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...plastic rosary and crucifix around her neck, Alice declared herself the possessor of many supernatural powers that have no connection with Christian belief. She spoke only Acholi and a smattering of English but claimed that her spirit was fluent in 74 languages. The oil she encouraged rebel fighters to smear on their bodies, which came from shea trees and is used in the manufacture of shampoo in the West, would make bullets "slip on top of your skin" and bounce back at the enemy. Alice also passed out sachets of powder ground from squirrels' bones that she promised would make...
Worst of all, the article is a McCarthyite smear of my intellectual and personal integrity. I am not a marxist. I deny it, not because I find the label offensive, but for the simple reason that I am not. There is a great tradition of marxist scholarship both here and in Europe, which has influenced me like many other scholars of all political leanings in my generation. However, while respecting and learning from this tradition of scholarship, I have long disagreed with most of its basic tenets. The most cursory reading of my works should make this clear...
...article confirms the worst fears of those of us who sense a growing intolerance and resurgent McCarthyism in this society. Only this morning I received in the mail a campaign letter from Senator Howard Metzenbaum requesting support in his fight against a red-baiting smear directed at him by extremist elements in the Ohio Republican party. The Senator will no doubt be even more saddened to learn that a Harvard professor has suffered the same injury from one of his own students. Orlando Patterson
When the Red-baiting tactic was unearthed last week, Metzenbaum denounced it as "lies, innuendos, McCarthyism and stupidity." A red-faced Rudy Boschwitz, the Minnesota Republican who chairs the G.O.P. senatorial committee, apologized for the "insulting and outrageous" smear...
...centers also use the lures of convenience and comfort. Clinics remain open in the evenings and on weekends; checkups are often booked for an hour instead of the usual 30 minutes. "Doctors shouldn't be able to pat themselves on the back for doing a Pap smear in seven minutes," says Dr. Janet Schwartz of Women's Health Centers. The three W.H.C. clinics in California take pains to ameliorate the two banes of the gynecological exam: icy stirrups on the examining table are covered by foot warmers and vaginal specula are warmed. The clinic at Georgia Baptist Medical Center...