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IssueVol. 026 Issue 010 (October 1 1993)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
• In August, Rachel of Toronto turned 4. Her birthday pageant was celebrated over three days. Tommy of Hollywood, age 6, spent a long weekend in northern California in honor of his special day. I...
Paid articleCorrespondence
Is It Unreal, Or hit Immunex? An article entitled "Another AIDS Scam" (by Byron York and Joe Johns) in your August 1993 issue discussed an experimental drug, alpha interferon, which was referred to...
Paid articleEditorials / Stopping the Violence / At Dawn to Cast His Flies
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
C onnoisseurs of the national follies await the requisite outcry against the brutal and gratuitous murder of Michael Jordan's father. Then too, we await the outcry against the claim that Deputy...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The "Client" State
Bethell, Tom
W ithin days of coming out to California, I met three people who said they would like to sell their house but "couldn't afford to." One problem is that if you bought a house in the San Francisco Bay...
Paid articleWho Is Janet Napolitano?
Brock, David
S hortly before last November's elections, Senator David Boren of Oklahoma made discreet inquiries with his Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of the stalled...
Paid articleItaly's Great Purge
Ledeen, Michael
A year after Francois Mitterrand was elected president of France, I asked Italian Socialist leader Bettino Craxi what he thought of him. He scowled. "It's as if we had never existed," he...
Paid articleWill China Be the Next Japan?
Novak, Robert D.
w G 4 ho is this Rip Van Winkle?" asked Chen Ligang, the man from the Foreign Ministry assigned to guide me through my eight days in China. "A character out of early American literature," I...
Paid articleKAL 007: The Real Story
Oberg, James
F or almost ten years, two battered and corroded aviation datarecording devices were hidden away deep in Soviet military archives. These were the "black boxes" from Korean Airlines Flight 007,...
Paid articleNorthern Exposure
Richler, Mordecai
L ast February 24, Brian Mulroney, Canada's least popular prime minister in the history of polling, pondering an autumn election in which his troops stood to be decimated if he persisted in leading...
Paid articleAmerican Lives and Letters / Bobby Kennedy's Crying Game
Lynn, Kenneth S.
0 n the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of Jack Kennedy's death, the mythic conception of him as a president who "gave his country back to its best self," as Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. writes in...
Paid articlePresswatch / Killing the Foster Story
Cony, John
W hat drove Vincent Foster to suicide? "After nearly a month of examination," the Washington Post declared, summing up its investigation into Foster's death, "no rumor has panned out, no unmasking...
Paid articleClinton's America/ Taxing the Air
York, Byron
W hen President Clinton spoke to the nation August 3 in an attempt to create support for his economic plan, he called it a realistic, honest blueprint to reduce the deficit. "Rather than the games...
Paid articleEminentoes /Mr. Not-So-Nice Guy
Ferguson, Tim W.
T hirty-one months into his term as governor of California, Pete Wilson decided to act against illegal immigration, which, he said, had put the state "under siege." Not act, really, but pronounce...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary/Supportive Encounters
Stein, Benjamin J.
Thursday 1 'm scared. I've been back in Dublin—my third trip in three months—for three days now, and it looks this time as if I'm really going to testify in the high court, Room 25, Third Floor of...
Paid articlePolitics /Eng/er 's Moment
Norquist, Grover G.
0 n August 10, Bill Clinton signed the largest tax increase in American history. The following week, Michigan governor John Engler signed into law Senate Bill 1, the largest tax cut at the state...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series / Power Drinking at Duke's
Bakshian, Aram Jr.
0 rdinarily, I detest "power bars." The minute a place earns a reputation as one it begins to attract flies. But I have this ungovernable lust for genuine, barrel-cured kosher dills, and Duke...
Paid articleThe Talkies /Running Time
Bowman, James
When I was a child, "The Fugitive" was my favorite grown-up television show. There was something particularly attractive and flattering to my boyish worldly wisdom about the idea not of the innocent...
Paid articleSimone Signoret
David, Catherine
0 ne sunny afternoon in Paris, in my Fulbright year of 194950, I was nearly blinded by beauty. I was coming out of an early screening at the Cinematheque Francaise just as a young couple was...
Paid articleBig Blues
Carroll, Paul
T his book is a horror story. Expertly reported and engagingly written by Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Carroll, Big Blues is the tale of how a great, indeed even a noble corporation went from...
Paid articleThe Last Brother
McGinniss, Joe
/ n 1974, Joe McGinniss arranged an interview with Sen. Edward Kennedy through his press secretary, Dick Drayne. Drayne warned him not to talk about the Kennedy mystique. "He absolutely freezes . ....
Paid articleThe Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959
ed., Oliver Harris
T he one time I saw him, eight years ago at a publication party for a novel he'd written three decades before, William Burroughs looked less like the "connoisseur of horror" he once called himself...
Paid articleThe Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor
Wilson, A. N.
A N. Wilson is a bit of a rascal, a bit of a card. Some would • say he is a bit of a bounder. Whatever, an homme serieux he is not. He is too smart for that. At this writing he is a monarchist. Not...
Paid articleAcheson Country
Acheson, David C.
newsreel of Acheson, saw him on the street, heard him in an audience, or read his famous memoirs and wondered about the character wrapped up inside the act. F first, there was the mustache. Unlike...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Dallas Morning News On the correspondence page of a great gazette, another ebullition of sonorous stupidity from a cow of the New Age herd: The report that Christian students giggled when Carl...
Paid articleThe Papal Spectator/Doom in Denver
Shiflett, Dave
As Pope John Paul II descended from his plane at Denver's Stapleton International Airport (leaving his dog in the cabin, for some unknown reason), it was clear to even us non-Papists that a powerful...
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