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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS • December vanished and with it an entire decade: for Americans, one of the most prosperous in history; for Europeans, one of the most liberating; for Latin Americans, one of...
Paid articleCorrespondence
al., P. J. O'Rourke et
CORRESPONDENCE The Allyn Conwell Syndrome I found Steven C. Munson's review of David Pryce-Jones's The Closed Circle An Interpretation of the Arabs (TAS, December 1989) sickening beyond...
Paid articleEditorials/Moral Hams and Brutes/Our National Anthem
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS MORAL HAMS AND BRUTES T he Communist regimes of Eastern 1. Europe have collapsed so fast that thousands of Eastern bloc intelligence agents and military advisers are now stranded...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Cruel Housing Hoax?
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS A CRUEL HOUSING HOAX? K imi Gray is the chairperson of the Kenilworth-Par kside Resident Management Corporation, which manages a much-celebrated 464-unit public housing property in...
Paid articleThe Beginning of the Beginning
Ledeen, Michael
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 2 / FEBRUARY 1990 Michael Ledeen THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING For all we know, Gorbachev is the Pope's agent busily dismantling the Soviet Empire. The trick...
Paid articleThe Man Who Bought Washington
Jeffrey, Terence P.
Terence P. Jeffrey THE MAN WHO BOUGHT WASHINGTON Say what you will about Charlie Keating, stalwart conservative, friend to U.S. senators, and beleaguered S&L tycoon. At least he never gave a dime...
Paid articleCongress in Crisis: The Prince Metternichs of Congress
Brock, David
CONGRESS IN CRISIS David Brock THE PRINCE METTERNICHS OF CONGRESS They undercut the President's leadership in foreign policy at every opportunity, to the detriment of our nation's interests...
Paid articleEuropean Document/Dismantling Socialism in One Country
Brozyna, Piotr; Lilla, Mark
EUROPEAN DOCUMENT DISMANTLING SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY by Piotr Brozyna and Mark Lila T he well-known Polish quip has it 1 that "Communism is the longest road from capitalism to capitalism." If...
Paid articlePresswatch/Press Secretary
Eastland, Bush Terry
PRESSWATCH PRESS SECRETARY BUSH t nine o'clock one Friday morning in October, President Bush wanted to hold a press conference. His top aides didn't, mainly because they feared questions on...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/We Never Called It "The Big Easy"
Gold, Victor
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL WE NEVER CALLED IT "THE BIG EASY" There is a New Orleans accent... associated with downtown New Orleans; particularly with the German and Irish Third Ward, that is hard to...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/Race Lifts
Wyman, Hastings Jr.
THE NATION'S PULSE RACE LIFTS by Hastings Wyman, Jr. T he late Elijah Muhammad, a founder of the Black Muslims, probably overstated the matter when he said that white people are devils. But...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Manhattan Melodrama, Bayou Banter
Bawer, Bruce
THE TALKIES MANHATTAN MELODRAMA, BAYOU BANTER W oody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors begins with a black-tie banquet at which Judah Rosenthal (Martin Landau), a sixtyish, affluent,...
Paid articleStolen Words
Mallon, Thomas
BOOK REVIEWS Writer? 'M reader moved to emulation." —Saul Bellow Jorge Luis Borges dreamed of a Uni- versal Library from which every thinkable book could be shown to have been plagiarized; it...
Paid articleThe Iron Lady
Young, Hugo
M rs. Thatcher could have done a lot worse than Hugo Young if she herself had gone trolling for a biographer in the polluted waters of the British intelligentsia. He really does make an effort to be...
Paid articleEthics, Politics and the Independent Counsel
Eastland, Terry
S ection VI of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, familiarly known as the "special prosecutor" or "independent counsel" statute, has been described as a child of Watergate. And so it is. But its...
Paid articleThe Tempting of America / Battle for Justice
Bork, Robert H.; Bronner, Ethan
I n June 1978, concurring with four 1 of his Supreme Court colleagues that the Davis School of Medicine of the University of California had not violated the constitutional rights of Allan Bakke by...
Paid articleThe Economic Consequences of Immigration
Simon, Julian L.
D erhaps the most striking and even .1 the most important thing about economist Julian Simon's new book on immigration is, simply, its embarkation point. Most discussion of the issue in Congress...
Paid articleEnemies of Eros
Gallagher, Maggie
A s we veterans of checkout-line literary browsing know, the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine is its best feature: a streaming-haired goddess in glittery décolletage flanked by columns of teasing...
Paid articleThe Manila Spectator/Cory Details
McGurn, William
THE MANILA SPECTATOR CORY DETAILS I t looked like another coup. For six or seven hours shots sounded left and right, the air was thick with sulphur, and the streets here were full of tires set...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Vegetarian Times A report on the University of Maryland's innovative program to bring members of the homeless community in from the streets and allow them to hold forth in an...
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