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 Vol. 022 Issue 004 (April 1 1989)
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • February has now slipped into the past tense. In fact, this being Washington, February is now consigned to antiquity. The illuminati of this incomparable Gomorrah have no...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Biotech, Society, and the Individual I read Malcolm Gladwell's "Risk, Regulation, and Biotechnology" (TAS, January 1989) with mixed reactions. I applaud the incisive reporting of a...
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Editorials/Fraudulence I/Fraudulence II
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS FRAUDULENCE I Washington Apparently I have again been defrauded by the public prints. Innocent that I am, I read headlines and take them to heart. Having read headlines attributing...
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Capitol Ideas/From Mercantilism to Markets
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS FROM MERCANTILISM TO MARKETS rr he Cato Institute was packed as I 1. have never seen it, with one or two standing outside in the February cold, their noses pressed to the window...
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Bennett the Drug Czar: An Agenda
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Barnes, Fred
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 22, NO. 4 / APRIL 1989 Fred Barnes BENNETT THE DRUG CZAR: AN AGENDA But he will need George Bush's doughty support to implement it. W illiam Bennett is proof that...
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Compassion Fatigue: Hong Kong and the Boat People
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Kirp, David L.
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David L. Kirp COMPASSION FATIGUE: HONG KONG AND THE BOAT PEOPLE The world is turning a blind eye to Vietnamese refugees now being held as criminals. June 15, 1988, is circled in red, as a day of...
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Canadian Conundrums: Nationalism, Socialism, and Free Trade
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Stark, Andy
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Andy Stark CANADIAN CONUNDRUMS: NATIONALISM, SOCIALISM, AND FREE TRADE Last fall's election campaign in the Great White North was a showcase of left-wing inferiority and illogic. A s...
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My Life as a Dee-Cline
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Stein, Herbert
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Herbert Stein MY LIFE AS A DEE-CLINE One of the country's great economists explains his lifelong reluctance to toe the party line. That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Braking Glass
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Queenan, Joe
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS BRAKING GLASS by Joe Queenan It is widely known that before achieving international stardom, composer Philip Glass worked as a taxicab driver in New York City. Yet...
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The Public Policy/Turning America into Junk
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Mysak, Joe
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THE PUBLIC POLICY TURNING AMERICA INTO JUNK H istory was made on February 9, 1989, when Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a leveraged buyout specialist, completed the biggest commercial deal ever,...
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Presswatch/Woodward Explodes Roe v. Wade
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH WOODWARD EXPLODES ROE v. WADE O n January 22, 1989, the sixteenth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Washington Post's Bob Woodward reported the existence of four internal Supreme Court...
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The Nation's Pulse/The Coolidgean Press Conference
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Gold, Victor
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THE NATION'S PULSE THE COOLIDGEAN PRESS CONFERENCE PRESIDENT (addressing a reporter): Are you taking down in shorthand what I say? REPORTER: Yes sir. PRESIDENT Now I don't think that is right. I...
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The Business of America/Third World Deadbeats
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Stelzer, Irwin M.
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THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA THIRD WORLD DEADBEATS by Irwin M. Stelzer No one was—or should have been —surprised when George Bush decided to throw about $50 billion of taxpayers' money into the hopper...
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Spectator's Journal/Thoughts on Homelessness Today
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Haag, Ernest van den
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THOUGHTS ON HOMELESSNESS TODAY According to a poll recently published in the New York Times, more than 70 percent of the American people think that the homeless are a serious...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Papagayo
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Shiflett, Dave
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES PAPAGAYO by Dave Shiflett I nhospitable planet! Winter blasts up the pantlegs. Falling icicles through the feet. Split lips and lungs full of furnace fumes. The...
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The Talkies/Fairly Funny
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES FAIRLY FUNNY by Bruce Bawer Working Girl is the archetypal eighties comedy. It's cast entirely with bankable names (Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver); it's so glossily...
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Escalante
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Mathews, Jay
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BOOK REVIEWS T aime Escalante first received national attention late in 1982 as the barrio math teacher whose twelve students bested the Educational Testing Service by retaking and passing the...
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Europeans
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Kramer, Jane
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Le McJournal est arrive. In the first week of last December, on newsstands across the continent and in Britain, Europeans could purchase the inaugural issue of their first daily transnational...
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Edmund Burke
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Ayling, Stanley
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B the man of faith was also a L P man of action—bold, it would appear from what Ayling reports, to the point of recklessness. At school and college in Ireland, Burke already displayed his undoubted...
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Final Disclosure
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Belin, David W.
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D avid Belin's Final Disclosure purports to be "the full truth about the assassination of President Kennedy," but the first thing to be said about the book is that it contains absolutely nothing new...
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George Washington
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Allen, W. B.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON: A COLLECTION Edited by W. B. Allen/Liberty Fund/561 pp. $22.95 William McGurn Brotherg I am a Warrior. My words are few and plain; but I will make good what I say. —George...
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The Campaign Spectator/Down the Tube
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Ferguson, Andrew
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THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR DOWN THE TUBE by Andrew Ferguson F or most of us, the campaign of '88 is over, and we can take a well-earned breather from the rigors of representative democracy. But the...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Kentucky Kernel In an illustrious student newspaper, a victim of higher education at the University of Kentucky dares to speak out under the very eye of the Federal Bureau of...
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