Subject: Source of Balkan Trouble
Re: "Foreigners: Two Answers for Macedonia"
From: Ronald Beier, editor, Demographic, Environmental, and Security Issues Project
Date: Sun Mar 25  10:34 a.m. PT

The fundamentals of the situation [seem obvious]: economic distress and the tensions that scarcity inevitably provokes. The reason that war has broken out here and not elsewhere where similar conditions obtain is to be put down to the particular political situation, namely a power vacuum. After Tito died, and the economic situation in the area continued to slide, no force or agency stepped in to prevent the hostilities which were clearly on the horizon.

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Subject: Bushspeak Newspeak

Re: "Ballot Box: Dubya's Dictionary"

From: Publius

Date: Tue Mar 20  1:54 p.m. PT

[Big Brother] would have been thrilled to see how effortlessly Weisberg employs doublethink to accuse Bush of both slovenly, unclear language (Bushisms) and cleverly artful language (Bushspeak). Big Brother and Jacob bellyfeel Bush crimethink (i.e., Big Brother and Jacob Weisberg are joined as one in their strong opposition to Bush and his reprehensible ideas, so alien to our way of life).

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Subject: The Importance of Good-Looking Groupies

Re: "Diary: Elizabeth Evitts"

From: A.G. Android

Date: Fri Mar 23  2:23 p.m. PT

The groupies I've seen backstage at rock shows are generally not especially attractive. By contrast, I note that the groupies who surround DJs at raves and dance clubs tend to be much more attractive. (Not that I've ever partaken, of course.) I don't think it was always that way, and it bodes poorly for the future of rock music versus electronica.

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Subject: The Case for Alger Hiss

Re: "Chatterbox: Alger Hiss Innocent, Anti-Communists Declare!"

From: Jeff Kisseloff, managing editor, The Alger Hiss Story Website

Date: Tue Mar 22  9:55 p.m. PT