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Vol. 023 Issue 004 (April 1 1990)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • February felt like spring through much of the United States, and in the Soviet Union it felt odd also. There, on February 7, the indigenous Communist party's Central...
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Correspondence
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technology that allows the Chinese to identify the sex of a fetus months before birth. Animal rights activists went into high dudgeon after police laid the ambush and death of Mr. Hyram Kitchen,...
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Editorials/Junk Bonds Into Scrap/Rooney Tunes
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS JUNK BONDS INTO SCRAP Washington, D.C. T he current concerto grosso of sad 1 news being played by the pundits of this unhappy town is that nowadays all the history is being made...
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Capitol Ideas/Homesteading on the Liberal Plantation
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Bethell, Tom
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sexual magazine (that is to say a magazine written for homosexuals, not a magazine that loves other magazines), one Chris Bull, which is an ideal name for a journalist, don't you think? At any rate...
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Bush's Big Government Conservatives
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Barnes, Fred
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 4 / APRIL 1990 Fred Barnes BUSH'S BIG GOVERNMENT CONSERVATIVES Don't confuse them with Bigger Government Liberals. They're simply men who've stared political...
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Alan Cranston's Big Lies
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Long, Buck; Cott, Lawrence V.
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Buck Long and Lawrence V. Cott ALAN CRANSTON'S BIG LIES They started long before the senator's involvement in the Keating scandal and perhaps explain why the California Democrat is not going down...
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American vs. British Conservatism: An Even Match?
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Cranston, Maurice
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Maurice Cranston AMERICAN VS. BRITISH CONSERVATISM: AN EVEN MATCH? Each variety has its strengths and weaknesses. We have our Constitution and our individualism; they have Mrs. Thatcher and...
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Dismantling Socialism in One Country (II)
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Brozyna, Piotr; Lilla, Mark
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Piotr Brozyna and Mark Lilla DISMANTLING SOCIALISM IN ONE COUNTRY (II) Now that the Poles are free to be capitalists, their government must play the leading role in creating conditions that will...
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The California Spectator/Super Sunday
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE CALIFORNIA SPECTATOR SUPER SUNDAY by Benjamin J. Stein T is one of those mornings when I I can't stop my criminal brain from working. I'd like to. I'd like to just walk out the door and wander...
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Presswatch/Invasion of the Auto-Neuts
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH INVASION OF THE AUTO-NEUTS irr he Watchdog's Bite," a recent I magazine article by a journalism professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been well thumbed by key figures at...
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The Nation's Pulse/Why Are They Begging?
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Haag, Ernest van den
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THE NATION'S PULSE WHY ARE THEY BEGGING? Lately New Yorkers find many more beggars than they are accustomed to. So do residents of most other cities as far away as San Diego, California, and...
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Eminentoes/Senior Citizens
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Queenan, Joe
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person who tells a hard luck story. N o system can eliminate begging altogether. There always are some people who will resort to it, and some willing to give their change. Indeed, most people would...
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The Talkies/Black and White in Color
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR El or weeks now, a movie theater near my home has been playing Glory, the much-lauded movie about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first black regiment in...
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The Great American Saloon Series/The Russian Tea Room
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Brookhiser, Richard
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Daisy and Hoke can be seen as a metaphor for the developing relations between the races in the South from the forties to the seventies, the filmmakers don't press this interpretation upon us....
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President Bush Meets the Washington Club
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PRESIDENT BUSH MEETS THE WASHINGTON CLUB n 1967, The American Spectator (then known as the Alternative) was founded by I graduate student R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., to challenge the liberal orthodoxy...
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The Sun Also Sets / The End of the American Century
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Emmott, Bill; Schlossstein, Steven
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BOOK REVIEWS BD oth Japan-bashers and Japan- apologists agree that Japan's economic rise is unremitting and irreversible. Though the Soviet Union proves there is no certain connection between...
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Edward Teller
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Blumberg, Stanley A.; Pano, Louis G.
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tion, Schlossstein believes the U.S. should mount "a concerted defense against Japanese acquisition of American companies in strategic industries." Schlossstein's indictment of the effects of the...
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Liar's Poker
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Lewis, Michael
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hearings. Asked whether he regarded Oppenheimer as a security risk, Teller replied that while he always regarded Oppenheimer as a loyal American, "In a great number of instances, I have seen Dr....
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The Lost Continent
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Bryson, Bill
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havior. It was Michael Lewis's good luck to arrive at Salomon at the peak of its power and prosperity and observe the professional apoplexy in what was for a while probably the most exciting room in...
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Picturing Will
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Beattie, Ann
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the first thing he sees there is "an obviously well-educated black man in a three-piece suit carrying a Wall Street Journal." Similarly, Selma, Alabama, meets with his approval because it now...
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
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Friedman, Thomas L.
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"You know what heaven would be?" Zeke said, looking over at Wayne from the diving board, where he was sitting. "Surf 'n' Turf," he said. "Heavy on the butter with the Turf, too. And a side of...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series A stupendous exegesis of Miss Marabel Morgan's famed hamburger metaphor from Dr. Carol J. Adams, who in less enlightened times probably would not be invited...
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