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Vol. 029 Issue 006 (June 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 Fingerprints & stolen manuscripts; Jerry Garcia later April expires with familiar obnubilations belching from those two infamous smokestacks at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. On...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Prowl On In fingering my wife, Elizabeth Vandivier, and me for writing Primary Colors, you got a few things right and a few things very wrong (On the Prowl, TAS, March 1996). Where...
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On the Prowl
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"On the Prowl" Shredding Tears On April 3, news that Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's military transport had disappeared in Dubrovnik began to reach his staff at the Commerce Department around io...
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Editorials:Doledrums for Clinton / Forget It!
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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"Editorials:Doledrums for Clinton / Forget It!" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Doledrums for Clinton Washington I think of this city, the capital of a vast country, as a small town. The evidence to support my prejudice piles...
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Capitol Ideas: Roe's Disparate Impact
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Bethell, Tom
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"Capitol Ideas: Roe's Disparate Impact" by Tom Bethell Roe's Disparate Impact Earlier this year, I went to the Mall for the March for Life. Ever since the Roe v. Wade decision, usurping the legislative power of all fifty...
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Return of the Nativists
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Moore, Stephen
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"Return of the Nativists" RETURN of the NATIVISTS The GOP has made the cynical decision to become the anti-immigration party. But in addition to making no economic sense, the nativist position is political...
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White House Life & Casualty
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York, Byron
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"White House Life & Casualty" Last year Bob Bennett was faced with a tricky problem: What to do about a client who can't pay his bills? By the middle of 1995, the Washington super-lawyer had run up more than...
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Jerry Parks and the Teachers' Pensions
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Adams, James Ring
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"Jerry Parks and the Teachers' Pensions" Jerry Parks and the Teachers' Pensions RING ADAMS WHEN THE NAME LUTHER GERALD PARKS turned up on a long-sought list of pension investments, Lynda Hogue didn't have any idea who he might be....
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John Warner Just Keeps Hanging On
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Saletan, William
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"John Warner Just Keeps Hanging On" John Warner Just Keeps Hanging n Two YEARS AGO, CONSERVATIVES THOUGHT THEY HAD HIM LICKED. BUT AS WARNER HEADS FOR ALMOST CERTAIN RE-ELECTION, THEY'RE DISCOVERING, THE HARD WAY, HE'S MUCH...
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Spectator's Journal: Mad Cows and Englishmen
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Richler, Mordecai
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"Spectator's Journal: Mad Cows and Englishmen" by Mordecai Richler Mad Cows and Englishmen The Spanish Armada couldn't manage it. Neither could Napoleon, or Hitler. But where they failed to bring Great Britain to its...
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Culture Vultures: Dubroff Debris
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Steyn, Mark
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"Culture Vultures: Dubroff Debris" by Mark Steyn Dubroff Debris Today's lesson is taken from Airplane!, for as pilot Peter Graves and doctor Leslie Nielsen so memorably put it: "Surely you can't be serious?" "I...
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Presswatch: Riverside Drive West
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Corry, John
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"Presswatch: Riverside Drive West" by John Corry Riverside Drive West It was Rodney King all over again, with a reminder of O.J. Simpson. An 8o-mile chase on California freeways ended when a truck carrying twenty-one...
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Ben Stein's Diary: Embarrassments
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Embarrassments Monday Here we are in Oxford, Maryland, again. I have taken me old Ma and Pa out to the Eastern Shore to look at houses. This is my...
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Russia Watch: Democracy Can Wait
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Bernstein, Jonas
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"Russia Watch: Democracy Can Wait" by Jonas Bernstein Democracy Can Wait Boris Yeltsin's poll numbers have been going up lately—one recent survey commissioned by the Moscow Times...
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The Nation's Pulse: I Love You, Man
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Terzian, Philip
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"The Nation's Pulse: I Love You, Man" by Philip Terzian I Love You, Man Ron Brown was a charming, energetic, indefatigable lawyer-politician who did quite well in Washington. Once, when he was chairman of the...
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The Talkies: The Look of Love
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Bowman, James
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"The Talkies: The Look of Love" by James Bowman The Look of Love In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of phone sex, as Tennyson might say if, poor chap, he were alive today. Spike Lee's Girl 6...
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The Amerasia Spy Case
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Klehr, Harvey; Radosh, Ronald
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "The Amerasia Spy Case" Same Old, Not So Long Ago The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh University of North Carolina Press 266 pages / $29.95 REVIEWED BY John...
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Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies
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Middlekauff, Robert
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies" The Other Side of Gentle Ben Franklin Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies Robert Middlekauff University of California Press 255 pages / $24.95 REVIEWED BY Joseph Shattan Ates a young boy...
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International News & Foreign Correspondents
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Hess, Stephen
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "International News & Foreign Correspondents" Blind to the World American media has systematically failed to inform ordinary Americans about what goes on in the world. Stephen Hess notes a striking paradox about our ignorance—for those...
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Balance of Power
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Wright, Jim
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BOOKS IN REVIEW - "Balance of Power" quate professionalism among producers and editors. Interestingly, Hess opts for this explanation, but with an interesting twist. Among mainstream media leaders, he says, there has been an...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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"Current Wisdom" Washington Post Another stirring account of how the Clinton administration is succoring the "forgotten middle class": From the sidewalk outside, Jacqueline Nesbitt's gray,...
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Last Call: Patriot Games
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Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
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"Last Call: Patriot Games" by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski Patriot Games WHEN I VISITED MY SONS' public school last month for "artists and authors" day, one of...
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