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Paid article Scrapbook
Our Tottets, Ourselves The Scrapbook hopes to be the first media outlet to write about the following issue without cutesy puns, double enten-dres, or cheap scatological allusions. For the issue is...
Paid article Casual
Petula's Back! As a proud baby boomer I feel it is my right—indeed my generational obligation—to shove my personal tastes in music, food, and clothing down the throat of every person who has the...
Paid article Correspondence
The New New Math Lynne Cheney's informative article ("Exam Scam," August 4) spotlighted several anti-new-math parents, yet I am still amazed that more American parents aren't uniting to make this...
Paid article Stand By Jesse
Stand By JESSE In Boston they love their losers. If you lose selfishly —but do it with a certain blase style—they love you all the more. And if you claim virtue while you're at it. . . well, then...
Paid article The Scandal that wasn't
Carlson, Tucker
The Scandal That Wasn't by Tucker Carlson Midway through a press briefing on the last day of July, a reporter asked White House press secretary Mike McCurry if he would "address the allegations...
Paid article No Credit to Bill
BARNES, FRED
No Credit to Bill by Fred Barnes It sounded innocent enough when President Clinton made the claim at his press conference August 6 and no reporter rose to question him about it. Here's what...
Paid article Lott on the spot
REES, MATTHEW
lott on the spot by Matthew Rees Trent Lott isn't thrilled that Jesse Helms has decided, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to prevent former Massachusetts governor William...
Paid article smokers aren't victims
Reznicek, Michael J.
Smokers Aren't Victims by Michael Reznicek Although the health consequences of smoking have been known for many years, tobacco companies have avoided product-liability judgments for one reason:...
Paid article Clinton's mideast complex
TWERSKY, DAVID
Clinton's Mideast Complex by David Twersky The bombing in Jerusalem's open-air Mahane Yehuda market, which killed 13 Israelis and wounded 150 others, had the inadvertent effect of revealing just...
Paid article Summer camp at century's end
BROOKS, DAVID
Summer Camp at Century's End Can Boys Still Be Boys in a Risk-averse Age? By David Brooks I've seen women weep before, but never with the sense of hopeless desperation that comes over them as...
Paid article the diversity-crazed military
LABASH, MATT
How the Military Indoctrinates Diversity By Matt Labash Housed at Patrick Air Force Base in four unadorned buildings trimmed in the fecal browns and beiges favored by most military subcontractors,...
Paid article Perpetual abundance . . .
FRUM, DAVID
Perpetual Abundance and Its Discontents By David Frum It's a good thing Americans have a holiday formally set aside for Thanksgiving. It means there is at least one day a year on which complaining...
Paid article Hollywood or bust
SAMUELS, DAVID
_Books ^Arts_ Hollywood or Bust The Cream of the Ivy Crop Doesn't Go to New York Anymore By David Samuels It's hard to say exactly when it started, the d-girls in tight black dresses from Penn,...
Paid article The Future is now?
Price, David A.
The Future Is Now? What Happened to All the Cool Stuff? By David A. Price One afternoon you're in the Cooper-Hewitt museum in New York. You're browsing through an exhibit of work by a long-dead...
Paid article George Wallace on cable
LESHER, STEPHAN
George Wallace on Cable A Singular Politician, a Sub-par Docudrama By Stephan Lesher The director John Franken-heimer recently told an interviewer that his three-hour made-for-cable film about...
Paid article Parody
"Clinton told [Kathleen] Willey he was suffering from laryngitis. Willey suggested chicken soup. Willey told [her friend] that Clinton asked, Why don't you bring me some? Willey declined, but was...
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