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IssueVol. 026 Issue 005 (May 1 1993)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
• March again gave proof that President Bill hasn't been entirely straight with us. Back on January 20, he said in his Inaugural, "This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we...
Paid articleCorrespondence
Slick Willy Re Jeffrey Gedmin's review of My Life in Politics, by Willy Brandt (TAS, January 1993): Has anyone looked into the possibility that Willy Brandt was a KGB mole? There can be no doubt...
Paid articleEditorials / The Worst Book of the Year / You Can't Look It Up
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
A las, the citizenry of this great Republic has arrived at that cloying season when its eminences in the arts and communications display the full hugeness of their self-love. It is "awards time";...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas /Dole Drums
Bethell, Tom
/ t was a little unusual to receive a phone call from Senator Bob Dole's office. Invitation to a breakfast meeting at his office in the Capitol Building, room S230. Hmmm, what could that be all...
Paid articleWhat Health-Care Crisis?
Barnes, Fred
ill and Hillary Clinton have contributed heavily to a national myth. Mrs. B Clinton, as boss of the administration task force plotting to overhaul America's health-care system, refers routinely to...
Paid articleI Hear Asia Calling
McGurn, William
A s dawn creeps up on the main gate of Subic Bay Naval Station, 62-year-old Dominga do Lopo is already here waiting, chatting away with a group of friends. A hundred yards down the road, members of...
Paid articlesNureyev-Fonteyn, RIP
Carlson, Richard W.
he first time I met T Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn they were hiding behind a chimney on a tenement roof in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Nureyev was kneeling in the...
Paid articleThe Other Anita Hill
Brock, David
A vita Hill's inability to show a pattern of harassing behavior by Clarence Thomas was one of the many atypical aspects of her case. If Hill was telling the truth, Thomas had chosen to sexually...
Paid articleClinton's America/How to Grow the Deficit
Roberts, Paul Craig
B ill Clinton is practicing a new brand of economics that has replaced both demand-side and supply-side economics. It is called blind-side economics. He wants to repeat a fifth time the tax-hike...
Paid articlePolitics/Making Crime Pay
Norquist, Grover G.
F or half a century, the views of candidates on Soviet Communism were paramount. Cuban-Americans would not even listen to a candidate's position on health care if they thought he viewed Castro as a...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary /Ring, Ring, Ring
Stein, Benjamin J.
Wednesday W hen the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then I'll get lots of commercials, and my voice will be one of the stars ... Guess what? I'm in New York, to do a...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Heading South
Ledeen, Michael
T he old order spins ever more violently out of control, making it increasingly difficult to get our bearings. Around the periphery, the teeming masses are restless, now rallying to the banner of...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/ The Permissive Right
London, Herbert
T he media have discovered a new political darling: William Weld, the governor of Massachusetts. Here is the quintessential hero for the Deficit-Cutting Era: a fiscal conservative and a social...
Paid articlePresswatch /Keep On Truckin
Eastland, Terry
A ccording to consumer activists and plaintiffs trial lawyers, GM C/K pickup trucks have long tended to catch fire in side-impact collisions. So NBC News's "Dateline NBC" decided to "investigate."...
Paid articleThe Great American Saloon Series / Cincinnati on the Vltava
Newberry, Jon
Prague H aving spent the better i5art of the last twenty years—better, that is, than the parts I spent somewhere else—at Waldeck's Bar in Cincinnati, Ohio, I had good reason to suppose myself...
Paid articleThe Talkies/Friends of Bill
Bowman, James
W ell, I said I wanted movies to eschew fantasy and present us with characters and situations of immediate relevance to our own lives. And then along came Falling Down by Joel Schumacher, a...
Paid articleMy Life as Author and Editor
Mencken, H. L.
I n the final eight years of his working life—which ended in November 1948, when he suffered a stroke that left him permanently unable to read or write—H. L. Mencken saw six important books...
Paid articleTribes
Kotkin, Joel
The Republicans may have botched their appeal to "values" last fall, but here, just in time for the Clinton era, is a splendid book by a non-Republican to confirm that Dan Quayle was right: values...
Paid articleAt the Highest Levels
Beschloss, Michael R.; Talbott, Strobe
There were many low points in the Bush administration's dealings with the Soviet Union: the infamous "Chicken Kiev" speech, in which the President lectured the leaders of soon-to-be-independent...
Paid articleInside American Education
Sowell, Thomas
CI/ n February 1993 a local school board in New York City rose up in revolt against the city's chancellor of education, refusing to use curricular materials that would introduce first-graders to...
Paid articleLord Beaverbrook
Chisholm, Anne; Davie, Michael
"Beanacrook," "Lord Crooks," an "animated little deformity," "the old brute," a "ruffian," "evil," "a diseased toad bottled in methylated spirits," "a sublime frog," a "golliwog itching with...
Paid articlePromise and Power
Shapley, Deborah
In the days of Camelot the name Robert McNamara was a synonym for administrative genius. Now Deborah Shapley has written a magnificent book about him. With the readability of a Raymond Chandler...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
New York Times Arkansas chic sweeps Manhattan: Judge Patricia M. Wald and Robert L. Wald of Washington have announced the engagement of their daughter Frederica Nora Wald to Roger Sherman, a son of...
Paid articleThe Georgetown Spectator/Boom Town
Hume, Brit
A t a black-tie dinner recently, I was introduced to Pamela Harriman, grande dame of the Democratic Party and soon-to-be ambassador to Paris. We were seated, by chance, at the same table. I told her...
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