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Vol. 001 Issue 049 (September 2 1996)
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Vol. 001 Issue 050 (September 9 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Scrapbook
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Scrapbook LET’S RATE THE CONVENTION! We thought it couldn’t get worse than San Diego, but since the Democratic convention was probably the worst in American history, The Weekl y St andard has...
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Casual
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LABASH, MATT
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Casual THE YIPPIES’ LAST STAND Chicago I hooked up with the boy named “Free” out of curiosity and desperation. Three convention days packed with Women’s Political Caucuses and DLC plenaries...
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Correspondence
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Correspondence JEFFERSONIAN AMERICA I n “The Death of Jeffersonian America?” (Aug. 26), Andrew Peyton Thomas contrasts the moral oversight of small-town America with the alleged “moral...
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THE DICK MORRIS DEMOCRATS
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THE DICK MORRIS DEMOCRATS Had there never been so much as a hint of sordid sex-play involving President Clinton’s now-departed chief strategist, Dick Morris would still be the biggest news from...
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THE MIKE DOUGLAS DEMOCRATS
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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THE MIKE DOUGLAS DEMOCRATS by John Podhoretz Chicago IF THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION’S endless parade of America’s most wounded was Oprah Winfrey for conservatives, the Democratic convention...
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THE MACARENA DEMOCRATS
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BROOKS, DAVID
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THE MACARENA DEMOCRATS by David Brooks Chicago THEY SAY A PERSON IS NEVER SO ELATED as he is after someone has tried to kill him and missed. No wonder the Democrats were so happy in Chicago,...
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PRO-LIFE DEMOCRATS
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BARNES, FRED
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PRO-LIFE DEMOCRATS by Fred Barnes Chicago NATIONAL CHAIRMAN DONALD FOWLER says Democrats “respect the right of people who disagree with us” on abortion. They can still be “good Democrats.”...
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WE ARE NOT FAMILY
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KRISTOL, WILLIAM
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WE ARE NOT FAMILY by William Kristol Chicago MARIO CUOMO’S SPEECH Tuesday night fell far short of his performance in 1984. Its impact on the convention fl oor was dwarfed by Jesse Jackson’s...
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A BRIDGE TOO FAR
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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A BRIDGE TOO FAR by Andrew Ferguson Chicago “OPPORTUNITY, Responsibility, and Community”— this, Leon Panetta told the press three hours before Bill Clinton spoke at the Chicago convention, was...
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LYING ABOUT MEDICARE
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FRUM, DAVID
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LYING ABOUT MEDICARE by David Frum AT THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, Bob Dole pledged to cut income taxes by 15 percent, balance the budget, and leave Social Security and Medicare untouched....
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JESSE JACKSON AND THE TRUTH
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Carlson, Tucker
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JESSE JACKSON AND THE TRUTH by Tucker Carlson JESSE JACKSON CAME TO THE END of his prepared speech at the Democratic convention in Chicago last week and decided to keep on talking. Veering from...
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SECOND THOUGHTS ON CIVIL SOCIETY
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HIMMELFARB, GERTRUDE
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SECOND THOUGHTS ON CIVIL SOCIETY By Gertrude Himmelfarb I would like to think that it is not just contrariness on my part that makes me wince, these days, on hearing talk of civil society....
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO TOM HAYDEN
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CARROLL, VINCENT
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO TOM HAYDEN By Vincent Carroll In retrospect, it was merely a matter of time before Tom Hayden would fi nally proclaim himself an Indian. For a quarter century or more,...
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CHEMICAL WARFARE AND HOW NOT TO FIGHT IT
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REES, MATTHEW
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CHEMICAL WARFARE AND HOW NOT TO FIGHT IT By Matthew Rees Terrorism has been quietly emerging as an issue in the race between Bob Dole and Bill Clinton. Dole portrays the president as insuffi...
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"CRAZY BOOKS" AND THE CULTURE OF VICTIMIZATION
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Caldwell, Christopher
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“CRAZY BOOKS” AND THE CULTURE OF VICTIMIZATION By Christopher Caldwell A friend who has taught collegelevel creative writing tells me that whenever he chastises his students for...
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PULSING WITH LIFE
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BOTTUM, J.
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Books PULSING WITH LIFE By J. Bottum By any typical measure, Mary Kay Zuravleff ’s The Frequency of Souls (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 244 pages, $23) is not a very good book. A tale...
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WHY THE BIG BANDS DIED
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FELTEN, ERIC
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Music WHY THE BIG BANDS DIED By Eric Felten Stan Kenton had a grand ambition. He wanted to transform jazz into the modern equivalent of classical music. Over the years, Kenton wandered...
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Parody
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Parody Widows, Orphans Dominate Convention 2000 Lamb Chop to Address Depublicrats...
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Vol. 002 Issue 001 (September 16 1996)
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Vol. 002 Issue 002 (September 23 1996)
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Vol. 002 Issue 003 (September 30 1996)
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