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Roane, Spencer

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Roberts, Paul Craig

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Robertson, James D.

Robertson, Scott Bloch, Rev. C. John, McCloskey, and Brian

Robinson, Arthur B.

Robinson, Daniel N.

Robinson, Matthew

Robinson, Noah

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Rocca, Francis X.

Blinded on the right: Missing the boat on immigration (September 2002)

"Blinded on the right: Missing the boat on immigration" Blind Spots on the Resurgent Right Europe's newly empowered center-right parties doomed to fail unless they change their tune on immigration BY FRANCIS X. ROCCA is a woman in her...

Last Call: The Pope, Politics, and Christmas (December 2000)

PROSPECTS FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS IN St. Peter's Square dimmed a bit at news that ]6rg Haider would be bringing the tree. A visit by the Austrian politician infamous for his praise of the Third...

America's Multicultural Imperialism (September 2000)

eptember promises to bring a verdict in the trial of lose Bove, who last August led farmers in wrecking a half-built McDonald's in the French town of Millau. The luxuriantly mustached...

Last Call: The Books of Summer (July 2000)

| W• n~i~'~_J U q by Francis X. Rocca The Books of Summer "SUMMER BOOKS" AREN'T SIMPLY BOOKS you read in summer. They are special products, designed and marketed for lolling by the pool,...

The Old Regime and the Digital Revolution (May 2000)

I was walking from one bustling pavilion to another when I heard the excitement. "Who? Who?" came the cries. Everyone turned in the direction of the loudest chatter. We could see the backs of TV...

The European Spectator: Haider Realities (April 2000)

THE EUROPEAN SPECTATOR by Francis X. Rocca Haider Realities T he highlight of the fall z000 collection from the Italian couture house Gattinoni, on show recently in Milan, was a skirt featuring...

Last Call: Borderline Insanity (February 2000)

Borderline Insanity by Francis X. Rocca THE HARDEST THING ABOUT getting into Britain, in my experience, is walking the inhumanely long distances around Heathrow. No one has ever searched my...

Last Call: A Holiday of One's Own (December 1999)

LAST CALL by Francis X. Rocca \ IL A\ ildrtn111111111 A Holiday of One's Own MY FAVORITE THANKSGIVING IS one I spent in London a few years back. The weather was gray, of course, though warmer...

Last Call: Give Me a Ring (September 1999)

LAST CALL Francis X. Rocca Give Me a Ring WHEN I WAS THIRTEEN, I MUST CONFESS, I BRIEFLY wore a mood ring. The year was 1977, and if mood rings had ever been in any sense fashionable, that time...

Out of Their League (March 1999)

0OUT THEIR LEAGUE FRANCIS X. ROCCA hortly after midnight on May 9, 1997, two motor vehicles rolled off a ferry at St. Mark's Square in Venice. In a city where wheeled transportation...

Last Call: Hold That Call (May 1998)

LAST CALL by Francis X. Rocca Hold That Call E VERYBODY IN ITALY—AND I MEAN EVERYBODY—has a cell phone now. An unkempt woman in a Padua Laundromat mumbles that she's lost some change. Someone...

Last Call: My Favorite Ex-President (February 1998)

LAST CALL by Francis X. Rocca My Favorite Ex-President THE END OF 1997 BROUGHT REPORTS THAT Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia, was under arrest for supposedly attempting to overthrow...

Last Call: Enemies of Promise (November 1997)

by Francis X. Rocca Enemies of Promise I N MY LATE TEENS AND EARLY TWENTIES, I was active in an all-male organization whose activities I swore never to reveal. Suffice it to say that they had...

The Tijuana Spectator: Up and Coming (September 1996)

"The Tijuana Spectator: Up and Coming" Up and Coming Our man in Tijuana finds the fabled border town...

The Great Andalusian Saloon Series / Manzanillaville (November 1995)

Manzanillaville by Francis X. Rocca W hen sailor Paco Felix Enriquez went down with his ship some seventy years ago, his fox terrier survived, staying afloat long enough to be rescued by a British...

Spectator's Journal/Mom, Can I Go Out to Pray (September 1993)

T he Baltimore Arena is a forlorn place. Less than half a mile away are the expensive shops of Harborplace and the state-of-the-art ballpark at Camden Yards, but the Arena's neighbors are porno...

Abroad in America (August 1990)

rri he inevitable question," Jessica Mitford and her newlywed husband discover, is: "Do you like America?" This always stumped us a bit at first. "It would never occur to us to ask a foreigner if...

Life Sketches, John Hersey (June 1989)

lthough he is primarily a novelist, the versatile and inconsistent John Hersey is most famous for his nonfiction Hiroshima (1946), in which he reconstructs the lives of six survivors in the days...

Roche, Anne

Roche, George C. III

Roche, John P.

RocheIII, George Charles

Rock'n'Roll

Rodden, John

Rodgers, D.F.

Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth

Rodman, Peter W.

Rodota, Joseph

Rogers, Guy MacLean

Rogers, Joel