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Vol. 025 Issue 001 (January 1 1992)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • November has passed and with it the radiant aura enhaloing President George Herbert Walker Bush. Ideas have consequences, as the sage would have it, but no ideas have...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE One on Five Good God! After printing—presumably with his eyes open—an attack on Pat Buchanan in TAS, David Frum has the gall to act shocked when he's deluged with furious and...
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Christmas Books Supplement
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Christmas Books Supplement Thanks to postal confusion nationwide as well as to jammed FAX lines, secretarial walkouts, the deepening Darman recession, and other pressing matters of state, the...
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Editorials/The Brady Bunch/ Hang 'em High
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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It is the fear of many of President Bush's supporters that he will not be able to renew his call for tax cuts until Secretary of the Treasury Brady and budget director Darman go. Without tax cuts it...
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Capitol Ideas/Doing the Right Thing
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Bethell, Tom
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Doing the Right Thing by Tom Bethel! After a couple of weeks in England, I returned to find conservatives divided, the entire Opinion Cartel in an uproar because, a former Grand Wizard of the Ku...
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America's New Man
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Ferguson, Andrew
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America's New Man Introducing the men's movement—or how to turn a bunch of patheticos into a loving and hugging band of drum-bangers, poem-shouters, and Dad-haters. by Andrew Ferguson Austin,...
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MacArthur's Millions
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Muravchik, Joshua
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Joshua Muravchik MacArthur's Millions A foundation created by a strange right-winger has become a treasure trove for a variety of leftist "geniuses" and other lost causes. In view of the fate of...
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Yankees Go Home
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McGurn, William
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William McGurn Yankees Go Home Unless the Jesse Jacksons of the Philippine senate have a sudden change of heart, after nearly a century the U.S. military presence in the Philippines is coming to...
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European Document/Memoir of the Year
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Reid, Stuart
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Memoir of the Year by Stuart Reid London Among the sneering classes in Britain, Auberon Waugh is known as "Son of Evelyn" or "Evelyn Waugh Part II." Such epithets are as ill-informed as they are...
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Spectator 's Journal/A New Balance of Terror
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Haselkom, Avigdor
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A New Balance of Tenor by Avigdor Haselkorn The Bush Administration took two steps in October that confirm an important change in U.S. thinking toward the Middle East. Ironically—and...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Benetton U.
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Ferguson, Tim W.
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At the World Dance on a Saturday night in late September, I saw the New Stanford University. Along a campus street, multicultural bands were playing variations on Latino funk. There, on a ministage...
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Eminentoes/The Other Plath
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King, Florence
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The Other Plath by Florence King poet the expatriate American poet Sylvia Plath gassed herself in her London flat in February 1963, Betty Friedan was anticipating the publication of The Feminine...
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Ben Stein's Diary/The Sad Society
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Thursday If you have a lemon, make lemonade. I was lying on my bed, "wrestling" with my son, the world's handsomest boy, Tommy. "Wrestling" means that he waits until I'm not looking, then he jumps...
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Presswatch/Andrea's Abomination
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Eastland, Terry
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Andrea's Abomination by Terry Eastland On October 24, "NBC Nightly News" ran the year's most disgraceful bit of breaking-news journalism: Andrea Mitchell's "coverage" of the last political round...
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Soviet Presswatch/Tolstaya City
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Young, Cathy
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Tolstaya City by Cathy Young Apage one cartoon in Komsomolskaya Pravda shows a bug-eyed, disheveled demonstrator with a banner that reads, NICHEVO NE PONIMAYU!—best translated as, WHAT THE HELL IS...
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The Talkies/Post No Billings
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Bowman, James
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Post No Billings by James Bowman 6 6 I/ n lapidary inscriptions," said Dr. Johnson, "a man is not upon oath." He might have said the same about movie advertising. The poster for Robert Benton's...
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Iron John and Fire in the Belly
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Bly, Robert; Keen, Sam
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BOOK REVIEWS ha male over 16 who has to read a book on ow to become a man is already in deep—well, you know. Robert Bly, author of Iron John and Sam Keen, author of Fire in the Belly, appear to...
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The Turn
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Oberdorfer, Don
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Check out these quotes, then I'll tell why they're so important: Ronald Reagan had "a very broad strategy for dealing with the Soviets." It was simple: "Build up U.S. military power and then...
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Scandal
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Garment, Suzanne
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SCANDAL: THE CULTURE OF MISTRUST IN AMERICAN POLITICS Suzanne Garment Times Books/336 pages/$23 reviewed by STEVE MUNSON Once upon a time, a politician or government official risked scandal if...
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City Limits
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Teachout, Terry
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Terry Teachout grew up in a small town in Missouri and, after brief improvisations here and there, made his way to the big lights of New York City. Now in his thirties—not exactly his dotage—he's...
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Watching America
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Lichter, S. Robert; Lichter, Linda S.; Rothman, Stanley
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WATCHING AMERICA: WHAT TELEVISION TELLS US ABOUT OUR LIVES S. Robert Lichter, Linda S. Lichter, Stanley Rothman Prentice Hall/322 pages/$24.95 reviewed by DAVE SHIFLETT Janet Richardson was,...
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Supermarketer to the World
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Kahn, E. J. Jr.
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SUPERMARKETER TO THE WORLD E.J. Kahn, Jr. Warner Books/320 pages/$24.95 reviewed by JOE QLIEENAN It is a truism in the publishing industry that a staggering number of books are nothing more than...
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America's Constitutional Soul
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Mansfield, Harvey C. Jr.
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Over the last quarter-century, Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. has pursued a two-track career as a student of politics. On the one hand, he has addressed his fellow scholars and their students, publishing...
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The Best American Sports Writing 1991
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Halberstam, David
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THE BEST AMERICAN SPORTS WRITING 1991 Edited by David Halberstam (Series Editor: Glenn Stout) Houghton Mifflin/338 pages/$21.95; $9.95 paper reviewed by SHAWN MILLER B ack in the days when his...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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The Great Books Series Belles-lettres from Mrs. Ben Bradlee, inspired to new fictive heights by an infamous virus: The plan for her to appear on the platform the last night was the idea of the...
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