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IssueVol. 026 Issue 004 (April 1 1993)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
• February passed thus: on February 15 President Bill Clinton outlined his economic plan in a nationally televised address. On February 16 the stock market dropped 83 points. • In religious news,...
Paid articleCorrespondence
All You Can't Eat Sandy Hume's gustatory guide to Clinton's Washington was informative ("All You Can Eat," TAS, February 1993), but I believe the President, his Partner, and the American people...
Paid articleEditorials / Clinton's Trickle-Down/Hillary Polluted
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
T rickle down, trickle down—ha, ha, ha. From (roughly) William Jennings Bryan's 1896 "Cross of Gold" speech to President Bill Clinton's ramblings in his State of the Union address on February 17,...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas/Impolitic Pol
Bethell, Tom
T wo days after the left-wing Game Show Host addressed the Joint Session of Congress, I journeyed to Capitol Hill, in search of Capitol Ideas. I was walking along the central corridor of the...
Paid articleEmily's List: Chicks With Checks
Hirschmann, Susan
E ver since Anita Hill was shamed before an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee, activist women have been itching to get back at the political system. The feminist backlash, we have been endlessly...
Paid articleNew Players in the Middle East
Dorsey, James; Karny, Yoav
A short man in his late fifties, Yuri Shanibov hardly strikes one as Caucasia's most wanted man. His mild manners, cultured voice, and sense of history reflect his distinguished academic and legal...
Paid articleComrade Slobo
Gedmin, Jeffrey
S erbian President Slobodan Milosevic deplores the nationalism and extremism that has unleashed unspeakable savagery in the Balkans. At times he concedes, with gentle assurance, that "no one is...
Paid articleClinton's America/Paper Cuts
Novak, Zelda
1 n an attempt to soften up the American people for coming tax increases, President Bill Clinton announced a plan to share the nation's sacrifice by reducing his own White House staff by 25 percent,...
Paid articleRule by the Rich
Hume, Sandy
A t first glance, President Clinton would seem to have kept his promise to appoint, as one transition official put it, "more than the usual white boys who run Washington." Indeed, he appointed four...
Paid articlePolitics/Congress's Feisty Frosh
Norquist, Grover G.
0 n January 5, 1993, the 103rd Congress was sworn in with 110 new members. This unusually large influx of new blood was caused by the decennial redistricting for the nineties, the House Bank and...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary / Two Steps Forward
Stein, Benjamin J.
I see America dancing, and it's a Texas two-step. Let me tell you some more about The Borderline. Near my house in Trancas, at the North End of Malibu, there was for years a tumbledown restaurant...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/ Churchill and the Thatcherites
Reid, Stuart
F orget Camillagate. It surprised no one. What could be more natural than for the heir to the throne and future Supreme Governor of the Church of England to be on richly intimate terms with his...
Paid articleAmong the Intellectualoids / Multicultural Instruction
Sowell, Thomas
M ost of the arguments for so-called "multicultural" education are so flimsy, inconsistent, and downright silly that it is hard to imagine that they would have been taken seriously if they were not...
Paid articlePresswatch /Licked by Leaks
Eastland, Terry
1 s the Clinton era fun, or what? I start with leaks, three big ones in particular. The first occurred six days before Bill Clinton took the oath. This was the leak to the New York Times of Zoe...
Paid articleRussian Presswatch / In the Name of Humanity
Young, Cathy
I f the Clinton administration is shaping up to look like soap opera, what genre can adequately describe the politics of post-Communist Russia? Theater of the absurd, perhaps. The end of 1992 was...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series / The Sprucewood Inn
Shiflett, Dave
A t a remote crossroads in the Pike National Forest, forty-five miles southwest of Denver, stands the Sprucewood Inn, a small tavern in the log-cabin style, the sort of establishment the...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Dogs and Groundhogs
Bowman, James
N ear the end of Joe Dante's new film, Matinee, a couple of beatnik types coming out of a 1962 vintage horror flick about a man who turns into a giant ant are heard saying in exasperated tones:...
Paid articleChina in Our Time
Terrill, Ross
0 n a sunny Memorial Day afternoon in 1971, an academic resident at Harvard received a phone call from the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Ottawa. The Middle Kingdom was again...
Paid articleTurning Point
Carter, Jimmy
/ n October 1962, as President John F. Kennedy faced Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba and took the world to the brink of World War III, the man who would occupy the Oval Office fifteen years later...
Paid articleEco-Scam / Science Under Siege / Environmental Overkill / Sound and Fury
Bailey, Ronald; Fumento, Michael; Guzzo, Dixy Lee Ray with Lou; Michaels, Patrick J.
They are hardly alone. Butterfly expert Paul Ehrlich has long forecast disaster from resource exhaustion and overpopulation, as did Jay Forrester's Club of Rome. Carl Sagan, Mr. Cosmos himself,...
Paid articleLouis Auchincloss
Gelderman, Carol
j ohn O'Hara was a strange and angry soul, and when Louis Auchincloss allowed as much, he occasioned this reply from the fat man: "I don't know anything about your importance as a lawyer, but in my...
Paid articleMaking War
Lehman, John
Making War offers more than the title promises. The author does not take us down a narrow spiral staircase to the basement of a law library with shelves full of legal scholarship that seeks to...
Paid articleEros and the Jews
Biale, David
S oon after the creation of the state of Israel, chief Ashkenazic rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook described the relationship of body and soul in a way that was as much a departure from orthodox tradition...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
Handbill (California State University, San Marcos) An intriguing handbill distributed to the barnyard animals that attend Cal State, San Marcos, soliciting monographs of righteous indignation...
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