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Vol. 024 Issue 009 (September 1 1991)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • As one of the hottest Julys on record evaporated, yells of help went up from the sweating, heaving prophets of global warming. Yet have they noticed that 73.3 percent of the...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Web of Lies The despicable attempt by John Sarich (Correspondence, TAS, July 1991) to defame the record of a great and patriotic man, General Draza Mihailovich, must be corrected....
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Editorials/Introducing Clarence Thomas/Memory of an Elephant
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Tyrrell, R Emmett Jr.
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MEMORY OF AN ELEPHANT Here is how the Democrats are going to win the 1992 presidential election, which, incidentally, will be their first presidential win since 1976 and only their second since...
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Capitol Ideas/California Calamity
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Bethel, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS CALIFORNIA CALAMITY “All the causes of the decay of Spain resolve themselves into one cause, bad government," Lord Macaulay wrote. California's decline, when it becomes conspicuous,...
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Cuba's Open Boats
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Bruce, Matias Rojas
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VOL. 24, NO. 9 / SEPTEMBER 1991. THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR Matias Rojas Bruce CUBA'S OPEN BOATS As Cuba's society collapses, desperate islanders are paddling out to sea in hopes of reaching...
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The Grounding of Air Sununu
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Hume, Brit
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Brit Hume THE GROUNDING OF AIR SUNUNU Using Air Force planes wasn't even John Sununu's idea in the first place, and the controversy over his travels should have been short-lived. But he let pride...
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Navels with My Veep
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Mallon, Thomas
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Thomas Mallon TRAVELS WITH MY VEEP With Dan Quayle in Memphis, Tennessee, and Huntington, Indiana. BBetween Dan Quayle and four mem- bers of the working press sit nine men with guns. Air Force...
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Special Correspondence/The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Responses to Frum's Buchanan
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY RESPONSES TO FRUM'S BUCHANAN David Frum's piece trashing Pat Buchanan ("The Conservative Bully Boy," TAS, July 1991) smells more like the...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Fingered
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY FINGERED Thursday Up at 5:00 a.m. to be in Culver City for a commercial by 7:00 a.m. This meant quite a lot to me because, you see, the director is a truly huge name in...
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Presswatch/Gag Rulers
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Eastland, Terry
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PRESSWATCH GAG RULERS by Terry Eastland W hat's wrong with the lead of Linda P. Campbell's story in the May 24 Chicago Tribune: "In a victory for abortion foes, the Supreme Court on Thursday...
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Soviet Presswatch/Growing Pains
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Young, Cathy
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SOVIET PRESSWATCH GROWING PAINS by Cathy Young Less than a year after the Soviet Union received its own (far more verbose and far less clear-cut) version of the First Amendment, the Law on the...
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The Great Cairene Saloon Series/Dog Days at Hamed's
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Jeffrey, Terence P.
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THE GREAT CAIRENE SALOON SERIES DOG DAYS AT HAMED'S Thursday is Cairo's Friday, when the Marine barracks within the high-walled compound of the U.S. Embassy is transformed into an Animal House...
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The Talkies/'The Child Is Father to the Man
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES THE CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN amilies and sentimentality go toil. gether like Corn Flakes and milk. One of the easiest tricks in the cinematic trade is to put children in loco...
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A Question of Character, by Thomas C. Reeves
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Johnson, Paul
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BOOK REVIEWS ontemporaries of, say, Herod the ‘,...Great, Louis XIV, or Napoleon could be forgiven if they hero-worshipped monsters. How could they get access to the truth? Nor was it difficult, in...
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Parliament of Whores, by P. J. O'Rourke
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Wattenberg, Daniel
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PJ. O'Rourke is taking conserva- ., tism into the exclusive after-hours clubs of American culture, places conservatives used to get turned away from because they looked too straight: the pages of...
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Silent Coup, by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin
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Meyer, Herbert E.
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o many self-proclaimed "investigative reporters" have written books during the last few years that the formula for this kind of book is now down pat: Pick a well-known public scandal, expose what...
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America's Purpose, edited by Owen Harries
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Chapman, Michael
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AMERICA'S PURPOSE: NEW VISIONS OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY Edited by Owen Harries/ICS Press/175 pp. $19.95 Michael Chapman I t wasn't long after Germans took their sledgehammers to the Berlin Wall...
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If I Stop I'll Die, by John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams
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Queenan, Joe
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W hether its subject is Eastern European totalitarianism, Watergate, colitis, the rise and fall of Freddie Prinze, or Sudanese irrigation projects, no genuinely awful book can be deemed completely...
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Call Me a Doctor, by Jack Griffitts, M.D.
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Miller, Shawn
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CORRESPONDENCE (continued from page 7) with U.S. government subsidies. Maybe they should get back to basketball. This brought to mind an article I read a few months back in an education journal....
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM New York Times Food for thought from the Reagan White House's most eloquent software, as transcribed by her pal, Maureen Dowd: "Inside those blue pinstriped suits, crisp white...
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