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Vol. 032 Issue 003 (March 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 Fate of the Union; elephant patties; frolicking co-eds 0 3 C 0 We shall move on now from the month of January to the month of February—the people want us to move on. But...
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Correspondence: Pin-striped Andy, Rudy, Reagan, &c.
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CORRESPONDENCE What Was Lost Grover Norquist may have been more prescient than even he realized concerning the 1998 elections when he opined that "the depth of disappointment reflects the size of...
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On the Prowl
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E PROWL. The Spirit of St. Louis The White House was annoyed with Vatican officials who declined to involve Pope John Paul II in a higher-profile meeting with President Clinton than the one...
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Editorials: Vichy Democrats/Pants Off
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Vichy Democrats When I recently saw Senator Barbara Boxer (DCalif.) defending President Bill Clinton, I thought back to last September when...
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Capitol Ideas: The Hum of Hate
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Bethell, Tom
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CAP TOL I DEAS by Tom Bethell The Hum of Hate The progressive Hive has a new queen. R eaders who go way back may recall an earlier column (Capitol Ideas, February 1981) in which the bee hive was...
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Exporting Trust
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Brenner, Reuven
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EXPORM Tat, S THE TIME FOR A NORTH AMERICAN MONETARY UNION HAS COME. MORE AND MORE COUNTRIES ARE LOOKING TO THE DOLLAR AS AN ECONOMIC ANCHOR. THE U.S. WOULD BENEFITS TOO BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT...
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Florida Splendid China
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Timmerman, Kenneth R.
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1 he Chinese Communist government in Peking has shrunk from nothing in its attempt to win the hearts and minds of U.S. lawmakers, from President Clinton down to members of Congress, whom they...
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Out of Their League
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Rocca, Francis X.
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0OUT THEIR LEAGUE FRANCIS X. ROCCA hortly after midnight on May 9, 1997, two motor vehicles rolled off a ferry at St. Mark's Square in Venice. In a city where wheeled transportation...
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Gambling and Its Discontents
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Shiflett, Dave
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40 March 1999 The American Spectator Columbia, South Carolina hose who doubt the existence of dark powers might reconsAer their position after a midafternoon visit to Fast Freddies, a poker...
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Culture Vultures: The Senate's Footstool Fops
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Steyn, Mark
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by Mark Steyn The Senate's Footstool Fops I 've been spending a lot of time in the United States Senate recently, mainly because of the president's impeachment trial (you must have heard about it;...
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The Nation's Pulse: Biting Back
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Killian, Linda
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THE NATI U SE by Linda Killian Biting Back Will the Democratic Dogs have the run of the House? 0 0 W ith so much attention focused on the impeachment dance and the Republican House...
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Presswatch: It's Not About Senex
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Corry, John
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PRESSWATCH by John Corry It's Not About Senex Which didn't stop another preemptive strike on Starr. N ewsweek's Conventional Wisdom Watch is always fun to read. Its little red arrows tell you...
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Ben Stein's Diary: Ben and Jerry
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Ben and Jerry Tuesday „ ar between Sundown's finish and Midnight's broken toll, / We ducked inside the doorway as thunder went crashing....” I cannot...
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Constitutional Opinions: Global Creep
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Rabkin, Jeremy
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CONSTITUTIONALOP NIONS by Jeremy Rabkin Global Creep p resident Clinton's State of the Union address offered so many goodies to so many constituencies that some proposals escaped scrutiny. One...
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Spectator's Journal: Egypt's Human Wrongs
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Aikman, David
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S ECTATOR' S JOURNAL by David Airman Egypt's Human Wrongs Cairo I n the early hours of August 14 last year, two Coptic Christians were bludgeoned to death in the small Egyptian village of...
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Politics: The Ten Percent Solution
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Norquist, Grover G.
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PO LIT by Grover G. Norquist The Ten Percent Solution he battle lines are clear again. Bill T Clinton has reverted to form as a tax-and-spend liberal. In his 77-minute State of the Union address...
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The Talkies: Loyalty Tests
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Bowman, James
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THE TALKIES by James Bowman Loyalty Tests A t the risk of sounding ungracious, I wish to raise a hesitantly dissenting voice here about the anti-Communist hero, Elia Kazan. I don't begrudge him...
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0I' Strom
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Bass, Jack; Thompson, Marilyn W.
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BOOKS IN REVIEW Bless Senator Strom 01' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond JackBass and Marilyn W. Thompson Longstreet / 359 pages / $24 REVIEWED BY Florence King I n his 1969...
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Reporting Live
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Stahl, Lesley
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A Lovely Cure for Sleep Deficit Disorder Reporting Live Lesley Stahl Simon & Schuster /4.4.4 pages / $26 REVIEWED BY Philip Terzian F first, a confession. When the deadline for this review...
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Ex-Friends
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Podhoretz, Norman
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What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been Ex-Friends: Falling Out With Allen Ginsberg, Lionel & Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer Norman Podhoretz Free Press / 244 pages...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT SDOM New York Times Inveighing once again against Judge Kenneth Starr (MA., J.D.), columnist Anthony Lewis (HaHaHa) evinces the symptoms of TMS (Too Much Shakespeare): It is hard...
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Last Call: In the Wee Small Hours
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Shattan, Joseph
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LAST CALL by Joseph Shattan In the Wee Small Hours As I TOSS AND TURN IN MY BED IN THE darkest hours, pondering such dilemmas as how to slither out of that review I promised the editor of TAS, or...
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