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 Vol. 032 Issue 001 (January 1 1999)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS Having to win; an old geezer sneezer; Harry Laden 1 0 November was a winning month for Mr. Bill Clinton, America's first truly undisgraceable president. The month witnessed...
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The Washington Club Dinner
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The Washington Club Scenes from The American Spectator's annual dinner. 10 January r999 • The American...
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Nose Job Regarding the illustration gracing the cover of your November issue under the headline "All Washed Up!": Quite prescient, but I never realized that Newt had such a big...
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On the Prowl
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ON THE PROWL We Have Liftoff Members of the Senate press gallery have noticed that minority leader Tom Daschle is no longer sporting the gray hairs that once adorned his head. At some point in the...
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Editorials
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Resenting Newt Over the last three decades only two other politicians have equaled Newt Gingrich in exciting the cultural elites' sumptuous...
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Capitol Ideas
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Bethell, Tom
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CAP TOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell Dynamic Scoring W hen news came in 1994 that the GOP had taken control of the House for the first time in decades, Jude Wanniski of Polyconomics thought, even before...
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Big Apple Reaganite
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Corry, John
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BIG APPLE New York's Mayor Rudy Giuliani has championed conservative values in the capital of liberalism. The result is a safer, cleaner, and more livable city. Can he do the same for the...
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Banking on Andy Cuomo
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Adams, Sam Dealey and James Ring
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HUD Secretary and rising Democratic star Andrew Cuomo wants to go places—assuming he can leave some baggage behind. SAM DEALEY & JAMES ADAMS t couldn't have been more straightforward. The Senate...
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Dumbing Down Missile Defense
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Timmerman, Kenneth R.
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China, Iran, and North Korea already have us in their sights yet President Clinton denies that there is any threat. It's no surprise that the same people who once caved in to the Soviets on...
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Culture Vultures
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Steyn, Mark
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CULTURE VULTURES by Mark Steyn Wales of a Sex Scandal I yield to few in my admiration for this great Republic, but I was born a subject of the Crown and I hope I'll be forgiven for suggesting...
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Presswatch
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Corry, John
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by John Corry Dr. Death Kills Mike Wallace How "60 Minutes" romanticized a serial killer. H ow do you like your serial killers? What about dedicated, idealistic, and sworn to public service, with...
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Constitutional Opinions
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Rabkin, Jeremy
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CONST TUT ONAL by Jeremy Rabkin Moving On As late as October, Republican journalists predicted that "the President would be called on to resign" and warned that, if he did not, there would be "an...
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Ben Stein's Diary
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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UM ilryN: Er by Benjamin J. Stein They Call It Puppy Love Sunday H ere I am out at our little house in Malibu with my PuppyWuppy, who is also called Lucy. As usual, Tommy refused to come out...
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The Swiss Spectator
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Taki
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r My Kind of Neutral T he country Papa Hemingway called "more upside down than sideways', is not only among the most beautiful on earth, it is also marvelously run by a central government as...
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Letter From London
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Minogue, Kenneth
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LETTER FROM LONDON by Kenneth Minogue Modernizing the Brits T he left in Britain has long been in the grip of a strange legend. It runs as follows: while other countries had revolutions to...
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Spectator's Journal
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Muravchik, Joshua
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by Joshua Muravchik Poland Ten Years Later Once won, freedom becomes a leading export. T oday on Marszalkowska Street, Warsaw's main drag, fast-food stands jostle for sidewalk space, tony...
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Politics
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Norquist, Grover G.
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by Grover G. Norquist Stalemate Without an agenda there can be no silver linings. W hen the dust settled after November's elections, Republicans held the Senate by 5545 and the House of...
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The Talkies
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Bowman, James
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REINEEMEM by James Bowman Take Physic, Pomp it oor naked wretches," cries King Lear when he finds himself stripped of everything and reduced from the power of kingship to the level of Poor Tom,...
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A Man in Full
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O'Sullivan, John
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Honor Amid the Ruins A Man in Full Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus & Giroux 742 pages / $28.95 REVIEWED BY John O'Sullivan „ othing has been lost save honor,” said the great nineteenth-century...
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Eat the Rich
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Shiflett, Dave
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P.J. Peaking on the Laugher Curve Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics P J. O'Rourke Atlantic Monthly Press / 246 pages / $24 REVIEWED BY Dave Shiflett he ongoing CNN series on the T Cold...
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Sir Francis Drake
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Thomas, Hugh
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Drake's Drum Sounds a Muffled Note Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate Harry Kelsey Yale University Press / 566 pages / $35 REVIEWED BY Hugh Thomas S it Francis Drake is still commonly...
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Cold War
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Shattan, Joseph
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How Anti Americanism Won the Cold War Cold War: An Illustrated History, 1945-1991 Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing Little, Brown /438 pages / $39.95 REVIEWED BY Joseph Shattan A lthough Jimmy...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Ait, S D Boston Globe The incomparable Newt Gingrich makes his long-awaited conge, and Globe columnist David Nyhan is thrown into a hysteria of metaphors, superlatives, and visions of Amerika's...
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Last Call
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Queenan, Joe
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LAST CALL by Joe Queenan Pollock Jokes THREE WEEKS AGO, GAVIN STEINMENTZ, A CURATOR AT A prestigious New York art museum, noticed a middle-aged woman giggling uncontrollably as she gazed at a...
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