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Vol. 023 Issue 009 (September 1 1990)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • With world leaders jetting to and fro with much ado, July turned out to be the busiest summer month in memory. President Bush alone traveled to Kennebunkport, London,...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Squish Twists as remarkable as Col. Regan proclaims. regularly deflating those dangerous a sleepy but happy country, under the Readers might have wondered about an My reaction to it,...
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Editorials/Taxing Times/Freak Shows
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Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS FREAK SHOWS America loves its freak shows. P. T. eral public. That they can degrade our Barnum recognized this and pro- judicial system with impunity does not vided them in abundance....
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Capitol Ideas/Mitch Snyder's Sendoff
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS MITCH SNYDER'S SENDOFF by Tom Bethell F or the "Farewell Celebration of as though requesting release from its Emergency Preparedness and various provided with passes so that they...
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Kevin Phillips Turns the Screws on Conservatives
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Szamuely, George
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 23, NO. 9 / SEPTEMBER 1990 George Szamuely KEVIN PHILLIPS TURNS THE SCREWS ON CONSERVATIVES How the resentful architect of the GOP's "Southern strategy" became...
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Corazon Aquino's Poverty Pimps
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McGurn, William
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William McGurn CORAZON AQUINO'S POVERTY PIMPS Ferdinand and Imelda may be long gone, but the Philippines remains the welfare queen of Asia, hooked on policies that brought the country to ruin in...
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Congress, Nader, and the Ambulance Chasers
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England, Robert Stowe
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Robert Stowe England CONGRESS, NADER, AND THE AMBULANCE CHASERS With allies like erstwhile consumer advocate Ralph Nader and leading congressional Democrats, trial lawyers have emerged as...
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Spectator's Journal/Mission to Malawi
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Gregory, Joseph R.
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL MISSION TO MALAWI Lilongwe, Malawi T t's almost noon on a Saturday at the U.S. Information Center here, where a two-week-old video of ABC News is drawing a big crowd. News of...
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The Nation's Pulse/Be Cool
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE NATION'S PULSE BE COOL by Benjamin J. Stein ou wouldn't want to venture into Also identifies you as so insecure about huahua, but it's Creepsville here. Stay where outside the gym. Very cool...
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Presswatch/The New Intolerants
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH THE NEW INTOLERANTS In its July 9 edition, Time reported that Louisiana had passed "the nation's most restrictive abortion law." Restrictive? Of what? Time meant that the law would...
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Soviet Presswatch/Death and Despair
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Young, Cathy
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SOVIET PRESSWATCH DEATH AND DESPAIR In a recent letter to the youth daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, one reader took a bold and defiant stand: he was happy to have been born in the Soviet Union. Yes,...
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The Talkies/Tricky Dick
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES TRICKY DICK by James Bowman when William Randolph Hearst introduced America to color comics in the New York Journal he described them as "eight pages of polychromatic effulgence that...
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Too Good to be True, by James Traub
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Starr, Roger
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BOOK REVIEWS T ames Traub has a good tale to spin: J the plundering of the United States Treasury by an unlikely, ill-matched gang of unpremeditating felons under cover of law. The instrument they...
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Notes of a Hanging Judge, by Stanley Crouch
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Bayles, Martha
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S tyle and substance seem to be at odds in contemporary discourse, to the detriment of both. The dense, crackling, iridescent prose of which English is singularly capable is too often wielded in the...
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Great Possessions, by David Kline
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Shiflett, Dave
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might have wondered what he was uninvited guests." Again, something thinking about as he bounced along in most of us probably didn't know. Kline's his buggy, serenely stroking his hairy book is full...
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Blood Class, and Nostalgia, by Christopher Hitchens
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Falcoff, Mark
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I asked to review Christopher Hitch- 1 ens's Blood Class, and Nostalgia because I expected it to be hugely entertaining. After all, the only thing more distasteful to me than an American Anglophile...
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Coleridge, by Richard Holmes
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Cranston, Maurice
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38 COLERIDGE: EARLY VISIONS Richard Holmes/Viking/409 pp. $22.95 Maurice Cranston T he prestige of Samuel Taylor Cole- faith in freedom, but claimed that the 1 ridge, poet and philosopher, has...
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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, by Edward Rice
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Miller, Mark
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vited into a very exotic sect shows some safe [for him]," as well as feeling a nerve. sincere Muslim call—he was by this The events that made up British co- time a Sufi master—Burton arranged...
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The Spanish Spectator/Land of My Father
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Marin, Rick
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THE SPANISH SPECTATOR LAND OF MY FATHER It was during a commercial for whole-wheat bread that I saw a woman's breasts floating languidly across a TV screen in the New Spain. First came the...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Guardian In the inimitable Guardian, Britain's chief processor of Fabian flapdoodle, a Comrade Lawrence Sutton blows the whistle on the conspirators in Peking's pro-democracy putsch...
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