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Vol. 065 Issue 006 (June 1 2001)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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New School Scandal
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild New School Scandal When the Bob Kerrey-Vietnam scandal broke, I knew just where to turn. Kerrey, the former Democratic Senator from Nebraska, is now the president...
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LETTERS
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Letters to the Editor Reed Goes Overboard In my civil liberties class for high school students, I teach United States v. The Progressive, the 1979 atomic secrets case, as an example of national...
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A Cynical Energy Plan
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Comment A Cynical Energy Plan Two years after the warmest decade on record, three years after the warmest year on record, while the ice cap on top of Mount Kilimanjaro melts and glaciers around...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment A Dollar Short From an article in the Nebraska newspaper Grand Island Independent on a woman named Sherri LeGrand: "LeGrand was fined $ 169 in May after her guilty plea to a reduced...
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The Budget Surrender
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Conniff, Ruth
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The Word from Washington The Budget It might surprise progressives, given how far right the political debate has moved in recent years, to hear that old-fashioned tax-and-spend liberalism is as...
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Sweating Violence
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Galeano, Eduardo
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The Upside-Down World Eduardo Galeano Sweating Violence Not long ago, my home was burglarized. The thieves left behind a saw (on the handle it said, "Helping you work") and a trail of items they...
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Bob Kerrey, An American Shame
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Reed, Adolph L. Jr.
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Class Notes Adolph L. Reed Jr. Bob Kerrey, An American Shame An article published in the April 29 New York Times Magazine disclosed atrocities perpetrated during the Vietnam War by Bob Kerrey,...
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Arctic, Shmarctic
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Will Durst Arctic, Shmarctic Today, everybody mouths merely what's expected of them, rather than what lurks in their heart of hearts. But that's why I get paid the big bucks. To read...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line Bonfire of the Tax Forms Washington, D.C. On April 16, Tonya and Steve Brigham, right, took pan in a "Bonfire of the 1040s" Tax Day demonstration held in Upper Senate Park. John...
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Revelry in Quebec
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Anderson, Sarah
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I reek of tear gas and haven't slept much, but my spirits are high from the dose of vindication I got on the streets of Quebec City. As I write this, I'm heading home from the protests at the Third...
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Prison Converst
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Bleyer, Jeenifer
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Prison Converts By Jennifer Bleyer a A | '(hat's the building where I made my reputation," I says Ernie Preate, looking wistfully at the Scranton, Pennsylvania, courthouse. Preate, a Scranton...
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Who Killed Locarno and Orcasitas?
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Dudley, Steven
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Who Killed _ Locarno and Orcasitas? An Inquest into the Deaths of Two Colombian Unionists by Steven Dudley On Monday, March 12, four unmarked buses chartered by the Alabama-based coal company...
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Peruvian No-Fly Zone
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Madsen, Wayne
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Peruvian No-Fly Zone By Wayne Madsen W'hen Veronica Bowers and her seven-month-old adopted daughter, Charity, died on April 20 after the Peruvian air force strafed the Cessna airplane they were...
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Jesse Jackson Jr.
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by John Nichols Jesse Jackson Jr. U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., Democrat of Illinois, is one of the few leading Democrats who speaks bluntly about the divisions...
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Decoration Day
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Louis, Adrian C.
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Poem Decoration Day You're across this shit-heeled town in a third-rate nursing home, yet your shimmering brain-fire seeks and intoxicates me. In this broiling plains dusk, the living membrane of...
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No Place for Children
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Conniff, Ruth
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Books No Place for Children The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued by Ann Crittenden Metropolitan Books. 323 pages. $25.00. What's Wrong...
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Depths of Bush's Shallow
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Ivins, Molly
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Small Favors Molly Ivins Depths of Bush's Shallow I chink the citizenry deserves an award just for surviving the coverage of Billy Bob Forehead's first 100 days in office. It was like being...
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