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 Vol. 034 Issue 006 (July 1 2001)
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 THE CONTINUING CRISIS
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pring passed into summer, May into June, and someone by the name of Senator Jim (or is it James?) Jeffords levitated into that same august empyrean where once the media placed Congressman...
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The Warrior Class
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Bethell, Tom
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The Warrior Class Bill Kristol and the National Greatness crowd would love to have a war BY TOM BETHELL ill Kristol and Robert Kagan, the co-editors of a recent book called...
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Unnatural Monopolies
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swanson, bret; Vigilante, Richard
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12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR N Summer Reading Issue 2001 Unnatural Monopolies A broadband boom or a busted presidency? BY BRET SWANSON & RICHARD VIGILANTE gled in front of the Bells-the chance...
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The Safety Nazis
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COHEN, BONNER R.
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The Safety Nazis Precautionaries shrug off the burden of proof BY BONNER R. COHEN The European Union bans certain American beef, without proof of harm. The European Parliament slaps tough...
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Your DNA or Your Life?
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Gottlieb, Scott
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Your DNA or Your Life? Drug science goes digital BY SCOTT GOTTLIEB T hanks to the Human Genome Project's tsunami of data, a startling transformation in drug science is about to...
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Bakke Bites Back
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Rabkin, Jeremy
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Bakke Bites Back Racial profiling only the Ivy League could love BY JEREMY RABKIN B ack when kings were kings, few gifts were so welcome as some exotic new species of bird or bear for the...
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The Wealth Effect Is a Myth
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WESBURY, BRIAN
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The Wealth Effect Is a Myth Stocks react to the ecomomy, not the other way around BY BRIAN WESBURY ne of the most enduring, but misleading, myths about the U.S. economy is that a rising...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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CALIFORNIA DREAMING Had William Tucker interviewed me before claiming I caused the California electricity mess ("California Unplugged," TAS, April 2001), he could have avoided embarrassing...
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Dick Cheney: The Spectator Interview
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D..ICK THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: This is not a very rhetorical or showy administration. One gets the sense that, if he could, the president would prefer to get his program through without...
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India Unbound
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DAS, GURCHARAN
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BY GURCHARAN DAS ears later, my grandfather admitted that he was a little sad to see the British go. He called to me as I was trying to sleep on the upper berth of the Frontier Mail, "It is...
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Asia: World in the Balance
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Kissinger, Henry
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t the beginning of a new American administration, two schools of thought dominate the American debate over China. The view of the Clinton administration was summed up in the slogans...
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The Quantum Brain
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SATINOVER, JEFFREY
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"So that was two years down the drain," Joyce said. To make up for lost time, Holyoak flew to China to buy some domesticated breeders. But then the eggs they laid weren't fertile. In the end...
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OPPORTUNITIES: Don't Call Them Junk
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Stambovsky, Jeff
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Don't Call Them Junk A second look at high-tech high-yield bonds. BY JEFF STAMBOVSKY f you're comfortable owning a tech company's stock, you should at least be taking a closer look at its...
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LIFT OFF: Going Desktopless
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swanson, bret
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Going Desktopless David Gelernter's software will change the way you work BY BRET SWANSON So you use your desKtop? No, not the mahogany or synthetic surface on which your computer sits, the...
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Sharpe's Trafalgar
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CORNWELL, BERNARD
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ichard Sharpe's place was on the forecastle of the H.M.S. Pucelle. Captain Llewellyn and his young lieutenant commanded forty of the ship's marines stationed on the poop and quarterdeck, while...
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The Mall of the Wild
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BILGER, BURKHARD
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9 i i84 i9149 i84184 i'~'i~i ..... ~i)i!i: en Holyoak's fish hatchery, frog farm, and wild hog preserve sits | on a small gravel drive guarded by a very large fish. Eight feet long and...
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The Art of Rick Stoner
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Foster, Rob
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The Triumph of Conservatism y sardonic friend, Robert H. Bork, has filed an astounding observation. On the op-ed page of the Washington Post he noted recently that the election of Ronald...
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BEN STEIN'S DIARY: The Last Gentleman
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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The Last Gentleman BY BENJAMIN J. STEIN MONDAY ooking back on when I was a lit.L tle nappy-headed boy.... When my only worry was for Christmas what would be my toy.... These are words...
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THE GREAT AMERICAN SALOON SERIES: Another Dateline Please, Bartender
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Hitchens, Christopher
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Another Dateline Please, Bartender BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS aging through the worthy turgidity of the New York Times a few weeks ago, I fell into a sudden reverie. An article about the...
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THE TALKIES
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Bowman, James
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Sneak Attack: Hollywood vs. History BY JAMES BOWMAN hen I was a boy, my parents wouldn't let me read comic books. Of course I sneaked them into the house and read them at every...
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Learning to Like Allen Ginsberg
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Hart, Jeffrey
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Learning to Like Allen Ginsberg BY JEFFREY HART o the astonishment of everyone present, Allen Ginsberg showed up at a book party for my When the Going Was Good! (1982), a celebration of the...
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Hayek:The Man and the Hero
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Sowell, Thomas
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Thomas Sowell Hayek: The Man and the Hero ALAN EBENSTEIN'S FRIEDRICH HAYEK: A BIOGRAPHY ho would have thought that Friedrich A. Hayek had a closer friendship with John Maynard Keynes...
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Money Matters
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Train, John
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might lead some to despair, and on the whole this book tells it well. However, author Alan Ebenstein seems sometimes to forget the distinction between telling a story and emptying your...
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Capital Contempt
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Corry, John
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John Corry Capital Contempt MEG GREENFIELD'S WASHINGTON anything you did not already know, or at least suspect, but it was written by the late Meg Greenfield, and so you should pay...
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CURRENT WISDOM: The Ugly President
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Jackasses, Assorted
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The Ugly President WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL The power offaith as expounded by Prof. Rodney Stevenson, resident thermostat of the Diversity Climate Committee: Racial profiling has resulted in...
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PUBLIC NUISANCES: The First Amendment Project, The Triumph of Conservatism
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett
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The First Amendment Project BY R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. ith the bizarre W shuffling ofleadership in the Senate, Senator Orrin Hatch, he of the colorful neckties, is about to be replaced as...
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LAST CALL: A Sensible Alternative
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RICE, NED
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A Sensible Alternative BY NED RICE Recent news reports suggest that America is well on its way to becoming the land of the free and the home of the whining crybaby. First, the president of...
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