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Vol. 066 Issue 008 (August 1 2002)
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June Jordan, 1936-2002
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor's Note June Jordan, 1936-2002 I got the call on the afternoon of June 15, the call I dreaded. June Jordan has died. I knew she was very ill with cancer, but she had fought off the bastard...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Zigler on Target Thank you so much for the interview with Edward Zigler (June issue), particularly his comments on child care. He's right, we need to care about ratios and...
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Global Vigilante
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Comment Global Vigilante The Bush Administration grows scarier by the day. One of the latest bits of ghastliness is Bush's new military doctrine of preemption. On June 1 at West Point, Bush said,...
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No Comment
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No Comment Just How Big Are Hillary'« Eyes? Conservative writer Peggy Noonan told the British magazine The Spectator of a recent run-in with Senator Hillary Clinton at a funeral. "Her mouth...
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J. Edgar Hoover Never Died
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Hentoff, Nat
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Ashcroft Watch J. Edgar Hoover Never Died On June 2, FBI Director Robert Mueller appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to sanctify the Bureau's return to Cointelpro (its...
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The Collapse of Credibility
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Flip Side The Collapse of Credibility It's a pleasure, of the schadenfreude variety, to sit back and watch the credibility peel off our principal institutions with no help from their usual...
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Requiem for the Champ
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Jordan, June
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Just Inside the Door Requiem for the Champ Mike Tyson comes from Brooklyn. And so do I. He grew up about a twenty-minute bus ride from my house. I always thought his neighborhood looked like a...
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On the Line
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On the Line Mdjur Prolwttt > ÇÇrtïr* |»I ' ' f Protest Central Correction: In the story "Who Says Protests Don't Work?" (July issue), the tree sit-in involving Tracy McNeely and several...
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Stop the War Before It Starts
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Cortright, David
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Stop the War Before It Starts The Bush Administration once again is gearing up for war against Iraq. It's a war thai could cause a massive loss of life and could end with the use of nuclear weapons...
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Who Is to Blame for Mad Deer?
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McCombie, Brian
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Who is to Blame for Mad Deer? The helicopter rises up over the ridge line, the noise of the rotors scattering the targets below. But the snipers in the doorway already have their scoped,...
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Bush's War on Sex
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Wright, Kai
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Bush's War on Sex Few of the public health workers who crammed into the back of a tiny White House conference room this March would have ever guessed they'd watch Such a show unfold. There before...
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Heidi Hartmann
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Conniff, Ruth
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Heidi Hartmann Heidi Hartmann is a pioneering feminist economist. Founder of the Institute for Womens Policy Research (IWPR) in Washington, D.C., she writes, lectures,...
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FUGAZI at FIFTEEN
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Crone, Thomas
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Recently, a friend of a friend went on tour. A musician in an . inventive rock band The Potomac Accord, he and some of his compadres were passing time by riffling through a stack of contract riders...
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COUNTRY MUSIC, WHERE ART THOU?
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Malone, Bill C.
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COUNTRY MUSIC, WHERE ART THOU? My introduction to the working class world of country music came on a luckless cotton tenant farm in East Texas more than sixty years ago. One of the most cherished...
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Blow That Horn, Sister!
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Lewis, Andrea
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Divalution Blow That Horn, Sister! BAVTho is Valaida W Snow and why don't I know about her? I'm asking myself those questions after hearing an excerpt of a radio documentary about Snow, who, in...
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Global Warming: A Dry Heat?
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Global Warming: A Dry Heat? >- Grass Valley, California, where ex-Bay Area liberals have settled in the middle of rock-ribbed conservatives and there is little love lost between them....
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My Name's Not Rodriguez
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Rodriguez, Luis J.
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Poem My Name's Not Rodriguez It is a sigh of climbing feet, the lather of gold lust, the slave masters' religion with crippled hands gripping greed's tail. My name's not Rodriguez. It's an...
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Grading the Gatekeepers
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McKissack, FVed Jr.
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Books Grading the Gatekeepers The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. 266pages. $25.00. By FVed McKissack Jr. Here's something new for the Miller Analogies...
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To the Weight Room
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Ivins, Molly
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Small Favors To the Weight Room I believe President George W. Bush has found his nickey at last. (Nickey is how they pronounce "niche" in East Texas.) The Gym-ster has been exhorting us all...
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