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...errors in Counter and Reid's letter range from the careless to the embarrassing to the downright scary. We'll take them one at a time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inaccurate and Offensive | 4/15/1992 | See Source »

Anyone. From anywhere. Preferably with $100 at the ready, of course, but the point is that it's free. It's open. It's grassroots: A 1-800 number is the voice of the people and recognizes no privileged elites. In fact, this 1-800 downright hates privileged elites, special interests and other nasty phrases that may or may not have any meaning but have certainly run away with Jerry Brown's bid for the Democratic nomination...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: From the Horse's Mouth | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...glad. In fact, we're downright scared. A vote for Pat Buchanan is a vote for anti-Semitism (even his archconservative pal William Buckley Admits it), a vote for isolationism (Buchanan's spin on the Gulf War: a travesty planned and financed by Jews, fought by real Americans), a vote for Japan-bashing protectionism (America First, dammit), a vote for Dukesque racial codewords (what was that about Zulu immigration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush: He's Not the Devil | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Another approach is downright belligerence...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, | Title: FAKING IT IN HARVARD SQUARE | 3/7/1992 | See Source »

Siberia sounds exotic; I hear they'll soon be establishing a Club Med there. But it is downright depressing. Old men stand silently outside empty stores, beside old propaganda posters. Twenty-year-old women seem to have aged a hundred years...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Exotic but Sad Siberia | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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