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 Vol. 064 Issue 008 (August 1 2000)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 A Civilized Nation?
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Rothschild, Matthew
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A Civilized Nation? When Bill Clinton offered on May 31 to share missile defense technology with "other civilized nations," I had to raise an eyebrow. First, I doubt that the United States will...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Ehrenreich Misses the Mark Barbara Ehrenreich is way off the mark in her condemnation of the recent protests in Seattle and Washington, D.C. ("Anarkids and Hypocrites," June...
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The Assault on Civil Liberties
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Comment The Assault on Civil Liberties It's open season on civil liberties. First in Seattle during the World Trade Organization protests last November 30 through December 3, then in Washington,...
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No Comment
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No Comment Mount Limbaugh From The New York Times on Rush Limbaugh's reaction to the notion that neither he nor his talk radio program is featured much in the news anymore: " '˜I'm part of the...
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It's Not Easy Being Green
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Conniff, Ruth
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It's Not Easy Being Green It ain't Hollywood, where celebrities are making the rounds of glitzy parties for the Democrats. It's sure not Philadelphia, where the Republicans are putting on a...
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Incarnations of Al Gore
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Durst, Will
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Incarnations of AI Gore .^iScaretrow" Gore is switching gears again. accepted the health-related resignation of his campaign manager, Tony Coelho. Then he replaced Coelho with the presiding...
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Running Down Ralph
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Running Down Ralph a A \y w>fe and I were -LVJ-holding a little fundraiser for Ralph Nader at our home a few months ago, and John B. Judis, a senior edicor of The New Republic, came along. Judis...
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The Bombs of August
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Zinn, Howard
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The Bombs of August Near the end of the novel The English Patient there is a passage in which Kip, the Sikh defuser of mines, begins to speak bitterly to the burned, near-death patient about...
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On the Line
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On the Line Worcester, Massachusetts Nurses Marianne Griffiths (second from right) of Leicester and Margaret M. Sullivan (right) of Rutland celebrate victory on May 11. Worcester Medical Center...
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I Refuse
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Huebner, Bernie
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I Refuse Teachers in Maine revolt against fingerprinting I've been teaching elementary schoolchildren in central Maine for the past twenty years. We have an unstated bargain between us: I help them...
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Feinstein Faces a Double-Team
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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Feinstein Faces a Double-Team Outside a San Francisco drug treatment center on a breezy late spring day, Medea Benjamin, the California Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, attacked incumbent...
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Getting to Work
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Fries, Kenny
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Getting to Work For the disabled, opportunity remains out o f reach It's been ten years now since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). When signed by President George Bush, it...
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Sarah Weddington
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Godwin, Michelle Gerise
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Sarah Weddington At the age of twenty-six, four years out of law school, and with her legal experience consisting of a few uncontested divorces, one adoption, and a handful of wills, Sarah...
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Stilt Dancing the Penacook Valley Parade in What Must Be Heaven
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Steingesser, Martin
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Poem How to tell what happened that summer morning, marching Main Street Rumford, everywhere smelling like rotten eggs? ("Hydrogen sulfide," I overheard this bystander say.) How to explain the...
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Never Mind the Bollocks
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McKissack, Fred
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Never Mind the Bollocks As 'N Sync and Britney Spears have managed to make it to the covers of national news magazines, I couldn't help but feel maudlin while watching Julien Temple's excellent...
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Books
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Books Test scores have become the defining motif of what passes for school reform these days. Across the country, students, teachers, and schools are being rewarded or punished based on...
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A Needy Bunch of Heirs
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Ivins, Molly
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A Needy Bunch of Heirs Here's an idea. Since the House of Representatives thinks it's so important to give a $30 billion-a-year tax incentive to the richest 2 percent of Americans, why doesn't it...
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