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Vol. 066 Issue 012 (December 1 2002)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Movement Liberal
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Movement Liberal The loss of the Senate is a serious blow. But for me, the death of Senator Paul Wellstone is more devastating. He was not a liberal in the...
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History Is a Dance of Life
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Wellstone, Paul
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History Is a Dance of Life By Paul Wellstone Senator Paul Wellstone, Democrat of Minnesota, died on October 25¦ This article was adapted from the keynote address Senator Wellstone delivered on...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Of Two Minds on Berry I believe that Wendell Berry (“Two Minds,” November issue) has a false conception of the human mind. He sets up “the Rational Mind” and “the Sympathetic...
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A Time for Boldness
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Comment A Time for Boldness November 5 left the landscape barren. The Democrats managed to lose the Senate, and they even dropped seats in the House. Now the Republicans will have their way. They...
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Do You Feel Safer Yet?
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Photo Comment Do You Feel Safer Yet? During the IMF-World Bank protests in Washington at the end of September, uniformed military personnel were photographing the protesters. This is a potential...
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No Comment
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No Comment Ideas the Pentagon Shouldn’t Recycle In 1990, the U.S. military wanted to project a holographic image of Allah floating over Baghdad that would have commanded Iraqi civilians to...
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The Ituth Is Out There
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Flip Side Barbara Ehrenreich The Ttrutli Is Out There Conspiracy theories have been proliferating worldwide almost as fast as nuclear weapons. The Indonesians are seriously entertaining the idea...
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Nature Is Very Tired
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Galeano, Eduardo
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The Upside-Down World Eduardo Galeano Nature Is Very Tired Who gets the water? The monkey that has the club. Unarmed creature dies of thirst. This lesson from prehistory opens the film 2001: A...
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Our Job Is a Simple One: Stop Them
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Zinn, Howard
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It Seems to Me Howard Zinn Our Job Is a Simple One: Stop Them Democracy flies out the window as soon as war comes along. So when officials in Washington talk about democracy, either here or...
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The Tag of Capitulation
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Hentoff, Nat
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Ashcroft Watch Nat Hentoff The Tag of Capitulation When the Senate voted 96 to 1 to pass the USA Patriot Act last October 11, the only member not intimidated by the Attorney General was...
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Dark Days for Democrats
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Conniff, Ruth
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The Word from Washington Ruth Conniff Dark Days for Democrats h; 'ow could it hap-.pen that the same day SEC chairman Harvey Pitt resigned in disgrace the Administration that put Pitt and the...
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On the Line
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On the Line Anti-war Protests On the Line Transgender Teen Remembered Newark, California On Friday, October 25, Eddie “Gwen” Araujo was buried the way she wanted to live: as a woman. The...
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Oil Is our Damnation
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Scahill, Jeremy
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Is Our Damnation by fltzx /Vstsum IT’S AN UNDERSTATEMENT TO SAY THAT Baghdad is a congested city. Practically every car on the streets is a taxi. And while the government has recently put a fleet...
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BAGHDAD FLASHBACKS
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Kuper, Peter
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BAGHDAI£lashbacks By Rahim AlHaj ONE HOT SUMMER DAY in 1986,1 sat in my bedroom upstairs, facing the street. Suddenly, I heard a car screech to a halt outside. An uneasy feeling welled up in my...
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ST. JIMMY THE LESSER
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McCarthy, Colman
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ST. JIMMY THE LESSER by colman McCarthy Nobel Peace Prize-winner Jimmy Carter helped set the stage for some of the terrorism and violence that plagues our world today. It was Carter who said that...
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Josh Kornbluth Is Funny
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Lewis, Andrea
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leaps and gently orchestrated pandemonium.” And it lauded Kornbluth’s “astute comic presence.” Based on what Kombluth described as his “late-’80s misadventures as a really, really bad legal...
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a Love supreme
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Gilmore, Brian
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a Love supreme by Brian Gilmore During a recent e-mail exchange I had with the Smithsonian Institution’s Reuben Jackson, an archivist with its Ellington collection, he referred to jazz music as...
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Danny Glover
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Barsamian, David
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by David Barsamian Danny Glover For most people, Danny Glovers name conjures up the Lethal Weapon series of movies. But when he was on C-SPAN recently, he was identified...
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Perfect Attendance: Short Subjects Made from the Staring Photos of Strangers
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Catacalos, Rosemary
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Poem Perfect Attendance: Short Subjects Made from the Staring Photos of Strangers The hand has its dreams, too, and its own hypotheses. It helps us to come to know matter in its secret inward...
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War Cries and Endgames
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Will Durst War Cries and Endgames Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Jesse Ventura didn’t run for reelection. Rumor has it he’s going back to pro wrestling. Glad to see he’s finally moving...
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BOOKS
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Books Beyond "Man” and "Woman” How Sex Changed by Joanne Meyerowitz Harvard University Press, 2002. 363 pages. $29.95. Normal by Amy Bloom Random House, 2002. 140 pages. $23.95. By Amanda...
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Fight Harder and Smarter
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Ivins, Molly
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Small Favors Molly Ivins Fight Harder and Smarter What a campaign! Jesse Ventura took offense at someone elses manners? Mr. Etiquette, the Sensitive Male. Poor Charlton Heston, who is suffering...
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