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Vol. 025 Issue 012 (December 1 1992)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• 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...
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Correspondence
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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...
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Editorials/The Lost Gentleman/Pietistic Gore
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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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...
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Capitol Ideas/A Major Ultimatum
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Bethell, Tom
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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...
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Books for Christmas
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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...
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Dallas Greets President
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Mallon, Thomas
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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...
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The Comintern's Open Secrets
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Klehr, Harvey; Haynes, John
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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...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Tina on Top
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Lyons, Donald
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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...
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The Rodeo Spectator/Bum Steer
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Hume, Sandy
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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...
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Spectator's Journal/Good Riddance?
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Kaza, Juris
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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:...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Set for Life
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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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...
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The Public Policy/Demagoguing the Deficit
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O'Lessker, Karl
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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...
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Presswatch/Witch Doctor
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Eastland, Terry
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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...
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Russian Presswatch/Dead Meat
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Young, Cathy
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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...
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The Talkies/Heroes of Our Time
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Bowman, James
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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,...
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Letters, 1905-1965
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Schweitzer, Albert
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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,...
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Brightness Falls
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McInerney, Jay
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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...
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The Oregon Trail and The Conspiracy of Pontiac
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Parkman, Francis
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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...
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Rude Awakenings
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White, Richard W. Jr.
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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...
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Sound and Fury
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Alterman, Eric
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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....
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Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!
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Richler, Mordecai
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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...
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A Nation of Victims
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Sykes, Charles J.
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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...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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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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