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Vol. 018 Issue 012 (December 1 1985)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS ............................................................................................................................................................................ •...
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Correspondence
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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...
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Editorials/Sickle Cell Amnesia/In Defense of the American Language
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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............................................................................................................................................................................ EDITORIALS : SICKLE...
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Capitol Ideas/Luncheon Reveries
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Bethell, Tom
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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...
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An Eye for an Eye
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McGurn, William
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 18, NO. 12 / DECEMBER...
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Why We Have Families
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Tucker, William
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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...
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Christmas in Bethlehem
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Morrison, Micah
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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...
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Books for Christmas
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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...
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Presswatch/The Shifty Hands of Time
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O'Sullivan, John
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........................................................................................................................................................................... P R E S S W A T C H THE...
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The Public Policy/Raise Taxes
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Stein, Herbert
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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...
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Eminentoes/50 Million Sold
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Sundquist, Eric J.
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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...
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Politique Internationale/Stoned in Beirut
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Taki
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(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),...
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The Nation's Pulse/Dream Street
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Teachout, Terry
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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,...
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Special Correspondence/Peregrine Worsthorne Meets His Critics
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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...
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The Uses of Pleasure
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Foucault, Michel
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George Orwell: The Lost Writings
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Orwell, George
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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...
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The Rise and Fall of an American Army
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Stanton, Shelby L.
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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...
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Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921
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Ferrell, Robert H.
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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...
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This War Called Peace
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Crozier, Brian; Middleton, Drew; Murray-Brown, Jeremy
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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...
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Bright Lights, Big City
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Mclnerney, Jay; Ransom
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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...
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Orson Welles: A Biography
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Leaming, Barbara
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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...
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The Reign of the Phallus
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Keuls, Eva C.
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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...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM ............................................................................................................................................................................ New York...
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