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Vol. 031 Issue 009 (September 1 1998)
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The Continuing Crisis
THE CONTINUING CRISIS Boy's Big Bang; smell the flowers; Internet Brits July was almost a goner when suddenly the country received an explanation as to why the Boy President's smiling visage has...
Correspondence: Motorola in China, Gates, &c.
CORRESPONDENCE Oopsy Daisy Don't shortchange us! ("Strange Last Respects," by John Corry, TAS, August 1998). More than 27 million Americans voted for Goldwater, to be exact 27,176,799. (Source:...
On the Prowl
ON THE PROWL Mr. In-Between Former Clinton deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes continues to serve his president's cause any which way he can. As the Monica Lewinsky scandal reaches high boil, he...
Editorials: Bookists/A State of Mind
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Bookists The Modern Library's editorial board has just announced the loo best Englishlanguage novels of the century, as esteemed by its board...
Capitol Ideas: Controversy in Shadowlands
Bethell, Tom
CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Controversy in Shadowlands T he C.S. Lewis centenary approaches. Born in November 1898, he famously died on the same day as John F. Kennedy (and Aldous Huxley). Lewis...
A Formula for Genocide
Corry, John
FormA ula for Genocide Pioneering journalist Philip Gourevitch has shown how Western race theory, arms, and money—combined with home-grown corruption—can turn a peaceful yet ethnically complex...
The Choices Are Expanding
Tucker, William
S chool choice is an idea whose time has come. Legal barriers are falling. Institutional momentum is accelerating. Prominent individuals everywhere are announcing their conversion. From a single...
Good Enough for Government Work?
Bovard, James
rith)t) FOR FAT TM? Growing in numbers and political influence, public employees' unions look out for their members at taxpayer expense—helping government A A fter a bomb destroyed the...
The Great Stonewall of China
York, Byron
HI WHILE THE WORLD WATCHES MONICA LEWINSKY, DAN BURTON PUSHES AHEAD ON CAMPAIGN F1NANCE—AND FINDS HIMSELF STYMIED BY THE WHITE HOUSE FOREIGN POLICY TEAM. n July 3, just before boarding Air...
Long Beach Missile Transfers
Timmerman, Kenneth K
LONGM BEA H issile Transfers KENNETH R. TIMMERMAN With the complicity of the Clinton-Gore administration, the Boeing corporation is bringing Russian and Ukrainian missiles to American shores....
Culture Vultures: Scoopie Doo
Steyn, Mark
CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Scoopie Doo T hese are confusing times for casual readers of the American press. Pick up the New Republic and you find it's running what seems to be a regular...
Presswatch: Fawning All Over Themselves
Corry, John
this month's Playboy, but even they had a stunning pictorial, "The Boys and Girls of the New Yorker Editor Shortlist." Admittedly, not everyone is happy with this trend in American journalism. But...
Ben Stein's Diary: The Bear and the Garden
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein The Bear and the Garden Wednesday L et me tell you about the life and death of Ginger, whom we also called the Bear, who was as integral a part of our...
Eminentoes: CNN's Real Mistake
Collins, Reid
EMINENTOES by Reid Collins CNN's Real Mistake H ang in there, Peter Arnett. It has happened before, with a bigger star and a bigger network. Only, that network didn't have to apologize. It...
Constitutional Opinions: The Supreme Feminist Court
Rabkin, Jeremy
CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by Jeremy Rabki n The Supreme Feminist Court M any people have had the thought: whatever else emerges from the Clinton scandals, at least they have put a stop to feminist...
Politics: Calling the House
Norquist, Grover G.
POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist Calling the House T he November 3 elections are coming into sharper focus. While Republicans expect to pick up three or four governorships and two or three Senate...
Spectator's Journal: Greyhound to San Francisco
Croke, Bill
SPECTATOR'S JOURNAL by Bill Croke Greyhound to San Francisco B ack in the Golden Age of bus travel —the early 1970's — it cost a trifling $49 to ride a Greyhound from New York to San Francisco....
The Talkies: Saving Private Lolita
Bowman, James
THE TALKIES by James Bowman Saving Private Lolita S ummer is —not that the rest of the year isn't—the season of formula movies. When you have invested close to $100 million in a hopeful...
Years of House Work / Representative Mom
Schroeder, Pat; Molinari, Susan; Burkett, Elinor
BOOKS IN REVIEW House Mothers 24 Years of House Work...and the Place Is Still a Mess: My Life in Politics Pat Schroeder Andrews McMeel / 244 pages / $24.95 Representative Mom: Balancing...
Two Lucky People
Milton; Friedman, Rose D.
She alludes to burn-out but quickly establishes herself as an elder stateswoman in the making, teaching at Princeton, serving as president of the Association of American Publishers, and thinktanking...
The Muhammad Ali Reader / More Than a Champion
Early, Gerald; Reemtsma, Jan Philipp
of the Statue of Liberty; and the Fried-mans in writings and professional work of more than half a century. Even their title, a bald statement of fact, carries with it the whiff of Gershwin. And it...
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Biskind, Peter
fellow say, "I am the World's Greatest Wrestler! I cannot be defeated. I am The Greatest !"'" Now that Ali's boxing-induced Parkinsonism has reduced him to performing sleight-of-hand tricks to get a...
An Education for Our Time
Bunting, Josiah III
whom he has become, perhaps, too close—he has little to tell us. Here, for instance, is part of his analysis of one supposed masterpiece: "If the '5os saw American culture turning away from Marx...
Current Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
CURRENT WISDOM Santa Barbara News-Press In the historic News-Press, revelations of yet another serious crime committed by the monstrous Judge Starr pursuant to his shameless defenestration of our...
Last Call: Amateur Hour
Stevenson, Matthew
LAST CALL by Matthew Stevenson Amateur Hour WHEN I MOVED TO EUROPE, I JOINED A COMPANY that each year sponsors a pro-am golf tournament for charitable causes. Since 1991, this grand tour, with...
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