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Vol. 029 Issue 003 (March 1 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS On track: Paula, baby, Budgie, and Benito's Bonita As January plopped into the dustbin of history, a dwindling band of Clintonites were heard chanting "All Is Well, All Is...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Once in a Weill What a fine and clever piece by Mark Steyn on Kurt Weill (Books in Review, TAS, January 1996). What's more, the cleverness was not sprinkled about like so much...
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On the Prowl
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"On the Prowl" Whole Lott 0' Shakin' Gain' On Two men are in a Capitol Hill dogfight for the post of Senate Majority Leader if Bob Dole steps down after New Hampshire and Iowa. Mississippi's Trent...
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Editorials: Another Stand-In Performance /Lying Still
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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"Another Stand-In Performance /Lying Still" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Regarding the State of the Union address, could someone tell me who the stand-in was for Bill Clinton? Whoever he is, is...
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Capitol Ideas: Letter From Dead City
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Bethell, Tom
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"Capitol Ideas: Letter From Dead City" by Tom Bethell Letter From Dead City As we have been kept indoors by the snow, this may be the moment for a letter from the capital. Evidently Marion Barry sold off the city's snow...
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Nixon on the Rocks
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Taylor, John H.
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"Nixon on the Rocks" Director Oliver Stone has made a career out of rewriting American history to conform to his stale countercultural obsessions. But his latest effort went completely over the top,...
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The Trial of Brother Bob
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McGroarty, Daniel
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"The Trial of Brother Bob" THE TRIAL OF BROTHER BOB high school. Dropoup rates fell, grades improved, more kids moved on to college— and the school bureaucracy went...
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Russia Watch: The Return of Big Red
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Bernstein, Jonas
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"Russia Watch" by Jonas Bernstein The Return of Big Red Are the reforms in Russia irreversible? Western businessmen and economists want badly to believe that they are, and so do...
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Culture Vultures: Primary Color
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Steyn, Mark
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"Culture Vultures: Primary Color" by Mark Steyn Primary Color New Hampshire Around this time in the electoral cycle, friends often say to me, "I can't stand any more of this interminable presidential campaign....
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Presswatch: We Are Family
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Corry, John
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"Presswatch: We Are Family" by John Corry We Are Family Never was it given to mortal man To lie so boldly as we women can —Alexander Pope, 174 William Safire said Hillary Clinton was a "congenital liar," and...
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Ben Stein's Diary: Marshal Laws
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Marshal Laws Saturday It's a typical Saturday here at the Club Tommy in Malibu. My little angel, Tommy, is playing a vile video game with his giant...
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The Nation's Pulse: Sorry, Emma Lazarus
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Carroll, Vincent
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"The Nation's Pulse: Sorry, Emma Lazarus" Almost never is not the same as never," he said. "All right, counselor." "Well, I think you would agree that I have made my point," said little Stephen Douglas. When a little boy starts using...
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Politics: Georgetown Off My Mind
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Norquist, Grover G.
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"Politics: Georgetown Off My Mind" by Grover G. Norquist Georgetown Off My Mind Gordon Liddy, Robert Bork, Sen. Fred Thompson, and other conservatives from business, academia, politics, and the media danced in the...
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The Public Policy: Union Confederates
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Eggers, William D.; O'Leary, John
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"The Public Policy: Union Confederates" by William D. Eggers and John O'Leary Union Confederates john Sweeney's election last October to the presidency of the AFL-CIO marks a major turning point in the history of the...
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Great Maritime Saloons: Full Fathom Fifths
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Bakshian, Aram Jr.
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"Great Maritime Saloons: Full Fathom Fifths" by Aram Bakshian, Jr. Full Fathom Fifths There really is something to be said for Vitamin Sea. The ocean air is bracing, and nothing quite matches the delight of reading a...
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The Talkies: Bard to Death
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Bowman, James
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"The Talkies: Bard to Death" by James Bowman Bard to Death In the past three months I have been astonished to see not one, not two, but three adaptations of Jane Austen that more or less allow Jane to be Jane;...
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Trotsky
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Volkogonov, Dmitri
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Trotsky" The Eternal Revolutionary Dmitri Volkogonov Edited and translated by Harold Shukman Free Press /56o pages / $35 REVIEWED BY Mark Falcoff With the...
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Founding Father
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Brookhiser, Richard
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Founding Father" to Paris, where his oldest son (and political collaborator) died under mysterious circumstances after a perfectly ordinary appendectomy. Volkogonov obtained much of the new information about...
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Asia Rising
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Rohwer, Jim
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Asia Rising" Hatred to England may carry some into an excess of Confidence in France.... But it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound...
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The Scandal of Pleasure
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Steiner, Wendy
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "The Scandal of Pleasure" stands before us today is the Asia that MacArthur sketched out aboard the USS Missouri in 1945: one that with American leadership had turned its energies from war to commerce and was becoming more...
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It Takes a Village
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Clinton, Hillary Rodham
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "It Takes a Village" Hail to the Chief that is, to discuss a piece of literature. Both efforts are dismally inept. Apropos of Dinesh D'Souza's paraphrase, "Across the lawns the scholars come and go, talking of Proust...
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The Habsburgs
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Wheatcroft, Andrew
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "The Habsburgs" Little Austria and the Imperials discipline; authoritarian — strict but arbitrary; and authoritative —teach internal discipline by enforcing rational rules. Naturally, Hillary is authoritative—the...
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Operation SOLO
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Barron, John
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Operation SOLO" were not merely elegant precursors to the media-savvy politicians of today. (The author's concluding comparison of Habsburgs and Kennedys, doubtless well intentioned, is sorely inapt.) Philip II...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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"Current Wisdom" Washington Post Funereal rites in modern Third World America: About 1,500 people attended the funeral yesterday of Damion Blocker, 14, who was shot to death last week inside a...
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Last Call: Hate Is Enough
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Carnegie, M.D.
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"Last Call: Hate Is Enough" by M. D. Carnegie IHAD COME TO NEW YORK to do a television show about race relations, and race relations were the very first thing I saw: an Arab cabbie beating the...
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