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 Vol. 025 Issue 011 (November 1 1992)
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 The Continuing Crisis
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• Nineteen ninety-two continues to be an extraordinarily successful year for natural disasters. In September a prominent earthquake provoked 30-foot tidal waves to impinge upon Nicaragua, leaving...
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Correspondence
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Rush Live Bravo, to Terry Eastland for an excellent article about Rush Limbaugh ("Rush Limbaugh: Talking Back," TAS, September 1992). Despite his critics, Limbaugh has brought talk radio from its...
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Editorials/In Bosnia/Dread October
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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In Bosnia by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina perhaps it was not such a good idea for me to absent myself from America's current outbreak of political doubletalk and hot air. The...
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Capitol Ideas/The End Is Nigh
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Bethell, Tom
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The End Is Nigh As I write, at the end of Septem- ber, the conventional wisdom is that Bill Clinton will win the election. The feckless Ross Perot, who poses as an outsider but seeks to implement...
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The Coming Clinton Dynasty
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Norquist, Grover
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The Coming Clinton Dynasty Conservatives who think the Clinton Administration will be a short interregnum are making a disastrous mistake. For since Watergate, Democrats have learned to deal...
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Mob Stories
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Conlon, Edward
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Edward Conlon Mob Stories Our crime correspondent gives an aficionado's tour of the American mafia. Wen Meyer Lan- sky made his memorable claim some thirty years ago that organized crime was...
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1992 New Enemies List Third Annual Readers' Update
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O'Rourke, P J.
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Of course, no one suffers from Ford Foundation To the extent United Way controls the flow of multitudi Syndrome like the Ford Foundation, which has in the past nous individual donations, groups...
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The Public Policy/Clinton's Funny-Number Factory
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McFadden, Edward
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Clinton's Funny-Number Factory by Edward McFadden / n the Fall 1991 issue of the American Prospect, Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg laid out what his party must to do to regain the White...
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Eminentoes/Yes, Minister
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Brooks, David
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Yes, Minister by David Brooks B ritish prime minister John Major's victory over Labour challenger Neil Kinnock was a stunning upset, and shocked nearly all observers except Major himself. Yet, when...
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Ben Stein's DiarylRequiem for an Army Wife
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Requiem for an Army Wife by Benjamin J. Stein Friday Ring, ring, ring. At about ten to eight, as I was sleeping, listening to the wonderful sound of my boy laughing in my dreams, I was awakened by...
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Presswatch/Newsweek Acts Up
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Eastland, Terry
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Newsweek Acts Up by Terry Eastland I suppose it was inevitable in a presi- dential campaign year focused more than any before upon matters involving homosexuality that one of the major newsweeklies...
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Russian Presswatch/Lessons in Liberty
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Young, Cathy
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Lessons in Liberty by Cathy Young ne year after a gang of hardliners Novodvorskaya, the impetuous leader of things were "good"; 63 percent, "fair"; 0 botched their coup and the Soviet the...
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The Great American Saloon Series/A New York Couple
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Brookhiser, Richard
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A New York Couple by Richard Brookhiser Adrink in the lounge of the Algonquin Hotel was the setup for the best birthday present I ever got my wife. I am terrible at presents, especially birthday...
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The Talkies/Family Value
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Bowman, James
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Family Value by James Bowman ollywood always looks its worst H Like so many others of its genre, at election time. This year we South Central suffers from being too have to endure not only...
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Undue Process
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Abrams, Elliott
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/ have heretofore refused to review friends' books, for how could I publicly excoriate a friend if I hated his work? And how could any reader take seriously words of praise for a pal? Good reasons,...
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Lincoln at Gettysburg
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Wills, Garry
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LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG: THE WORDS THAT REMADE AMERICA Garry Wills Simon & Schuster /317 pages/$23 reviewed by PETER L. WELSH S ince the broadcast two years ago of Ken Burns's PBS series, The...
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Who Prospers?
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Harrison, Lawrence E.
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WHO PROSPERS? HOW CULTURAL VALUES SHAPE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SUCCESS Lawrence E. Harrison Basic Books /280 pages /$22 reviewed by DAVID FRLIM John Maynard Keynes once said of Bertrand...
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The Double Life of Stephen Crane
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Benfey, Christopher
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THE DOUBLE LIFE OF STEPHEN CRANE Christopher Benfey Alfred A. Knopf /294 pages/$25 reviewed by MATTHEW SCULLY T he life of Stephen Crane, like the lives of Hemingway and other literary realists...
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Invisible Victims
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Lynch, Frederick R.
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INVISIBLE VICTIMS: WHITE MALES AND THE CRISIS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Frederick R. Lynch Praeger /238 pages/$14.95 reviewed by PETER BRIMELOW T he collapse of socialism, in both its Communist...
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Nofziger
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Nofziger, Lyn
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There are two sayings everyone in politics should learn. One is an old Kennedy family motto: Don't get mad, get even. The other was given to me by a newspaperman friend, John Pinkerman, after I had...
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The Claws of the Dragon
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Byron, John; Pack, Robert
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THE CLAWS OF THE DRAGON: KANG SHENG—THE EVIL GENIUS BEHIND MAO— AND HIS LEGACY OF TERROR IN PEOPLE'S CHINA John Byron and Robert Pack Simon & Schuster /560 pages/$27.50 reviewed by WILLIAM...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Los Angeles Times A highly irregular communique to the correspondence page of a leading national newspaper, possibly from a resident of Death Row: I request that you publish my willingness to have...
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