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Vol. 024 Issue 003 (March 1 1991)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • January has passed, and the Bush Administration's vigorous measures against tyranny worldwide have begun to pay off. At Stanford University the so-called president, Mr....
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Correspondence/The Nader Letters
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CORRESPONDENCE The Nader Letters No one was more surprised than I that Ralph Nader publicly ignored "Congress, Nader, and the Ambulance Chasers," my cover story in the September 1990 American...
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Editorials/The Worst Book of the Year/Fathead Bishops
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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FATHEAD BISHOPS I f, like me, you have had diffi- cultyy finding the actual whereabouts of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's nationally televised talk show, help is on the way. There is calamity abroad in...
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Capitol Ideas/Stanford, Angela, and Me
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS STANFORD, ANGELA, AND ME O ne of the things adults do today that may seem peculiar in the future is hold hands in public. At Stanford University, on the day after the Gulf War began,...
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We Are Number One
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Ledeen, Michael
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 24, NO. 3 / MARCH 1991 Michael Ledeen WE ARE NUMBER ONE America's performance in the Gulf war charts the outlines of a one-superpower world. As misconceptions die in...
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The Most Overrated Book of the Year
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Frum, David
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David Frum THE MOST OVERRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR Bronx cheers to conservatives who've been heaping praise on Jim Sleeper's socialistic The Closest of Strangers grr he cause of bad writing," 1 H. L...
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Give Us This Day Our Daily News
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Tucker, William
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GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY NEWS. U nlike almost everyone I know in New York, I am a loyal fan of the Daily News, New York's largest tabloid. Like all great art, it offers a simple reflection of the...
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Germany Neither East Nor West
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Szamuely, George
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George Szamuely GERMANY NEITHER EAST NOR WEST Reunification has left the Germans crabby, cowardly, and conveniently anti-Communist. Berlin Since last summer, the world media have been...
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Down Under/A Few Right Moves
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Cranston, Maurice
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DOWN UNDER A FEW RIGHT MOVES P rime Minister Bob Hawke's Labor I– government is busy burying socialism. The last party conference accepted his proposal to sell off the airlines, the...
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Eminentoes/We Liked Ike
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Brookhiser, Richard
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EMINENTOES WE LIKED IKE by Richard Brookhiser Publishers marked the centennial of P Dwight David Eisenhower's birth last year a little listlessly. Stephen E. Ambrose's standard biography appeared...
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The Nation's Pulse/The Malibu Plan
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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THE NATION'S PULSE THE MALIBU PLAN W ell, it had to happen. In the 1980s, taking a cue from the big boys—the Trumps, the Belzbergs, the Icahns, the Farleys—and everyone else who got a museum wing...
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Reflections/Maggie's Magic
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Gingrich, Newt
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REFLECTIONS MAGGIE'S MAGIC by Newt Gingrich D o ideas matter to politicians? Do words mean anything to them? Do speeches change history? The Washingtonian answers are No, No, and No. The...
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Spectator's Journal/The Other Perestroika
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Train, John
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL THE OTHER PERESTROIKA Johannesburg lmost nobody believed that President F. W. de Klerk would bring real democracy to South Africa, any more than most in the West initially...
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Presswatch/Preferring the Law
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH PREFERRING THE LAW by Terry Eastland L ast fall, the committee of the Fies- to Bowl, held in Arizona, decided it had to atone for the state's refusal to approve a Martin Luther King,...
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Soviet Presswatch/Taking Care of Business
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Young, Cathy
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SOVIET PRESSWATCH TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS Today, we take a lens to the Soviet media in trying times. Independent news agencies have their phones cut off; provocative TV shows are canceled and...
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The Talkies/This Great Dane's a Dog
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES THIS GREAT DANE'S A DOG or me, the first principle of criticism is to assess a work of art for what it is, never for what it isn't—still less for not being what I think it should...
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The First Universal Nation
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Wattenberg, Ben J.
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BOOK REVIEWS rri here are only two nations on this 1 earth that are simultaneously fantasies and realities, those two being, of course, the tremendous United States of America and tiny Israel....
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The Colonel
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Hodgson, Godfrey
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T he next time David S. Broder or I R. W. Apple, Jr., or George E Will, or any other of our politico-j ournalistic luminaries speculates in print about George Bush's "vision thing," it would be...
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The Iliad
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Fagles, Robert
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0 f all books extant in all kinds, Homer is the first and best." Thus begins George Chapman's "Preface to the Reader" in his 1616 translation of the Iliad. The publication of a new translation by...
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In the Time of the Tyrants
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Koster, R. M.; Sanchez, Guillermo
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rr his is not another "Noriega book" 1 but an extraordinary history of Panama from the coup that overthrew the democratically elected government of Arnulfo Arias in October 1968 to the U.S. invasion...
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The Hidden Nations/Soviet Disunion
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Diuk, Nadia; Karatnycky, Adrian; Nahaylo, Bohdan; Swoboda, Victor
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ikhail Gorbachev was eating lrl lunch in the Kremlin the day Lithuania's president, Vytautas Landsbergis, phoned to denounce the massacre of civilians in Vilnius by Soviet troops. The Soviet...
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The Japan That Can Say No
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Ishihara, Shintaro
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S hortly after this book appeared in Japan, the US. Department of Defense, alarmed by its rhetoric, ordered a translation. Although the translation was a poor one and sections were omitted, it soon...
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Once in Love with Amy
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Once in Love with Amy O n December 15, at sundown, at his residence atop an icy slope in rural New Hampshire, P. J. O'Rourke, the author of—among other classics—The Bachelor Home Companion,...
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The Rex Harrison Spectator/Bidding Goodbye
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Mallon, Thomas
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THE REX HARRISON SPECTATOR BIDDING GOODBYE T he man at the lectern looks out 1 over his half-glasses and asks the audience who will give him $275 for Richard Nixon. Actually, it is a copy of The...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Hearing of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee A historic moment in the life of the 102nd Congress suitable for rebroadcast on "Saturday Night Live" or a documentary...
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