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Fueling the Flames
Labor and greens must join forces to stop Bush’s assault on the planet.
More African-Americans are running for governor than ever before.
Rigged elections are widespread throughout Africa, and not just in Zimbabwe.
A New Detente?
The Bush administration cozies up to China.
Disinformation follies.
Marriage proposal.
No evidence, but a Missouri inmate is facing execution.
Britain passes measures to elect more women.
Seeds of Destruction
Genetic contamination raises stakes on GMOs.
Bad Math
Pennsylvania debates are calculated to exclude Greens.
HMOs aim to stop even modest reform in its tracks.
BOOKS: Israel, the occupation and "apartheid."
Disasters in Waiting
BOOKS: Ahmed Rashid on more impending Jihad.
Play It Again, Sam
MUSIC: How multiple reissues keep record labels flush.
FILM: The moral dilemmas of Storytelling.
An interview with ®™mark's Frank Guerrero.
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March 1, 2002
Appall-o-Meter
Any Volunteers? 4.3
The University of Tennessee’s Daily Beacon reports that the Kappa
Alpha fraternity on campus is in danger of losing its charter and being thrown
out of its house. But it wasn’t the gambling and holding cock fights in
the house basement, or even the weekly stripper they hired. What sunk them was the frat’s boxing tournament featuring Knoxville winos.
The frat boys would recruit homeless men, “liquor them up,” give them
boxing gloves, “and let them go to town.” Chapter President Patrick
Diener added that these events were tolerated in the past, but Kappa Alpha’s
new national officers forbade them. Hidden Meanings 6.6
In television and radio ads currently running in five Midwestern states, President
Bush appears to say: “There’s something more important than politics,
and that’s to do our jobs.” This line is delivered after the Democratic
senator of each state is accused of being “partisan” in our time of
national emergency. The Bush administration, great believers in the hidden messages embedded in
media emissions, may have been secretly communicating with its own terrorist
operative. Ann Coulter, the irrepressible cavewoman of pundit TV, shortly thereafter
exhorted the faithful at a conservative political convention in Northern Virginia:
“We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate
liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise they
will turn out to be outright traitors.”. Power from on High 5.6
What would Jesus deregulate? The electric utilities, possibly, but for a fee.
Or so suggested Ralph Reed, erstwhile boy hero of Christian Coalition politicking,
in a memo to the Enron Corporation leaked to the Washington Post. Reed and his firm, Century Strategies, had worked for Enron in 1997 lobbying
for deregulation legislation in Pennsylvania. In October 2000, Reed wrote to
Enron proposing a $380,000 campaign that would enlist “faith-based activists,”
conservative talk-show hosts, and even mainstream op-ed pages to beat the drum
for deregulation. “In public policy, it matters less who has the best arguments and more
who gets heard—and by whom,” Reed wrote in the memo. “Elected
officials and regulators will be predisposed to favor greater market-oriented
solutions if they hear from business, civic and religious leaders in their communities.” Amen, brother. Here’s how much it’ll cost you:
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