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...Crimson, writes a twice-weekly column for The Washington Post. He is the former publisher of The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly, and editor of Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper. Reserve Officers Training Corps, investments inSouth Africa, the lack of Black studies and thelike, was playpen stuff. It was intellectuallyengaging, exhilarating and libidinous. But itwasn't the real thing...
Such a move, Epps said, would play into the hands of "truly conservative people" who believe that "You don't have to be inclusive, just give them a playpen on the periphery of the campus...
...freeze government regulations for two years and roll back half of Congress's recent pay hike. He also wants to clamp term limits on "those check-kiting, boodling Congressmen on Capitol Hill." In one of his nastier pitches, he attacks the National Endowment for the Arts as "that upholstered playpen of the arts and crafts auxiliary of the Eastern liberal Establishment...
LEADING LIVES: Casey by Joseph E. Persico -- The secrets of businessman-spook William. The Colonel by Godfrey Hodgson -- Henry Stimson's life and active service. Gorbachev by Gail Sheehy -- From playpen to perestroika. What a guy! Ronald Reagan: An American Life -- Now he remembers! In All His Glory: William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith -- The prime time of TV's most glamorous tycoon. A Life of Picasso by John Richardson -- Volume I, 1881 to 1906, by the artist's scholarly friend. Blown Away by A.E. Hotchner -- Drugs, death and the Rolling Stones. A Hole in the World by Richard...
...acquired a dashing husband with an eye patch, Richard Rahn, an economist with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a ten-month-old son with eyes as blue as the evening sky. And something else -- a facsimile machine that rests on her kitchen cabinet just above little Will's playpen. He is fascinated with its rustling paper, the paper of poetry. Noonan pecks the words out in the next room and feeds them into this electronic umbilical, and they emerge in Bush's speeches in Seattle and San Diego, fragments of silver in a year of political dross...