons. Public-utility companies around the country are vying to produce tritium, a...
Paid articleHIGH WATTAGE
Conniff, Ruth
High Wattage Consumer front groups wire the debate on deregulation BY RUTH CONNIFF ang onto your wallet. Big companies and their friends in Congress are launching a crusade they say will help...
Paid articlePOEM
Agosin, Marjorie
POEM Marjorie Agosin La Extranjera Buscards otro paisaje para hablar con tus muertos. Ninguna palabra responderd a las voces de tus amores. Inventaris otra mirada y te desplazaras...
Paid articleGREENSPAN ON THE GRILL
Greenspan ON THE GRILL Editor's Note: On March 5, Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan testified before the House Banking Committee's Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary...
Paid articleA CANDIDATE FOR 2000?
NICHOLS, JOHN
A Cand date for 2000 ? Paul Wellstone ponders a bid for the White Housa BY JOHN NICHOLS Paul Wellstone is restless. After defying the odds by winning a second term in the U.S. Senate, he could...
Paid articleINSIDE OUT
Blanchard, Bob
Out Arthur Dong gets to know gay-bashers BY BOB BLANCHARD Twenty years ago, documentary filmmaker Arthur Dong was attacked on the streets of San Francisco by gay-bashers. He narrowly escaped, and...
Paid articleTHE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW WILLIAM GREIDER
Press, Eyal
THE PROGRESSIVE INTERV I E W William Greider 'Let's go through the whole bloody government and ask the question: Who is really getting all of these subsidies, and are they creating jobs?' BY EYAL...
Paid articleFORT BRAG
Clinton, Kate
UNPLUGGED Kate Clinton Fort Brag Attention Bill Nye, Science Guy— galactic update! Scientists have discovered that there is a North-South axis in the galaxy, but they are reluctant to say which...
Paid articleBOOKS
Churchill, Ward
BOOKS A Force, Briefly, to Reckon With Like a Hurricane: The American Indian Movement From Alcatraz to Wounded Knee by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior The New Press. 400 pages....
Paid articleHOSTAGE TO DIMWITS
Ivins, Molly
SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Hostage to Dimwits Of course we're sort of embarrassed about the Texas separatists who took two hostages, traded them for a fellow separatist, and then squared off with...
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