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IssueVol. 026 Issue 011 (November 1 1993)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
• September was President Bill Clinton's best month yet! All right, it was his first good month. Okay, maybe "good" is stretching it, but all his other months have been worse, including January, in...
Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRESPONDENCE Frostie Reception I thoroughly enjoyed Richard Carlson's "Frostie's Revenge" (TAS, September 1993) and hope that TAS will publish more of his writing—perhaps excerpts from his...
Paid articleEditorials / Father Higgins, RIP / Senator High Horse
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS Father Higgins, RIP by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Indianapolis T hey buried coach Bob Knight's favorite cleric out here in the rolling greenery of south central Indiana the other day. Bob...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas Immigration, Sí; Welfare, No
Bethell, Tom
Immigration, Si; Welfare, No by Tom Bethell hile in San Diego recently, I W took the electric trolley down to the Mexican border, a pleasant ride of about twelve miles, past rectangular...
Paid articleCollective Guilt
O'Rourke, P. J.
Collective Guilt To mark the November birthday of Great Americans Joe McCarthy and P. J. O'Rourke, our fifth annual New Enemies List—which this year applies the Nuremberg Laws to all operatives...
Paid articleThe Secretary-Generalissimo
Gedmin, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Gedmin The Secretary-Generalissimo Since Bill Clinton doesn't seem to want to do it, U.N. secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali is finding it easy to run U.S. foreign policy. W hen...
Paid articleThree Limericks
Riley, Tom
THREE LIMERICKS Member of the Club? Will Bill Clinton disebver today yet another half-brother? He may, for the family's that big. I suspect Porky Pig may be one—but he's too proud to say. The...
Paid articleSuperfund as Godzilla
Norman, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Norman Superfund as Godzilla Al Gore and the EPA have created a monster that even sucks the blood out of socialist businessmen in Vermont. B iff Mithoffer is a genial, energetic man and...
Paid articleClintonism in One State
Adams, James Ring
James Ring Adams Clintonism in One State Gov. Lowell Weicker won liberal plaudits when he passed Connecticut's first-ever income tax two years ago. It is destroying the state's economy. His next...
Paid articlePresswatch / Fairness Most Foul
Cony, John
Fairness Most Foul by John Corry / t may indeed be the "Hush Rush" bill, just as the Wall Street Journal said, or it may be only the reflex action of liberal politicians still frozen in time, but...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal / To Syria, With Love
Lewis, Saul
To Syria, With Love by Saul Lewis W hen Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, ran for office last summer, he campaigned on a platform that promised, among other things, not to recognize the...
Paid articleThe Washington Heights Spectator / Miracle on 204th Street
Conlon, Edward
THE WASHINGTON HEIGHTS SPECTATOR Miracle on 204th Street by Edward Conlon F or weeks after Margarita Duarte saw the image of Jesus Christ on the bathroom window of Rosa Diez's fifth-floor...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse / The Framing of Pat Nolan
Kannon, John Von
The Framing of Pat Nolan by John Von Kannon S tate Assemblyman Pat Nolan is not known to many people outside California, but his story is an important one. It is a story that shows just how hard...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary / My Private Idaho
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY My Private Idaho by Benjamin J. Stein Monday N ow, this is like old times, or the good old days, or something like that. Staci, one of my two original Valley Girls, now a...
Paid articleThe Public Policy / Choice: A Burkean Dissent
Allen, Charlotte
Choice: A Burkean Dissent by Charlotte Allen 0 6 6 ur theory is that school districts are merely creations of the state," the lawyer said. "They're artificial. They're arbitrary boundaries...
Paid articlePolitics / Florio Fights Back
Norquist, Grover G.
Florio Fights Back by Grover G. Norquist F our years ago, New Jersey Governor Jim Florio raised state taxes by a record-breaking $2.8 billion. Despite a campaign promise to oppose higher taxes on...
Paid articleConstitutional Opinions / Mainstream Radical
Eastland, Terry
CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS Mainstream Radical by Terry Eastland A t the end of Judge Ruth Ginsburg's confirmation hearings, Sen. Orrin Hatch undertook to explain why he admired five of the opinions...
Paid articleThe Talkies / The Fall of the Family
Bowman, James
The Fail of the Family by James Bowman T wo films out this month begin with discussions between fathers and sons about loyalty. In Striking Distance, a policeman (Bruce Willis) laments the fact...
Paid articleNathan Bedford Forrest
Hurst, Jack
BOOK REVIEWS W hen the train carrying Tennessee's delegation to the 1868 Democratic National Convention in New York stopped at a small Northern town (its name long forgotten), a gang of toughs...
Paid articleThe Immobile Empire
Peyrefitte, Alain
THE IMMOBILE EMPIRE Alain Peyrefitte Alfred A. Knopf/630 pages / $30 reviewed by WILLIAM McGURN A mong certain sinophiles it has the ill-fated embassy of George always been popular to...
Paid articleComing Attractions
Stoller, Robert J.; Levine, L S.
For the performer with an active career, "a complete relationship" remains necessarily a fantasy. One improvises as much stability as one can. "I couldn't have been in this business if I hadn't had...
Paid articleDegenerate Moderns
Jones, E. Michael
1 n 1938, the English novelist Aldous Huxley admitted something that the other literary mandarins of his day probably wished he had kept to himself. Huxley's revelation was this: the real reason...
Paid articleWhoredom in Kimmage
Mahoney, Rosemary
/ n the course of two long volumes of autobiography, which deal in loving detail with such minutiae as his childhood toys and distant relatives' drinking habits, the Irish short story-writer Frank...
Paid articleThe Real World Order
Singer, Max; Wildaysky, Aaron
F oreign policy thinkers continue to cast about for a unifying framework with which to confront the post–Cold War world. The aim is for something in the nature of George Kennan's pathbreaking "X"...
Paid articleMoscow Bulletin / Bolshie Ballet
Bernstein, Jonas
Bolshie Ballet by Jonas Bernstein As we go to press, Boris Yeltsin and his Communist parties among them, most in enemies from the dissolved Soviet parlia- this crowd are the kind who love...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Harper's In a symposium on the scortatory arts 'as practiced by our profs and students, Prof. William Kerrigan of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), arguably the handsomest...
Paid articleThe Palace Spectator / Oh, to Be in Graceland
Reid, Stuart
Oh, to Be in Graceland... by Stuart Reid N 4 ow this is really wonderful. This is something else." The auto dealer from Leesburg, Virginia, stood in the middle of the State Dining Room at...
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