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Another recent addition is Mike Peters' "Mother Goose and Grimm." Peter is a solid cartoonist known not only for this strip, but also for his work as a political cartoonist, often seen on the Perspectives page of Newsweek. Although he is not the greatest talent ever to grace to medium, he produces consistently good work, despite being occassionally tasteless, in both his daily and his political cartoons...
...westerns, we got science fiction, we got good books, we got some excellent books on political theory, college textbook stuff in paperback that was very interesting. Then when we moved to the Bekaa Valley, the books ended for some reason. They got us TIME and Newsweek and the Economist and, for some reason, FORTUNE and Business Week fairly regularly...
...BIGGEST losers of the recession, however, were the Japanese--all of them collectively. They became one entity (referred to by Newsweek as "Japan,Inc.") out for the sole purpose of screwing over the USA. The USA, you see, didn't lose jobs because that's what happens in every natural economic downturn. No, we were exporting them to Japan Free trade is fine if you're a fuddy duddy economist trapped in an ivory tower, but for real people in the real world the catch phrase was (and is) "Buy American." Economists might have studies and data, but they...
GATES' NEW BOOK, LOOSE CANONS: Notes on the Culture Wars, is a collection of 10 essays, most of them previously published, many of them brilliant. Written mainly in 1990-91, they were printed in everything from Newsweek to PMLA...
More worrisome are lingering rumors that the President once had an extramarital affair. In 1987 eldest son George W. Bush informed Newsweek that he had asked his father about adultery and had been told that "the answer to the Big A question is N.O." That blanket denial put the issue to rest during the last campaign. But questions about Clinton's alleged infidelity, which have become something of a humorous refrain in the Bush camp, have brought such matters back into the public domain; it may be only a matter of weeks before Bush is directly asked about...