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Vol. 023 Issue 007 (July 1 1990)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • May is now past and the boredom goes on. Nineteen-ninety may well swoon into the history books as the Republic's most tedious year since 1889, when, the Encyclopedia of...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE A Family Affair a living Henry Fairlie, and the conclu- higher heights or deeper depths than in "looking important wearing sunglasses Mercifully, I am not in the habit of sion is...
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Editorials / Why New York? / Congress on Ice
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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CONGRESS ON ICE Washington T all, tanned, and presidential, of it, such as the Americans with Dis- I George Herbert Walker Bush, abilities Act, the Clean Air Bill, and the seated at lunch in the...
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Capitol Ideas / Getting off the Dole
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS GETTING OFF THE DOLE R ecently the Senate Republican leader, Bob Dole of Kansas, proposed that U.S aid to Israel (and to the four other largest recipients of our aid, Egypt, the...
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The Battle Ax and the Poll Tax
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Cranston, Maurice
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 7 / JULY 1990 Maurice Cranston THE BATTLE AX AND THE POLL TAX May's local elections in Britain didn't turn out half as badly for Mrs. Thatcher as predicted,...
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Saddam Hussein's Complaint
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Timmerman, Kenneth R.
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Kenneth R. Timmerman SADDAM HUSSEIN'S COMPLAINT The Rodney Dangerfield of Iraq hasn't exactly earned the world's respect, but no one is laughing at his new chemical warfare act. Ruthless,...
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Israel and the Great Exodus
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Norden, Edward
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Edward Norden ISRAEL AND THE GREAT EXODUS Soviet Jewry is giving Israel new life—but what kind of life will it be? A witty rabbi once said that the Trotskys make the revolutions, and the...
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Homage to Lithuania
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Valiunas, Algis
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Algis Valiunas HOMAGE TO LITHUANIA As the small country pursues its dream, Moscow reminds the West it is not in the business of making dreams come true. I daring their independence on March 11,...
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The Great American Congress / Squish List Republicans
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Ferguson, Tim W.; Miller, Tom
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THE GREAT AMERICAN CONGRESS SQUISH LIST REPUBLICANS by Tim W. Ferguson and Tom Miller In the wake of what was once called the Reagan Revolution, free-market supporters are today waging a holding...
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Presswatch / Two for One
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH TWO FOR ONE by Terry Eastland n May /0, four days after the announcement of the budget summit that could lead to "some new taxes," I opened my Washington Post and was drawn...
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The Nation's Pulse / Zealots Against Science
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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THE NATION'S PULSE ZEALOTS AGAINST SCIENCE T have just read a very illuminating I manuscript that you, dear reader, may never be able to read. It deals coolly, analytically, and at times quite...
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The Talkies / Cannes Artists
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Bawer, Bruce
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THE TALKIES CANNES ARTISTS by Bruce Bawer Thursday, May 10 much. As I peruse the list of screenings by filmmakers who are young or "dif- spective distributors, and you've got a This is it: I'm on...
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Means of Ascent, by Robert Caro
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Gold, Victor
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BOOK REVIEWS Shrewdly, knowing I worked for Barry Goldwater in his 1964 presidential campaign, the editor asked if I'd review the latest Caro volume on the life of Lyndon Johnson. Not so shrewdly,...
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Men at Work, by George F. Will
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Novak, Robert D.
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MEN AT WORK: THE CRAFT OF BASEBALL George F. Will/Macmillan/353 pp. $19.95 Robert D. Novak W by would George Will, the styl- a baseball fan since 1938 when at age ish and profound commentator...
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A Miracle, A Universe, by Lawrence Weschler
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Cadwell, Christopher
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New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Weschler has written several books on modern art and one on Solidarity. His art essays are not so much about art criticism as about some of the weirdos who inhabit...
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Soviet Women, Francine du Plessix Gray
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Kristol, Elizabeth
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I n his 1864 novel What Is to Be 1 Done? the Russian utopian socialist N. G. Chernyshevsky set out to depict the ideal marriage between an enlightened "new man" and "new woman" of the future:...
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In the Arena, by Richard Nixon
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Lewis, Saul
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IN THE ARENA: A MEMOIR OF VICTORY, DEFEAT, AND RENEWAL Richard Nixon/Simon and Schuster/384 pp. $21.95 Saul Lewis In the Arena is Richard Nixon's 1 strangest—and in some respects most...
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My Turn, by Nancy Reagan with William Novak, and "What Does Joan Say?" by Joan Quigley
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Eastland, Terry
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MY TURN: THE MEMOIRS OF NANCY REAGAN Nancy Reagan with William Novak/Random House/384 pp. $21.95 "WHAT DOES JOAN SAY?" MY SEVEN YEARS AS WHITE HOUSE ASTROLOGER Joan Quigley/Birch Lane Press/224...
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Warts and All, by Matt Ridley
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Bowman, James
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gip r. Tocqueville," as some cretin of a proofreader has dignified him in this book, has a lot to answer for. Since his time (a century and a half ago, for those who may be in danger of...
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Park Avenue, by James Trager
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Brookhiser, Richard
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o ne hundred and fifty years ago, trains running south to New York along the path of what would become Park Avenue frequently killed wandering cows. One hundred years ago, the nascent street had a...
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The Utne Spectator / Invasion of the Watermelons
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Morrison, Micah
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THE UTNE SPECTATOR INVASION OF THE WATERMELONS Minneapolis I is been called "the left-wing Read- er'ss Digest," and Eric Utne's idea of publishing "the best of the alternative press" six times a...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM The Great Books Series Inconceivable reflections of an adult American female—presumably free on her own recognizance—and these reflections have actually been published in a book, and...
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