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Vol. 026 Issue 012 (December 1 1993)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• October is no longer among us. It will go down in history as the month in which Boy Clinton's foreign policy showed itself to be at one with his domestic policy, that is, a disaster executed by...
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Correspondence
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Let's Hear It for the Boy I look forward every month to the arrival of TAS. We currently receive only two periodicals at home, TAS and World (we have to get that since my wife is...
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Editorials / Senator Deadwood/Mascot Studies
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Senator Deadwood by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. S enator Bob Packwood, the Wall Street Journal tells us, leads "a double life." He is one of the most powerful senators in this great city. His influence...
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Capitol Ideas/Exporting Famine
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Bethell, Tom
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Exporting Famine by Tom Bethell S everal months ago, the Village Voice carried an unusual story about Somalia on its cover: "The Famine Food Created," by Michael Maren. In October he spoke at the...
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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. LAMAR ALEXANDER All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren. For the person who gets to...
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Missionary Capitalism
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McGurn, William
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William McGurn Missionary Capitalism By stressing values and opening up credit to the Third World's poor, Opportunity Programs is breaking the World Bank's international aid monopoly. / t's...
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Allah in L.A.
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Norden, Edward
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Edward Norden Allah in L.A. Will the freedom America extends ,to its third-largest faith teach Islam's adherents to cherish democracy? he interrupting child T zooms into the principal's...
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Federico's Folly
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Fumento, Michael
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Michael Fumento Federico's Folly Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena got his job by wasting $10 billion on the biggest public works disaster of modern times— an airport worse in every way...
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American Lives and Letters/Edith Wharton's Abuser
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Lynn, Kenneth S.
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Edith Wharton's Abuser by Kenneth S. Lynn artin Scorsese's version of M Edith Wharton's portrait of post–Civil War New York society in The Age of Innocence opens with a scene at the opera in...
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Presswatch/The MIA Sellout
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Cony, John
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The MIA Sellout by John Corry T he POW-MIA story is changing. Once it was about missing servicemen, but now it is about finance. A New York Times story about American business leaders meeting with...
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The Nation's Pulse / Sharia Feminists
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Wattenberg, Daniel
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Sharia Feminists by Daniel Wattenberg M im Udovitch, the feminist columnist at the Village Voice, told me a story about a young writer who approached her to pitch a story after the first news...
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Clinton's America / Daughtrey, Shanahan, Barkett & Gertner
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Eastland, Terry
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Daughtrey, Shanahan, Barkett & Gertner by Terry Eastland / n September, the New York Times reported that President Clinton might nominate some lower court judges who disagree with Roe v. Wade and...
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Ben Stein's Diary/ Dreamball
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Dreamball by Benjamin J. Stein Monday A listless, quiet day. No calls to do commercials, no calls to be in movies, just lying on my couch and reading about two intensely active, bad-acting...
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Politics / The Great Patriotic War
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Norquist, Grover G.
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The Great Patriotic War by Grover G. Norquist 0 n Monday, October 4, House minority leader Bob Michel (RIM) announced that he would not run for another congressional term. Jerry Solomon of New...
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The Rabies Spectator/Stop Me Before I Don't Shoot!
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Norman, Geoffrey
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Stop Me Before I Don't Shoot! by Geoffrey Norman The old pioneer spirit was made up of many parts, one of which was a sense that sometimes it came down to kill or be killed. The first European...
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The Talkies/ What It Takes
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Bowman, James
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What It Takes by James Bowman S ome three hours into Gettysburg, the new four-hour-plus Civil War epic from Ted Turner Productions, J.E.B. Stuart, hitherto AWOL, turns up with his cavalry after two...
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Harold Laski
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Kramnick, Isaac; Sheerman, Barry
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Reading about the Left Book Club in Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman's Harold Laski: A Life on the Left took me back to forty years ago. From 1936 until the club folded in 1948, Laski,...
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Case Closed
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Posner, Gerald
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and Peter, Paul and Mary. (Okay, I admit I added PP&M just because I don't like them. I also admit I don't have evidence to support the charge—though the three have clearly been conspiring about...
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The Great Melody
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O'Brien, Conor Cruise
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/ n a vulgar, journalistic sense, modern conservatism may be dated from May 6, 1791. Like most things political, it began with an act of violence: the deliberate rupture by Edmund Burke of his...
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Mortal Games
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Waitzkin, Fred
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G 4 hc ess," the former world champion Bobby Fischer explained, "is like war on a board. The object is to crush the other man's mind. I like to see 'em squirm." Current champion Garry Kasparov...
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A Mother's Ordeal
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Mosher, Steven W.
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F our decades after Chairman Mao commended women for holding up half the sky, the edifice he erected is keeping them tied to the ground. Nowhere is this more apparent than in China's coercive...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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New York Times Photo caption of the decade: After almost 30 years of delays caused by planning and environmental challenges, the last stretch of Interstate 287, between Montville and Mahwah, N.J.,...
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The Britannula Spectator/ The President's Trollope
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Caldwell, Christopher
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The President's Trollope by Christopher Caldwell t is one thing to read the literary classics as if they were timeless; quite another to hold that they were written specifically for today....
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