The Continuing Crisis
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THE YEAR 2001 EVANESCES into the year 2002, and President George W Bush prophesies that the new year will be a war year." Need it be all that grim? To be sure, in the final three months of 2001...
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...Robert Todd Lansing, NetvYork Peter Richmond may not think so, but he is still asleep...
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...so authorities are resorting to the same medication that has worked such wonders with middleaged American males and even middle-aged professors of Romance languages at Oberlin College...
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...In their last days before they presented to Allah their spotless souls, the soterial softas pursued research at advanced adult book stores and tutorials with prostitutes in Boston and strippers in Las Vegas (where a Miss Samantha from the Olympic Garden Topless Cabaret attests that the fellows were "bad tippers ") The other Islamic terrorists, studying the intricacies of suicide in their camps, never even get to see a halal houri's well-turned Tora Bora...
...My understanding is that commodity prices are decreasing as our economy is more driven by knowledge than by physical goods...
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...Most of us lacked the self-righteous assumption that we could pick and choose our wars (and in the process save our own sorry rearends from having to serve by claiming "our" wars were "bad" wars...
...Its sole purpose is to educate Japanese youth...
...2) If #1 is not possible, shut the academies...
...As technology expands, it provides us with more tools to exploit more commodities (increase supply), while reducing the need for commodities by more efficient engineering (decreases demand...
...The next day, the Senate Finance Committee approved comparable provisions.The stock market reacted badly...
...A competitive barrier in one market segment does not promote competition in another...
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...In the optimism with which he describes the current search for understanding of fundamental principlefrom biological information processing to the composition of the universe-he leaves us with hope that we may personally live to see some of these dreams fulfilled...
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...David Hackworth's suggestions on how to reform the Defense Department are both compelling and thought-provoking ("Let's Get It Right," TAS, Nov/Dec 2001...
...l'he thing affixes itself to surfaces such as wharves without belts or pins...
...The interview with Carver Mead ("The Spectator Interview," TAS, Sept/Oct 2001) reminded me of a story about Lord Kelvin on a tour of an early electricity works...
...Go to uuu nspectator org Artificial Unintelligence David Nolte describes the Internet's connectivity as "the collective brain-power of a small town" ("Through a Glass Smartly,"TAS, Nov/Dec 2001...
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...Saudis have no more influence at the University of Arkansas than do Tunisians...
...The RBOCs have no competition and are opposed to developing broadband% Nonsense.They have extensive competition, and promote broadband sales...
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...B. Prabhakar might say, "reproductive organs almost similar to those of a human being...
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...As anyone with any cultural sensitivity knows, the more appropriate term would be Congressional "whack-and-jacking...
...Nor, for that matter, has anyone suggested that Buddy's violent death was a suicide...
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...Here are the facts: Early in Bill Clinton's presidency, Saudi Arabia gave a grant to the state of Arkansas to endow a program in Middle East studies...
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...If he ever fully wakes up, and finds his new-found respect for citizenship is not just a passing fad, the rest of his generation is ready to welcome him.We have a 25-year head start, but we'd be pleased to CORRESPONDENC E 94 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2002 help him catch up...
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...Erik Hadland TokyoJoho University Carver Mead relates a remarkable tale in the history of science and the ways in which personalities can determine the course of even the most fundamental issues.The implications-in this case, the conversion of a an entire fundamental discipline into nonintuitive mathematical constructsare profound...
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...Result: the delightful Vietnamese people were dumped into one of the earth's final Stalinist murder pits...
...B. Prabhakar, the engaging director of the Lucknow Zoo, assures us, the primates "have a digestive system that is almost similar to that of a human being...
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...The latest edition of "Ben Stein's Diary" (TAS, Nov/Dec 2001) proves his point...
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...After kicking up his heals at the Russian embassy in Berlin, former President Boris Yeltsin headed for yet another emergency room, this time at Berlin's Rudolf Virchow clinic...
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...To be sure, as 2002 began there remained plenty of these angry young men holed up all round the world, eager to assault infidels-particularly American infidels luxuriating in such Satanic pastimes as working the forty-hour week, taking their children to school, bathing daily and brushing their insanely white teeth.Yet do we really have to send in more Special Operations forces and drop more high tech ordnance on the holy ones in fragrant reaches of their dung-heaped dungeons...
...No amount of connectivity-even at light speedcan produce intelligence if the components are disorganized and chaotically interconnected...
...She was 109 and in a 1995 interview made clear that Senator Thurmond's lusty humor is no new thing...
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...In Mead we see a man of the highest level of training, ability, experience and credentials who is challenging the paradigms of physics that have prevailed throughout the entire nuclear age...
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...Brian Coffey, an expert in this area, is as dangerous to the "aquaculture industry" as "the fruit fly was to horticulture...
...Technology has trumped telephone monopolies...
...Could the "Clinton-haters" have moved on to other things...
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...Arthur B. Robinson Cave Junction, Oregon You need to put the Carver Mead interview (TAS, Sept/Oct 2001) on your Web site so people can refer their friends to it...
...We helped remove the Iron Curtain and free hundreds of millions of people in an area stretching from central Europe to the borders of China and the Pacific Ocean.We helped rebuild our economy from the depths of 1970s stagflation to the heights of today...
...Every generation is overrun by barbarians, its children, whom it is every generation's duty to civilize...
...In a memorable coup de grace he opined, "I can't be part of that fraud, hypocrisy, and (get this, Spectators...
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...He appears to ignore, however, a significant period ofWestern conflict with other civilizations, and one with particular current significance-the medieval Islamic Jihads...
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...Rap Brown ("The Curious Case of Jamil al-Amin," TAS, Nov/Dec 2001) loses some credibility with its reference to a "9 mm revolver...
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...Ifgroivth in non-tech-driven sectors goes negative-into recession, an economist might say technology (or something else) can indeed be responsible...
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...Not having a strong vocabulary can be a serious handicap, an obstacle that prevents you from achieving your goals...
...4) Get rid of the house in Beverly Hills...
...Inflation is good for debtors...
...In the present climate of conflict, it is both irresponsible and dangerous to spread unsubstantiated rumors and innuendo that could cause an unbalanced person to contemplate harm to the staff, faculty or facilities of the center...
...In the November/December 2001 issue of The American Spectator, "Ben Stein's Diary" mentions the King Fahd Center at the University of Arkansas...
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...That said, I don't understand George Gilder and Bret Swanson's conclusion that deflation, as measured by commodity prices, is one of the major negative forces in our economy ("21st Century War Economics," TAS, Nov/Dec 2001...
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...INDIA'S ASIAN AGE NEWSPAPER reports that enlightened zookeepers at the Lucknow Zoo in downtown Lucknow have hit upon an urbane modus operandi for keeping their 35 primates warm and happy during that northern Indian city's harsh winter...
...Kessler ought to re-read Telecosnl, in which his good friend George Gilder explains how the Internet, television, radio and telephone networks are all converging into a single highly competitive global network...
...She was 110, making her not only the oldest of all Italian women but the oldest of all broccoh.While on the subject of age, the oldest senator in American history, Mr...
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...The bill was a signal that the government intended to entrench what remained of the corporate status quo by making full-scale war on the restructuring of the economy that was being carried out by the mergers and acquisitions industry.The market for corporate control would effectively be shut down...
...He shows himself to be certain that he is right on an issue of overwhelming scientific importance, and simultaneously convinced that his level of real knowledge is very, very small...
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...The Turkish Jihad, several centuries later, saw Islamic armies overrun the Byzantine Empire, successor to Rome, and conquer Constantinople...
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...A few suggestions for Ben: 1) Print the words "PEOPLE ARE NO DAMN GOOD" in large block letters and hang the sign on your refrigerator...
...Other prices, such as wages and salaries, are set by longer-term contracts...
...Indignant over the mollycoddlers afflicting him at his most recent job at a New Jersey juvenile detention center, Mr...
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...Cellular and IP telephonynot to mention cable modems and low-orbit satellites-are ascendant technologies that will, well before this decade is out, replace the old public-switched telephone network...
...I hope this clears up any doubts about the King Fahd Center's status as an "American" institution...
...Kessler's "Wrong Answer #1: Unleash the RBOCs" is the right answer...
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...But deflation or any price change in any given commodity is a factor of markets...
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...Bottom line: declining commodity prices are an effect of our new economy, not a cause of declining wealth...
...Monkey Business I was greatly distressed to see the term "monkey spanking" used by Russ Mitchell in his article "The Ghosts in the Machine" (TAS, Nov/Dec 2001...
...SARKES TARZIAN INC Sarkes Tarzian Television Sarkes Tarzian Radio Broadcasters Making a Difference JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2002 - THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 11 sitivity training and "gendernormed" tests over a serious cultivation of the warrior ethic, we can do so at civilian colleges and universities at far less cost...
...They are still doing it by the way...
...Anyone familiar with the September 11 atrocities knows that these fellows are sexually repressed...
...A more precise and more powerful vocabulary is something you can learn simply by listening...
...This program is now the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, part of the Fulbright College ofArts...
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...The article states that "two airplanes under instrument control have never collided in the U.S...
...Tragedy has again struck the Clinton family.While Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband were allegedly vacationing in Acapulco, Mexico, their dog Buddy died of injuries suffered in a collision with an automobile in Chappaqua, New York...
...RET JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2002 • THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 9 81 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FOUNDED1967 George Gilder Chairman Spencer Reiss R. Emmett Tyrrell Editor Editor in Chief Charles Bork Creative Director Tom Bethell Bret Swanson Senior Editor Senior Editor David Dortman Managing Editor Jesse Schoen Art Director Diarist: Ben Stein Economist: Brian Wesbury Contributors: James Bovard, James Bowman, John Browning, Jeffrey Eisenach, Maggie Gal lagher, Victor Gold, Michael Ledeen, Thomas Mal lon, William McGurn, Robin Menken, Adam Mey erson, Grover Norquist, Robert D. Novak, P.J...
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...ROBERT L. BARTLEY in the infidelic I13ll Street Journal writes that the American war machine's performance in the last three months of 2001 opened a new page in military development, "The combination of precise munitions from the sky and special operations teams on the ground has transformed warfare...
...He seeks to paint his (our) entire generation with his weepy brush, as when he writes: "[W]e were the loser generation...
...I say, "Quit crying...
...8) Ditch the nanny and get an enforcer...
...In Beijing, zookeepers are attempting to rouse the libidos of their languorous South China tigers with heavy doses ofViagra.When held in captivity the tigers, according to the authoritative Xinhua news agency, show "no sexual desire" and generally keep to themselves...
...If this were science fiction, it would be very good reading...
...Darville's behemoth body into an ill-fitting coffin and attempting to hammer it shut...
...The next trading day, Monday, October 19, was the full crash...
...It's too bad it took the World Trade Center bombing to wake you and your cohorts up...
...While I see no problem with any of the article's other content, this offcolor phrase seems completely out of place in a publication of such intellectual acuity...
...Paul deParrie Portland, Oregon the Big Bust The population implosion is more than just with us ("Baby Grim, vivid and deeply human...
...My generation-the overwhelming part of it, anyway-has done its share...
...It was laid out in this very column back in the early days of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's temper tantrums...
...Shortly before Buddy's death the New lark Times reported that the former President was meeting with former administration galoots to plot ways he might get back in the headlines, but at this writing no one has suggested that the death was part of Mr...
...Argentina's financial calamities claimed four Argentine presidents in a matter of days, with a fifth promising to restore the country's financial health by devaluing the peso...
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...The interest-expense - CONTINUED ON PAGE 94 - CORRESPONDENCE 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR • JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2002 - CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 - and scorched-earth provisions were ultimately not enacted into law...
...It will collapse with geometric speed, bringing civilization as we know it down, too...
...Now it is reaching other sectors...
...Cornell Professor of History and Director King Fahd Center, L' of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas Ben Stein replies: I am flattered that the good professor is a fan of my humble show...
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...The center has partnerships with universities and academic programs in Morocco, Tunisia, Russia, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and also maintains close ties with the Aga Khan Humanities Project in Central Asia and the Elijah School for the Study ofWisdom in World Religions in Israel...
...3) Get rid of the cell phone...
...As a tax lawyer, I was aware at the time that on Thursday, October 15,1987, the House Ways and Means Committee approved harsh antitakeover legislation...
...But given the historical outcomes, there appears to be a prima facie case for their Arabian and Turkish vanquishers challenging his arguments...
...The cage cleaners probably do, too...
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...Osama bin Laden's angry young men, in a show of military tactics unparalleled in history...
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...And while preening, let us observe that one of this column's long-time contributors was back in the news and for the same reason, his incomparable hypochondria...
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...What I find instead is the narcissism of a middle-aged adolescent, compelled to focus attention on himself even in the midst of national crisis...
...Although the move toward a knowledge economy does have the effect you suggest, this trend has been underway for two decades, while the some 40 percent commodity deflation began in 1997...
...Send them Victoria's Secret lingerie ads...
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...John Rutledge on how to reorient their balance sheets and asset allocations for the post-September 11 world...
...The easiest way to entertain him," she reminisced, "was riding horseback...
...Hence, commodity prices react first to changing monetary conditions, offering an early signal ofpolicy shifts...
...Syed Sirajuddin, the ruler of the state of Perlis, as king of the country for the traditional term of five years...
...l You've benefited from living in a nation created to protect your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
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...Kelvin replied "Well, that is the one thing about electricity that you and I both don't know" One of your December Playmate twins stumbles and falls and after you assured us, "No worries about risking that lovely skin...
...They can thank the House and Senate, not the Army...
...Steven P Goligowski Lt...
...Even Hackworth has caught the disease...
...5) Quit renting stretch limos for the little ingrate...
...Darville to weigh between 390 and 490 pounds, into a trash bin...
...Back at the embassy, apparently no furniture was reported broken, but its vodka reserves were severely depleted and several lamp shades were the victims of Mr...
...Johnsbury work camp on a "beer run" for fellow inmates only to be caught by troopers as he crawled back under the camp's fence...
...In backward news, the aptly named Mr...
...The powerful nations will attempt to suck up immigrants to fill the void...
...Senate's decision to pass the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill...
...Our government should order the CIA to air drop to the Mullahs and their angry young men millions of pages from the Victoria's Secret catalogues...
...It applies to selfish children like your son Tommy as well as the vast majority of humanity...
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...I applaud the study of the Middle East and of Arab civilizations generally, but to fail to make it clear that many of these nations are bitter, committed enemies of the United States is a serious defect...
...Out of Control I'm a subscriber to The American Spectator as well as to Forbes, and have enjoyed reading Rich Karlgaard's colunms over the years...
...and as perceived by Dr...
...Joyce Darville has entered into a dreadful row with morticians at the Winnfield Funeral Home, whose employees stand accused of stuffing the deceased Mrs...
...Avoid common errors in pronunciation, spelling, grammar and usage...
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...others will resist by closing their borders...
...Not only that, there was a scorched-earth policy designed to blow up any company wrenched from the hands of incumbent management...
...10) You must be feared as well as loved, so don't back down...
...Strom Thurmond, celebrated his 99th birthday two days after (bizarre coincidence again...
...Once again, the puckish ex-prez was claiming "heart problems...
...Nothing Ventured," TAS Nov/Dec 2001) Wrong...
...Quite possibly the endangered South China tiger has, as Mr...
...Len Price Evergreen, Alabama 101 Percent Although I enjoy your magazine very much, statements such as "more than one hundred percent...
...Engineering school professors, particularly at the graduate level, don't have a lot of sympathy for such misstatements...
...6) Quit buying him first-class airline tickets...
...JAPAN OPENED AN EXHIBITION of seventy eight different types of human and animal excrement with no artistic pretensions whatsoever...
...It is most strange indeed to see a man otherwise committed to free enterprise decrying deregulation of the former Bell telephone companies and opting instead for confiscation of their assets...
...Our connection with an institution in Israel should speak for itself...
...PIei chala In the midst of the Christian-Moslem strife and economic turmoil that have devastated the former United States, one man begins a journey where physi cal danger pales beside dawning spiritual awareness...
...Establish your philanthropic legacy today...
...I'm also an air traffic controller at GSP ATCT (Greenville/Spartanburg SC), and wanted to point out an error in his article "My Private Olympus" (TAS, Nov/Dec 2001...
...I did not say his program was antiAnterican in the slightest...
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...IN BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, the family of Mrs...
...You don't have to have millions to help preserve liberty...
...I can't imagine anyone who has an education in statistics not wincing at such a statement...
...It is Mr...
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...The Deflation Monster," TAS Sept/Oct 2001) I have a similar recollection of the 1987 crash...
...Just because Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg do a couple of war movies about the so-called "Greatest Generation" doesn't make it so...
...Included was a provision that would eliminate the tax deduction for interest expense (in excess of $5 million per year) on debt incurred to finance corporate takeovers...
...The C3 10 pilot deviated from his assigned routing, but was helped along by some questionable controller handling...
...FROM THE ANTIPODES COMES WORD that New Zealand's marine life is threatened by a "mystery marine animal" that "kills all other sea life" when it "embeds itself on a surface" (though it looks quite harmless and, if photographs are to be believed, rather like an old-fashioned sanitary napkin...
...Moroccans, Russians, Israelis or the followers of the Aga Khan (who incidentally are not even considered Muslims by Saudi Arabia's Wahhabi sect...
...May I add one or two of my own...
...Verton W. Lenfest via e-mail That's not quite true...
...As the center's director, I feel that I must correct Ben Stein's distorted and misinformed depiction of our program as a mouthpiece for the Saudi government and a forum for anti-American views...
...In Italy the world's oldest man, Mr...
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...performance at Kasserine Pass in 1942 or Vietnam in the 1960s and'70s...
...Finally opponents of hand guns may have found a substitute to using guns as personal protection.A seventy-oneyear-old man broke up an attempt by two gunmen to rob a grocery store in Korbach, Germany, by pelting them with sauerkraut, which can be purchased without a license in most German constituencies...
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...protect its freeenterprise system, and promote a free and responsible citizenry...
...A knowledgeable writer should know the difference between a toilet seat and a toilet assembly...
...Think about it...
...of our economic growth since 1995 derives from technological advance" make me a little nervous ("21st Century War Economics," TAS, Nov/Dec 2001...
...At the completion of the tour, Kelvin asked the man "What, then, is electricity," The foreman had to admit he couldn't say...
...Mark Delude was arrested in Montpelier, Vermont, for attempting to break into jail...
...Michael J. Lynch John Marshall Law School Atlanta, Georgia Eds:Agreed...
...The fact that it is nonfiction makes it an article that no thinking person should be without...
...Richmond apparently lacks the awareness or honesty to acknowledge his views, guilt feelings and neuroses as his own...
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...The Chinese scientists are also considering distributing Viagra to captive Giant Pandas after abandoning plans to rouse the creatures' sexuality by showing them films of pandas intercoursing...
...They had my wife all crimped up in there...
...Dreams are much more complicated than that, since they involve images symbolic of actual and perceived objects and events...
Vol. 35 • January 2002 • No. 1
