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Vol. 021 Issue 012 (December 1 1988)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •October ends with the usual grinning pumpkin leering into the faces of children with outstretched hands, and with the streets of San Francisco populated by men wearing only...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Correction found a gimmick, namely yelling foot more often than not. We have Another parishioner didn't just list Of course, I should know better, "liberal" at the top of his lungs...
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Editorials/That Scoundrel Bush/Bring Back Tip
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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THAT SCOUNDREL BUSH by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. October 19, 1988 This presidential election demon- are only a few left in Moscow. As the veals that for them there are only two education adviser in...
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Capitol Ideas/Operation Rescue
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS N . A Ci;) -i?_-_ - .C. ---: -------- " -17-- ------7 '''. - - •-• --'"- ___j . - ,-,-: ----- tlt;',\ 1 \,\'\,----,t,%-- ' --.-;7-- ==_-=-_ .=-,--_‘—,.----, '...
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Character Assassins
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Queenan, Joe
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 12 / DECEMBER 1988 Joe Queenan CHARACTER ASSASSINS Today's short-story writers think life in America is dull, and so they fill their work with weirdos—the...
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Books for Christmas
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BOOKS- FOR CHRISTMAS Once again, bipartisan gift suggestions for the Holidays from eminent readers and writers. WICK ALLISON Redford is making this into a movie Allison (Delacorte) and_ The Coming...
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Selling Globaloney in the Schools
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Brock, David
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David Brock SELLING GLOBALONEY IN THE SCHOOLS Now that their issue is dead, the nuclear-freezers have turned their attention to Central America—and to propagandizing American schools. And with...
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By the Late Morning's Light
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Mallon, Thomas
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Thomas Mallon BY THE LATE MORNING'S LIGHT The first shuttle launch since Challenger raised questions about the future and purpose of America's presence in space. From the Cape, a first-hand...
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Eminentoes/The Littlest Ex-President
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Rodota, Joseph
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EMINENTOES THE LITTLEST EX-PRESIDENT by Joseph Rodota W e knew in 1980, of course, that Jimmy Carter was mean-spirited, ill-mannered, and short-tempered. What we didn't know then was that he was...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Russell Means on Custer Hill
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Sarf, Wayne Michael
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS - ----frf ...__„T_________________________ _ 4.- _.....___. ..-•.._ 167– – -----_-- ---, E.-- -- - -. --. -_,-...---- ----___ • –___=–...,–=_W %:.....---- --...
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The Business of America/OPEC and the Next President
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Stelzer, Irwin M.
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THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA OPEC AND THE NEXT PRESIDENT by Irwin M. Stelzer Between the time this piece is writ- ten and the time it is published, America will have elected a President. The winner...
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The Public Policy/Economic Boom Boxers
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Ulmer, Melville J.
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THE PUBLIC POLICY ECONOMIC BOOM BOXERS by Melville J. Ulmer T he perpetually burning question I of what lies in store for the economy—prosperity or recession—flares with particular brilliance in...
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The Talkies/Streets of New York
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THE TALKIES STREETS OF NEW YORK by Bruce Bawer O ne of the more dire recent developments in American pop culture has been the glorification of the stand-up comedian. Comedy clubs and "Comedy...
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Presswatch/Screamers
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Ledeen, Michael
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PRESSWATCH ............ • ......... . • ..... ........................ .... . ........ • • • • • • • • • , 4,„ • .. • ..... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 43, - w- - - -. —...
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE NATION'S PULSE DISNEY'S CINDERELLA STORY by Benjamin J. Stein M aria Bane of Fort Lee, New Jersey, writes, "Mr. Stein, you always write so negatively about businessmen. Do you hate all...
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Brookhiser, Richard
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES . . - 4, :3 III' .1 ' '71\ I - vv.— s‘, ..et!itir:i .'ll 1: 0 0 ° c 19 '', 41 'T '1‘ Po 4101°L.01' 4trii7ffi'l, : lill'i ------' 1` r 1 - .-_-_=...
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Talkin' Moscow Blues
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Skvorecky, Josef
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BOOK REVIEWS M usic has been enlisted in the service of many masters, and just as many scoundrels. This lesson of history Josef kvoreckg, the Czech emigre novelist and avid jazz aficionado, knows...
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Landslide
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Mayer, Jane; McManus, Doyle
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46 The thrust of this readable but but he is one of the best journalists at I hyped book about Ronald Rea- America's most underrated newspaper, gan is that the Iran-contra scandal the Los Angeles...
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A Life
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Kazan, Elia
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Their notion of value is by no means identified success with the particular as absurd as it may seem today, now kind of success accorded by Broadway. that Broadway has all but expired. Why Most of...
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Heavy Drinking
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Fingarette, Herbert
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abuse. Indeed, while estimates of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving number of alcoholics in the United (MADD), which have led to stiffer legal States range as high as 10 million, penalties, as well...
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The Kirov Affair
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Ulam, Adam
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According to the Dictionary of hind this murder, which ushered in a Film Terms, a McGuffin is a period of mass purges and terror "plotting device for setting a story in- throughout the Soviet Union,...
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Beyond Good Intentions
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Bandow, Doug
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unapologetically that of reformed Pro- not subject to the vagaries of the testantism. In addition to his rejection historical moment but are rooted in the of the reigning humanist consensus, he...
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George B. McClellan
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Sears, Stephen W.
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The best thing that can be said delusion tinged with hysteria. Explain- 1 about Gen. George Brinton ing away the failure of the Peninsula McClellan is that at a critical juncture campaign, he wrote...
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The Washington Spectator/Burning the Flame for JFK
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Ferguson, Andrew
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THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR If you drive or take the subway, it's a bit of a hike to the John E Kennedy Gravesite and Eternal Flame in Arlington National Cemetery, which may be why so many come by...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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seCURRENT WISDOM Humanist A poetic outburst in an otherwise unexceptional essay, "Beyond the Ten Commandments: Formulating a Humanistic Ethic to Supersede Christianity," by Lester...
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