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Vol. 031 Issue 006 (June 1 1998)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS Night crawlers; Pot kicks bucket; Mitterrand's last meal April departs for its rightful place in the annals of history, and in Washington mute befuddlement supplants the...
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE Wide-Eyed While I usually enjoy much of TAS, I was dismayed by the tone you took in the April's Continuing Crisis. You not only refer to Miss Lewinsky as "tubby" but slyly suggest...
On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL I'm Outta Here Ever since the Lewinsky matter became public, President Clinton has been virtually cut off from his longtime confidant and golfing partner Vernon Jordan, who is also...
Editorials
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Killer Coffee I wonder what House Speaker Newt Gingrich was doing the other day when the morning headline boomed the Boy President's assault...
Capitol Ideas
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Falling on the Ball F ailing on the ball in the hope of running out the clock often has disastrous consequences in football, and we are seeing the same thing in...
Sold on NATO: The Case for Expansion
O'Sullivan, John
11 RIF] • ^ TME [1 11 JOHN O'SULLIVAN THE TO EXPAND NATO WIL MEAN A STRONGE,' ATLANTIC ALLIANC;,,.„ AND A MORE STABLE WORLD IN WHICH TH U.S. AND THE WE REMAIN PRED•' he 80-19 vote by the...
The Last Testimony of vincent Foster
York, Byron
THE LAST TESTIMON' WHAT DID THE LATE VINCENT FOSTER TELL HIS LAWYER ABOUT TRAVELGATEAND HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S ROLE IN THE SCANDAL? KENNETH STARR NEEDS TO KNOW—BUT FOSTER'S LAWYER IS FIGHTING...
IRS Mess
Bovard, James
THE HEARINGS AND THE HYPE, THE IRS ISN'T ABOUT TO REFORM EXCEPT TO FIND NEW WAYS TO TRACK OKAY BY CONGRESS. M E S R n hearings last September, senators lashed out at the Internal...
Cleaning Up After a Dirty War
Stevenson, Matthew
Cleaning Up After a Dirty War A decade and a half after the fall of its dictatorship, Argentina is increasingly democratic and prosperous— and still haunted by the "disappeared." Matthew...
Culture Vultures
Steyn, Mark
CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Hooked on Propane F rom my vantage point in the Granite State, I usually pay little heed to the activities of Massachusetts Republicans, who tend to be well to the...
Presswatch
Corry, John
PRESSWATCH by John Corry Salon's Spectator Project Bentonville, Ark. —David Hale, the key witness against President Clinton in Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation, received numerous cash...
Spectator's Journal
Reid, Stuart
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL by Stuart Rei, The Bloody Hand of History W hen Tony Blair flew into Northern Ireland on the wings of a dove on Tuesday in Holy Week he came straight to the point. "This is...
The Deposition Spectator
Craig, Michael
THE DEPOSITION SPECTATOR by Michael Craig He Talked Too Much I n the classic black comedy Dr. Strangelove, the title character possesses a mechanical arm with a mind of its own—periodically...
The Nation's Pulse
Chapman, Steve
THE NATION'S PULSE by Steve Chapman A merican politics is growing infantile, and like many regrettable national developments, this one has been exacerbated, if not led, by Bill Clinton. Judging...
Among the Intellectualoids
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
AMONG THE INTELLECTUALOIDS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Worst Book of the Year T his cold slab of a book is a disappointment. Professor Hill, you have let me down! The liberals' dispendious...
Ben Stein's Diary
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein On With the Show Friday D inner in the top floor dining room of the Hyatt Tech Center outside Denver. I am here to do a commercial of sorts for a very...
The Campaign Spectator
Bernstein, Mark F.
THE CAMPAIGN SPECTATOR by Mark F. Bernstein To Have and Have Not I n the mid-195o's, noon of the Eisenhower summer, glib Republicans liked to congratulate each other that they were...
Politics
Norquist, Grover G.
POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist Read Their Lips W hile some politicians have a hard time thinking past the next election, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) have a longterm...
Eminentoes
Carnegie, Marc
EMINENTOES by Marc Carnegie Out of the Water Closet W hen Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou dropped his trousers in the men's room at Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills, and invited the guy...
The Talkies
Bowman, James
THE TALKIES by James Bowman Angel Eyes T he movies have always glorified crime, but not in the way they do now. The lovable, madcap criminal who was first introduced to us in the 1960's now seems...
Lessons Learned the Hard Way / The Freshmen
Gingrich, Newt; Lindberg, Tod
BOOKS IN REVIEW Conservatives Inside Out Lessons Learned the Hard Way: A Personal Report Newt Gingrich HarperCollins / 229 pages / $25 The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution?...
Sumner Welles
Terzian, Philip
A Good Neighbor's Suffering Situation Sumner Welles: FDR's Global Strategist: A Biography Benjamin Welles St. Martin's I 437 pages / $35 REVIEWED BY Philip Terzian I f Sumner Welles had never...
Who Killed Homer?
Dunlap, John R.
It's All Greek to Us Now Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath Free Press / 290 pages / $25 REVIEWED BY John R....
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Miami Herald Casual sex at the Fontainebleau Hotel, as reported by Harold of Golden Beach regarding Bill of Whitewater: In the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate Bill Clinton...
Last Call
Taki
LAST CALL by Taki A Gent's Advice to the Draft Dodger I RECENTLY VISITED THE NATION'S CAPITAL, spending most of my time at the bar of the Ritz Carlton, now under a new name and management. But my...
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