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Vol. 027 Issue 002 (February 1 1994)
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The Continuing Crisis
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N ineteen ninety-three is a dodo, and as it gave way to 1994 a cacophony of outraged voices sounded off against this ancient intellectual review and defender of Art—namely the art of self-defense....
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Correspondence / Trooper Eruptions
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CORRESPONDENCE Trooper Eruptions David Brock's article ("Living With the Clintons," TAS, January 1994) did not live up to its hype: it proved to be just a bunch of shopworn second-hand allegations...
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Criminal Laws Implicated by the Clinton Scandals
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CRIMINAL LAWS IMPLICATED BY THE CLINTON SCANDALS: A PARTIAL LIST by Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short As details concerning overlapping scandals involving President and Mrs. Clinton have...
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Editorials / The Worst Book of the Year/David and the Goliaths
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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• EDITORIALS The Worst Book of the Year by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. t is that joyous time of year when I / and my colleagues on the J. Gordon Coogler Committee confer the Coogler laurels upon the...
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Capitol Ideas / The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
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Bethell, Tom
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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Tom Bethell S cientific ideas have been shaped by culturally dominant ideas in the past, and in that sense science has always been partly "political." Today,...
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The MIA Cover-Up
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Corry, John
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The MIA Cover-Up Seeking to normalize relations with Vietnam, President Clinton, along with supine politicians and a feckless press, would like the public to forget the MIA issue. But evidence...
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Health Care Costs Are Going Down
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Barnes, Fred
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Fred Barnes Health Care Costs Are Going Down At least in the private sector—and Bill, Hillary, Donna, et al. don't want to hear about it. resident Clinton has a p story and he's sticking to it....
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Clinton's Phony Drug War
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York, Byron
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Byron York Clinton's Phony Drug War Do-nothing drug czar Lee Brown has cabinet status, but no ideas, no goals, and no money—which is just the way the president wants it. A man in a dark suit...
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The Unheavenly City Revisited
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Sowell, Thomas
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Thomas Sowell The Unheavenly City Revisited Edward C. Banfield's classic critique of the American city is even more powerful today than when it was published 25 years ago— but so are the...
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Beyond Whitewater
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Adams, James Ring
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James Ring Adams Beyond Whitewater A look into the account books of Madison Guaranty, the S&L run into the ground by Clinton pal James McDougal, shows that the president has more to hide than...
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A Clinton Christmas Reader (with apologies to the New York Times)
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR VOL. 27, No. 2 / FEBRUARY 1994 gilt Xtur cork ants Book Review December 14, 1997 Section 7 Copyright © 1997 Murdoch Newspapers A Clinton Christmas Reader A potpourri...
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Eminentoes /Baghdad Gasbag
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Price, David Andrew
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Baghdad Gasbag by David Andrew Price he Gulf War was very good to T Peter Arnett. Since January of 1991, when television audiences in the United States and 104 other countries followed his CNN...
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The Nation's Pulse / Good Will
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Ferguson, Tim W.
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Good Will by Tim W. Ferguson 4 4 oc nservative" is an expansive term—even Garry Wills and Kevin Phillips have been so described. And George Will was, by his own acknowledgment, a Big Government...
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American Lives and Letters/Life With Lionel
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Lynn, Kenneth S.
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AMERICAN LIVES AND LETTERS Life With Lionel by Kenneth S. Lynn T he New York intellectuals of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s were "overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked...
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Ben Stein's Diary / Trixie
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY tie/ 4.0\39`rTrixie Saturday A gigantic wrestling match at the gymnasium of the junior high school here in Sandpoint, Idaho. I'm here with little Gorgeous George because his...
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Constitutional Opinions / I. Waters
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Eastland, Terry
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS .EQUAL JustIce UNDER L I.C. Waters by Terry Eastland More than a year has passed during which the nation has survived without an independent counsel law. That blessed...
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Presswatch /Roman Scandals
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Cony, John
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Roman Scandals by John Corry John Cardinal O'Connor has not spoken to a reporter since last summer, and does not plan to speak to one soon. The archdiocese of New York has made no announcement on...
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Politics/Democrats Misfire on Guns
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Norquist, Grover G.
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Democrats Misfire on Guns by Grover G. Norquist n a two-week span at the end of last / year, President Clinton won passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), defeated the...
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Russia Watch (I) / Bardak Shadows
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Bernstein, Jonas
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Bardak Shadows by Jonas Bernstein L ast summer, a reporter for the English-language Moscow Tribune witnessed the following incident: An elderly man, one of Moscow's legions of pensioners, was...
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Russia Watch (II) I Zhirinovsky Up Close
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Young, Cathy
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Zhirinovsky Up Close by Cathy Young T wo years ago, a columnist in one of Moscow's liberal papers quipped that tapes of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's speeches were outselling those of professional...
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The Talkies / Lost and Profound
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Bowman, James
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Lost and Profound by James Bowman T reatments of history, politics, and res publicae are undertaken by the movies often to give themselves a kind of imprimatur of serious-mindedness. Unfortunately,...
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My Times
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Corry, John
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BOOK REVIEWS A t the age of 7, John Corry pushed Billy Boswell into a pail of water. Billy Boswell was not just any classmate. He was the son of a bigshot—a lieutenant in the Fire Department. Cony...
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A Democracy at War
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O'Neill, William L.
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T o many, perhaps most, Americans, it is still simply "the war." Just as the Revolution and the Civil War shaped the United States for generations, so World War II made the nation in which most of...
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The Culture of Disbelief
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Carter, Stephen L.
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the Native American Church for taking peyote as part of a church ritual. The law in question, Justice Scalia reasoned, was not an act of anti-religious discrimination; it was merely intended to curb...
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The Downing Street Years
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Thatcher, Margaret
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The reception in Britain of Margaret Thatcher's autobiography has been entirely in keeping with the rest of her career. The chattering classes have derided it, treating it with barely concealed...
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Mark Rothko
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Breslin, James E.B.
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I n late February 1969, Mark Rothko signed a million-dollar contract with the Marlborough Gallery. It was, he crowed to the poet Stanley Kunitz, "the greatest contract ever signed by a living...
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Assassination in Khartoum
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Korn, David A.
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/ n the minutes before 7 p.m. on March 1, 1973, a diplomatic reception was breaking up at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. As the ambassadors left the party and dispersed to find...
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American Zoom
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Golenbock, Peter
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S porting traditions in the old South center on golf, college football, and basketball, with professional baseball and football only late arrivals. But outside that tight circle of socially approved...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Cleveland Plain Dealer Neil Chethik, a caring father, fears for his son's future—it's enough to make a grown man cry: I now have the opportunity to help shape a man. The day after Thanksgiving,...
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The Summit Spectator /Sherping
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Brooks, David
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Sherping by David Brooks T his is the year Bill Clinton discovers the joys of global summitry. He attended a NATO summit in January, he's got a European summit in June, and there's still talk of a...
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