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Vol. 032 Issue 010 (October 1 1999)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS Waco lives; three's company; nudist shivers; attaché frogs August becomes a ghost, but Waco returns to haunt the Clintons! Six years after the Justice Department denied using...
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Correspondence: Sec. Gottemoeller, SWAT, & c.
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CORRESPONDENCE We've Been Warned For the several years I have been a loyal American Spectator subscriber, I have noticed a disturbing trend in your correspondence section. Every month the letters'...
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On the Prowl
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ON THE PROWL Hug a Lug President Clinton has always enjoyed playing the victim. So what about the people who have to sit through one of his fundraising speeches? At a recent fundraiser in the...
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Special Editorial: The Internet Turns 30
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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SPECIAL EDITORIAL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Internet Turns 30 This September marked the thirtieth birthday of the Internet, though historians may quibble. It was in September...
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Capitol Ideas: The Age of Consent
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Bethell, Tom
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,CAPITOL IDEAS by Tom Bethell The Age of Consent I s America moving in a more conservative, or a more liberal direction? Lee Edwards, the author of biographies of Ronald Reagan and Barry...
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Delta Blues
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Corry, John
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DE LTA 22 October 1999 The American Spectator Port Harcourt here may be 500,000 people in this steamy city in the Nigerian Delta, although no one is certain, and there may be a great many more....
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Hormonally Challenged
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Furnento, Michael
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Hormonally Chat ed Alarmists claim man-made chemicals called "endoc srupters" are causing widespread birth defects and lower sperm coun . Now an authoritative report shows those warnings to be...
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Panama's Long Goodbye
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MarkFalcoff
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t is an odd country—a narrow strip of territory connecting the Central and South American land masses, much of it jungle. Although the language is Spanish (or, in some provinces, Indian tongues),...
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Stamp Acts
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Banfield, Elliott
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Samp cts ARTIST ELLIOTT BANFIELD OFFERS A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR RESTORING BEAUTY TO THE U.S. MAIL S tamps matter. In spite of phone, fax, and e-mail, they remain symbols of our respect for...
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Culture Vultures: Scout's Honor
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Steyn, Mark
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CU TURE VU TURE by Mark Steyn Scout's Honor "People perceive the police as very con servative," said Constable Lavallee. "But Lord Baden-Powell was more restrained than New Jersey. that...
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Presswatch: Pantalonade
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Caldwell, Christopher
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PRESSWATCH by Christopher Caldwell Pantalonade D wring the Clinton-Lewinsky scandals, I mentioned to a friend over lunch that there were important philosophical differences between new German...
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The Campaign Spectator: Solid Senate
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York, Byron
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THE CA PAIGN SPECTATOR by Byron York Solid Senate t was one of those wishful headlines I that sometimes appear on the front page of the Washington Post. "GOP First-Termers Top Senate...
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Constitutional Opinions: Strange Accommodations
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Rabkin, Jeremy
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CONSTITUTIONAL OPINIONS by Jeremy Rabkin Strange Accommodations T he U.S. Supreme Court seems to have been anxious to sidestep the most contentious social issues in the past year, but other...
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Ben Stein's Diary: My Hero
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEI DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein My Hero Sunday U h-oh. I do not like the sound of this at all. I am out here in Malibu with Alex and the dogs. It's morning. Last night, we had a lovely...
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The Nation's Pulse: The Nuke Next Door
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Timmerman, Kenneth R .
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THE NATION'S PULSE by Kenneth R. Timmerman The Nuke Next Door H ow safe are America's 103 nuclear power plants? Not very, according to David Orrik, a retired Navy captain and security specialist...
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The Public Policy: Roll Over Colombia
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Bovard, James
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THE PUBLIC POLICY by James Bovard Roll Over Colombia T his has not been a good summer for the U.S. drug war in Colombia. On July 23, five American officers died when their high-tech spy plane...
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In Memoriam: Lane Kirkland, 1922-1999
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Karatnycky, Adrian
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MEMORI by Adrian Karatnycky Lane Kirkland, 1922-1999 L ane Kirkland, the American labor leader who died in August at the age of 77, was a great American, whose contributions to freedom...
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Politics: Serious About Taxes
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P O L I T I C S by Grover G. Norquist Serious About Taxes R onald Reagan won the 1980 election when he convinced voters that the question they should ask themselves in the polling booth was: "Are...
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The Talkies: Cliché Corners
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES by James Bowman Cliché Corners M ovies, like politics, journalism, and epic poetry, are made from clichés. In poetry, of course, they don't call them cliches but formulae. Just as...
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Walking Since Daybreak
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Eksteins, Modris
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Hell in a Very Small Place Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century Modris Eksteins Houghton Mifflin / 258 pages /...
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The Redhunter
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Buckley, William F. Jr.
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William F. Buckley, Jr. Redeems Joe McCarthy The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy William F. Buckley, Jr. Little, Brown /421 pages /$25 REVIEWED BY Joseph...
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When Pride Still Mattered
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Maraniss, David
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The Art of Winning and Winning and Winning.. . When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi David Maraniss Simon & Schuster / 544pages /$26 REVIEWED BY Geoffrey Norman W Ari inning...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM New Republic Lugubrious communique from Dr. Lee Siegel upon hearing that the celebrated Times is putting the American short story to death: Fewer agents and editors than ever will...
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Last Call: Won't You Get Lost, Bill Bradley?
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Mason, Jackie; Felder, Raoul
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LAST CALL by Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder Won't You Get Lost, Bill Bradley? CAN ANYBODY ANSWER THIS QUESTION: If Bill Bradley supported Clinton's right to stay in office because he saw nothing...
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