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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Ethnic-slur charge is trivial pursuit, but (Oy!) it's another headache you didn't need...
...life. But that won't be Topic A this week, because Oppenheimer claims Hillary made an anti-Jewish remark in 1974, on the night Bill lost his first campaign. His main source for the story has been interviewed by several other biographers, none of whom reports such a slur. Hillary dismisses the tale. But she has sown suspicion among some Jews by kissing the wife of Yasser Arafat and voicing support for Palestinian statehood. The story has already spurred tabloid headlines in New York. Now Rudy has a chance to express his empathy for Hillary...
...intend no ethnic slurs. I mean to suggest that chauvinist exhibitions become, themselves, a form of ethnic slur; Americans blaring pride in their origins somehow manage to insult themselves, to proclaim the ugliest stereotypes. We may be a nation of immigrants, but if you spike the punchbowl with too much booze and consequent stupidity, the results tend to encourage, in other Americans, feelings of covert ethnic loathing. We need to find more civilized ethnic displays...
...better looking. Traditionally, FM s only interaction with the rest of the newspaper has been with angry News Department proofers--proofers who have enthusiastically channeled years of social frustration into the task of eviscerating the magazine s often colorful prose. ("Hoochie" is not a racial slur...
...DUKE OF SLUR It took Buckingham Palace less than three hours to issue an apology after the Duke of Edinburgh, touring an electronics company, said a fuse box looked like it was "put in by an Indian." The palace has had practice. Some of the Duke's bons mots...