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Vol. 019 Issue 002 (February 1 1986)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING...
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Correspondence
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caused by Pentagon-inspired experiments. All references to the Pentagon have ended and the Soviets admit that the disease exists in the USSR. Though after using the Soviets' most quantitative...
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Editorials/Rich Kids/Teddy Withdraws
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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E D I T O R I A L S RICH KIDS Wherever one looks in this dynamic Republic one sees America's devotion to youth. The staid and austere American of yore has given way to the eternal kid, and...
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Capitol Ideas/Senator Simpson's Reward
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Bethell, Tom
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When the Senator alludes to the family's tradition of Jacobinism, he is being somewhat misleading. The radicalism goes back no further than to Robert Kennedy. John F. Kennedy always raised the...
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The Second War on Poverty
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Fossedal, Gregory A.
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 19, NO 2 / FEBRUARY...
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Paranoia and American Politics
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Shaw, Peter
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Such are the policies of the post-Murray era. What are the politics? Let us imagine a "second declaration of war," as Merrick Carey calls it, to include something like the following: (1) Gary Hart's...
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Chuck Colson vs. the Fundamentalists
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Gladwell, Malcolm
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with the national government, is bad news for democracy. What was the source of these sentiments? A 1971 article in Commentary by . . . Daniel Patrick Moynihan. It is tempting to speculate that...
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Mississippi Footprints
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Harkness, James
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James Harkness MISSISSIPPI FOOTPRINTS Lies they live in Greenwood. Even in an age of Major Motion there are certain small towns people leave mostly on buses: Southern towns, Dixie towns, baking...
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Presswatch/Honor Rolls
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O'Sullivan, John
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PRESSWATCH HONOR ROLLS Every morning during the Geneva Summit, the networks had various "experts" grading the respective performances of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Since a news blackout...
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Eminentoes/We're All Moderates Now
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Muravchik, Joshua
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The Nation's Pulse/Hurricane Carter's Comeback
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Tucker, William
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In the great battle twenty odd years earlier for Lenin's mantle, Stalin was the moderate and Trotsky the radical. Trotsky wanted to push the revolution onward and outward without respite, while...
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Spectator's Journal/Vatican Paralysis
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Martínez, Mary Ball
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Just before the New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the first conviction, another "trial" took place. Governor Brendan Byrne was petitioned by many people to grant Carter an outright par-don. He asked...
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European Document/A Balkan Basket Case
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Polonski, Feliks
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into the Religious Freedom document the age-old Catholic claim to what he calls "a monopoly on truth." The at-tempt was unsuccessful. Now, twenty years later, it could be asked how post-conciliar...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Harry's of Century City
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Bartholomew, Douglas
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International concluded that the human rights situation in Albania has if anything grown worse. But with Hoxha dead many Albanians argue that things have to improve under his successor, 59-year-old...
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The Talkies/Lost in Africa
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Schonburg, Alexandra
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sift through the vast bulk of entries, filtering out the lesser efforts and setting aside twenty-five for a closer reading. The team of Bradbury-Hemingway et al. is then sequestered in Harry's for a...
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The Zero-Sum Solution
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Thurow, Lester
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BOOK REVIEWS THE ZERO-SUM SOLUTION: BUILDING A WORLD-CLASS AMERICAN ECONOMY Lester Thurow/Simon and Schuster/$18.95 Melville J. Ulmer Lester Thurow is clearly the most radiant luminary in this...
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Toxic Terror
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Whelan, Elizabeth
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I 1 1 I ing power indices, national production per capita of the United States was $14,000 in the most recent year available, against $11,500 for Germany, $11,300 for France, $10,700 for Japan,...
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The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union
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Donohue, William A.
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Minnesota, was an American. Two worked at the Japanese National Cancer Center Research Institute and one at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Efron reports that as the reviews came in they combined...
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Africa
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Ungar, Sanford J.
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Perhaps most damning of all is the ACLU's shameful record on the issue of civil liberties in the Soviet Union. Then-fellow traveler Roger Baldwin made two friendly visits to the USSR and published...
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The Old Gringo
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Fuentes, Carlos
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and Uganda, the results were surrealistically lethal. In a few cases the economic forces of the old inertial system provided a temporary period of prosperity, which faded as the distance from the...
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Into Eternity: The Life of James Jones, American Writer
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MacShane, Frank
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merely that Harriet Winslow, as she gives up her somewhat tarnished virginity, explores a realm of experience which she has hitherto avoided, but that her encounter with Arroyo represents the...
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The Late, Great Pennsylvania Station
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Diehl, Lorraine B.
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from taking him seriously as a "great" writer. (Norman Mailer once called Jones "the worst writer of prose ever to give intimations of greatness.") And as good as it is, From Here to Eternity is...
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Table of Contents
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McPhee, John
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Chapter One is a picture of one of Adolph Weinman's stone maidens, slain at the waist and dumped with trash in the Jersey Meadowlands. The great redeeming irony of the story is that the old station...
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The Washington Spectator
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Nathan, George Jean
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THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR I was planning to use this space to point out that it is already difficult enough for us Reaganites to brag about "America: Standing Tall"--particularly when the President...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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