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Scrapbook
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Scrapbook Dole's Two Messages It's not true that Bob Dole lacks a message in his presidential campaign; actually, he has two. It depends on who gets to Dole last-will it be his campaign staff, or...
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Casual
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Casual Derek Richardson, Where Are You? People don't usually rap on my car window at red lights, so I was a little startled when, on my way to work a few months ago, I turned to find a man peering...
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Correspondence
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Correspondence Discontented with Civil Society David Brooks's ambiguity concerning "'Civil Society' and Its Discontents" (Feb. 5) reflects an attitude toward "greatness" that demeans the common...
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An Ounce of Cure
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the weekly Standard An Ounce of Cure Not long ago, health-care reform was almost fatally wounded by association with one of the greatest domestic-policy bellyflops in American political history:...
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Spendthrift Steve
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REES, MATTHEW
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Spendthrift Steve by Matthew Rees Everyone knows that Steve Forbes has mounted a major spending blitz in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, disbursing some $25 million since...
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Hear Them Roar
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Sommers, Christina
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Hear Them Roar by Christina Sommers Helen Reddy warbled her signature song "I Am Woman" in lieu of the national anthem as 3,000 of her gender gathered in Washington to join Gloria Steinem, Molly...
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Fair-Weather Flat Taxers
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BARTLETT, BRUCE
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Fair-Weather Flat Taxers by Bruce Bartlett A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." So said Ralph Waldo Emerson back in 1841. Perhaps so. But when two major newspapers change their...
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The Blob on the Border
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Amselle, Jorge
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The Blob on the Border by Jorge Amselle On March 18, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the most radical change in immigration policy this country has seen since 1965. Rep. Lamar...
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A Gap, Not A Chasm
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Ladd, Everett Carll
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A Gap, Not a Chasm by Everett Carll Ladd In a lead story last month in the Wall Street Journal, Gerald Seib argued that President Clinton's electoral fate now hangs on the gender gap. "There have,...
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Mrs. Clinton's Very, Very Bad Book
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O'ROURKE, P. J.
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Mrs. Clinton's Very, Very Bad Book By P. J. O'Rourke "When Chelsea needed permission at school to get aspirin, she told the nurse to 'Call my dad, my mom's too busy.'" -Eleanor Clift and Mark...
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What George Washington Knew
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EMERY, NOEMIE
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What George Washington Knew By Noemie Emery In 1748 or thereabouts, a surveyor's apprentice on the Virginia Tidewater with ambitions toward social advancement and battlefield glory copied out 110...
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Why Schools Don't Dare To Discipline the Disabled
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ANDERSON, STUART
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Why Schools Don't Dare To Discipline the Disabled By Stuart Anderson In a Virginia school, a gang of five students assaults a lone teenager in the hallway. One of the attackers uses a meat hook....
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Updike's American Faith
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GLASSMAN, JAMES K.
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Books Updike's American Faith By James K. Glassman John Updike is an odd duck among novelists: a bourgeois golfer, a non-dove during Vietnam, a conservative who writes beautifully about sex, and,...
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Kingsolver of all Media
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GAVORA, JESSICA
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Books Kingsolver of All Media By Jessica Gavora In 1991, as the novelist Barbara Kingsolver marched outside the Tucson federal building to protest America's involvement in the Persian Gulf war, a...
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Debauch Delayed
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Television Debauch Delayed By John Podhoretz Last week on Friends, the NBC situation comedy that has launched a thousand magazine covers, the star-crossed friendship between the cute nebbish Ross...
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Anthony Powell, Anti-Communist
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BEICHMAN, ARNOLD
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Media Anthony Powell, Anti-Communist By Arnold Beichman The intellectual phenomenon called "anti-anti-communism" ought to be dead by now, along with the system that the anti-Communists...
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Parody
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Parody The Brooks School Buckaroo Chapter 1 The sun rose savagely over the hills of Northern New Jersey. Somewhere a stray hunt dog could be heard howling at a passing Mercedes. Horses shuffled...
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Vol. 001 Issue 023 (February 26 1996)
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