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IssueVol. 022 Issue 001 (January 1 1989)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • November was exchanged for December without a hitch, unless one shared the hopes and hallucinations of Governor Michael S. Dukakis, a man wholly macerated by the sauces of...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Virile Members RET and Mr. Ledeen were quite right in the November issue ["The Continuing Crisis" and "Presswatchl to direct your readers' attention to the Agence France-Presse...
Paid articleEditorials/The Duke Did His Best/Pardon 011ie/Junk Danger
Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS PARDON OLLIE 6 A ction this day" was a Churchillian invocation. Or as the American philosopher Satchel Paige would put it in more relaxed tones, "Don't ever look back. Something may...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Guidelines for President Bush
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS GUIDELINES FOR PRESIDENT BUSH by Tom Bethell fight years ago I offered congratulations to President-elect Ronald Reagan, happy as I then was to see the last of Jimmy Carter. That...
Paid articleLessons of Campaign '88
Barnes, Fred
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 22, NO. 1 / JANUARY 1989 Fred Barnes LESSONS OF CAMPAIGN '88 He who was predicting a Democratic victory now explains his error, and it had much to do with weird...
Paid articlePrescriptions for the Middle East
Morrison, Micah
Micah Morrison PRESCRIPTIONS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST An adroit negotiator, a direct message, a sense of history, and realism—now more than ever. rr hree tremors hit the terrain of 1 the Arab-Israeli...
Paid articleEchoes of the Rosenberg Case: An Autobiographical Postscript
Hook, Sidney
Sidney Hook ECHOES OF THE ROSENBERG CASE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POSTSCRIPT The judge who sent Ethel and Julius to the chair has lived a life of peerless liberal guilt. Some time in the early...
Paid articleAside from That, Sam, How Did You Like the Speech?
Gold, Victor
Victor Gold ASIDE FROM THAT, SAM, HOW DID YOU LIKE THE SPEECH? If today's White House press corps had covered the Gettysburg Address .. . As reported by the Washington Post: GETTYSBURG, Pa.,...
Paid articleRisk, Regulation, and Biotechnology
Gladwell, Malcolm
Malcolm Gladwell RISK, REGULATION, AND BIOTECHNOLOGY The big challenge for genetic engineers isn't just in the laboratory. It's in winning the public's trust and the regulators' understanding. T...
Paid articleEuropean Document/ Kristallnacht Reflections
Gann, L. H.
EUROPEAN DOCUMENT KRISTALLNACHT REFLECTIONS fifty years ago, on November 10, 1938, I stood with a crowd that watched the main synagogue in Mainz as it went up in flames. The world was upside...
Paid articleThe Business of America/The Debt Presidency
Stelzer, Irwin M.
THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA THE DEBT PRESIDENCY by Irwin M. Stelzer D ebt. That's the word President-elect Bush is likely to hear most often in his meetings with his economic advisers before he is...
Paid articleEminentoes/Experienced Conservatives for Bush
Feulner, Edwin
EMINENTOES EXPERIENCED CONSERVATIVES FOR BUSH by Edwin Feulner T o specify criteria on who should I play which roles in the new administration would be presumptuous and unfair. But it's clear that...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/Worm and Remembrance
Elvin, W. J.
THE PUBLIC POLICY WORM AND REMEMBRANCE by W. J. Elvin "[Worm Gett'd doesn't comply with any safety code except one—the electric chair." —Overwrought testimony of William King, electrical...
Paid articleThe New York Spectator/A Letter to the Editor
Queenan, Joe
damage to the food chain resulting from the chemical technique. Regardless of the method, drunk or sober, worming remains a cold and clammy way to make a buck. And supplying wormers with probes is...
Paid articlePresswatch/Parting Shots
Ledeen, Michael
PARTING SHOTS by Michael Ledeen FT" his will be my final "Presswatch" 1. column and I want to thank Bob Tyrrell and the whole crowd for giving me the chance to look at the Fourth Estate for the...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Malibu Diary
Stein, Benjamin J.
THE NATION'S PULSE MALIBU DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein November 11, 1988 eterans' Day. I was awakened by V a knocking at the door. It was loud knocking, because the sound of waves is almost...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Women and More Women
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES WOMEN AND MORE WOMEN by Bruce Bawer Based loosely on a real event, The 1, Accused tells the story of a young waitress named Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster), who one night walks into The...
Paid articleGrey Is the Color of Hope
Ratushinskaya, Irina
BOOK REVIEWS T n the opening scene of Irina Ratushinskaya's memoir, she is being taken to her husband's Kiev apartment in a KGB black Volga. Right away, we know we are dealing with a hardened...
Paid articleSurrender or Starve
Kaplan, Robert D.
SURRENDER OR STARVE: THE WAR BEHIND THE FAMINE Robert D. Kaplan/Westview Press/$24.95 Carroll Doherty T f you were a careful reader of a I major U.S. daily newspaper this fall, you might be...
Paid articleOur Children and Our Country
Bennett, William J.
OUR CHILDREN AND OUR COUNTRY: IMPROVING AMERICA'S SCHOOLS AND AFFIRMING THE COMMON CULTURE William J. Bennett/Simon and Schuster/$19.95 Elie Kedourie This book is a collection of twen- ty- four...
Paid articleMen of Zeal
Cohen, William S.; Mitchell, George J.
MEN OF ZEAL: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE IRAN-CONTRA HEARINGS William S. Cohen and George J. Mitchell/Viking/$19.95 Henry J. Hyde C o useful did Men of Zeal become 1..) to the Democrats this fall...
Paid articleSecret and Sacred
Bleser, Carol
A t my family's plantation in Buckingham County, Virginia, there's a graveyard for the white folks and one for the slaves. Most of the slave graves are marked by cracked bare slates, but one marker,...
Paid articleRiding the Iron Rooster / Behind the Wall
Theroux, Paul; Thubron, Colin
Here is the first literary fruit of the new access to China: two first-person accounts of solitary travel on the mainland. The authors are prominent, and both divide their careers as novelists and...
Paid articleKeeping the Tablets
Buckley, William F. Jr.; Kesler, Charles R.
T his is a revised edition of the collection William E Buckley, Jr. published in 1970 under the title American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century. (The trade edition bore the more...
Paid articleCapitalism and Arithmetic
Swetz, Frank J.
I f ever a people demonstrated how 1 adversity could be turned into opportunity, it was the Venetians. Instead of bemoaning their marshy collection of mudbanks and islets, the refugees driven there...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM New York Times A vigilant citizen of the feminist mafiosa sounds the tocsin to all the lovely-legged gals in danger of full disclosure: To the Editor: In following recent...
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