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IssueVol. 018 Issue 012 (December 1 1985)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS ............................................................................................................................................................................ •...
Paid articleCorrespondence
convicted him of murder for pushing a Chinese woman, Mrs. Li Yung Cheung, in front of a New York subway train. Mr. Cardinale had served in Thailand with the Peace Corps and said that ever since he...
Paid articleEditorials/Sickle Cell Amnesia/In Defense of the American Language
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Luncheon Reveries
Bethell, Tom
in society, the champions of standpattism assert that the innovator is a dissembler and an opponent of minorities. If a policy-maker claims that change is needed in welfare policies to bring the...
Paid articleAn Eye for an Eye
McGurn, William
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 18, NO. 12 / DECEMBER...
Paid articleWhy We Have Families
Tucker, William
would give an opening to Col. Moammar Qaddafi. The Tunisians attributed the killing of several Tunisian Jews by a berserk policeman shortly after the air strike to anti-Semitic broadcasts beamed...
Paid articleChristmas in Bethlehem
Morrison, Micah
statistics that lump together black and white single-parent homes. Although 25 percent of the nation's families are now headed by single women, fully one-third of these are concentrated in the 12...
Paid articleBooks for Christmas
become too cheerful. Three policemen bolt past me, chasing a half-naked drunk brandishing a broken bottle. I am growing tired of Bethlehem; I have managed, however, to wangle a rare pass into the...
Paid articlePresswatch/The Shifty Hands of Time
O'Sullivan, John
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Paid articleThe Public Policy/Raise Taxes
Stein, Herbert
of releasing Abbas. The Times duly made handsome amends in its editorial: "Mr. Reagan's achievement was thus born in a most appalling failure of friendly governments to stand together against a...
Paid articleEminentoes/50 Million Sold
Sundquist, Eric J.
pose increase the relative attractiveness of spending for other purposes increases; as a result, when the available income rises it is not all devoted to one purpose but tends to be distributed...
Paid articlePolitique Internationale/Stoned in Beirut
Taki
(both characters well played by Martin Sheen in the lamentable film versions of the two books) are incarnations of evil on the Right. A more complex messiah of darkness appears in The Stand (1978),...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Dream Street
Teachout, Terry
Hozballah-party of God-and, of course, the Palestinians. As there is as much tax collection in Lebanon as there are traffic jams in Albania, the various warlords have to have a front that is legit,...
Paid articleSpecial Correspondence/Peregrine Worsthorne Meets His Critics
great pains evidently having been taken to balance John Ferrugia's sober mustache and red suspenders against Bob Sirott's curly hair and apple cheeks, with the pretty, forgettable faces and...
Paid articleThe Uses of Pleasure
Foucault, Michel
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Paid articleGeorge Orwell: The Lost Writings
Orwell, George
The severe lines of George Orwell's countenance, so like the features of a Byzantine saint, have been a little less on show in the year 1985, but his iconic status remains intact-a phenomenon that...
Paid articleThe Rise and Fall of an American Army
Stanton, Shelby L.
portray America as a simple mirror image of the USSR in its international role (except that today the Soviet Union is said to try just that little bit harder for "peace"). Still, I do not believe...
Paid articleWoodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921
Ferrell, Robert H.
Hand-to-hand combat, rocket and grenade blasts, and clattering automatic weapons filled the bamboo thickets and shrub brush.... All night long the two [American] companies were raked by NVA heavy...
Paid articleThis War Called Peace
Crozier, Brian; Middleton, Drew; Murray-Brown, Jeremy
toman Empire necessarily entailed either chaos or colonialism in the Middle East. The peoples of the victorious nations were obsessed with the notion of punishing Germany rather than rehabilitating...
Paid articleBright Lights, Big City
Mclnerney, Jay; Ransom
that for a while, at least, Churchill was beguiled by Stalin's enigmatic personality. Although Crozier and his colleagues readily grant that over the course of the Cold War, the West has enjoyed a...
Paid articleOrson Welles: A Biography
Leaming, Barbara
producing a minor, if entertaining, work. He has, in fact, written a book which should be around for a while. It not only has great wit and sense of place, but it is also one of the more virtuosic...
Paid articleThe Reign of the Phallus
Keuls, Eva C.
Phallocracy is not one of the regimes Aristotle knew and studied. Its discovery belongs to Prof. Eva C. Keuls, as set forth in her new book The Reign of the Phallus. Like the regimes about which...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM ............................................................................................................................................................................ New York...
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