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 Vol. 024 Issue 011 (November 1 1991)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • Like the earlier summer months of 1991, September sizzled in record heat and many of the world's statesmen lost their cool. President Bush tore a page from Pat Buchanan's...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Jeepers Veepers Thomas Mallon replies- about the political life of this nation to authoritative reviewer for My Tien by Reading "Travels with My Veep" by Considering all the hot air...
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Editorials/After the Plague/Ghoulish Hungary
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Jr, R Emmett Tyrrell
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EDITORIALS AFTER THE PLAGUE by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Warsaw T his city reminds the traveling one of the foremost observers of con- my, but it is going to take time and there 1980s in encouraging...
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Capitol Ideas/The Center Folds
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Bethell, Tom
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Communists read these writers at underground universities, along with the eighteenth-century free-marketeer Adam Smith and such contemporary American conservatives as William E Buckley, Jr. They...
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Commies-Dead but Too Dumb to Lie Down
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O'Rourke, P. J.
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 24, NO. 11 / NOVEMBER 1991 P. J. O'Rourke COMMIES DEAD BUT TOO DUMB TO LIE DOWN In time for the Tailgunner's birthday, the second annual readers' update of the Joe...
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A Bizarre Province
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Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
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Back In School R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A BIZARRE PROVINCE Preliminary findings from The American Spectator's Amnesty in Academia campaign. E vidence accumulates that in our time those...
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So You Want to Go to College' ?
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SO YOU WANT TO GO TO COLLEGE? Here's some advice from leading educators on how to survive on a modern campus without rotting your brains and bankrupting your parents. needs the energy to track...
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A Barzun Sampler
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Back In School A BARZUN SAMPLER Wisdom, reproach, and advice from one of America's most distinguished men of letters. Jacques Barzun, the eminent biographer, essayist, critic, and teacher, has...
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Just Say No to College
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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Aram Bakshian, Jr. JUST SAY NO TO COLLEGE Washington's most formidable dropout recalls the road not taken. GEORGE BURNS: What's your hurry? tioning system was working that after- bought for all...
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The Class of '96
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Nilson, Nina
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Nina Nilson THE CLASS OF '96 A high school teacher's memoir from hell. M any people, including teachers, tine, proper, liberal, always politically "Regular" classes are the bottom track Most of...
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Spectator's Journal/Casey's Final Mission
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Ledeen, Michael
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL CASEY'S FINAL MISSION rr hat congressional investigators I should be digging into the October Surprise Hoax rather than studying Bill Casey's greatest operation is a tribute to...
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Coup Document/Three Days in Riga
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Kalnins, Ojars
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COUP DOCUMENT THREE DAYS IN RIGA Ifirst learned about the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev around midnight, Sunday, August 18. My wife and I had just finished watching the Mel Gibson version of...
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Soviet Presswatch/Free at Last
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Young, Cathy
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SOVIET PRESSWATCH FREE AT LAST by Cathy Young A man in Moscow comes into a café and says, "Wallet; bring me coffee a rolt and today's copy of Pravda. " "I'm sorry" the waiter says, "but I can't...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Terminate MacGyver
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY TERMINATE MAcGYVER Wednesday R ush, rush, rush, over hill and down dale, to audition for a commercial advertising pickles. At the audition, there was a story board describing...
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Presswatch/Anti-Borking
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH ANTI-BORKING by Terry Eastland O n August 12, 1937, Franklin Dela- write and raise hell. Nowadays ten or nition to Paul Johnson's term for the position. "Never before had I felt so no...
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The Talkies/Who Am I?
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES WHO AM I? by James Bowman D uring my freshman year in college fully sympathetic character in the movie. of us who have grown out of that sort and worshipper of various assassins and I...
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Woodrow Wilson, by August Heckscher
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Johnson, Paul
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BOOK REVIEWS athedocracy, or rule from the teacher's chair, the exercise of power by scholars, is a tempting theory of government. Is it not logical that the most learned should take the most...
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Peter Lawford, by James Spada
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Lord, M. G.
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T he first time I saw Peter Lawford 1 on television was in the late sixties. I was twelve or thirteen, and even with a child's susceptibility to trendiness, I sensed that this withered actor with...
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My Favorite Summer 1956, by Mickey Mantle, and I Had a Hammer, by Henry Aaron
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Scully, Matthew
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Iisa part of the charm of Mickey Mantle autobiographies—there are now at least four of them—that the Mick can never quite figure how an ordinary guy like himself ever inspired such deep, unshakable...
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The United States of Ambition, by Alan Ehrenhalt
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Hannaford, Peter
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theme (Robert Taft, Ronald Reagan). George Bush comes out a hybrid: self-nominating in. 1980, standard-bearing in 1988. Carter was perhaps the first to run "as the reflection of his own ambitions...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times On the front page of the leading gazette of racially tranquil New York, an apparent call for affirmative action on Death Row . . . or race riots. You figure it...
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