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...Item one runs, "The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States." The sentiment is thick here, but the content is unlikely. What is intended by "belong?" Are we to really believe that the all the people of the United States own the arts and the humanities in any real sense? Ownership of such goods is the result--as we students know--of hard work and study, not of abstract right. Item four is similarly insufficient: "Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Gingrich Goes After the Arts | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

...around midnight I went noching (rhymes with toking). Noch's features a variety of subs and pasta in addition to pizza, but the real attraction is the square-cut, thick-doughed Sicilian-style slices. According to Manager Adam DiCenso, Sicilian slices of pepperoni have been the most popular item for years, but the newer tomato basil topping (my personal choice) is also doing well. Plain pizza is $1.50, Sicilian...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Tommy's & Noch's | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...small and manageable item, the mass-produced-filtered-low tarlight nicotine delivery system. It's quite an attractive little thing. And it's tasted fine since getting over that high school nausea in the pizza place...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: An After Dessert Thing | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...obsessed with it. The book describes how members of a group known as the Organization blow up fbi headquarters in Washington. In the particular passage found in McVeigh's alleged getaway car, the narrator explains that the bombing was necessary to wake up America. The prosecution will use this item to demonstrate the motive and the purpose of the bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MCVEIGH: DIARIES DEAREST | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...suppose you read that item in the Washington Post about the study indicating that patriotism varies in direct proportion to fatness," I said to Ariel, although I knew perfectly well that Ariel is too busy weighing out portions of roots and bark on her kitchen scale to read the Washington Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIDE OF THE PUDGY | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

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