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 Vol. 061 Issue 008 (August 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 Drugs, CIA, Media When the San Jose Mercury News apologized for Gary Webb's three-part series on the CIA, contras, and crack cocaine, it earned a pat on the...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS^^ff~to~the Editor Blood Money The tens of millions of dollars that Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods take from Nike is blood money (Adolph Reed Jr., July issue). They are parasites on poor...
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COMMENT
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Comment down in June, the most incomprehensible—and the most unpardonable—had to do with the death penalty. It was a case brought by Joseph O'Dell, who was found guilty of rape and murder in 1988...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Frontiers of Free Enterprise Advertisements for computer games in MacMall, a mail-order catalogue for Apple Macintosh users: "Divide & Conquer With Four Action-Packed Games! Pick a...
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DICK ARMEY'S SLANDER SUIT
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Durst, Will
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off the map will durst Dick Armey's Slander Suit Iwould just like to offer a measured piece of advice to all those critics who lambasted The Lost World because it was all special effects and no...
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ON THE LINE
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Guillermo, Emil; Laskin, Tom; Mercier, Rick; Capellaro, Catherine
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ON THE LINE Grand-Slam Breakfast? Syracuse, New York Months after settling two major discrimination complaints. Denny's has more trouble brewing with a new -bmbb Justice Depart-lyUUilmeni...
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MY NEW TALK SHOW
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDITH WATCH Susan Douglas My New Talk ShowIhave just returned from the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts' annual convention, and guess what? I'm getting my own talk show. For real....
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FALLEN SENATOR TAKES ON 'DEATH TAX'
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Conniff, Ruth
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Fallen Senator Takes On 'Death Tax9 BY RUTH CONNIFF ob Packwood is back. Less than two years after he resigned his Senate seat in disgrace, dogged by sexual-harassment charges, the former...
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FACE-OFF IN WATSONVILLE
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Bacon, David
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FACE-OFF IN WATSONVILLE Strawberry workers pick sides BY DAVID BACON When Delfina Corcoles showed up for work on her strawberry crew, the other workers stared at her. They'd thought they would...
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DRUG FALLOUT
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McCoy, Alfred W.
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Drug The CIA's forty-year complicity in the narcotics trade BY ALFRED W. McCOY Last August, the San Jose Mercury News reported that Nicaraguan dealers connected to the CIA-backed contra rebels...
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FANTASY ISLAND
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Orenstein, Catherine
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Fantasy ISLAND Royal Caribbean parcels off a piece of Haiti BY CATHERINE ORENSTEIN An enormous ship rises over the horizon, ten stories high. Fishermen pause to watch from their rafts as the...
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SPOILING FOR SUCCESS
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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Spoiling for success In New Mexico, the Green Party costs the Democrats a Congressional seat BY JOHN NICHOLS Colorado Governor Roy Romer, the grizzled political veteran Bill Clinton put in charge...
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POEM
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Catacalos, Rosemary
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POEM ... and what you want from the lost things will present itself. —Elizabeth Hardwick Restoration of the Cathedral, San Antonio, Texas Hidden in a book, a note to myself that says, Remember...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW WOLE SOYINKA
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Jaffrey, Zia
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Wole Soyinka 'This regime just does not believe in innocence.' BY ZIA JAFFREY For Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, art and...
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CRASH-TEST GAYS
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGED Kate Clinton Crash-Test GAYS At their annual convention in Dallas, and just before summer vacation, 12,000 Southern Baptists approved a boycott of Walt Disney Corporation to protest what...
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BOOKS
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BUELL, JOHN; Ness, Erik
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BOOKS AN Excitable Mob WaD Street byDougHenwood Verso. 372 pages. $25.00. by John Buell Today the mainstream media are awash with stories of permanent prosperity. In the spring, the stock...
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