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Vol. 027 Issue 009 (September 1 1994)
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The Continuing Crisis
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• If judged by the Armey standard, which holds that Mr. Clinton is delighted with any bad news so long as "he is never found guilty of a criminal act," July was another great month for our...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE A Hiss Is Still a Hiss Both Tony Hiss in Newsweek and John Corry in The American Spectator ("Presswatch: The Hiss Factor," TAS, July 1994) have speculated about why President Nixon...
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Editorials / The Company They Keep/Tit for GATT
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS The Company They Keep by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. H ow many years has it been since a Republican of high estate publicly denounced an opponent as a "pinko," a "parlour pink," or a...
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Capitol Ideas I Inflation, Confiscation, and Gold
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Bethell, Tom
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Inflation, Confiscation, and Gold by Tom Bethell T his month we'll put on our thinking caps and take a look at inflation. Ever since the spring of 1993, when the price of gold began to rise, it has...
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On the Road With Air Clinton
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Hume, Brit
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On the Road With Air Clinton Who's running this airline? by Brit Hume Somewhere Over Europe T he chartered 747 carrying the White House press corps heads for Bonn following the end of the G-7...
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Where Was Hillary?
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Brock, David
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David Brock Where Was Hillary? And where's the desk she told the IRS she bought for $1,116? / n all of the shady Arkansas financial dealing and Washington strong-arming that have been lumped...
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Suburban Guerrilla
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Bovard, James
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James Bovard Suburban Guerrilla HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros thinks inner-city poverty and violence will disappear if transplanted to outlying areas via such seedy programs as Section 8. T he...
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Homeward Bound
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Richler, Mordecai
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Mordecai Richler Homeward Bound Israel, viewed from Canada, and vice versa. M y wife and I arrived in Israel on October 11, 1992, and we were driven directly to Mishkenot Sha'ananim, the official...
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Asia Watch/ Tokyo Curry
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Singh, Ajay
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Tokyo Curry by Ajay Singh F first come the onions—peeled, sliced, and fried all morning long. Mounds of onions: twelve kilos filling three large aluminum stock-pots. I sprinkle in some spices—a...
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The Nation's Pulse/ Closing the BCCI Curtain
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Adams, James Ring
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Just how far does the BCCI conspiracy go? That's the question facing the investigators who broke open the global criminal enterprise that was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International now that...
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Presswatch/Medea and the O.J. Media
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Corry, John
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Medea and the O.J. Media by John Corry S ay now that the O.J. Simpson case is gripping, and that there has never been anything quite like it before: a double murder and its aftermath played out in...
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Ben Stein's Diary / Foxes
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Foxes by Benjamin I. Stein Monday Aplanned lunch at a very good Italian place in Malibu called Tradinoi. It's a stunningly gorgeous sunny clear day here and I'm meeting my friend Hilda to cheer...
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Constitutional Opinions / The Bad Brother
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Eastland, Terry
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The Bad Brother by Terry Eastland 0 n June 24, in a front-page story on how frequently Justice Clarence Thomas agrees with Justice Antonin Scalia, the Washington Post's Joan Biskupic wrote that...
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The Talkies / Fantasies for All Ages
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Bowman, James
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Fantasies for All Ages by James Bowman A re we becoming a nation of wimps? According to the ultra-caring "Parent and Child" column of the New York Times, two-thirds of parents in an informal survey...
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American Arts and Letters /Hung-Up Henry
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Lynn, Kenneth S.
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Hung-Up Henry by Kenneth S. Lynn p rofessor Hobson's book is the outcome of years of work by a conscientious scholar. I No earlier biography of Mencken is nearly as informative. At the same time,...
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Politics/Hate Trick
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Norquist, Grover G.
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Hate Trick by Grover G. Norquist / n the 1930s, traditional Catholics, evangelical Protestants, and Orthodox Jews were valued members of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Coalition. Today, they are the...
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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century
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ed., John Hollander
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BOOK REVIEWS p oetry in high school in the 1950s was largely nineteenth-century American; it was Evangeline and Barbara Frietchie and To a Waterfowl and The Rhodora and The Man with the Hoe; it was...
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Dead Right
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Frum, David
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L ike just about everybody else who worries about the condition of conservatism and the Republican Party, Canadian journalist David Frum, formerly of the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, has a gloomy...
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A Fish in the Water
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Llosa), Mario Vargas
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M ario Vargas Llosa's run for the presidency of Peru was a matter of intense interest. He was that rarest of creatures: a creative intellectual who broke with the left's orthodoxies to endorse free...
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Snapshots From Hell
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Robinson, Peter
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F rom 1982, shortly after he finished graduate school, until 1988, Peter Robinson worked as a White House speechwriter, first for Vice President George Bush, then for President Ronald Reagan. It was...
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Dream City
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Jaffe, Harry S.; Sherwood, Tom
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H e philandered, gladhanded, and backpedaled. He wore leopard print dashikis to Mau-Mau, three-piece suits to pow-wow. Crack cocaine was his smoke of choice, but at least one mistress maintained...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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New York Times Beyond Friedman, beyond Keynes, even beyond Marx—Mrs. Clinton, the "uhless" economist: A sampling of speeches, supplied by her office, can be preachy. Mrs. Clinton recounts stories...
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The Immunity Spectator/More Questions
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Brutish, Solitary, Poor, Nasty; Short
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More Questions by Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish & Short T he president's taxpayer-financed counsel, Lloyd Cutler, and his lobbyist-funded private counsel, Robert Bennett, evidently intend to argue...
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