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Vol. 027 Issue 012 (December 1 1994)
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The Continuing Crisis
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• October was a month pregnant with diplomatic news. In Ireland, Russian President Boris Yeltsin demonstrated his flair for foreign policy during a brief stopover at Shannon Airport by leaving the...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE George's Big Buy I hate to be the devil's advocate for Mr. Stephanopoulos, but did Mr. Labash take into account depreciation in regards to George's building deal ("Buy George," by...
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Editorials / Who's Afraid of L.D. Brown?/ Mena Spirited
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS Who's Afraid of L.D. Brown? by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. H arper's magazine held a kind of show trial the other day at the National Press Club. The burden of the apparat's labored efforts...
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Capitol Ideas/Renaissance Weakened
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Bethell, Tom
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Renaissance Weakened by Tom Bethell / don't bother much with the newsweeklies anymore. Jazzy graphics and ever-larger photographs try to disguise their predictable rehash of the conventional...
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Have GAO Will Travel
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York, Byron
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Have GAO Will Travel When the White House is in trouble, the General Accounting Office can be counted on to lend a hand, even if that means ignoring its own findings in the Travelgate affair. by...
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Jimmy Carter's Return
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Brock, David
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David Brock Jimmy Carter's Return How a disgraced ex-president's crusade for vindication led to the hijacking of Clinton foreign policy. I. The consensus view: he has been a superb...
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Books for Christmas
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Books for Christmas Our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. Fred Barnes I recommend two political books for different reasons. One is, at once, the...
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The Nation's Pulse/Lens Democracy
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Mallon, Thomas
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Lens Democracy by Thomas Mallon F or a century and a half the politician and the camera have been involved in a power struggle, changes in technology shifting the advantage between one side and the...
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Presswatch / The Straight and Narrow
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Cony, John
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The Straight and Narrow by John Corry T he press is growing uncomfortable. America is changing, but the press is not, and increasingly people seem to dislike it. A poll by the Times-Mirror Center...
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Ben Stein's Diary / Good-bye Summer
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY Good-bye Summer by Benjamin J. Stein Monday A very early dinner at Morton's with my old pal Barron. We talked about how to buy a bank in a small town, then how to make it buy...
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Clinton's Arkansas / Cash Voting
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Wattenberg, Daniel
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Cash Voting by Daniel Wattenberg Just what did Bill Clinton get from Whitewater, anyway? It wasn't the money; he says the real estate investment didn't earn any. One doubts it was friendship. The...
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Politics / Looking Ahead
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Norquist, Grover G.
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Looking Ahead by Grover G. Norquist F or more than a year Republicans had been dreading the final two weeks of the 103rd Congress. Bill Clinton would win several legislative victories and pass...
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The Gerry Adams Spectator/Belfast Americans
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Conlon, Edward
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Belfast Americans by Edward Conlon E ven when it was in Gaelic, much of what Gerry Adams told the crowd was familiar: "We threaten the Unionists with nothing but democracy," and "Irish America is...
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American Document/Life After Liberalism: The New Republic at 80
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Kramer, Hilton
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The New Republic at 80 Life After Liberalism by Hilton Kramer R eading the New Republic these days, I often think of the late Lionel Trilling. It was Trilling's fondest wish to remain, in...
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The Great Manila Hotel Series /Manila Christmas
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McGurn, William
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Manila Christmas by William McGurn The Manila Hotel A lmost immediately after Douglas MacArthur issued his famous vow to return to the Philippines, a cable arrived from Washington. Gently it...
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The Talkies /Sweat Dreams
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Bowman, James
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Sweat Dreams by James Bowman F rom those who disagree with me about the merits of the popular movies I so regularly disparage, the question I hear most often is this: What's so bad about...
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On the Edge
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Drew, Elizabeth
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BOOK REVIEWS ate last year, with the L tide of the White-water case beginning to rise around them, President and Mrs. Clinton resisted calls for the appointment of a special investigator....
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Jewish Renewal
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Lerner, Michael
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R ichard Brookhiser once famously said that the only distinction between the Democratic Party and Reform Judaism was the holidays. Here is the proof. Michael Lerner is a longtime leftist activist...
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My Life as a Radical Lawyer
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Kunstler, William M.; Isenberg, Sheila
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L ast winter I was a guest on a BBC radio program with the radical lawyer William Kunstler and the irrepressible MTV deejay Kennedy. The subject was the Reginald Denny trial, which had just reached...
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Dictatorship of Virtue
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Bernstein, Richard
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E very year the undergraduate newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania, the Daily Pennsylvanian, carries a single conservative column. Gregory Pavlik was the writer of that column during the...
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No Ordinary Time
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Goodwin, Doris Kearns
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W ith No Ordinary Time, Doris Kearns Goodwin has produced a history of Franklin and (especially) Eleanor Roosevelt's years in the White House that is cause for celebration. Granted, it is written at...
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All's Fair
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Matalin, Mary; Carville, James; Knobler, Peter
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/ am writing this review of All's Fair under protest. It is the obligation of every book reviewer to read every word of the book he is reviewing, and I have fulfilled my obligation. But I am full of...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM 1,4ZP The Great Books Series The infantile mind of Anna Quindlen roams freely on the first page of the novel that drove her to quit her column and become the Jane Austen of Yuppie...
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The Mayor Giuliani Spectator / Cuomophilia
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Scully, Matthew
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THE MAYOR GIULIANI SPECTATOR VII Cuomophilia by Matthew Scully F or as long as I can remember, no Republican mission has seemed to me more urgent, vital, or praiseworthy than to remove Mario M....
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