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Vol. 027 Issue 008 (August 1 1994)
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The Continuing Crisis
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• June did not start off as a particularly interesting month—and then the gods smiled on us. At center stage stood President Bill Clinton, the man liberal policy wonks call the best president we...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Ms. Manners I am the product of a very large, venerable family of attorneys, including my grandfather, father, uncles, brother, and cousins. One of my uncles was a judge advocate at...
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Editorials /Houston Democrats /Turning on the Juice
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS Houston Democrats by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. 0 ne of the conveniences that Republicans have in choosing their candidates is the presence in American politics of the Avuncular Democrat....
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Capitol Ideas / Properly and Tyranny
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS Property and Tyranny by Tom Bethell / n the 1980's, Peggy Reigle was vice president of finance for the New York Daily News. But she grew tired of battling printers' and drivers'...
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The Tragedy of Macdeth
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Bacon, Francis X.
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The Tragedy of Macdeth by Francis X. Bacon ACT I Scene I—A heath in Arkansas. [Enter MACDETH and LYONS, jogging] MACDETH How now, my gentle Lyons, what's o'clock? LYONS My liege, the moon...
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Who'll Start the Rain?
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Byron, Christopher
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Christopher Byron Who'll Start the Rain? Why would a Republican public relations powerhouse hire a prodigal child of Camelot as its Washington rainmaker? A s everyone knows, you can't get...
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Day at the Beach
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Kramer, Yale
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Yale Kramer Day at the Beach How disaster was turned into victory at Omaha Beach— and why nothing comparable could happen today. Omaha Beach T he weather, the weather—leaden, low-lying nimbus...
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The Ties That Blind
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Adams, James Ring
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James Ring Adams The Ties That Blind Is it surprising that Hillary's beef brokers went into business with BCCIin which the privileged few won big and the disposable many lost badly? he public...
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Constitutional Opinions /Double Immunity
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Rabkin, Jeremy A.
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Double Immunity by Jeremy A. Rabkin S ome people mellow with age. In the riper wisdom of their later years, they adopt softer views than they did amidst the passionate controversies of their youth....
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Presswatch/ The Hoagland Affair
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Cony, John
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PRESSWATCH The Hoagland Affair by John Corry ntil her death last year, Marion U Magid was the managing editor of Commentary magazine, and though we never met, I knew about her in the way that...
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The Nation's Pulse/Future Limits
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Eastland, Terry
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IlaffillIMMIIM1111110111 Future Limits by Terry Eastland / n early June, the ambitiously named Project for the Republican Future sponsored the first of several conferences about the direction of...
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Spectator's Journal! Neo-Italy
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Ledeen, Michael
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL Neo-Italy by Michael Ledeen T he Italian Revolution has reached its halfway point, having liquidated the old political parties and having made possible a radical transformation...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Howe Rules!
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY Howe Rules! by Benjamin J. Stein Tuesday D inner with my pal Al "The Duke" Duesenberg. Al is a major casting guy, working out of both New York and Los Angeles. He's a lean,...
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Politics /Headed for a Big Fall
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Norquist, Grover G.
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POLITICS Headed for a Big Fall by Grover G. Norquist For the first time since 1956, the Republicans this fall will make a serious bid for control of both houses of Congress. Holding 178 seats in...
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The Talkies/Not Up to Speed
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES Not Up to Speed by James Bowman F or those who still profess bafflement about the meaning of "postmodernism" here is a simple definition: it is the process by which The Wolf Man has...
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The Agenda
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Woodward, Bob
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BOOK REVIEWS T he most telling revelations in Bob Woodward's The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House produced no headlines, because they are not the kind that readers have come to expect from...
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Life of the Party
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Ogden, Christopher
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LIFE OF THE PARTY: THE BIOGRAPHY OF PAMELA DIGBY CHURCHILL HAYWARD HARRIMAN Christopher Ogden Little, Brown/504 pages /$24.95 reviewed by ANDREW FERGUSON What I like best about this book is...
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A Talent for Genius
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Kashner, Sam; Schoenberger, Nancy
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A brilliant pianist, but not an immortal like his friend Vladimir Horowitz; a talented songwriter, but not a colossus like his friend George Gershwin; a creditable composer, but not a titan like his...
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Victory
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Schweizer, Peter
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F or nearly three decades after World War II, one of the great breakthroughs in defeating the Nazis was kept secret. This was the cracking of the German coding machine Enigma. The system for...
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Colored People
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Gates, Henry Louis Jr.
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COLORED PEOPLE: A MEMOIR Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alfred A. Knopf/ 216 pages /$22 reviewed by FRANCIS X. ROCCA "A ademic superstar" may be an oxymoron, but if there is such a thing, Henry Louis...
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Great Catherine
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Erickson, Carolly
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GREAT CATHERINE: THE LIFE OF CATHERINE THE GREAT, EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Carolly Erickson Crown/392 pages / $25 reviewed by FLORENCE KING Would you want your sister to marry Grand Duke Peter of...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Village Voice Spielberg' s road to capitalism: It goes back to the central fact that the film is not about Jews or, arguably, even the Holocaust. . . . It's a movie about Clinton....
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The Ms. Spectator / I'll Trade You Anna Quindlen
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York, Byron
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THE MS. SPECTATOR I'll Trade You Anna Quindlen by Byron York R ecently a woman I work with attended a fund-raising dinner held by the Women's Campaign Fund. The next day, I noticed what looked...
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