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Vol. 021 Issue 005 (May 1 1988)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS •March came in like a lamb (Ovis cities) and, rather surprisingly, exited like a lamb; though not for General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the Panamanian strongman and...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE This Coogler Shall Remain Homeless I write as counsel to Deborah Mashibini to inquire when it is that she will receive her Coogler Award ("The Worst Books of the Year," TAS, March...
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Editorials/Bush Resurrected/A Conference for Chaos
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS BUSH RESURRECTED by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. W here were you when first notified of the political death of George Herbert Walker Bush? Well, those of us who harbor an intense interest in...
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Capitol. Ideas/Gore's Gambit
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS GORE'S GAMBIT by Tom Bethell In chess, the Queen is said to be pinned when it is attacked by an opposing piece but cannot move because doing so would expose the King to check. An...
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Why Can't Conservatives Govern?
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Barnes, Fred
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 21, NO. 5 / MAY 1988 Fred Barnes WHY CAN'T CONSERVATIVES GOVERN? For one thing, they seem to forget that Americans want big government. At the final session of the...
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On Edge: Blacks and Mexicans in Los Angeles
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Skerry, Peter
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Peter Skerry ON EDGE: BLACKS AND MEXICANS IN LOS ANGELES After fifteen years with Tom Bradley as mayor, neither group is getting much out of politics. Yet what are the alternatives? O n a...
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Does the Pope Love America?
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Buckley, Reid
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Reid Buckley DOES THE POPE LOVE AMERICA? In the wake of Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, conservatives are crying "foul!" But during his visit to the U.S. last fall, John Paul left hints they...
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Christic Mystics and Their Drug-Running Theories
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Brock, David
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David Brock CHRISTIC MYSTICS AND THEIR DRUG-RUNNING THEORIES An obscure Washington institute is filling America's head with nonsense and making a killing. For the past thirty years, says the...
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The Washington Spectator/Jesse's Old Pals
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Ferguson, Andrew
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THE WASHINGTON SPECTATOR JESSE'S OLD PALS by Andrew Ferguson T he mainstreaming of Jesse Jack- ' son has been one of the recurrent stories of the presidential campaign, popping up every couple of...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Analyzing a Feminist Whine
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Iannone, Carol
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS ANALYZING A FEMINIST WHINE A regular feature of the extensive non-news pages of the New York Times is the Thursday "Hers" column. Initiated in 1977 by Times editor A. M....
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The Nation's Pulse/A Wonderful Novel (Seriously!)
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Podhoretz, John
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THE NATION'S PULSE A WONDERFUL NOVEL (SERIOUSLY!) H ow are we to explain the fact that one of the few truly distinguished novels of our time has escaped the notice of the literary establishment?...
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Among the Educationaloids/The Social Studies Debacle
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Finn, Chester E. Jr.
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AMONG THE EDUCATIONALOIDS THE SOCIAL STUDIES DEBACLE T he great dismal swamp of today's I school curriculum is not reading or writing, not math or science, not even foreign language study. It is...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Jock Bars
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Mysak, Joe
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES JOCK BARS by Joe Mysak O nce, all bars were sports bars, the crafty Ferguson once said to me. "The black-and-white television was on all the time, there was a...
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The Talkies/PoIanski's Emmanuelle
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES POLANSKI'S EMMANUELLE W hen I heard that Frantic, Roman Polanski's new thriller, was very much in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock, I braced myself for a disappointment. Why, I...
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The Norton Book of Travel
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Fussell, Paul
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BOOK REVIEWS If Pascal was right and all human un- happiness stems from the inability of men to sit quietly in their own rooms, then the prince of misfortune, heir to all known miseries and...
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Agnes Smedley
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R., Janice; MacKinnon, Stephen R.
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Ein 1949 the United States Ar- L i my released a report about the activities of a Soviet spy apparatus in China and Japan during the 1930s and early 1940s, written by Major-General Charles...
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The Origins and Evolution of the Arab-Zionist Conflict
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Cohen, Michael J.
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^ichael J. Cohen has provided a balanced and mercifully brief corrective to ahistorical views of the Arab-Israeli dispute in his new book, The Origins and Evolution of the ArabZionist...
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Mission to Civilize / Squandering Eden
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Rosenblum, Mort; Rosenblum, Mort; Williamson, Doug
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W hen the French built their empire in what is now the Third World, they did so not as a colonial power, but as a civilizing power. Mort Rosenblum was introduced to la mission civilisatrice by a...
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Arts and Sciences
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Mallon, Thomas
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Several years ago—in fact, the very year (1973) in which the plot of Thomas Mallon's first novel begins to unfold—Tom Wolfe wrote an, essay on "The New Journalism," wherein occurs a passing...
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Buddy Boys
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McAlary, Mike
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O n July 13, 1977, New York had its second major blackout and in ghettos across the city people interpreted the darkness as license to steal. Tony Magno, a cop in the BedfordStuyvesant section of...
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The Campaign Spectator/Canards of '88 (So Far)
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Gold, Victor
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THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR CANARDS OF '88 (SO FAR) Q ix months to go until the presidential election of 1988 and the canards pile up. Not simply those issuing from the candidates and their...
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Special Current Wisdom/The Prophets of October 19
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Jackasses, The Same Old Assorted
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SPECIAL CURRENT WISDOM THE PROPHETS OF OCTOBER 19 Half a year after the historic Stock Market Kaboom of 1987, and upon receiving word that what was then fifty-nine straight months of economic...
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