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Vol. 031 Issue 007 (July 1 1998)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS Airlift secrets; Barry vs. Barry; Manila heat; no pledges May started with May Day and ended with Bill Clinton crying May Day, May Day. In his mano a mano with the...
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Correspondence: Sound Bytes, PR GOP &c.
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CORRESPONDENCE Pinochet Nous If it is not a joke, where is RET's judgment? It's utter nonsense to compare Augusto Pinochet to FDR (The Continuing Crisis, TAS, May 1998). Whatever is said about...
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On the Prowl
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ON THE PROWL What Burton Uncovered Investigators for Dan Burton's House Reform and Oversight Committee have traced more than $1 million wired to Clinton crony Charles Yah Lin Trie from Macao...
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Editorials: The Party of Corruption/Who's the Bossie?
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Party of Corruption A few weeks back the Democrats' foxy rhetoricians put the poor Republicans on the defensive once again. The battleground...
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Capitol Ideas: The Hazards of Charity
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell The Hazards of Charity V cry often, rich people give money to causes that are already being funded by governments. I suppose the idea is that no one will come along...
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The Collapse of Clinton Foreign Policy
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Ledeen, Michael
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THE COLLAPSE OF CLINTON FOR'EIGN POLICY Call it Clinton's New World Disorder. From China and Russia to Iraq and India and Pakistan, nukes and a new arms race are the order of the day, much of...
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Loral Exams
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Timmerman, Kenneth R.
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Lora 1111 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why the leader of a country without missile defenses has gone out of his way to help another country point missiles at it. KENNETH...
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What-Me Guilty?
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York, Byron
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e Labor Secretarg Alexis Herman is the latest Clintonile to have an independent counsel of her very own. White House spinners sag she s the innocent victim of a had law. must mean (as indeed it...
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Open Season on Bill Gates
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Tucker, William
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VEZ434-4'•W 12.4 Open Season on Bill Clan Bill Gates and Microsoft have committed the crime of understanding the Information Age better than anyone else. Now the Reno Justice Department has...
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Culture Vultures: Under My Skin
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Steyn, Mark
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CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Under My Skin A s Sinatra himself wondered in another context: "What now, my love?" What now? When Frank finally faced his final curtain, checked into the big...
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Presswatch: Hack Haven
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Corry, John
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PRESSWATCH by John Corry Hack Haven ees, along with pictures of naked women, The Stephen Glass affair shakes the New Republic. on its website. Desperate Jukt executives, Glass wrote, then...
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Constitutional Opinions: Rule by Unaccountability
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Rabkin, Jeremy
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by Jeremy Rabkin Rule by Unaccountability I n the mid-1980's, conservatives denounced the institution of the special prosecutor—or independent counsel, as it is now...
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Ben Stein's Diary: Dining Out
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Dining Out Tuesday I 'm on the Washington airport Super-Shuttle bus, actually just a drab green bus heading from the Avis lot to the USAir Terminal. We...
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Politics: Dobson and the GOP
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Norquist, Grover G.
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POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist Dobson and the GOP ii e are very pleased with the leadership of the House and Senate," says Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life...
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The Montana Spectator: It's Hot
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Croke, Bill
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THE MONTANA SPECTATOR by Bill Croke It's Hot Back in the car, I see that the hay and Another scorcher along the Rocky Mountain Front. wheat fields along the Teton River Road are prematurely...
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Eminentoes: He Ain't Worth a Lick
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Schwartz, Stephen
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EMINENTOES by Stephen Schwartz He Ain't Worth a Lick T he past year has seen a national campaign to turn a man generally and deservedly forgotten into an African American hero. According to his...
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The Nation's Pulse: Corny Newt
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Dealey, Sam
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by Sam Dealey Corny Newt sage, and Gingrich's appointments to the Are ethanol subsidies fueling a presidential run? House-Senate conference committee were a transparent rigging to ensure the...
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Spectator's Journal: Britain Rebranded
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Kimball, Roger
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SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL by Roger Kimball ritain a English.... Now we want to promote EngWhat's past is passe in Tony Blair's Little England. lishness, and St. George seemed the ideal figurehead. We...
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The Talkies: Hats Off, Gentlemen
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES by James Bowman Hats Off, Gentlemen I t's a lucky thing for me that Whit Stillman, who is an old friend of The American Spectator, makes such good movies. If he made bad ones, I...
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Empire by Default
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Musicant, Ivan
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Long Live Punctilio! Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century Ivan Musicant Henry Holt / 740 pages / $35 REVIEWED BY Florence King C...
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Great Souls
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Aikman, David
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What Do Mandela and the Pope Have in Common? Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century David Aikman Word Publishing /388 pages / $23 REVIEWED BY Joseph Shattan Although liberals pride...
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Paradise Lost
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Schrag, Peter
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Future, he blames the initiative process for debasing public policymaking, leading the state away from the big and wise government of a generation ago and toward a polity divided by race and class,...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM San Francisco Chronicle Another bull from columnist Adair Lara, presumably before it was revealed that what began with Boy Clinton's turbulent libido found its way to the tip of...
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Last Call: Not a Prayer
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Queenan, Joe
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LAST CALL by Joe Queenan Not a Prayer G OD, SO LONG ABSENT FROM THE NATION'S sports pages, was back in the news on April 21, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, of all places. Seemingly, when the National...
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