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Vol. 025 Issue 005 (May 1 1992)
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The Continuing Crisis
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• As the days of March grew longer, the frosty mists of winter mornings gave way to the bright new dawns of springtime—unlike the presidential primary season, which for all intents won't compete for...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE The Borking of Anita Hill My wife and I really enjoyed David Brock's article about "The Real Anita Hill" (TAS, March 1992). I can assure you that I do not normally compliment people...
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Editorials/The Nixon Doctrine/Video Proliferation
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS The Nixon Doctrine by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. History moves abruptly, particular- ly in Russia. In February of 1917 the Czar's regime, which annually executed a dozen or so political...
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Capitol IdeaslHeretic
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Bethell, Tom
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Heretic by Tom Bethell 4 4 eH retic" is a much admired category in contemporary liberal thought—provided the heretic in question is safely dead. (Galileo comes to mind.) The other day I went...
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The Fall of the House of Windsor
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Reid, Stuart
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(*' The Fall of the House of Windsor Will the British monarchy survive the fortieth anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's accession? by Stuart Reid London 1 f Her Majesty occasionally looks glum,...
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
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Caldwell, Christopher
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Christopher Caldwell Smoke Gets in Your Eyes But it probably doesn't give you cancer, despite what the EPA says. proving dangers to non-smokers from "environmental tobacco smoke" (ETS, or...
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Down in the Hole
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Conlon, Edward
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Edward Conlon Down in the Hole Six weeks with the police in New York's subway tunnels. Come back to the subways! But not to live! Only to go from one place to another! There's not much graffiti,...
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Poem/Five Men Who Take a Chance at Pins
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Zwaska, James
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assed, and there was still no train. John asked if we should get a car. "One of the surface crime cars?" I asked. I hoped that they wouldn't get one, as it would likely mean that I would lose...
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The International Pulse/A Stern Gang
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Ledeen, Michael
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A Stern Gang T he emptiness of our public rhetoric is a useful measure of the failure of our political class to comprehend the revolutionary moment we are living. As the Soviet Empire came undone,...
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Spectator's Journal/Iraq Trap
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Haselkorn, Avigdor
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Iraq Trap by Avigdor Haselkorn While Western leaders express satisfaction at the pragmatism Iran and Syria have displayed in their recent foreign policies (e.g., Syria's participation in the Middle...
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Among the Intellectualoids/A Monument of One's Own
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West, Diana
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AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS A Monument of One's Own by Diana West In 1718, the 17-year-old Collegiate School changed its name to Yale College, in spite of the fact that neither eponym Elihu Yale...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Sugar Daddy
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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There are also cassettes, from which I chose "Elvis: The Christmas Album," even though it's February. I got up, paid my eight dollars to the lovely Robin, the hair stylist who usually takes care of...
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Presswatch/Doubting Thomas Again
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Eastland, Terry
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Doubting Thomas Again by Terry Eastland T o the videotape we go, specifically to Paula Zahn of "CBS This Morning." She's on the air with National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg, one of the two...
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Russian Presswatch/Who Will Pay?
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Young, Cathy
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Who Will Pay? by Cathy Young Even as Richard Nixon argues for more aid to help Russia stay the Yeltsin course, debate continues over whether that course is the correct one. At the Cato Institute's...
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The Talkies/The Multicultural Multiplex
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Bowman, James
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The Multicultural Multiplex by James Bowman Election year reminds us how terrifying it is when the political beast is not driven snarling back into its cage with whip and gun but allowed to roam...
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Sex and Reason
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Posner, Richard A.
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BOOK REVIEWS eware of books with B the word "sex" in the title. You could find yourself being told that "sexual reproduction is a low-risk strategy analogous to that of an investor who holds a...
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Rising Sun
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Crichton, Michael
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"You're not suggesting, Sir Denis, that we are up against Dr. Fu Manchu?"... "I believe there is no secret society of this character, however small or remote, which is not affiliated to the...
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The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper
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ed., Artemis Cooper
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Sooner or later? 0 sion. But the Paris of bals musettes and give-a-chap-a-drink, the London of the Café Royal and Bright Young Things "baying for broken glass," have lapidesced in the popular...
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Tchaikovsky
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Poznansky, Alexander
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71/ n the ecstatic confrontation with a great work of art, one sometimes wishes that he could know what it is to create something of this staggering beauty—perhaps even wishes that he could have...
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Inventing the Middle Ages
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Cantor, Norman F.
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T he curious layman will not be blamed for thinking that maybe he ought to read up on the Middle Ages themselves before delving into this study of twentieth-century medievalists. In fact, this book...
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Vox
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Baker, Nicholson
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T he French critic Roland Barthes said of professional wrestling forty years ago that what the public craved was the image of passion rather than passion itself. His words could be taken as a...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Cleveland Plain Dealer Satire? Columnist Phillip Morris at work: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is without question the most dangerous judge in America. . . . Thomas hasn't added a shred of...
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