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Vol. 026 Issue 002 (February 1 1993)
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The Continuing Crisis
HTE CONTINUING CRISIS • December departs, stage left, and with it 1992, a strange year. In the last month of that strange year the President-elect, who by this time next year will have proved to be...
Correspondence
Mary Quite Contrary The December 1992 issue features "Books for Christmas," an annual list of gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. Most of those chosen to submit their list...
Editorials / The University Left/London Crawling
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
That President-elect Bill Clinton's second wave of appointments was divvied out to the left is not simply a blunder. It is an indignity. Donna E. "Boom-Boom" (a nickname she does not abhor) Shalala,...
Capitol Ideas /A Girls' School in Baltimore
Bethell, Tom
The Laurence G. Paquin High School for Expectant Teenage Mothers is a bleak brick fortress in a desolate section of east Baltimore; a squiggle-painted, cinder-block, boardedup-row-house,...
The American Spectator's 25th Anniversary Gala, starring P. J. O'Rourke et. al
We are here tonight to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of The American Spectator—the magazine, the men and women, the way of life. But we are also here to celebrate something else—our return...
Revolt in Queens
Tucker, William
All of the following are from educational materials now being distributed to children in the New York City public school system: The Teenager's Bill of Rights: I Have the Right to Decide Whether...
The Tempting of Justice Kennedy
Eastland, Terry
Statting in April 1992, when the case was argued, conservatives looked forward to the Supreme Court's decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. At issue was the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania...
Clinton's Hard-Line Appeaser
Wattenberg, Daniel
In the spring of 1980, Col. Charlie Beckwith, commander of the Delta Force and one of the most decorated special forces heroes in the country's history, briefed President Carter and his top national...
Politics / The Real Mandate
Norquist, Grover
On November 3, 43 percent of American voters cast ballots for Bill Clinton. Clinton won thirty-two states while polling three percentage points below Michael Dukakis's losing showing in 1988. USA...
Clinton's America/All You Can Eat
Hume, Sandy
All You Can Eat by Sandy Hume Unlike recent Republican Presidents with their bland palates, Bill Clinton knows what he likes to eat, even if he only has fifteen minutes at his disposal. At the...
Spectator's Journal / Europa! Oy, Europa!
Ledeen, Michael
you probably noticed that, as we were marching off to establish the new world order, Europe hit the fan. It shouldn't have surprised us all that much—after all, Europe's given us fascism, Communism,...
American Document / Berkeley Barbs
On November 30, 1992, an editorial in the Wall Street Journal brought national attention to another controversy at the University of California-Berkeley. It arose when the student editors at the...
Ben Stein's Diary / Help!
Stein, Benjamin J.
A meeting of my self-help group, Journey Into Self-Obsession. A young man across the room from me, Bill G., has a story to tell. "A guy I used to do drugs with, a guy named Warren, wanted to go down...
The Nation's Pulse/Fight to the Fanoosh
Conlon, Edward
Editors' note: Last. month, Robert J. Powers, Col., USAF (Ret.), a Bronx native now resident in Louisiana, wrote our crime correspondent Edward Conlon, also a native of the Bronx, to describe a trip...
Russia Watch/Evil Emperors
Young, Cathy
In late September, Russia marked the 600th anniversary of the death of the Orthodox saint, Father Sergius of Radonezh. The saint gazed balefully at frazzled Muscovites from giant posters on some of...
The Talkies /Can You Believe It?
Bowman, James
/ s it just me, or is the stuff coming out of Hollywood getting more and more far-fetched and unbelievable? If art (and that means movies, too) has a conscience, its guiding principle is not...
Past Imperfect
Judt, Tony
When several years ago a publisher suggested to Robert Conquest that The Great Terror, his well-known book on the Stalin purges, be brought out again under a new title, the author offered...
Murdoch
Shawcross, William
Like so many of us, Rupert Murdoch did not get a fair start in life. His paternal grandfather was the moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Australia. His. maternal...
The Way Things Ought to Be
Limbaugh, Rush H. III
Something dreadful happened in the late 1970s, and I am pleased to admit I played a role. The thing was a crime and an atrocity. Worse, it was critique, a blasphemous critique, a critique of the...
Up in the Old Hotel
Mitchell, Joseph
Joseph Mitchell, now 84, is the last of those great New Yorker writers of the magazine's heyday. Most of us got to know him through Brendan Gill's Here at The New Yorker, in which Gill profiled all...
Personal Witness
Eban, Abba
That isn't right! Behave yourself!"—one close associate observed—"it might have made it easier for the rest of us." Whatever his defects, Eban has enjoyed an extraordinary political career. In...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette A statement of conscience uttered just before the Secret Service move in armed with Dr. Donna Shalala's Speech Code for the Nation: Sitting around the office today, we...
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