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Senator D'Amato, meanwhile, licked his chops at the prospect of pursuing without hindrance Paula Jones' allegations against the President. In a speech to the Heritage Foundation quoted at length in this week's New Yorker, soon-to-be Speaker of the House Gingrich presented his vision of an America where "a belief in the Creator is once again at the center of defining being an American" and where the "secular anti-religious view[s] of the left" based on a "core vision of a hedonistic, existentialist America" have been stamped...
...Yorker Villafane is "often asked to say 'water' and 'coffee,'" she says...
Until Harvard Professor of Geology Steven Jay Gould launched an attack in the November 28 issue of The New Yorker. Gould, a leading evolutionary biologist, hit the mark when he denounced The Bell Curve as a "manifesto of conservative ideology." The book is not an academic treatise in social theory and population genetics, he argues, and furthermore "the book's inadequate and biased treatment of data displays its primary purpose--advocacy...
...Gore had just been read some of the letters he wrote during his years at Harvard. The letters, recently published in the New Yorker, were not all that remarkable for a student writing home in the late-1960s, a mish-mash of misplaced idealism and rampant cynicism about the U.S. Government...
Vice President Al Gore dismissed as a "college kid's silly language" a letter he wrote while a Harvard undergrad claiming the U.S. Army promoted "fascist, totalitarian regimes. " That letter and others -- written to his father, former Sen. Albert Gore, Sr., and disclosed this week in The New Yorker -- included inflammatory passages, such as: "We do have inveterate antipathy for Communism -- or paranoia as I like to put it. My own belief is that this form of psychological ailment -- in this case a national madness -- leads the victim to actually create the thing which is feared the most. It strikes...