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 Vol. 026 Issue 003 (March 1 1993)
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 The Continuing Crisis
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• On January 20, Governor Bill Clinton was inaugurated 42nd President of the United States and the stock market lost 14 points. January went like this. On January 13, a task force from the United...
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Correspondence
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Inadmissible Evidence As a graduate and one-time Admissions Committee member of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, I must comment on Daniel Wattenberg's "beef . . . with Harvard" ("Harvard's...
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Editorials / Clinton: Week One/Clinton: Week Two
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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/ wonder if at some dizzying point during President Bill Clinton's unique glorification rites, he saw what I believe I saw. Perhaps it was when he, his wife, and the vice presidential couple...
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Capitol Ideas/Include Me Out
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Bethell, Tom
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Acouple of days before the Inauguration, I went downtown to take a look at America's Reunion on the Mall, a "celebration of America's cultural diversity" that was somehow intended to "unite us." The...
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Lawrence Walsh, Grand Inquisitor
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Ledeen, Michael
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you've seen his face repeatedly over the past six-plus years, right out of American Gothic; a stern, gaunt, righteous face with a tinge of the Torquemada, the sort of face that matches the title:...
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Gary Sick's Bald-Faced Lies
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Emerson, Steven
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T he "October Surprise" episode—based on the assertion that Reagan campaign aides sought to delay the release of American hostages in Iran in 1980—represents one of the most scandalous political...
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International Studies in Los Angeles
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Norden, Edward
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Edward Norden International Studies in Los Angeles Fairfax High barely resembles the place Jack Kemp and Herb Alpert graduated from in 1953, but both would feel at home if they ever went...
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Politics / Coverdell's Winning Formula
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Norquist, Grover
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any Republicans were quick to M ' ask whether they lost November's election on the explosive social issues, abortion in particular. Maybe the abortion issue helped Reagan in 1980 and 1984, the...
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The Nation's Pulse / Cool Diz and Me
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Gold, Victor
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1 t wasn't easy being a Dizzy Gillespie fan at the University of Alabama in the late 1940s. Race had nothing to do with it. The problem was getting the records. Be-bop, take my word for it, wasn't a...
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Ben Stein's Diary / Crying Games
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Thursday ew Year's Eve at Morton's. I'm N there with my new b.f. Maxine, visiting from Portland, Oregon. Tonight, the place is jammed with young rich people and a few middle-aged poor people, or...
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Presswatch / The Set-Aside Set
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Eastland, Terry
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M y text this month comes from a story by Thomas W. Lippman that ran in the Washington Post on December 1. The headline, "Energizing Minorities' Objectives," and subhead, "Legislation Offers...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Newport's White Horse Tavern
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Carnegie, M. D.
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w hen architectural plans for what became the Rhode Island State House were drafted in the 1730s, Newport officials became embroiled in bitter controversy about the direction the new building should...
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The Moscow Spectator/Horsing Around
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Bernstein, Jonas
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Moscow, December 23 T he mosaic on the side of a build- ing across from Dobrinskaya metro station—where I catch a train each day to my job at Moscow News—proclaims "We Are Building Communism" to...
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The Talkies/Alive and Dead
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Bowman, James
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0 ne of the simplest ways to judge a film is on the basis of its truth to life. Last month I wrote of Hollywood's neglect, as I see it, of the elementary requirements of verisimilitude in some...
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The Rascal King
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Beatty, Jack
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ack Beatty, senior editor of the Atlantic, has written the best book on African-American history published in recent years. It is The Rascal King, a definitive account of the greatest of...
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Edgar A. Poe / Edgar Allan Poe
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Silverman, Kenneth; Meyers, Jeffrey
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Only a handful of Edgar Allan Poe's tales maintain a grudging respect on their literary merits—except among adolescents and Frenchmen. Yet Poe's life has always exercised a fascination over the...
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Rising in the West
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Morgan, Dan
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In The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck portrayed the Oklahomans displaced in the 1930s as radicalized victims of capitalism who would transform California politics—which they were not. In the...
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Pilgrim in the Ruins
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Tolson, Jay
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/ n a 1983 lecture on Herman Melville, Walker Percy remarked that Moby Dick "was a consequence, not merely of great gifts, but also of great good luck"—the luck of a novelist "breaking into the...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Washington Post The first balmy paragraph of what the editors of the incomparable Post would like to call a news story: Marshall Hull was too far away from the Capitol grounds yesterday to see...
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Clinton's America: The Real Maya Angelou
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Meroney, John
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina ill Clinton's choice of Hillary-pal B Maya Angelou to write a poem to be read at his swearing-in is an ominous harbinger. If Clinton has any acquaintance with...
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Grits and Glitz
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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isto ans will record that the H 1993 Clinton inauguration actu- ally began the year before in early November. Scarcely had the votes been counted when lobbyists, pitchmen, political groupies, and...
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