Ben Stein's Diary
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein On With the Show Friday D inner in the top floor dining room of the Hyatt Tech Center outside Denver. I am here to do a commercial of sorts for a very...
...He was probably the first Stein in all recorded history to be in a position to do anything much for his son...
...and it conquered Gaza and the Sinai Desert that had been used by Egypt as staging ground and invasion route to Israel...
...The PC theory—totally out of touch with reality, of course—is that the single woman, not necessarily heterosexual—can do a perfectly good job of raising a little boy without any yucky patriarchal men around...
...I left after a few "anyones" and walked about a mile back to the hotel...
...And these were the lucky ones...
...A sacrifice for peace brought in vain—probably a major act of folly on the part of Israel...
...I think of my father-in-law, fighting hand to hand against the SS...
...it captured the Golan Heights from Syria, which had been used for decades to shell and spread terror over much of northern Israel...
...Now, he's up to my neck in height...
...Saudi Arabia is a monarchical tyranny...
...Your tax-deductible 56A contribution allows us to publish these important messages...
...But he always takes it well and tries to make my life easier...
...Worst of all, the plot is silly and repetitive...
...These were hard-working souls...
...Saturday I spent the night at my house in Malibu...
...Sudan is engaged in the systematic slaughter and enslavement of its black African people...
...This is a nice flight and I happen to know almost all the flight attendants from long experience...
...Who knows...
...He has to be in town with his friends...
...What paradise to be an American in 1998...
...The doctor read to me about my rash just by punching up some words on his computer...
...Thanksgiving Day should be every day, I thought before I went back to sleep...
...To watch it is to be humbled...
...Next to me at the pump was a huge earth-hauling truck...
...No matter that the whole issue could not possibly be more farfetched...
...Sympathetic...
...What a glory to live in peacetime...
...These are political or other prisoners who are made to do the most dangerous, suicidal missions, such as clearing minefields by marching in formation across them...
...I have Tommy...
...You have to say that...
...I love the sounds and slept like a baby...
...We're told the same data over and over again, each time as if it were brand new...
...I'm exhausted...
...Oh, who cares...
...Me, I think for myself.' To give credit where due, he smiled and then started to talk about the fact that I had to think like that because I was not "a worker...
...America, the greatest of miracles...
...What a strange long movie...
...As for Syria, no offered sacrifice for peace seems to be sufficient to satisfy its dictator, President Hafez Assad...
...Of course you'd say that," he said...
...The men in the field have almost no motorized transport...
...This ad has been published and paid for by FLAME Fads and Logic about the Middle East P.O...
...Hogan...
...I looked like an unbearable hippie jerk...
...This man is a director of large studio movies...
...If I had been born in any part of Continental Europe at that time or at any time in the century and had not moved to America or England, I would surely have been killed by the Nazis or mistreated horribly...
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...He is unwilling to consider even an ice-cold peace, except for Israel's total surrender of the Golan Heights...
...In fact, it was so tough that I had to walk my bike back with my eyes closed for many steps at a time...
...Yet when you see the faces of these people as they march off to die, they look just like the ordinary people I see on the street except thinner and more tired...
...As the world now knows, these weapons were turned on Israeli soldiers and civilians at the very first opportunity that the Palestinian leaders provoked...
...Israel made sacrifices for peace by signing a peace treaty with Jordan...
...Witty...
...Thursday An appearance on a late night TV show called "Vibe...
...There is persistent pressure on Israel to bring "sacrifices for peace...
...After I was finished we all said a fond good-bye as we looked at the Rockies...
...On the other hand, maybe I'm too hard on Tommy with his moussed hair and sunglasses...
...She's so engaging and filled with stories...
...Eric Holder, take note...
...A middle-aged man was wiping mud off its fender...
...However, my room at the Essex House is perfect, with a fine park view and lovely antique furniture...
...Well, my lad," I said to him...
...Whatever...
...Breaks my heart...
...The allegations have something to do with the alleged possible bribery of a witness in Whitewater by the name of David Hale...
...But as we rode back, a staggering wind came up...
...7 II in Europe...
...It has yielded control of the Gaza Strip and of all major "West Bank" cities to the Palestinian Authority and has agreed to detailed plans to grant further autonomy to the Palestinians...
...Flying courts martial" and Gestapo teams go from unit to unit shooting anyone not showing sufficient zeal...
...Who knew that the ordinary Joe Six Pack had pride in himself and did not want to be ignored or condescended to...
...The founding of Ireland...
...He was amazingly well informed...
...Thursday ippee...
...Read this section or else get smacked...
...Deportees...
...BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein On With the Show Friday D inner in the top floor dining room of the Hyatt Tech Center outside Denver...
...Conversation was almost impossible...
...Amazing...
...By the time we've even started, Starr will be off in glorious Malibu (or wherever) and we'll all be holding fundraisers and laughing up our sleeves...
...Yes," I said...
...Why, it's the little old American Spectator, our very own selves...
...It's the last day of my show...
...The cable box was broken, so I took from my videotape library a two-hour documentary from England on the Battle of Berlin, the last great battle of World War44 This has been far too hard for me...
...Monday T his morning I awakened early and could not get back to sleep...
...All of the banks put together can't fix interest rates...
...Ooops...
...Well, I told the boy, and he was totally amazed...
...They are from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus, the big handbooks for bookstore owners...
...44 'But you are a Republican...
...My luck held beautifully...
...In the morning, I filed and then made lunch...
...What are the facts...
...y Yeah...
...The concept to bring "sacrifices for peace" is a new one that has never before found application in world history...
...Arthur was a literally perfect roommate in my senior year at Columbia...
...Too many cruel minutes in the isolation booth waiting to lose $5,000 to a contestant younger, with a better memory, and more eager than I am...
...It rained and there was high surf all through the dark hours...
...The other is a handsome young boy reminiscent of Tommy—that is, he talks mostly about cars or skateboards or snowboards...
...JUST KIDDING...
...Or maybe it comes down to just fighting to stay alive...
...Affirmative action, some might say...
...The bouncers outside invited me in and bought me a drink...
...The suffering in that war, the suffering in a totally lost cause, the astounding bravery and ingenuity of the Germans fighting for an evil cause, the unbelievable fortitude of the Red Army soldier fighting for mass murderer Stalin —as bad an enemy of Russia as Hitler was...
...How strange that nobody asks the Palestinians or any of the Arab states to bring any sacrifices for peace...
...What could I ever have done to deserve Tommy, just for one...
...A hard day at a huge, cavernous sound stage in Denver...
...At the bar I met a man named Mike Stamm who had gone to high school with Bob Tyrrell and knew his mother...
...Then off to see a doctor about a pesky rash...
...Read them...
...Me, I think for myself...
...The little The American Spectator • June 1998 girls in his class swoon at the sight of him...
...It's a splendid documentary, narrated by Tim Piggott-Smith of "The Jewel in the Crown" fame...
...Anti-Semitism was a basic part of Western history in all countries in the Western The American Spectator • June r 9 9 8 55 world, and was a major factor in my youth...
...After I got all three right in a row, Sinbad grabbed away my buzzer and said, "Hey, let me show you how we do this in the 'hood...
...Just because he's not famous or well-paid, he still has pride in his things and who he is...
...That same guard told us they had problems with people bringing guns to the set...
...Tee-hee...
...When I got home, I called Tommy and Alex...
...Fortunately, under the current Israeli government such a surrender is not in the cards...
...Now, he is having a big birthday and I wish him well...
...They said it was 'classism' and racism to correct their grammar...
...Tommy is being visited by his pals, Alex and Rachel, from Sandpoint, Idaho...
...His wife stood by my bed when I had surgery long ago...
...Next, TAS refuses to answer subpoenas...
...Saturday W hew...
...I read the latest American Spectator for a long time...
...What are kids learning these days...
...Too many cruel minutes in the isolation booth...
...he asked...
...All in fun, others might say...
...Anyway, Tommy was a super good boy and I just want to hold him until he turns red and then kiss him a lot...
...The latter is now managing partner of that famous firm...
...It is the coolest possible peace...
...I asked in genuine amazement...
...Of course, as always, when the prayer book talks about God's rescue of the Hebrews, I think of my father-in-law and the other brave soldiers who beat the Nazis...
...My father was a Lieutenant in the Navy, serving in Washington, and my mother was a homemaker...
...It was created by Arab propaganda to induce Israel to agree to its dismemberment, to give strategic assets to those who are determined to destroy it...
...Oh, well...
...As of today I have done about 107 shows in about two months...
...I read the reviews with a sinking feeling...
...Then he and the cantor broke into a fine version of "Go Down, Moses...
...Doesn't it bother you that all those banks are getting together and soon they'll have so much power they can set interest rates any place they like and squeeze the little guy...
...Off to the second-night Passover Service at our shul...
...There in the hall was either a mouse or an R-A-T...
...Anyway, this show has been far too hard for me...
...I had opportunities that no other Jew in my lineage had ever had...
...It's called Tommy and Me...
...Many Sacrifices for Peace...
...Stupendously good fortune...
...In this ill-advised process, foisted on Israel by world pressure and by its previous government, Israel has made far-reaching and existential sacrifices and concessions...
...For the first time in Jewish history, almost every door in society was thrown open...
...And now I have more stereos than I can count and none move me like that little box did, BENJAMIN J. STEIN iS a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Hollywood and Malibu...
...As I did, I heard a tiny sound and went to investigate...
...It's all pretty sad...
...An amazingly brave man, but at least fighting for something wonderful and shining...
...No," I said, although it occurred to me that some cranks probably think so...
...It's who he is...
...Then, we counterclaim against Holder for libel...
...Its only problem was that there was a trio playing cool jazz at high volume in a small room...
...I lost the first game to a true genius...
...It was so high, and so much sand was blowing at us off the huge berms that have been put up to hold back the El Nino waves, that it was like Lawrence of Ara-44 Sinbad grabbed away my buzzer and said, 'Hey, let me show you how we do this in the 'hood.' bia...
...Here are three good sacrifices that the Arabs could bring for peace: (1) Abandon the insistence on recovering the Golan...
...For the first time in millennia, Jews can gather and not be afraid...
...The controlled Egyptian press spews daily anti-Israel venom...
...it's just too much...
...Thank you, dear Lord, for paregoric, without which I could not live...
...We have some lovely guests, who are waiting, as I am, for Tommy to read the Four Questions, a basic part of the Passover Service, in Hebrew...
...Then I was an inexperienced trial lawyer using tricks and economics against some very smart, highly 54 June 1998 • The American Spectator experienced lawyers from Arnold & Porter, especially a super cagey guy named Bruce Montgomery and another super tough guy named Mike Sohn...
...In typical investment banker fashion, he called over two dancers, asked them if they wanted drinks, and then told the bartender I would pay for them...
...Greatly adding to his torture was some highly questionable behavior by the veterinarians...
...I pulled into the parking lot with Yaniv, my Israeli bodyguard...
...The idea is that it's good for the kids to have male energy in their lives, and it's also good for the dads...
...It's a little-known fact that you can sue a government official for libel if you credibly allege malice...
...I thought to myself...
...If soldiers show any indecision, they are hanged in front of the others...
...That's tomorrow...
...I am s0000 glad I have spent so much time with him while he was little...
...He nodded at himself happily...
...The Reds have marched a thousand miles from Stalingrad to the gates of Warsaw and they are in a bad mood...
...I introduced him to the ten or so guards who were lazily watching the front door of the sound stage...
...Then the cruelty of the long-suffering Russians against the Germans—tit for avery horrible tat...
...Another actor, a male character, who supposedly has a torrid affair with Ms...
...First, TAS refuses to turn over any material at all to anyone...
...They both want to come to Hollywood and act...
...A man at the bar told me he was a partner at Lazard Freres and made a lot of money...
...You can't read this basic thing for us...
...2) Stop the clamor about the division of Jerusalem...
...while I whiled away the long afternoons with Arthur and looked at the Hudson River trudging by...
...I am here to do a commercial of sorts for a very large telecommunications company...
...I'm impressed...
...When I got home, Tommy was playing video games with a little 4-year-old neighbor child who is not Jewish...
...During the meal, a man at the table started to bug me with what I would call "Economics, ioi, Flatbush University...
...In our house, God's outstretched arm means George Patton's army and the men like them...
...Well, anyway, they like him...
...Spend time with him now...
...It's almost Easter...
...I walked over to the Redeye Grille for a snack...
...Basinger, looks almost comically gay...
...I often meet people who say they don't trust the magazine or don't believe it...
...The girls were beautiful...
...The only thing keeping me going is a wonderful makeup woman named Ms...
...Then I watched a movie called L.A...
...One of the characters, Kim Basinger, is supposedly described as looking like Veronica Lake...
...Even so, the affair offers many possibilities...
...Patient...
...Nahh, you'll never guess...
...Joke's over...
...What a glory to live in America...
...Our son, Little Perfect, is by far the best-looking kid or person or being in the room...
...This show, appealing largely to blacks, is taped at a part of CBS on Beverly...
...2) Stop the clamor about the division of Jerusalem...
...First, George Corley Wallace, whose understanding of the electorate was unique in this postwar era...
...So I took myself and one old dog to my apartment to give Alex, my beleaguered wife, some breathing room...
...I don't know if he scares anyone else, but I would not want to meet him in court...
...Then into town for a second-night Passover Seder at our Temple...
...Second, Ronald Wilson Reagan, who knew even more about how people tick, minus the racism...
...Civilians are made to take up arms in futile battles...
...How I loved, in particular, "Old Black Joe": "I'm coming, I'm coming, for my haid is bending low...I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe...
...Now, the Spectator can show what it's learned from the Clintons...
...Do you know what Easter marks...
...It's not contradicted by anyone I know who is a parent...
...You're a Republican...
...Tuesday H ey...
...Then he looked very happy with himself, as well he should have...
...Rape, kidnapping, mass shooting...
...He called Bob "Bobby" and said he always had been a hell-raiser...
...Then he invented "Win Ben Stein's Money...
...The unlucky ones were my fellow Jews in the concentration camps killed without ever having a chance to take up arms...
...There is one general rule about these people: they haven't read the magazine...
...He still has pride in looking good...
...It is stunning how stone cold the Spectator has busted the Clintons...
...How many do you think are Republicans...
...I owe Michael Chinich for that great advice: Don't put it off...
...Then I passed a bar called "Scores...
...Too many great contestants...
...I'm looking at them," he said...
...Don't bother to send any letters to me about it...
...A high wind was coming up as we pedaled down to Shutters to have lunch...
...It is understood that these "sacrifices" refer to greater "flexibility" in dealing with the Arabs, but mean primarily that Israel should allow its dismemberment, in order to bring peace to the region...
...Kids are kids and to apply the standards of a 53-year-old to a io-year-old...
...No matter that the guy Holder who referred it is a bigtime Clinton/Ron Brown hatchet lawyer...
...In what is probably the ultimate folly in this process, Israel has tolerated the formation of a Palestinian "police force" (actually an army) of 40,000 menthe largest police-to-population ratio in the world (!)—and has equipped this "police force' with a complete arsenal of automatic weapons...
...Gratitude...
...He treated me as if I were someone even when no one else did...
...The founding of Germany...
...The "Vibe" episode has Jimmy (my co-host on "Win Ben Stein's Money"), Sinbad (the star of "Vibe") and me involved in playing a very short game of WBSM...
...In particular, I recommend that you follow Jim Adams's brilliant and frightening piece—followed up by fine Wall Street Journal editorials—on campaign finance...
...But in my student days and shortly thereafter, anti-Semitism and racism generally simply vanished from most of American life...
...He used to be able to take a bath in a plastic dish-washing tub...
...Yours truly suspected that I would get panned by the PC folks and now it's happening...
...I sure hope the folks inputting the data got it right...
...I lean towards the R-A-T hypothesis because the creature had a long tail...
...As my father always says and my mother used to say, what can you do...
...I saw the lights coming over the city, but I could not get back into dreamland, even with my Mozart on my headphones...
...I hope I say it because it's true," I offered with a smile...
...One son is at Andover or maybe it's Exeter...
...Then we hire detectives to ruin the reputation of all of Holder's witnesses...
...I owe my readers for endlessly explaining this to me...
...There are lots of families there...
...Maybe when I'm 7o I'll look back on 1998 and think I was a total goofball...
...Jimmy asked the questions and Sinbad and his very large co-host, Big Boy, and I answered...
...Today, I get to have dinner with my college roommate, Arthur Best, now a professor of law, and his lovely wife, Hannah, a dancer, and their two kids...
...The American Spectator • June 1998...
...There is little thanks on the part of Egypt for this generosity and this sacrifice for peace...
...Premier of Prussia, or so they said...
...In the Six-Day War, it recovered its heartland of Judea/Samaria (the "West Bank") and the eastern part of Jerusalem...
...This is apparently a major heresy among the politically correct of modern life...
...I would bet the Steins are one of maybe two or three Republican families in this temple...
...He then took Yaniv aside and told him to check his guns at the door...
...Guess who the Special Prosecutor in Whitewater is about to investigate...
...It is so empty, poorly thought-out, poorly acted, hollow, badly lit, and silly that it offends me that it even got made...
...When he knew what Hermann Goering's job was before he became head of the Luftwaffe and deputy Fiihrer, I knew I was licked...
...A Bizarre Concept...
...Tuesday A fter a huge day of publicity, off to see a terrible movie called Wild Things...
...Without my competition, he did much better...
...D-Day Dodgers...
...They are thrown against the Nazis in human-wave formations as shock troops without regard to life...
...But I missed my kitty, Peabo...
...It really ought to teach me a great lesson in humility to realize that I was once so goofy-looking and acting...
...He had never heard of the Easter Story...
...It turned out to be a topless place...
...Threats and action are also good...
...The only one that comes close was serving as a trial lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission in the evil Hi-C case...
...We don't see eye-to-eye on everything but she has the best personality of any human being I have ever met...
...I normally don't like adults playing down to small children, but our rabbi and cantor did it very well...
...It's raining and you haul mud anyway...
...The greatest sacrifice for peace that Israel has brought was the resuscitation of the bankrupt and moribund PLO terror organization and the acceptance of it "chairman" Yasser Arafat as a negodating partner...
...But I recall learning them long ago...
...One of the kids is a very tall, pretty young woman who has just gotten a perfect score on the PSATs...
...Here are three good sacrifices that the Arabs could bring for peace: (1) Abandon the insistence on recovering the Golan...
...Most 58 June 1998 • The American Spectator You deserve a factual look at...
...of its point is that boys need a lot of attention from their dads...
...To summarize, both reviewers pan the book mercilessly because it says that boys need dads...
...Sacrifices for Peace" What else does the world expect Israel to do...
...So, who's thinking for himself...
...That's right," he says...
...It's him...
...Yeah, well maybe but banks and insurance companies together are going to be able to set insurance rates...
...What are you doing, you fool...
...He's growing up so fast...
...If Hollywood ever knew the real America as well as Ronald Reagan did, we'd have a lot more hit movies...
...56 June 199 8 The American Spectator He shakes his little head...
...A super great guy, just a fantastic winner of a guy, and he still is...
...Then it dawned on me: This truck is his life...
...Interest rates are set on a worldwide market...
...You have to say that...
...Right," I said...
...What a sight people in Denver have...
...Again," I said, "I think insurance rates are set on a worldwide market, and no one or two or twenty companies can fix the rates, at least so far...
...Thank you, God...
...Uhhh, uhh, the birth of the Easter Bunny...
...Unable to chat with all of the nice people I had worked with, I said my goodbyes and then sat with my wife and Phil De Muth, and then left...
...Peace in the Valley...
...Very tough going...
...You know who knew that...
...Tee-hee...
...They said they really missed me, and I felt as if my life was worthwhile...
...What must it have been like to fight in the desert in World War II or the Yom Kippur War...
...Monday W ith Tommy in school, I took his visiting pals Alex and Rachel to Santa Monica to ride bikes...
...Billy clubs are good enough for London Bobbies...
...It was pouring rain...
...However...in the editor's office, she handed me the first two reviews of my book...
...If any Red Army commanders fail at a mission, they're shot...
...Friday T oday is the birthday of my great pal, Al Burton...
...In fact she doesn't look at all like Veronica Lake...
...He said it would not kill me, although I do have to have some odd kind of ultra-violet treatment on my hip...
...I strolled down Sixth Avenue to visit the editor at the Free Press who is handling my new book about Tommy and me...
...One of the dancers said she was from Colombia...
...On the German side, it's worse...
...President Assad of Syria has occupied Lebanon and has killed and tortured thousands...
...3) Disarm the Palestinian "police...
...And they say Bill Clinton wasn't a good law teacher...
...Beyond good fortune...
...This is not good...
...I am sure you do know...
...How can people suffer and endure so much...
...When it came time to adopt, we found ourselves gifted by God with a sweet, lively image of the Almighty who makes me smile just to see him across a room, a true delight...
...Soon, he won't want to see me for love or money...
...Friends are everything, and Al is everything you could want a friend to be...
...Why should any more be needed to patrol Nablus, Hebron and Bethlehem...
...Friday I t's Passover and I am sitting next to my little angel in our dining room overlooking the lights of Universal City...
...There would be no Ben Stein as I know him without AI, and life with him is, well, life in Hollywood...
...Another one said she was from Philly...
...3) Disarm the Palestinian "police...
...As I did all of this, I started to discern a pattern of simply amazing good fortune...
...But Hollywood often does not grasp America...
...Thursday U h-oh...
...This show was really far, far too hard...
...I can't believe this," I say...
...When I worked for Richard Nixon, I met a man, Bill Safire, whose college roommate, Eddie Bleier, was able to make a contact for me in Hollywood that changed my whole life and made me a TV star...
...I like it a lot...
...But some of the black and Hispanic students got after him...
...It's what the Spectator or my game show are to me...
...But you are a Republican...
...But instead, I grew up peacefully in the leafy suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland...
...He refuses and smirks...
...As I walked around my house, it occurred to me, as it often does, how seldom Tommy is ever out here anymore...
...I love it...
...Then, by an amazing stroke of luck, a man who really should have beaten me had a momentary lapse (I know them well) and I beat him...
...If they hesitate at all, they're shot...
...The Arab countries, not Israel, are killing peace in the Middle East...
...By 1944, especially after the successful landings at Normandy, the Nazi situation is hopeless...
...Much better to be returning from lunch in Santa Monica on bikes...
...The saddest is the films of old men and young boys taking up Panzerfausts and being made to advance against Stalin's tanks—with amazing effect, by the way—and dying within minutes of being drafted...
...He suffered a lot lately when his favorite dog died...
...Sunday I am on my little way to New York on American Flight 32...
...But he was always there for me as I suffered myself in the isolation booth...
...They are not taught Negro spirituals because they're probably too un-PC...
...The rabbi in particular was really funny when he asked, "And what did the children of Israel do when they crossed the Red Sea...
...And all in the service of a madman who did no fighting at all himself and then shot himself to avoid capture...
...No, not the birth of the Easter Bunny...
...A comfortable room after a long flight is what every traveler needs...
...The house is crammed with kids and old dogs...
...My father became a famous economist and public servant and writer...
...The guard was surprised when Yaniv said he didn't carry a gun...
...There are probably four hundred people in this room...
...President Mubarak has never visited Jerusalem...
...He looked at me skeptically...
...Whole cities are blasted off the map in an effort to slow the Russian advance...
...Amazingly, he picked up his little prayer book and sang, yes, sang The Four Questions in perfect, melodic Hebrew...
...Moral suasion is good but sometimes not quite enough...
...If they displease Stalin, they're shot...
...All of the rest are your type...
...After the show, we had a really nice cast party at a restaurant called the Fix...
...Why, of course they sang a Negro spiritual...
...I don't know if he is, and more power to him, but as a lover, he's not convincing...
...Then I don't know...
...How well I remember his tiny little phonograph playing Pete Seeger over and over...
...Confidential...
...Lunch was fine (although too expensive...
...If we are sued, we use every possible delaying tactic...
...I walked out after twenty minutes...
...It was Al who first interested me in coming to Hollywood, who first showed me what a great friend in Hollywood can do for your life, who was and is probably the most devout friend I have ever had...
...To have to be jovial and loose—and then to have to tighten up my bowels and brains to answer questions in a locked booth—then to do it four times a day most days...
...I set out a nice tray of poison for the rodent under a bureau...
...In order to achieve peace with its neighbors, Israel brought sacrifices for peace that have no precedent in the history of the world...
...He brought with him a few photos of Alex and me when we were young and first out of law school in Washington...
...Peat Bog Soldiers...
...It is by far the hardest job I have ever had...
...I swatted at it half-heartedly with a broom, but it disappeared into my son's bedroom, the same one Mr...
...The performances are so wooden that I assume the director wanted them to be wooden...
...No, it does not bother me," I said...
...Still, Hitler allows no retreats, orders totally hopeless attacks, leaves whole armies stranded behind German lines to be killed to a man...
...Of course, it was the only song that everyone in the room knew except the kids...
...The school appeals to his every interest, builds him up, makes him feel special, makes him feel like part of a group...
...Now, this comes about because one of the most ethically compromised men in the Clinton Justice Department, at least according to the Wall Street Journal, Eric Holder, referred a matter to the Kenster...
...I decided that I would write a letter to the Almighty about my little life: "I was born in November of 1944 in Washington, D.C...
...He encouraged me and cheered me up over many a year...
...He's got a happy, full life of learning...
...This is based upon a fair amount of experience and observation...
...I know I say this often, but it bears repeating: here are all of us Jews, and we're not afraid...
...In Egypt, thousands of Copts have been killed and their churches burned...
...All right," I said...
...How lucky I am and so are all of the others similarly situated...
...It's his axe...
...he said...
...On the Russian side, we see photos of "penal battalions...
...It's being held in a big room...
...Sunday 0 n the other hand, perspective is worth something, too...
...When called intocourt, we flee to Macao or China...
...The PLO, apart from the bloody crimes that it has committed against Israel, has now established a virtual dictatorship in the territory allotted to it...
...He gets yelled at in a big way when I am not having fun on the show...
...I have to read about fifteen pages of copy, and do it from all different angles and I am incredibly tired...
...It's just great to see Arthur again...
...For peace with Egypt, Israel returned the entire Sinai...
...En route, I stopped at a gas station at Kanan and the ioi for, surprise, surprise, gasoline...
...When I was in college, I joined Naval ROTC...
...Then I played against a man from San Francisco who is a Spectator reader so I purposely let him win...
...However, now it's over for about a year...
...He even started a committee for good grammar to go around to all of the posters and correct their grammar and usage...
...I was quickly expelled despite my pleading because I had asthma...
...Later, when the Vietnam war raged and men far braver than I were sent off to die for no good reason, or for a poorly-thought-out reason, I was simply exempted because of a total coincidence of good fortune from that ROTC medical report...
...I guess I'm not really a topless bar kind of guy...
...I have to talk to yo' man Yaniv," said a guard...
...Iraq, under its dictator Saddam Hussein, is a rogue state attacking its neighbors and killing its own citizens...
...So, you see how it goes...
...I am married to an amazingly insightful, smart, beautiful woman of complete good humor...
...Even now he has a wit as good as that of anyone in Hollywood...
...On the way to the airport, I got a horrific attack of colitis...
...Do you mean to say we have sent you to a religious school for five years and you have gotten nothing out of it...
...Since its creation in 1948, Israel has been subjected to almost constant Arab terror, to unceasing Arab aggression, and to three major wars...
...Perfect has refused to sleep in for about three years now...
...In that peace, Israel granted Jordan a large yearly allowance of fresh water from its own dwindling and meager resources and accepted a petty demand for "border rectification"—yielding of land...
...I guess that's pretty obvious...
...You think for yourself...
...What is it...
Vol. 31 • June 1998 • No. 6
