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Vol. 024 Issue 007 (July 1 1991)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • May passes but not PC, that set of ideological mysteries that tyrannize some of America's best campuses, which is to say most expensive, not most intellectual. But The...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE 'Mane Totalitarians Tom Bethell's report on "Tulane and the Big Government Campus" (TAS, May 1991) correctly captured the totalitarian mindset of Tulane's administration. It goes...
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Editorials/The Borking of Carol Iannone/Mouthwash Madness
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Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
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MOUTHWASH MADNESS S pring is with us! But so are The Mournful—The Ever Mournful. No sooner are we visited by the first balmy gusts from the season of amour than word leaks from the National Cancer...
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Capitol Ideas/Watering the Chips
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Bethell, Tom
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WATERING THE CHIPS by Tom Bethel! Stanford, California Thomas Graff is a senior attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund and a graduate of Harvard Law School, with offices in Oakland right...
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The Conservative Bully Boy
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Frum, David
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 24, NO. 7 / JULY 1991 David Frum THE CONSERVATIVE BULLY BOY Pat Buchanan's critique of "neoconservatism," whatever he understands it to mean, rests on...
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Desperado Democrats and the Sick Offense
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Szamuely, George
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George Szamuely DESPERADO DEMOCRATS AND THE SICK OFFENSE Gary Sick's hallucinatory theory—brought to you by the New York Times—links Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980 to Republican conspiring with...
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The Most Considerate of Men
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Corry, John
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John Corry THE MOST CONSIDERATE OF MEN An old friend remembers the Polish-American novelist Jerzy Kosinski, a victim of twentieth-century thugs both East and West. W hen I heard that Jerzy...
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The French Correction
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Allen, Charlotte
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Charlotte Allen THE FRENCH CORRECTION Foiled in their predictions that a black market in the fabled French abortion pill RU-486 would flourish in the U.S. under import restrictions, proponents...
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Eminentoes/What's in a Good Name ?
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Platt, Adam
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EMINENTOES WHAT'S IN A GOOD NAME? ften in Washington, the rumor of k..1 a prominent man's demise is finalized in a social way. In the case of Clark Clifford, word began to move not long after the...
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The Nation's Pulse/The Making of a Vice President
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McNamara, Kevin J.
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THE NATION'S PULSE THE MAKING OF A VICE PRESIDENT eorge Bush's recent brush with mortality showed yet again that everyone has an opinion about the man who sits an irregular heartbeat away from...
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Ben Stein's Diary/The Wonder Years Recede
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY THE WONDER YEARS RECEDE Friday I can't sleep anymore, so I got up at seven and took Trixie for a walk. At this hour, West Hollywood is quiet and even delightful. One of the...
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Spectator's Journal/Enduring India
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Howard, Jennifer
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ENDURING INDIA by Jennifer Howard M y hostess, the wife of a self-made businessman, supervised the houseboy as he brought in a never-ending series of courses, encouraging us to eat copiously in...
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Presswatch/Against Her Will
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Eastland, Terry
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AGAINST HER WILL S hould the media name the accuser when the crime being charged is rape? No—unless she consents to her identification—was the policy followed by all news organizations above the...
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Soviet Presswatch/The Gorby Club
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Young, Cathy
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THE GORBY CLUB by Cathy Young T he beleaguered Mikhail Gorbachev .i. has a fan club—and no, its president is not Stephen F. Cohen. An interview with the general director of the Klub Gorbi, as the...
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The Talkies/Pardon Me, Myth
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES PARDON ME, MYTH by James Bowman eing a man in anything other than IMO a splatter flick these days ain't nowhere, man; it's the girls who have all the fun. At least they do in The...
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President Reagan / Revolution
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Cannon, Lou; Anderson, Martin
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BOOK REVIEWS T he good fortune that Ronald Rea- l gan enjoyed throughout his remarkable career failed him when Lou Cannon emerged as his Boswell. Cannon, a veteran journalist who covered the Reagan...
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The Commanders
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Woodward, Bob
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THE COMMANDERS Bob Woodward/Simon and Schuster/398 pp. $24.95 Victor Gold W hen we last heard from Bob Woodward he was interviewing Bill Casey on his deathbed, and if you won't take Woodward's...
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De Gaulle
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Lacouture, Jean
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DE GAULLE: THE REBEL, 1890-1944 Jean Lacouture/W. W. Norton/615 pp. $29.95 Mark Falcoff O ne day during the 1920s, a senior French general sat down under a tree at the Ecole de Guerre with one of...
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Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr., American
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Davis, Benjamin 0. Jr.
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BENJAMIN 0. DAVIS, JR. AMERICAN: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Benjamin 0. Davis, Jr./Smithsonian Institution Press 442 pp. $19.95 Dave Shiflett I t was reported recently that a gentle- ' man, on hearing...
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Watch on the Right
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Hoeveler, J. David Jr.
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WATCH ON THE RIGHT: CONSERVATIVE INTELLECTUALS IN THE REAGAN ERA J. David Hoeveler, Jr./University of Wisconsin Press/333 pp. $24.95 D. G. Myers Lionel 'frilling's remark in The Lib- eral...
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The Prize
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Yergin, Daniel
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THE PRIZE: THE EPIC QUEST FOR OIL, MONEY AND POWER Daniel Yergin/Simon and Schuster/876 pp. $24.95 Edward Norden Not love but decayed plankton makes the world go round—that's the burden of...
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The New York Spectator/Hell of a Town
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Thcker, William
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THE NEW YORK SPECTATOR HELL OF A TOWN by William Tucker n the little New Jersey, town where I I grew up, we could just see the tip of the Empire State Building on the horizon. You could get there...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times What kind of stupid statement is this Herbert Mitgang reviewing Lou Cannon's President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime: . . . of course being President of the United...
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