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Jennifer (real name also withheld) is an LWF who has animal rights as her pet cause. She has adopted a vegetarian lifestyle to symbolize her solidarity with our fine four-footed friends...
...Congress this week. The plan eliminates more than 100 federal programs, caps or cuts spending in 600 others, and trims 100,000 jobs from the federal payroll. The billions in cuts are necessary to meet congressionally imposed limits on discretionary spending and to increase funds for the President's pet projects: the Head Start program for preschoolers, worker training and highway construction...
...posh Slavyanskaya Hotel, clad in black tuxedo, paisley cummerbund and bow tie. Asked about how his much publicized anti-Semitic remarks square with reports that his father was Jewish, he said he envies Jews because they are "the richest nation in the world." Then he reaffirmed one of his pet projects: replacing Moscow's Jewish television announcers with blue-eyed Russians...
...book interweaves Genet's early years with excerpts from his highly autobiographical novels, creating a rich fabric of the facts and the fiction they gave rise to. The biography tracks Genet to Paris, where he became Cocteau's literary find, his "golden thug," and later, Sartre's "pet queer." White imbues even the most frequently told stories with a novel charm. His recreation of the De Beauvoir-Sartre headquarters at the Cafe Deux Magots is sardonic and affectionate, and the deliciously lengthy and opinionated portrait of Cocteau could stand on its own as a study of a "genius who never...
...French government, its reigning man of letters and its most famous philosopher; it was a terrible blow to Genet the outsider, one that kept him from writing seriously for another fifteen years. "Canonized, pardoned, consecrated, assimilated, Genet was no longer society's scourge. He had become its pet," White writes...