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Vol. 028 Issue 012 (December 1 1995)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• October proved to be a dismal month for ex-President Bill Clinton. The soap-opera statesman, in a brilliant moment of self-promotion, attributed his many foreign policy achievements—Haiti, Bosnia,...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE IRS Withdrawal Driving the kids to non-public school today, I heard on the news radio that the IRS was scrapping the TCMP "audits from hell" for 1995, because of "lack of funds." I...
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On the Prowl
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Why Wasn't Chelsea Invited? The White House insists it isn't true, but the Montgomery County police officers who busted vice-presidential daughter Sarah Gore for underage possession of an open...
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Editorials/See No Evil/Downright Scary
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS See No Evil by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. H oward Kurtz, the Washington Post reporter whose beat is media, has come up with a howler to be placed atop another howler and savored. The other...
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Capitol Ideas/Priests and Conservatives
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Bethell, Tom
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Priests and Conservatives by Tom Bethell G nosticism is an ancient Christian heresy whose spirit has animated American liberalism for two decades or more. Ecclesiastical feminism is perhaps the...
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It's the Best Time of the Year
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Steyn, Mark
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It's the Best Time of the Year The American Christmas, like the songs that celebrate it, makes room for everybody under the rainbow. Is that why so many people seem to be hostile to it? by Mark...
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I Won't Be Home for Christmas
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McGrorty, Michael J.
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Michael J. McGrorty I Won't Be Home for Christmas The author vas spending his Christmas Eve thousands of miles away in a foreign land, scrubbing dishes and surrounded by drunken sailors. Then...
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Books for Christmas
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Books for Christmas Our annual list of holiday gift suggestions from distinguished readers and writers. Stephen E. Ambrose I have three favorites for Christmas gifts, two new and one old. David...
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Islamic Iran's American Base
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Timmerman, Kenneth R.
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Kenneth R. Timmerman. Islamic Iran's American Base The Tehran government has an outpost in Manhattan disguised as a nonprofit foundation. This organization has attempted to procure illegal...
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Rocky Mountain Hire
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Shiflett, Dave
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Dave Shiflett Rocky Mountain Hire Supporters of "diversity" talk about their mission in terms of "equality" and "fairness," when what they mean is that white men need not apply. One white man's...
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The Nation of Islam's Pulse/March Madness
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Carnegie, M.D.
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THE NATION OF ISLAM'S PULSE t'SZS1.41: March Madness by M. D. Carnegie 1 n the days leading up to Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, people around Washington were quite unabashedly discussing...
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Presswatch/Loony Tunes
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Corry, John
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T he media consensus was this: A gulf now separates black and white America, and somehow it must be bridged. Usually one must be wary when so many columnists and commentators speak with one voice,...
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American Document/The Hero in Our Time
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Thomas, Clarence
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The Hero in Our Time by Clarence Thomas W hen I was young, there was a deep appreciation of heroes and heroic virtue. Art, literature, and even popular culture often focused on people who...
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Ben Stein's Diary/Rooked
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY Rooked by Benjamin I. Stein Wednesday H ere I am, en route to New Orleans on United Airlines. By the grace of God, I am in First Class. It's incredibly cramped and tiny. By pure...
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Politics/D-Day
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Norquist, Grover G.
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D-Day by Grover G. Norquist N o one expected the Washington Establishment to surrender gracefully. The Republican Reconciliation Bill, scheduled to go to Bill Clinton on November 13, is the...
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Spectator's Journal/Christians in Zion
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Aikman, David
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Christians in Zion by David Aikman Jerusalem T he Feast of TabernaclesSukkot in Hebrew—is one of the most light-hearted of Jewish holidays, as well as one of the pleasantest times of the year to...
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The Great American Saloon Series/Puffy's Tavern
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Roberts, Rex
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES Puffy's Tavern by Rex Roberts 0 n Park Avenue one December evening, I found myself standing next to an Upper East Side habitude. I was new in town, and she seemed...
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The Talkies/Friendly Persuasion
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Bowman, James
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Friendly Persuasion by James Bowman / t hardly seems worth the while of the movie critic of The American Spectator to bother trashing Roland Joffe's version of The Scarlet Letter—which may just be...
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In Confidence
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Dobrynin, Anatoly
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BOOK REVIEWS uring the Nixon, D Ford, and Carter administrations, when Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin was paying a call on the U.S. Secretary of State, he was usually permitted to drive into...
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A Bully Father
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Kerr, Joan Paterson
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0 n the morning of his resignation, during a farewell to White House staffers now routinely described as rambling and mawkish and signifying instability, Richard Nixon quoted the young Theodore...
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What Comes Next
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Pinkerton, James P.
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j ames Pinkerton is the huge, imposing figure who was the ideas man for the Bush administration. Highly respected for his original thought, he was also pretty much pushed to the periphery during the...
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The Sword of Imagination
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Kirk, Russell
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ancestral Scotland and earned the prestigious D.Litt. at St. Andrews University. He was offered dozens of academic posts in America, but he wanted "a field for his imagination to plow." Taking...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Hillary Rodham Clinton Portrait Committee For Yale Law School, its very own Mona Lisa: Dear Graduates, Students, Colleagues, and Friends: We are writing to ask your support for a...
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The Dole Spectator/Leave Him Alone
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York, Byron
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Leave Him Alone by Byron York L ately conservative political activists have been falling over each other in a rush to kill the presidential candidacy of Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. One insider...
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