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Vol. 030 Issue 008 (August 1 1997)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS Courting disaster; a candid camera; milky ways June started off okay for the Clinton Cabal. By the end of the month, however, Mrs. Paula Corbin Jones's lawyers were sending...
Correspondence: Brock, Barbour, Siegel &c.
CORRESPONDENCE None Dare Call It... I have just finished reading Kenneth Tim-merman's piece, "While America Sleeps," in your June issue. When are we going to stop pussyfooting around and ask...
On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL Naughty Newt Much as House Majority Leader Dick Armey downplays it, he's mighty steamed at Speaker Newt Gingrich. It was Armey who hosted a June after-hours pow-wow with...
Editorials: Everything's Ducky/No Escaping the Sexual Revolution
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Everything's Ducky Throughout the history of this great and gaudy Republic second-term presidents have often become what historians call "lame...
Capitol Ideas: A Conference on Gayness
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell A Conference on Gayness I t's a comment on our times that when a group of academics called the American Public Philosophy Institute sponsored a three-day conference...
Carville's Cast of Characters
York, Byron
Clinton capo James Carville gets lots of headlines with his war on Whitewater investigator Kenneth Starr. But why isn't anybody investigating Carville's operation? BY BYRON YORK n June the New...
Where Has All the Money Gone?
Timmerman, Kenneth R.
Money Gone? 0 n February 28, Colorado Governor and Democratic National Committee Chairman Roy Romer told reporters that in light of an "independent audit" the DNC was now committed to returning $3...
The French Malady
Caldwell, Christopher
HE MALADY CAN ONLY THE LEFT BE TRUSTED TO REFORM THE WELFARE STATE? BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL ine 7 of the Paris Metro runs past the familiar heart of Paris: the Place de l'Opera, the Louvre,...
Ocean City Cop
Carlson, Richard W.
I n the spring of 1962, age 21, I became a policeman for the summer in Ocean City, Maryland, a ten-mile-long island on the Atlantic and the state's most pop. ular summer resort. To hear cops on...
Culture Vultures: Andrew Lord Hyphen
Steyn, Mark
CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Andrew Lord Hyphen A „ ndrew Lloyd Webber's music is everywhere," sniffed Malcolm Williamson, distinguished Australian composer and Master of the Queen's Musick,...
Presswatch: Hillary's Africa
Corry, John
PRESSWATC H by John Corry Hillary's Africa M rs. Clinton has discovered Africa, and it has made a great impression. "It changed Hillary forever," her husband said, the "it" being her...
The Public Policy: Race to the Finish
Eastland, Terry
THE PUBLIC POLICY by Terry Eastland Race to the Finish H ow odd that President Clinton chose San Diego as the site of his June 14 defense of affirmative action. The last time Clinton had been in...
Ben Stein's Diary: Testy Money
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Testy Money Thursday our Congress at work. Here I am in the Carl Perkins Room of the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. I am testifying...
Constitutional Opinions: Diversity Snobs
Rabkin, Jeremy
CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by Jeremy Rabkin Diversity Snobs E ven before President Clinton called for a new dialogue on race, the country had a most instructive debate on affirmative action this...
Politics: Eye on the States
Norquist, Grover G.
POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist Eye on the States T he Washington press is like the drunk looking for his keys under a street lamp. He'd lost them somewhere else, but preferred to search where the...
Spectator's Journal: A Jour with the Tour
Stevenson, Matthew
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL by Matthew Stevenson A Jour With the Tour E ver since I described Sam Abtthe author of many books about the Tour de France—in an academic journal as the "Marlow of...
The Talkies: Waco: The Documentary
Bowman, James
THE TALKIES by James Bowman Waco: The Documentary Confronted with the unresisting imbecility of summer "blockbuster" fare, film critics ought to take the opportunity to turn their attention to...
Buckley: The Right Word
Buckley, William F. Jr.; ed., Samuel S. Vaughan
BOOKS IN REVIEW Buckley the Trend Buckley: The Right Word William F. Buckley, Edited by Samuel S. Vaughan Random House 524 pages / $28 REVIEWED BY Stuart Reid E nglish is not William F....
The Uncrowned King
Weintraub, Stanley
Queen Victoria's German Prince Charming The Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert Stanley Weintraub The Free Press / 478 pages / $27.50 REVIEWED BY Florence King T ifi he stud farm of...
From Parchment to Power
Goldwin, Robert A.
the American Constitution. But they faced an awkward problem. The Continental Congress, which had established the Constitutional Convention, merely authorized the delegates to amend the Articles of...
Charlie Chaplin and His Times
Lynn, Kenneth S.
Charlie Chaplin and His Times Kenneth S. Lynn Simon & Schuster / 604 pages / $35 REVIEWED BY John R. Dunlap I n his later years, Charlie Chaplin liked to say that The Gold Rush (1925) was the...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Lingua Franca The eminent Prof. Richard Rorty, author of that masterwork of Yuppie Enlightenment, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, apprises the readers of LF of a "favorite work...
Last Call: On Tiger's Tail
York, Byron
LAST CALL by Byron York On Tiger's Tail il 'D GIVE ANYTHING IN THE WORLD FOR a mulligan," professional golfer Tom Lehman said after hooking his ball into the water on the next-to-last hole of the...
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