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IssueVol. 026 Issue 009 (September 1 1993)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
•July brought a gratifying hiatus in the Clinton highjinks. Boy Clinton's schizophrenic budget of increased spending and "deficit cuts" inched through a dazed congressional negotiating seance....
Paid articleCorrespondence
NAACCCP Update Here is an update on the subject of Communists and ex-Communists in the "new" NAACP (see my "NAACCCP," TAS, August 1993). Benjamin Chavis's choice for director of communications of...
Paid articleEditorials /Dead Wrong/The Mysterious Death of Vince Foster
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
E verything Bill Clinton believes about the economy is wrong. He believes that by raising taxes he will cut the deficit. That will lower interest rates. This will spur economic activity. But of...
Paid articleCapitol Ideas / The Poisoned Chalice Revisited
Bethell, Tom
S omehow, I had assumed that wily Democrats would resist swallowing the same medicine they encouraged George Bush to take in 1990. The bottle, of course, is misleadingly labeled Deficit Reduction....
Paid article100 Reasons Why Jimmy Carter Was a Better President Than Bill Clinton
O'Rourke, P J.
1. Jimmy Carter had a nicer wife, 2. A smarter baby brother, 3. A less frightening mom, 4. And a ... No, we can't bring ourselves to make fun of the first daughter, especially since some of us...
Paid articleMy Fall Into Disabuse
Hume, Brit
BRIT HUME: Mr. President, the withdrawal of the Guinier nomination, sir, and your apparent focus on Judge Breyer, and your turn, late it seems, to Judge Ginsburg, may have created an impression,...
Paid articleClinton East
McGurn, William
Hong Kong G ive David Gergen his due. Hired to appease the unforgiving gods of the media, the new chief of communications has offered up a treasure trove of positive imagery from Bill Clinton's...
Paid articleClinton West
Reid, Stuart
London The Tomahawk raid on Baghdad came as a profound relief to John Major. For the first time in months he was able to do what British prime ministers like to do best: give unqualified support to...
Paid articleFrostie's Revenge
Carlson, Richard W.
T he first hooker I ever got to know well was called "Frostie." Her real name was Edna. She lived with her daughter Pogo, 5, and another prostitute named Darlene Hibbs. The three of them shared one...
Paid articlePresswatch / Off the Straight and Narrow
Cony, John
B eware when the press plows new moral ground. Homosexuality is now all over page one and the evening news, although reasonable people may find that stories about it are suspect. "Don't ask, don't...
Paid articleSpectator's Journal/Mom, Can I Go Out to Pray
Rocca, Francis X.
T he Baltimore Arena is a forlorn place. Less than half a mile away are the expensive shops of Harborplace and the state-of-the-art ballpark at Camden Yards, but the Arena's neighbors are porno...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary/ The Pink Fish
Stein, Benjamin J.
Friday t's much too early in the morning, / maybe 6 a.m., and I'm wandering around downtown near City Hall, looking for the crew parking for North, the new Rob Reiner movie I'm to play a small...
Paid articlePolitics/Rainbow Republican
Norquist, Grover G.
S ince Bill Clinton's election, the Republican Party has defeated two sitting Democratic senators, won twenty-five of thirty-nine state legislative races, and elected the first Republican mayor of...
Paid articleEminentoes / You're All Right, Jacques!
Brooks, David
e are truly living in the age of Souter. It is an age in which Robert Bork can't get on the W Supreme Court, but gray decencies such as David Souter and Anthony_ Kennedy pass in without a peep. It...
Paid articleThe Nation's Pulse/ The ADL Defamed
Puddington, Arch
T his year marks the eightieth anniversary of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, America's most distinguished civil rights organization. The ADL's principal mission, of course, is the...
Paid articleThe Public Policy / Knifing NAFTA
Breger, Marshall
Although President Clinton is on record as supporting the North American Free Trade Agreement, his budget director Leon Panetta has declared NAFTA "dead—for now." The pact is about a hundred votes...
Paid articleClinton's American Saloon/ Will He Ever Return?
Norden, Edward
Summerland, California yeah," the Native Son allowed. "Some people got all excited." He was sitting at the bar of the Nugget polishing off an espresso and sucking an unfiltered Lucky Strike, and...
Paid articleThe Russian Presswatch/Prophet Sharing
Young, Cathy
1 n June, the members of Russia's Fourth Estate were called upon once again to defend freedom of the press. Under a plan to partially privatize the Ostankino State Broadcasting Company, the...
Paid articleThe Talkies / The World of Carpi James
Bowman, James
M y favorite politically correct critic and commentator on film, Caryn James of The New York Times, had a bad moment recently. In writing about a film she otherwise loved, Sally Potter's Orlando—the...
Paid articlePhilip Larkin
Motion, Andrew
A ndrew Motion met Philip Larkin, the greatest of postwar English poets, in 1977, the year Motion went to teach at the University of Hull, where Larkin had been librarian. Motion had...
Paid articleMexican Americans
Skerry, Peter
his Independence Day, the New T York Times revived the idea that Hispanics might be shifting to the GOP. The peg for this story was the 43 percent of the Mexican-American vote that helped Richard...
Paid articleThe Moral Sense
Wilson, James Q.
own-thing morality not obviously impeded in their careers by such philosophical cavils. A generation later, as a teacher, I tried to use the same book to make some dent in the invincible...
Paid articleRace Matters / Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy / Challenging the Civil Rights Establishment
West, Camel; Baker, Houston A. Jr.; Conti, Joseph G.; Stetson, Brad
I t is no coincidence that new books by two of our nation's leading black academics are very thin. That Princeton now boasts the preeminent Afro-American Studies department in the nation says little...
Paid articleThe Fifties
Halberstam, David
The Fifties begins, as did the fifties, with America ambivalently assuming leadership of the free world, and ends with a gathering momentum for radical social change. Best-selling journalist David...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
New York Post A brief moral disquisition from Garry Wins, never an inmate of a Castro prison, a Castro torture chamber, a Castro Cuba—but wouldn't it be pleasing to send him there? ... It is...
Paid articleThe Harvard Spectator/Reunion
Caldwell, Christopher
I recently went to a field day at my tenth Harvard reunion, where the classes congregate in a row of tents lined up chronologically by class. A walk from, say, the '88 tent to the '33 tent is a walk...
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