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IssueVol. 022 Issue 005 (May 1 1989)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
man, 74, a vicar in London, England, was convicted of clubbing to death his 85-year-old wife, Clarinda, after she was unable to find his favorite program on the radio. The program is "Desert...
Paid articleCorrespondence
man, 74, a vicar in London, England, was convicted of clubbing to death his 85-year-old wife, Clarinda, after she was unable to find his favorite program on the radio. The program is "Desert Island...
Paid articleEditorials/Worst Books of the Year/Ted and I Agree
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS WORST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. y fellow Americans, it is that time of year for The American Spectator to confer its J. Gordon Coogler Award upon the past...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/The Colony of E1 Salvador
Bethell, Tom
pened—without the U.S. funding— when Mexican farmland was reformed into the ejido system in the 1920s.) Some of the most productive land in El Salva-dor was collectivized. It was national-ized. If...
Paid articleOratory in the Modern Senate
Heard, Alex
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 22, NO. 5 / MAY 1989 Alex Heard ORATORY IN THE MODERN SENATE A dutiful reporter braves the tedium of the Tower debate to gather up specimens of senatorial...
Paid articleAdios General!
Morrison, Micah
"Despite fifteen years," he said with "Of course if democracy is a winner a broad smile, "it was a very big day. our situation will be better," the If democracy is a winner, it will be good...
Paid articleThe Incredible Shrinking AIDS Epidemic
Fumento, Michael
in the February 5, 1988, issue of Science, noting the above donor and military figures, concluded, "These preliminary data suggest that the pro-portion of 'unexplained' heterosexual HIV...
Paid articleEuropean Document/God Is a French Socialist
Lilla, Mark
EUROPEAN DOCUMENT GOD IS A FRENCH by Mark Lilla H e's back. After nearly nine months of eerie silence following his re-election last year, French President Francois Mitterrand in...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Endgame: Pressuring Gorbo
Ledeen, Michael
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL ENDGAME: PRESSURING GORBO T he disintegration of the Soviet I Empire continues apace. As Soviet journals and newspapers report the horrors of the health system, the...
Paid articleThe Business of America/Corporatism Ousts Reaganomics
Stelzer, Irwin M.
changes have actually taken place. And even then, in a period of limited Western resources, we should keep in mind Senator Bill Bradley's unforgettable war cry: every dollar, deutschmark,...
Paid articlePresswatch/Missing the Tower Story
Eastland, Terry
$210,000 in 1987; firms with fewer than 500 employees have increased their share of total employment and of innovations; the portion of the work force that is self-employed has risen....
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/A Time to Stand
Queenan, Joe
In the end, of course, Tower ran into problems not only because of his personal life. There was also the matter of his consulting with defense contractors on arms control matters right after...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Tales From the City
Bawer, Bruce
the only one of the film's three segments that veers into out-and-out fantasy—and yet, at the same time, it's the only one that's in touch with the rhythms of real New York life, the on-ly one...
Paid articleTolstoy
Wilson, A. N.
his hero Dickens lecture, visited schools and executions and prize fights; courted in Moscow the three lively, passionate, and rather bohemian Bers sisters and married the 18-year-old Sofya, who...
Paid articleThe Imperial Congress/The Fettered Presidency/Honest Graft
Jones, Gordon S.; Marini, John A.; Crovitz, Gordon; Rabkin, Jeremy A.; Jackson, Brooks
Republicans, reducing their number of committee seats, their opportunity to introduce amendments, and so on. Small wonder that Republicans be-came, in Barnhardt's phrase, "a placid minority."...
Paid articleProfScam
Sykes, Charles J.
Republicans, reducing their number of committee seats, their opportunity to introduce amendments, and so on. Small wonder that Republicans be-came, in Barnhardt's phrase, "a placid minority."...
Paid articleThe Lyre of Orpheus
Davies, Robertson
Voice of Liberal Learning, Yale Univer-sity Press, 169 pp., $20). The British political philosopher began that piece: "Critics of the universities have ap-peared in every generation. The criti-cism...
Paid articleThe West End Spectator/Upstaging Broadway
Marin, Rick
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Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series How Shangri-la was being heaved up by revolutionary fervor before the ar-rival of Reagan's legions, as reported by a delusional Virgin of Ideology: Although...
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