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Phillips tells us that what drove him four years ago to this larger historical subject was his disgust with the squalor and venality of American politics. (One wonders what he thinks about re-emerging from his studies at the present moment.) He has returned not only with a handsome thesis but also with a thousand oddments and curios he collected along the way--such as remarks by Charles Kingsley, the Cambridge University historian who served as chaplain to Queen Victoria. Kingsley, visiting Ireland in the 1840s, described the Irish as a biological subspecies: "I am haunted by the human chimpanzees...
...fine tradition of Sinclair Lewis, Stewart not only exposed the injustice of having to walk down to the river for lunch, but lifted the student body up from the squalor by providing them with Fly-By lunches. We here at Dartboard are waiting for this semester's innovations (assuming, of course, that an Undergraduate Council is ever seated), and we have three requests of the College's own Mr. Smiths as they go to Harvard Hall...
What explains Jerry Springer's success? No doubt someone has a Theory of All Squalor stating that as politics becomes entertainment, and entertainment becomes reality, and reality becomes politics, then the leap from Monica Lewinsky to Jerry Springer is, well, something or other. Less ambitiously, we can offer this explanation: the fights. At the end of 1996, Multimedia, the company that syndicated the Springer Show, was sold and became part of the company now called USA Networks Studios. The USA executives were more liberal about what went on the air. Fights had often occurred but had been edited...
...United States and therefore are likely to go unreported in such statistics. The farms may very well have the requisite bathrooms and pay for the workers they report, but the numbers of workers not listed on the payroll could hold the difference between respectable working conditions and utter squalor...
...wounded men--recovering at a local hospital--were identified as Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, both Palestinians carrying Jordanian passports. Did the two have links to the militant Islamic movement? Amid the squalor of their apartment were reportedly a picture of the blind Egyptian cleric convicted of conspiring to blow up New York City landmarks, and a note threatening violence against U.S. and Jewish targets. Khalil was carrying an address book listing the name of a known terrorist. Also found: Abu Mezer's completed application for political asylum in the U.S. on the ground that Israel...