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Vol. 024 Issue 008 (August 1 1991)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • June passes and so has my displeasure with Pat Buchanan for trashing a third of the conservative movement and for giving encouragement to some rather unpleasant people. Now,...
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Special Correspondence/Robert Novak
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Buchanan, Pat; Frum, David
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criminately returning their ashes, giving, for instance, the ashes of a dog to a cat owner or those of an angel fish to the owner of an opossum. The pet cemetery's owners also face charges...
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Editorials/How High the Bounce?/The Noble Racist
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS HOW HIGH THE BOUNCE? THE NOBLE RACIST Apropos of God knows what, I just heard Mr. Rod MacLeish, a commentator on a Christian Science Monitor radio news program, announce that we are in...
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Capitol Ideas/Good as Gould
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Bethell, Tom
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gory unforeseen a generation ago, when all Liberals and advocates of civil liberties dreamed of a color-blind America. The Democrats' 1991 Civil Rights Bill attempts to overthrow a 1989 Supreme...
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Is the Pope Capitalist?
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McGurn, William
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VOL. 24, NO. 8 / AUGUST 1991 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR William McGurn IS THE POPE CAPITALIST? Not if you ask an American bishop. OOn May 2, 1991, readers of the Wall Street Journal opened their...
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Right Behind You, Scarlett!
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Norden, Edward
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as only one facet of a free existence. Throughout Centesimus Annus John Paul takes pains to insist that it should not be read as a political treatise. This is not to say, however, that it is...
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Not Losing at All Cost: Smooth Jim Baker's Rocky Reign at State
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Brock, David
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David Brock NOT LOSING AT ALL COST: SMOOTH JIM BAKER'S ROCKY REIGN AT STATE President Bush's secretary of state has mastered the Foreign Service and lost touch with the world. W hen President...
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European Document/The Gulf Across the Atlantic
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Reid, Stuart
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EUROPEAN DOCUMENT THE GULF ACROSS THE ATLANTIC London One does not like to intrude on pri- kj vate joy, but it has to be said that, the Gulf alliance and Sir Stormin' Norman notwithstanding,...
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The Nation's Pulse/Why Liberals Hate Politics
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Barnes, Fred
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THE NATION'S PULSE WHY LIBERALS HATE POLITICS T hree years after the 1988 presiden- I tial campaign, Willie Horton is still driving liberals nuts—except now they are ready to do something about...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Hooked
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY HOOKED by Benjamin J. Stein Wednesday About a week ago, my pal B., a suc- cessful small businessman in Dallas, called to ask a favor. "My absolutely best astrologer I've ever...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Lost in Translation
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Gurevich, David
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS LOST IN TRANSLATION F fifteen years ago in Moscow I worked as an interpreter at receptions for Western cultural luminaries, where the Ministry of Culture would spread...
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The Public Policy/Return to Spender
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Bandow, Doug
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views on Personal Issues, her bittersweet account of a journalist torn between her career and her family. Although touching and sincere, the film was stylistically dated, with a jazz soundtrack...
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Presswatch/Commander Woodward
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH COMMANDER WOODWARD n May 2, the Washington Post announced the publication of The Commanders, the new book by its own Bob Woodward, on page Al. The story, written by Haynes Johnson,...
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Soviet Presswatch/Spy Magazine
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Young, Cathy
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SOVIET PRESSWATCH SPY MAGAZINE by Cathy Young It used to be that whenever the KGB wanted something to appear in the press—say, a denunciation of the subversive doings of human rights groups—a...
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The Talkies/The Banality of '90s Evil
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Bowman, James
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with the caption reading, "This is the essence. This is the source of our strength and the token of the inevitable, full victory of Communism." And this is sponsored by the same MossovietMoscow City...
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The Beauty Myth
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Wolf, Naomi
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BOOK REVIEWS T he Beauty Myth has already caused something of a stir in England and, being English, I think I can understand why. The argument is outrageous, and it is written in a wild and witty...
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Nothing to Declare
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Taki
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working week to the inescapable duties of a wife and mother. The situation is especially bad in America, because American men do not take their jobs easily, as British and Australian men do—they...
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Muhammad Ali
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Hauser, Thomas
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Taki's prison friendships—most of them, interestingly, with blacks—did little to dissuade him from his feeling that criminals are endemically deluded individuals with no sense of guilt. He ruminates...
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India
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Naipaul, V. S.
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ost-independence India is a more ir tempting subject for critics than for admirers—never more so than in the wake of recent violence and resurgent Hindu chauvinism. Her failures and contradictions,...
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Music Sounded Out/Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts
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Brendel, Alfred
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During one fortnight in 1831, Liszt crammed between his four-to-fivehour keyboard practice sessions a deep study of Homer, Plato, Locke, Byron, Victor Hugo, Chateaubriand, I amartine, and the Bible....
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The Booksellers' Spectator/Paste Tests
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Young, Cathy
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THE BOOKSELLERS' SPECTATOR TASTE TESTS by Cathy Young All was not PC at the American ..Booksellers' Association annual convention, held from May 31 to June 4 at the Jacob Javits Center in New...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM San Francisco Chronicle Poignant questions from Terri of San Anselmo: I was surprised to learn from the soldiers of First Platoon (Letters, May 23) that there are still U.S....
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