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Vol. 023 Issue 002 (February 1 1990)
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The Continuing Crisis
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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...
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Correspondence
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al., P. J. O'Rourke et
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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...
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Editorials/Moral Hams and Brutes/Our National Anthem
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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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...
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Capitol Ideas/A Cruel Housing Hoax?
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Bethell, Tom
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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...
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The Beginning of the Beginning
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Ledeen, Michael
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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...
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The Man Who Bought Washington
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Jeffrey, Terence P.
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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...
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Congress in Crisis: The Prince Metternichs of Congress
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Brock, David
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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...
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European Document/Dismantling Socialism in One Country
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Brozyna, Piotr; Lilla, Mark
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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...
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Presswatch/Press Secretary
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Eastland, Bush Terry
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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...
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Spectator's Journal/We Never Called It "The Big Easy"
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Gold, Victor
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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...
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The Nation's Pulse/Race Lifts
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Wyman, Hastings Jr.
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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...
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The Talkies/Manhattan Melodrama, Bayou Banter
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Bawer, Bruce
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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,...
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Stolen Words
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Mallon, Thomas
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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...
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The Iron Lady
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Young, Hugo
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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...
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Ethics, Politics and the Independent Counsel
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Eastland, Terry
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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...
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The Tempting of America / Battle for Justice
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Bork, Robert H.; Bronner, Ethan
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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...
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The Economic Consequences of Immigration
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Simon, Julian L.
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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...
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Enemies of Eros
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Gallagher, Maggie
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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...
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The Manila Spectator/Cory Details
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McGurn, William
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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...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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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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