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Vol. 028 Issue 010 (October 1 1995)
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The Continuing Crisis
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• August was the month during which Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton added yet another comedy act to the Clintons' burlesque. That syndicated column of hers, which showed such promise at the end of July...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Reform Party, Anyone? It's a shame that Mordecai Richler' s impatience with academic writing styles led him to dismiss Tom Flanagan's Waiting for the Wave: The Reform Party and...
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On the Prowl
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New White House Plumbers Why is the Clinton re-election com- mittee planning to hire three former FBI agents to work for it? The three retired agents—including a former assistant director of the...
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Editorials/Let the Chips Fall/Staying Put
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Jr, R. Emmett Tyrrell
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EDITORIALS Let the Chips Fall by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. L ast July a most amazing thing happened in American journalism, demonstrating how easily intimidated and politically sensitive the...
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Capitol Ideas / Vote in the Frauds
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Bethell, Tom
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Vote in the Frauds by Tom Bethell 1 n San Francisco, candidates for public office compete with one another by moving to the left. Who is the most virtuous of them all? Who dares to hit business the...
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The Hidden Balkan War
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Corry, John
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The Hidden Balkan War As our correspondent discovers, a religious war between Croat, Serb, and Muslim Slays is following a medieval logic no one in the West seems willing to ponder. by John...
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The Last Democratic Hero
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Barnes, Fred
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Fred Barnes The Last Democratic Hero As he proved in Vietnam, Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska would rather fight for what he believes than quit. Is that why his party seems to have so little use for...
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The Battle for Algeria
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Kaplan, Roger
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Roger Kaplan The Battle for Algeria The disappointments and disillusion of the former French colony have given way to a nightmare that shows no sign of ending—and U.S. policy, if that's what it...
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Black America's Moment of Truth
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D'Souza, Dinesh
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Dinesh D'Souza Black America's Moment of Truth The problem facing black America today is not white racism or GOP budget cuts. It's a culture that embraces violence and celebrates ignorance— and...
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The Whitewater Banking Hearings 1 Round Up the Usual Suspects
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Adams, James Ring
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Round Up the Usual Suspects by James Ring Adams When Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr began assembling his staff for the Whitewater investigation, he invited Sam Dash, the famed counsel for the...
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Clinton's America/ Total Unrecall
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York, Byron
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Total Unrecall by Byron York R emember when Ronald Reagan appeared in a California courtroom to give a videotaped deposition on Iran-contra? In the course of eight hours of testimony over two days,...
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Presswatch / Sex and Smoke
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Corry, John
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Sex and Smoke by John Corry M aybe Newt Gingrich is not as smart as he thinks he is, or maybe he was badly advised. Whatever it was, he was foolish enough to sit still for an interview with Gail...
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The Public Policy I Diversity's Deep Roots
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Frum, David
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Diversity's Deep Roots by David Frum A professor I know who teaches at a small liberal arts college tests his students' adherence to the doctrines of "diversity" by writing three questions on the...
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Among the Intellectualoids/Jerry's Kids
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Carnegie, M. D.
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Jerry's Kids by M. D. Carnegie 4 4 'm not Beethoven," Jerry Garcia once said, and he wasn't kidding. The aptly nicknamed Captain Trips was just shaking off a five-day coma, and it has come down...
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Ben Stein's Diary /It's in the Cards
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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It's in the Cards by Benjamin J. Stein Tuesday I have a new plan. I am sitting outside a store in Hollywood called Meltdown, between two different Thai restaurants. Meltdown sells collectible and...
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Politics/ Flat Tax Express
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Norquist, Grover G.
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Flat Tax Express by Grover G. Norquist Within months of Ronald Reagan's 1981 inauguration, Congress enacted the Kemp-Roth tax bill, cutting marginal tax rates by 25 percent. Now Alabama Sen....
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The Nation's Pulse/ The Harder They Fall
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Gold, Victor
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The Harder They Fall by Victor Gold A few years back I met with John Kasich, a young congressman said to be looking for new challenges, on the off-chance I could interest him in a modest proposal...
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The Mounted Spectator/Riding High
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Conlon, Edward
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Riding High by Edward Conlon T 6 6 he other day Billy Byrnes whipped around and bit me in the ass," Chris White announces. "Drew blood and everything." Byrnes and White are colleagues at the New...
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The Talkies /Rotters
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Bowman, James
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Rotters by James Bowman T he things I do for American Spectator readers! This month, having sat through Kevin Costner's dreadful Watenvorld, the tale of a tough but sensitive homme-poisson living...
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The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century
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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
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BOOK REVIEWS 6 6t is you and your writing that started it all," says a man trembling with rage in an audience in Ulan-Ude, in Buryatia, three-and-a-half thousand miles from Moscow. "It has...
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Sursum Corda! The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry
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Grace, Sherrill E.
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SURSUM CORDA! THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF MALCOLM LOWRY, VOLUME ONE: 1926-1946 Edited by Sherrill E. Grace University of Toronto Press / 688 pages / $49.95 reviewed by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ T he son...
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The Freedom Revolution / To Renew America
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Armey, Dick; Gingrich, Newt
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All successful partnerships are based on the Principle of Complementarity: Whether it's a baseball team, a marriage, or a political alliance, each partner brings something to the table that the...
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The Vision of the Anointed
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Sowell, Thomas
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THE VISION OF THE ANOINTED: SELF-CONGRATULATION AS A BASIS FOR SOCIAL POLICY Thomas Sowell Basic Books/ 305 pages /$25 reviewed by ROGER KIMBALL T homas Sowell's new book might be called...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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San Francisco Chronicle A brisk news account of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's appearance at an anti-Gov. Pete Wilson rally, and of the rhetorical sallies of the suave lawyer whom the Rev. brought along...
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The Vacation Spectator/Dog Days at the Beach
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Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
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Dog Days at the Beach by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski W hile the political world of the East Coast had its eyes on "Newtie Boy" (as the New York Post called him) in early August, mine were on the...
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