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Vol. 026 Issue 010 (October 1 1993)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• 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...
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Correspondence
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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...
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Editorials / Stopping the Violence / At Dawn to Cast His Flies
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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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...
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Capitol Ideas / The "Client" State
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Bethell, Tom
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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...
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Who Is Janet Napolitano?
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Brock, David
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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...
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Italy's Great Purge
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Ledeen, Michael
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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...
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Will China Be the Next Japan?
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Novak, Robert D.
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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...
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KAL 007: The Real Story
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Oberg, James
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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,...
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Northern Exposure
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Richler, Mordecai
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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...
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American Lives and Letters / Bobby Kennedy's Crying Game
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Lynn, Kenneth S.
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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...
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Presswatch / Killing the Foster Story
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Cony, John
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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...
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Clinton's America/ Taxing the Air
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York, Byron
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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...
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Eminentoes /Mr. Not-So-Nice Guy
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Ferguson, Tim W.
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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...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Supportive Encounters
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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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...
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Politics /Eng/er 's Moment
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Norquist, Grover G.
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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...
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The Great American Saloon Series / Power Drinking at Duke's
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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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...
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The Talkies /Running Time
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Bowman, James
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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...
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Simone Signoret
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David, Catherine
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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...
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Big Blues
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Carroll, Paul
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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...
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The Last Brother
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McGinniss, Joe
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/ 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 . ....
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The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959
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ed., Oliver Harris
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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...
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The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor
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Wilson, A. N.
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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...
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Acheson Country
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Acheson, David C.
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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...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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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...
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The Papal Spectator/Doom in Denver
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Shiflett, Dave
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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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