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Vol. 030 Issue 005 (May 1 1997)
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••Cover Page••
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS Al gets Chinese, the Danes get wild; the inner bison 3 6 March proved to be a splendid month for the Clintons ...for a while. The great hullabaloo over White House slumber...
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Correspondence: Canady's lies, LaBelle's pipes & c.
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CORRESPONDENCE Canadyesque In his February article in The American Spectator, "The Error of Big Government," James Bovard accused me of contributing to the inability of Congress to enact wetlands...
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On the Prowl
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ON THE PROWL Herman's Hermits Republicans never raised serious questions about Labor Secretary-designate Alexis Herman's past business dealings during Herman's halfday confirmation hearing...
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Editorials: The Worst Book of the Year / The Small Island That We Rescued
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Worst Book of the Year It is my privilege every year at this time to serve on the committee that judges America's only literary prize...
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Capitol Ideas: Outing Shakespeare
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Outing Shakespeare perhaps the greatest difficulty in discussing the Authorship Question is persuading people that it is serious: Who wrote the plays and poems...
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Going for the Gold
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Stevenson, Matthew
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GOING FOR EGoLD BY MATTHEW STEVENSON WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE, THE AMERICAN PRESS DECIDED THAT THE SWISS HAD HIDDEN NAZI GOLD. AN AMERICAN BANKER SAYS IT'S NOT QUITE THAT SIMPLE. A s...
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Who Is Roger Tamraz?
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RingAdams, James; Timmerman, Kenneth R.
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This White House coffee-drinker has a very interesting past that includes close links to BCCI and Libya. By James Ring Adams & Kenneth B. Timmerman T he case of Roger Tamraz has pushed Bill...
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Wayne's World
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Brock, David
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IN MAY THE NRA WILL DECIDE WHETHER IT WANTS TO BE WAY 101 E S A MODERN POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OR AN "EXTREMIST" WORLD GROUP SPRUNG FROM A LIBERAL'S WORST NIGHTMARE. BY DAVID BROCK 0 n the 5th...
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Culture Vultures: Dysfunction Junction
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Steyn, Mark
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just published, you can feel the difficulty Morrison has in finding out a way to inject himself into the story, but, anxious to empathize with his celebrity killers, he puts his mind to it and...
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Presswatch: From Lake to Oceania
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Cony, John
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PR ESSWATCH by John Corry From Lake to Oceania A nthony Lake was a bad choice to begin with. Something about him did not feel right, and the thought of him heading the CIA made people nervous....
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Constitutional Opinions: More Equal Than Others
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Rabkin, Jeremy
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by Jeremy Rabkin More Equal Than Others R emember the four Los Angeles policemen charged in the beating of Rodney King? After their acquittal of state criminal charges by...
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Ben Stein's Diary: Candice Laughter
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Candice Laughter Tuesday Well, here I am on stage four at Warner Brothers in Burbank. I have been hired to appear on "Murphy Brown" as a nerdy (surprise,...
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Spectator's Journal: Holly Goes Lightly
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York, Byron
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SPECTATOR'S JOUR NAL by Byron York ast year I wrote about an assault that L took place in my apartment building in the northwest section of Washington, D.C. (See "A Negative Campaigner," TAS,...
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The Public Policy: Carville's List
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Bovard, James
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THE PUBLIC POLICY by James Bovard Carville's List Au e ended the notion that government is the problem," Bill Clinton said in a January speech to the Democratic National Committee evaluating...
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Russia Watch: Reform Follows Function
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Bernstein, Jonas
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RUSSIA WATCH by Jonas Bernstein Reform Follows Function Can a totally corrupt system reform itself? Boris Yeltsin claims to think so—and has once again declared war on the mafia and...
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Politics: Fuss Budget
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Norquist, Grover G.
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POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist Fuss Budget I f every senator who had promised to vote for the balanced budget amendment had actually done so, the measure would have passed on March 4 with 74...
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The Talkies: Porn Again
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES by James Bowman Porn Again M ovies and pornography were made for each other. The impulse to look at the things which shame would keep hidden can be a very costly thing to indulge, but...
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Whittaker Chambers
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Tanenhaus, Sam
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BOOKS IN REVIEW The Ambivalent Icon Whittaker Chambers: A Biography Sam Tanenhaus Random House / 638 pages / $35 REVIEWED BY George H. Nash N ext year will mark the fiftieth anniversary of...
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Out of America
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Richburg, Keith B.
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ened and the powerful" (who were frequently pro-Hiss) and "the plain men and women of the nation" (who believed Chambers)? God or Man, Soul or Mind: Chambers's formulation may seem facile. But as...
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The Idea of Decline in Western History
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Herman, Arthur
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not black. (Richburg names names: Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, among others—people "completely ignorant about Africa.") But Richburg knows that he is condemning the refusal by...
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Assimilation, American Style / We Are All Multiculturalists Now
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Salins, Peter D.; Glazer, Nathan
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deeply rooted causes that they are unsolvable, or have such far-reaching implications that only a drastic overhaul of the society or culture as a whole can fix them." What we should have learned...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM White House Weekly A venerated insider's report announces the latest effort at the Politics of Hope by our big lovable lug of a president, a.k.a. Boy Clinton: Aides tell us that...
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Last Call: Perfect Pritchett
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Carnegie, Marc
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LAST CALL by Marc Carnegie Perfect Pritchett T O THE AMERICAN EAR THE CRISP British elegance of his name —V.S. Pritchett—sounds almost comically upper-crust; and you could be forgiven for...
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