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Vol. 028 Issue 005 (May 1 1995)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• March came in like a lamb and left like a louse. Everyone wanted a little more winter. Our President jogs less frequently in winter, and when he does he usually covers his legs. There was a day...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Whale of a Tale David Andrew Price ("Save the Whalers," TAS, February 1995) believes that brutality toward a species is justified so long as there is no danger of exterminating that...
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Editorials/ Chip on My Shoulder/Moving on Mena
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS Chip on My Shoulder by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Las Vegas M y travels have taken me through much of the industri- alized world. I have even vis- ited parts of the Third World. For...
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Capitol Ideas/Aid Affects Everyone
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Bethell, Tom
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Aid Affects Everyone by Tom Bethell L ouis Menand, who teaches English at the City University of New York (formerly City College), published an interesting defense of professionalism the other day....
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Why the GOP Does Not, Like, Totally Suck
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O'Rourke, P J.
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Why the GOP Does Not, Like, Totally Suck Mr. and Mrs. American Spectator Reader, let P.J. O'Rourke talk sense to your kids. by P.J. O'Rourke D o you have a mopey young person in your family?...
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The Color of California
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Rabkin, Jeremy A.
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Jeremy A. Rabkin The Color of California A popular citizens' initiative could restore the color-blindness promised by the Civil Rights Act of 1964—unless the courts intervene to rescue...
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What Gulf War Syndrome?
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Fumento, Michael
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Michael Fumento What Gulf War Syndrome? Did the Gulf War make you sick? The White House thinks so, and so does Sen. Jay Rockefeller. But why do all the doctors disagree? I t has become a ritual...
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Dinosaurs and Desperados
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Caldwell, Christopher
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Christopher Caldwell Dinosaurs and Desperados The economy will be fine. Mexico's problem is the mind-boggling corruption of its ruling party—which is discovering it cannot co-exist with...
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The Public Policy/Building Blocks
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Frum, David
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Building Blocks by David Frum F ix it in Washington or in the states? All at once or bit by bit? That's the choice Republicans are facing as they prepare to reform welfare. And the longer you think...
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Presswatch /Back in the Saddle Again
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Cony, John
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Back in the Saddle Again by John Corry 1 t is scoundrel time again. You knew the Republicans have no compassion when you read the New York Times's quote of the day. It always appears in a box on...
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Clinton's America/Photo-Op Cops
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Barnes, John A.
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CLINTON'S AMERICA Photo-Op Cops by John A. Barnes T he day after the House of Representatives unexpectedly rejected President Clinton's gun-controlling, pork-laden crime bill last August, the...
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Ben Stein's Diary /Poetry in Motion
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY Poetry in Motion by Benjamin J. Stein Saturday It's bitterly cold here in Washington. But I have convinced old Maw and Paw to go for a walk with me down to the Sequoia...
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The Great American Saloon Series / Pilgrim's Progress
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Jr, Aram Bakshian
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Pilgrim's Progress by Aram Bakshian, Jr. / is eleven in the evening, and outside the front entrance of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, on Connecticut Avenue, a gaggle of cabbies—Pakistani, Iranian,...
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Politics /Color TV
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Norquist, Grover G.
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Color TV by Grover G. Norquist S ince 1978, selling radio and broadcast licenses to preferred racial groups has meant a generous tax break for the seller. The tax preferences can reach astonishing...
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Chechnya Watch / Shah Graves
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Bernstein, Jonas
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Shali Graves by Jonas Bernstein B ouncing down a road on the outskirts of Nazran in a Russian jeep filled with four drunken Ingush teenagers (one of them at the wheel), and a reggae singer shouting...
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The Talkies/Message Parlor
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Bowman, James
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Message Parlor by James Bowman 0 for the days when Sam Goldwyn could tell his precious "creative" folk that if they wanted to send a message, they should call Western Union! Message movies started...
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The Bill
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Waldman, Steven
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BOOK REVIEWS 0 f the three major books published so far about Bill Clinton's administration-inprogress, Steven Waldman's The Bill may be the best, and the one most likely to last. It has a narrower...
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On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
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Kagan, Donald
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The moral of Donald Kagan's wise and compelling book was summed up neatly by the Roman military commentator Flavius Vegetius—si vis pacem, para bellum: "If you want peace, prepare for war." Kagan,...
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Masters of Deception
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Slatalla, Michelle; Quittner, Joshua
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Like Pike, the late Peckinpah shared Huck Finn's instinct to "light out for the territory ahead of the rest"; and even though the territory has long since been tamed, this craving for a primitive...
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Edison
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Baldwin, Neil
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A fter meeting Thomas Alva Edison on a transatlantic liner, Henry James described him in a letter as "the great bland simple deaf street-boy-faced Edison." True, but nineteenth-century America liked...
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The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
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Lasch, Christopher
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T he late historian Christopher Lasch began as a man of the left, but in later years his blasts against the decline of the family and the flight from communal responsibilities to personal rights...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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New York Times The illustrious Times courageously revises its view of the McCarthy Horrors: The obituary of former Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas on Feb. 10 misidentified the politician...
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The Anglo-Irish Spectator/ The Wolfman Cometh
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Reid, Stuart
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The Wolfman Cometh by Stuart Reid London F or a while there in March it looked bad. This time the Yanks had gone too far. In tacos bars, in bowling alleys, at Safeway checkouts—wherever Englishmen...
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