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Vol. 028 Issue 011 (November 1 1995)
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Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE What's up in Jakarta—and Little Rock The September 1995 cover story ("What's Up in Jakarta?") by James Ring Adams contains an error. Mr. Adams incorrectly describes "[f}ormer state...
The Continuing Crisis
• September vanishes and Gingrich is vindicated! Suddenly the dimensions of the November Republican victory are clear for all to see. In September Republican majorities in both congressional...
On the Prowl
Why Mikva "Retired" T he final days of White House counsel Abner Mikva—certainly one of the most underreported stories of the Clinton administration—continue to be a prime item of speculation in...
Editorials/A Perfect Gentleman/Slow Burn to China
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS A Perfect Gentleman by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. ne thing about retiring Senator 0 Bob Packwood, he put on a good show. And so did former House Speaker Jim Wright and now former...
Capitol Ideas / The Spending Is Killing Me
Bethell, Tom
The Spending Is Killing Me by Tom Bethell T oday is our budget lesson, I'm afraid, so put on your mortar boards, and class will come to attention. I only hope the editors didn't use the b-word in...
Travelgate Survivors
York, Byron
Travelgate Survivors In their first in-depth interview, former White House travel office workers tell how they found themselves in the middle of the Clintons' first big scandal. by Byron...
Why Are We in Macedonia?
Corry, John
John Cony Why Are We in Macedonia? You probably didn't know that American boys are on patrol in this powder keg—a tiny country more important to the region's balance of power than Bosnia will...
A Death That Won't Die
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard A Death That Won't Die The investigations into Vince Foster's demise have revealed a hodgepodge of contradictions, inaccuracies, and unresolved mysteries. One leading...
The IRS vs. You
Bovard, James
James Bovard The IRS vs. You Secret informants, searches at will, contempt for the courts, hatred for the small businessman and the self-employed, and even anti-clericalisma frightening...
Special Correspondence / Commerce Under Siege
Reinsch, William A.; Timmerman, Kenneth R.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE Commerce Under Siege: An Exchange William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, defends his department's turf. Kenneth R. Timmerman replies. 0...
Ben Stein's Diary / Eye Street
Stein, Benjamin J.
Eye Street by Benjamin J. Stein Monday D inner at Morton's with my agent pal and his wife. It's jumping here tonight, just like the old Morton's back in the 1980s before the Los Angeles economy...
Spectator's Journal / Saddam's Germs
Mylroie, Laurie; Adams, James Ring
Saddam's Germs by Laurie Mylroie and James. Ring Adams This man's purpose is lawless, lawless are the plans in his mind; for his thought is only to destroy and to wipe out nation after nation....
Presswatch / Colin Show
Corry, John
C Olin Powell is a good guy; there is no doubt about that. He is virtuous but not prim, manly but not insensitive, dignified but not stuffy, and so on. He transcends race, rises above partisan...
Politics / Take It or Leave It
Norquist, Grover G.
Take It or Leave It by Grover G. Norquist T he media-driven boomlet for retired General Colin Powell is the most recent confirmation of the Democratic Party's collapse as a contender for national...
The Great Andalusian Saloon Series / Manzanillaville
Rocca, Francis X.
Manzanillaville by Francis X. Rocca W hen sailor Paco Felix Enriquez went down with his ship some seventy years ago, his fox terrier survived, staying afloat long enough to be rescued by a British...
The Faith Spectator/All Fall Down
Aikman, David
Toronto T hey line up in ranks like migrant day workers, mostly young or middle-aged, their eyes closed and their hands stretched out almost in supplication. A two-person prayer team approaches,...
American Document/Dead Letter
Dead Letter [name withheld] [street address withheld] Stony Brook NY, 11790 Senator Spencer Abraham United States Senate B40-4 Dirksen Building Washington DC, 20510 August 17, 1995 Dear...
The Talkies / Showtime
Bowman, James
Showtime by James Bowman A lthough there are an infinite number of ways for movies to be good or bad, an almost infallible predictor of quality is the liveliness or lack of it of the characters. If...
A Good Life
Bradlee, Ben
BOOK REVIEWS T here have been many famous newspaper editors in America, but thus far only one celebrity editor, Benjamin Bradlee of the Washington Post. Bradlee's fame was at one time of such...
Trust
Fukuyama, Francis
S cattered throughout the writings of the late Eric Hoffer—the self-educated longshoreman who became one of America's most distinguished social thinkers—are references to an incident that obviously...
Cato's Letters
Trenchard, John; Gordon, Thomas
N owadays the only Cato most Americans have heard of is Kato Kadin, yet this statement poses a fascinating question: How did Kato hear of Cato? He must have, else he could not have chosen it for his...
Raymond Chandler
ed., Frank MacShane
T he Library of America has just issued a two-volume edition of Raymond Chandler—pulp fiction on Olympus! When word came to Chandler in the Elysian Fields that he was to report for a meeting with...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour Miss Katrina Vanden Heuvel, the callipygian editor of the Nation, is queried on the Weekly Standard and whipped into delirium: I think that we need to continue, as Bill...
The Shawntel Spectator/ There She Is
Carnegie, M.D.
There She Is by M. D. Carnegie / don't know what criteria the middle- aged white male oppressors were using to select the scholarship kids when I was in college, but they were a good deal different...
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