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...author of a recent 490-page history of that Club (From the Age That Is Past), I know this to be quite untrue and wrote the editor of the Globe to say so, but for reasons which should soon be plain enough, the Globe did not print my letter. All the same, I believe that what I had and have to say is central to the whole controversy. Can I then hope that The Crimson will afford me the hospitality of its columns...
...also has an appetite for tough assignments. On graduating from Brown University in 1981, Pooley headed for East Germany and began reporting on anticommunist dissident groups. Although he had no affiliation with any news organization, papers back home, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Providence Journal, picked up his dispatches...
...adds that to a moral conservatism that brought him a good many of the Christian conservative voters in Iowa, despite the support for Bob Dole of the state's Christian Coalition leader. One day after Buchanan took second place there, it was plain he had the front runner spooked. In a speech to the New Hampshire legislature, Dole, as steadfast an example of Republican orthodoxy as the party has ever produced, was suddenly Woody Guthrie. "Corporate profits are setting records and so are corporate layoffs,'' he said. "The real average hourly wage is 5% lower than it was a decade...
Disregarding his ignorance of biblical history (it was Lot who slept with his daughters, not Noah), ask yourself: If I am against censorship, is this what I want to be associated with? These militant rightists don't care about kids; a cursory look at their rhetoric makes that fact plain. Are left-wing groups challenging this law overlooking the possibility that the Telecommunications Act was a clumsy but noble effort to control the harmful effects of a new technology...
Maybe it was because I came into the show with just a soupcon of animosity for all-white, all-male things. Maybe it was because I had far more laughs watching "Carrotblanca" at the Brattle Theater the night before. Or maybe it was because the show just plain stank...