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IssueVol. 025 Issue 012 (December 1 1992)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
• As dread October gave way to November and execution day, President Bush spent the final week of his hapless campaign racking up bonus miles on Air Force One during last-ditch trips to such crucial...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Repent I immensely enjoyed Mary Eberstadt's cover article on Susan Faludi ("Wake Up, Little Susie," TAS, October 1992). Speaking as a politically incorrect working wife and mother...
Paid articleEditorials/The Lost Gentleman/Pietistic Gore
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS The Lost Gentleman by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. George Bush is, according to those who know him, one of the finest gentlemen to inhabit Washington in many years. Certainly he is one of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/A Major Ultimatum
Bethell, Tom
A Major Ultimatum by Tom Bethel! T he changes in England, since I left in 1962, have probably been as great as the changes here. Recently, I spent a few days in England and made a few notes on what...
Paid articleBooks for Christmas
Books for Christmas Our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. ELLIOTT ABRAMS For the non-fiction side, the best book around is Patrick Glynn's...
Paid articleDallas Greets President
Mallon, Thomas
Thomas Mallon Dallas Greets President Time stands still in Dealey Plaza. 0 n Sunday morning, November 24, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald died doing what many capital criminals are unable to resist: he...
Paid articleThe Comintern's Open Secrets
Klehr, Harvey; Haynes, John
Harvey Klehr and John Haynes The Comintern's Open Secrets The archives of the late Communist Party of the Soviet Union reveal a clear picture of subversion in the United States. W ith only a...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids/Tina on Top
Lyons, Donald
Tina on Top by Donald Lyons / n the days of the old New Yorker the joke ran: "What are the seven deadliest words in the English language?" Answer: "First of four parts by Ved Mehta." All that has...
Paid articleThe Rodeo Spectator/Bum Steer
Hume, Sandy
Bum Steer by Sandy Hume T he rodeo that came to Washington on October 4 was not your ordinary cowboy affair. "The Atlantic Stampede," as it was called, was a gay rodeo, the first such event staged...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Good Riddance?
Kaza, Juris
Good Riddance? by Juris Kaza Paplaka, Latvia T he name of this little village in western Latvia, the site of a Russian helicopter base, is suggestive of the Latvian word for collapse by deflation:...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary/Set for Life
Stein, Benjamin J.
Set for Life by Benjamin I. Stein Sunday New Orleans. I'm sitting up here on the stage of a huge meeting room at a hotel next to the Saint Dome or the SuperDome or something like that. There's a...
Paid articleThe Public Policy/Demagoguing the Deficit
O'Lessker, Karl
from Canada ruffling the waters, but only barely. Picture Mr. Perfect running on the grass, scooping up leaves and tossing them into the air. Picture him sliding down a gleaming steel slide while...
Paid articlePresswatch/Witch Doctor
Eastland, Terry
President Reagan's most spectacular legislative victories. I'm not saying that everything in our domestic-spending scheme of things is perfect. But Social Security pays for itself and ought to be...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch/Dead Meat
Young, Cathy
How much was your advance? Didn't you have something to gain from testifying against Clarence Thomas?" Meanwhile, those who might have been brazen enough to ask such questions during a radio or...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Heroes of Our Time
Bowman, James
Heroes of Our Time by James Bowman p robably the only people in the world who loved it when Sinead O'Connor tore up a photograph of the Pope on "Saturday Night Live" were a few florid-faced,...
Paid articleLetters, 1905-1965
Schweitzer, Albert
BOOK REVIEWS ost men of comparable intellectual and artistic gifts would be appalled at the thought of living a life like Albert Schweitzer's. Saintly self-abnegation is a tough row to hoe,...
Paid articleBrightness Falls
McInerney, Jay
offered instruction to a French Catholic boy scout whose troop was named after Schweitzer: Don't choose to make your life into something great. Make your life good and true. Maintain your...
Paid articleThe Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac
Parkman, Francis
When a Potawatomi woman told me that a female relative had once helped boil and eat a white man's heart, I was struck more by her own bluntness than by her ancestor's grisly deed. Such frank...
Paid articleRude Awakenings
White, Richard W. Jr.
corpses, "gashed with knives and scorched with fire, floated down on the pure waters of the Detroit, whose fish came up to nibble at the clotted blood that clung to their ghastly faces." Other...
Paid articleSound and Fury
Alterman, Eric
George Will is the root of all evil. "The McLaughlin Group" is a leading cause of racial tensions in the United States. Morton Kondracke has the blood of 100,000 slain Iraqi soldiers on his hands....
Paid articleOh Canada! Oh Quebec!
Richler, Mordecai
that section of the media where our political discourse takes place, the pundits have the power and obligation to point to a naked emperor and observe that he has no clothes on." Note well the key...
Paid articleA Nation of Victims
Sykes, Charles J.
because they knew who controlled the wealth of the city—but poor Irish Catholics and even poorer Jews were not so strong. Richler was tasteless enough to remind the nationalists of their...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Star-Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) A New Age Ku Kluxer, or just a benevolent idiot? Each day I walk my dog around Round Lake and witness a scene that makes me sad. There is always a huge flock...
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