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Vol. 028 Issue 002 (February 1 1995)
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The Continuing Crisis
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• As December expires, and a woebegone Bill Clinton gamely jogs on, "Hail to the Chief' resounding ever more faintly between his ears and behind his glassy eyes, surely Mr. Leon Panetta, the gifted...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Direct-Mail Deviltry I must object strongly to the article by Christopher M. Byron ("Direct-Mail Deviltry," TAS, November 1994). The article unfairly attacks conservative...
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Editorials / Post-Liberation / Hubbelled
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS Post-Liberation by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A rdent environmentalist that I am, allow me to report that the nation's grim Kultursmog remains devoid of any currents of fresh air...
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Capitol Ideas / Armey's Divisions
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Bethell, Tom
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Armey's Divisions by Tom Bethel! / nside the Cannon Office Building, the old tenants had left but the newcomers had not yet arrived. The movers were evidently expected at any moment. Cardboard...
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The Second Reagan Revolution
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Eastland, Terry
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The Second Reagan Revolution With the voters' rejection of a liberal activist presidency, it is up to the Republican Congress to meet their expectations. This time, the GOP will not have the Cold...
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Poor Pamela
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Adams, James Ring
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James Ring Adams Poor Pamela Like the party she served so faithfully, the Democrats' queen mother Pamela Harriman has squandered her patrimony and may be one court appearance away from...
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Ethnicity and IQ
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Sowell, Thomas
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Thomas Sowell Ethnicity and IQ A leading scholar on the interplay of race and culture opens a new avenue in the debate launched by The Bell Curve over the heritability of intelligence. T he Bell...
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Sweet Charity
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Tucker, William
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William Tucker Sweet Charity It is, when it's paid for by government. The shocking story of nonprofits feeding at the trough at your expense. C atholic Charities, the largest nonprofit...
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Vichy Francois
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Kaplan, Roger
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Roger Kaplan Vichy Francois The ambivalence of the French about President Mitterrand's collaborationist past seems rooted in a national unease about France's ignoble history since Vichy. W ith...
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Constitutional Opinions / Let Us Pray
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Rabkin, Jeremy A.
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Let Us Pray by Jeremy A. Rabkin p undits and editorial writers pounced on Newt Gingrich when he suggested, soon after the election, that Republicans in the House would take up a school prayer...
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Spectator's Journal / Save the Whalers
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Price, David Andrew
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Save the Whalers by David Andrew Price 0 ne morning last January, Arvid Enghaugen, a resident of the Norwegian coastal town of Gressvik, found his whaling boat sitting unusually deep in the water....
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Presswatch / Braggarts and Burblers
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Corry, John
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Braggarts and Burblers by John Corry 0 bviously, the media know something important happened in the election, and though there is no consensus on just what it was, there is a feeling it was an...
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Ben Stein's Diary / Half-Century City
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Half-Century City by Benjamin J. Stein Monday H ere I am in Baltimore, Maryland. It's nighttime. I'm staying at the wonderful Stouffer Harborplace. My room looks out on the harbor and a giant...
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Politics / Whipped Into Shape
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Norquist, Grover G.
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Whipped Into Shape by Grover G. Norquist I n the early 1980s, Newt Gingrich organized the Conservative Opportunity Society to promote his vision of an alternative to the liberal welfare state....
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The Driving School Spectator / Ghose Slow
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Conlon, Edward
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Ghose Slow by Edward Conlon T he Grand Concourse in the Bronx is broad and tree-lined, eight stately lanes bordered by art deco and art modern apartment houses. Modeled after Park Avenue, which...
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The Talkies / Godlike Reason
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Bowman, James
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Godlike Reason by James Bowman What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? A beast no more. Sure He that made us with such large discourse, Looking before...
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More Precious Than Peace
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Rodman, Peter W.
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BOOK REVIEWS p eter Rodman, whom I know moderately well, is a modest man with little to be modest about. A close associate of Henry Kissinger's during the Nixon and Ford administrations, and a...
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Stalin and the Bomb
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Holloway, David
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STALIN AND THE BOMB: THE SOVIET UNION AND ATOMIC ENERGY 1939-1956 David Holloway Yale University Press /464 pages / $30 reviewed by DONALD LYONS A decade after the discovery of radiation, the...
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The Craft of Investing
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Train, John
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T here are roughly twenty-five books that should be in every investor's library, and John Train has written two of them. Mind you, The Money Masters and The New Money Masters are essentially...
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Remember Laughter
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Grauer, Neil A.
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j ames Thurber thought he deserved a Nobel Prize for literature. Sounds crazy, no? But before dismissing his fantasy as quintessentially Mittyesque, pause for a moment to call the roll of Thurber's...
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Eminent Churchillians
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Roberts, Andrew
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EMINENT CHURCHILLIANS Andrew Roberts Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London) / 322 pages / £20 reviewed by STUART REID E ven in the 1930s, alas, the royal family was coming to terms with the modern...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Crossfire In another edition of the Gong Show, Pat Buchanan, therapist, begins bringing Evan Thomas of Newsweek to terms with a mental disorder that, alas, has come to afflict so many...
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The Spending-Cut Spectator / Wish List
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Frum, David
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Wish List Republicans are happily interpreting the 1994 election as a mandate for smaller government. Splendid. Unfortunately, if past performance is any indicator, the new Republican majority will...
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