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Issue Vol. 003 Issue 017 (January 12 1998)
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Paid article THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GORE
The Gospel According to Gore The Scrapbook is full of ecumenical spirit in this season of the Holiday That Dare Not Speak Its Name. This spirit infuses the days surrounding December 25, when...
Paid article Beam Me Up
Beam Me Up For the last year, The ^Weekly Standard has been criticizing my relationship with Min. Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, although no reporter has ever called to ask me...
Paid article Klutzes and Other Close Readers
KLUTZES AND OTHER CLOSE READERS Ihave long considered myself a minor connoisseur of the titles of books. Some titles seem so perfectly right, others so wrong as to kill the books before they leave...
Paid article Where's the Outrage?
Where's the Outrage? As the era of Clintonized expectations crawls into its sixth year, huge numbers of Americans have long since forgotten to be upset that their elected government conducts itself...
Paid article Gender Wars and Real Wars
Bacevich, A. J.
Gender Wars and Real Wars by A. J. Bacevich The headlong rush to bend the American military to the dictates of gender politics has slowed for the moment. This welcome break is owed to the year-end...
Paid article The Military Culture Wars
Hillen, John
The Military Culture Wars by John Hillen FEMINISTS HAVE LATELY SUFFERED two tactical setbacks, but they are still winning their war on the military. A federal commission headed by former senator...
Paid article GOP Primary Colors
REES, MATTHEW
GOP Primary Colors by Matthew Rees Santa Barbara, Calif. WHERE ELSE BUT CALIFORNIA would you find such a colorful Republican primary campaign to fill a House seat? The moderate in the race,...
Paid article How Steven Pinker's Mind Works
FERGUSON, ANDREW
How Steven Pinker's Mind Works By Andrew Ferguson The year 1997 was a big one for Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at MIT and a celebrated popularizer of science. His most ambitious book...
Paid article The Benefits of Bankruptcy
LINDSEY, LAWRENCE B.
The Benefits of Bankruptcy By Lawrence B. Lindsey As Washington confronts the financial crisis in Asia and a deteriorating global economic situation, two policy camps have stepped forward with...
Paid article The Asian Crisis: Made in Japan
Smick, David
The Asian Crisis: Made in Japan By David Smick It is the moment in the great late-1990s Asian financial meltdown for the inevitable Monday-morning quarterbacking. The stakes could not be higher....
Paid article The Nation and Dan'l Webster
BARONE, MICHAEL
The Nation and Dan'l Webster The Great Orator's Giant Intellect and Ravenous Ambition By Michael Barone The historian Robert Remini, who has given us volumes on Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren,...
Paid article Tom's Less Sharpe
BOTTUM, J.
Tom's Less Sharpe Decline and Fall of England's Funniest Writer By J. Bottum Something happens to people as they get older, and to comic writers more than to the rest of us. Some get so crotchety...
Paid article Holy Mother Russia
AIKMAN, DAVID
holymotherrussia General Alexander Lebed Bares His Soul By David Aikman One thing the reader can't fail to learn from this remarkable autobiography by former Russian Major General Alexander Lebed...
Paid article Korngold's Great Expectations
NORDLINGER, JAY
korngold's Great Expectations Music's Horatio Alger in Reverse By Jay Nordlinger In music, the child prodigy who performs is common enough, but the prodigy who composes—as Mozart and Mendelssohn...
Paid article Upper Deck, Lower Deck
PODHORETZ, JOHN
Upper Deck, Lower Deck A Classy Titanic Makes It to Port By John Podhoretz There's something sinful about the fact that you can now buy advance tickets for movies over the phone. It's not just the...
Paid article Parody
California bans smoking in bars and cocktail lounges, effective Jan. 1, 1998. —News item And now, the NBC Nightly News for August 17, 1998, with Tom Brokaw: BROKAW: Santa Monica is ablaze...
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