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Vol. 003 Issue 004 (October 6 1997)
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••Cover Page••
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CLINTON'S CONTRACTORS DIS CONGRESS
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Clinton's Contractors Pis Congress If anything is clear in the murky debate about national education testing, it's that Congress doesn't want the Clinton administration to continue in the course...
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My Taxicab Confession
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_Casual My Taxicab Confession We should have noticed something was up when a call to Yellow Cab from my friend Tracy's apartment brought a Checker cab to her doorstep. Since when are the Yellow...
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Reforming Campaign Finance
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Reforming Campaign Finance Everything you know about the current politics of campaign-finance reform is wrong. Minority leader Tom Daschle has insisted, and the newspapers have reported, over and...
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Janet Reno Clouseau
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LINDBERG, TOD
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Janet Reno Clouseau by Tod Lindberg Gee, in all the excitement of demanding that Attorney General Janet Reno seek the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate Al Gore's fund-raising...
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U.N.believable
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Caldwell, Christopher
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U.N.BELIEVABLE by Christopher Caldwell Ted Turner's offer to give a billion dollars to the "cash-strapped" (as it's invariably described) united Nations has not been out of the papers since he...
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How Microsoft Pays Its Bills
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Seligman, Dan
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How Microsoft Pays Its Bills by Daniel Seligman Why does Bill Gates wear his hair in bangs? This question had never previously infiltrated the left hemisphere of my cerebral cortex, where the big...
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The Palestinian Welfare State
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Bard, Mitchell G.
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The Palestinian Welfare State by Mitchell G. Bard When the United Nations voted in November 1947 to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, violence quickly broke out and escalated to...
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You Must Remember This
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Bailey, Duane W.
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You Must Remember This by Duane W. Bailey President Clinton is very keen these days on national testing of school children in the subjects of reading and mathematics. This is probably a good idea;...
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Has Fred Thompson Blown It?
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REES, MATTHEW
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Has Fred Thompson Blown It? By Matthew Rees Fred Thompson hasn't had many good weeks chairing the Senate committee investigating illegal and improper activities in last year's presidential...
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What Is-or Who Are-the Promise Keepers?
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LABASH, MATT
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What Is—or Who Are-the Promise Keepers? By Matt Labash Look at Bob Diehl, and the word "warrior" doesn't immediately come to mind. He's a retired oil-industry analyst who favors short-sleeved...
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The Birth of a Great Nation
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BROOKS, DAVID
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The Birth of a Great Nation How Republicans Invented the Federal Government By David Brooks Thirty-nine days after Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a good chunk of the victorious Union...
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Cockeyed Optimists
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D'SOUZA, DINESH
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Cockeyed Optimists The Thernstroms Take on Race in America By Dinesh D'Souza Just about every new book on race mourns the lack of candid discussion of the subject, deplores the hot-tempered...
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Hail, Ceaser!
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Gardner, John S.
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Hail, Ceaser! A Profound Effort at Reconstructing America By John S. Gardner The idea that America is a cultural and philosophical wasteland might seem merely a byproduct of this American century....
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He Don't Know Jackie
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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He Don't Know Jackie A Hagiography of a Ballplayer Misses the Mark By Jonathan V. Last More and more, the world is driven by Events—Event movies, Event trials, and Event anniversaries, each one...
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L.A. Insubstantial
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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LA Insubstantial It's Just a Melodrama By John Podhoretz ? ? s—ome here, Sidney, and let I me chastise you." So says V»_^/a corrupt cop to Tony Curtis before he beats Curtis to a pulp in 1957's...
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Parody
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"At dessert [actor Ron] Silver got up to offer a toast and remarked that there were a number of people present who had given something important to their country. He then asked all who cared to do...
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Vol. 003 Issue 005 (October 13 1997)
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Vol. 003 Issue 006 (October 20 1997)
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Vol. 003 Issue 007 (October 27 1997)
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