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Vol. 004 Issue 013 (December 14 1998)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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SCRAPBOOK
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Scrapbook DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT ... New York is revising its state history curriculum for high school students, and the first draft is beyond parody. The last major rewrite, in 1987, contained...
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CORRESPONDENCE
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Correspondence NO DEFENSE OF PINOCHET When a judge convicts a criminal, W that's law and order; but when a judge proceeds against a world-class murderer, that's "judicial activism" run amok, at...
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CASUAL
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Epstein, Joseph
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Casual THE ICON ISSUE I like to have a few handsomely misused words going at all times that drive me a little nutty. It's good, I believe, for my blood pressure, which is normally low, but which...
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Impeach-Now More Than Ever
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Stanaam Standard IMPEACH— NOW MORE THAN EVER At a December 1 House Judiciary Committee hearing on the consequences of dishonest legal testimony, Judge Leon Higginbotham Jr., appearing for the...
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THE MYTH OF GOP DEFECTORS
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Carlson, Tucker
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THE MYTH OF GOP DEFECTORS by Tucker Carlson IF YOU'VE BEEN READING THE PAPERS RECENTLY, you know there is no way the House of Representatives can impeach Bill Clinton. Republicans allegedly don't...
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DEMOCRATS FOR IMPEACHMENT
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BARNES, FRED
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DEMOCRATS FOR IMPEACHMENT by Fred Barnes DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATIVE VIRGIL GOODE of Virginia—that's rural, conservative, Southside Virginia, in his case—scarcely knows President Clinton. "I've...
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LIVINGSTON RULES
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REES, MATTHEW
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LIVINGSTON RULES by Matthew Rees THE WHITE HOUSE—supremely confident until two weeks ago that the House of Representatives would not impeach the president—is suddenly on the defensive. Lawyers for...
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LYING ABOUT DYING
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SMITH, WESLEY J.
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LYING ABOUT DYING by Wesley J. Smith WHEN JACK KEVORKIAN APPEARED on 60 Minutes the Sunday before Thanksgiving to explain his killing of Thomas Youk, a man with Lou Gehrig's disease, Kevorkian...
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RUSSIA'S LOST LIONESS
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AIKMAN, DAVID
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RUSSIA'S LOST LIONESS by David Aikman GALINA STAROVOITOVA was a brilliant and memorable member of Russia's Duma. To admirers, she was a lioness, fiercely defending Russia's ethnic minorities from...
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GUILTY AS CHARGED
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BEICHMAN, ARNOLD
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GUILTY AS CHARGED by Arnold Beichman IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE A SADDER GROUP of people than the children of Americans who spied for the Soviet Union. I am thinking of the two sons of Julius and Ethel...
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THE BOYFRIEND PROBLEM
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BARNES, JOHN A.
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THE BOYFRIEND PROBLEM By John A. Barnes On the night of February 23, 1997, Dallas paramedics were summoned to the apartment that Dionne Pickens shared with her son, 2-year-old Devonta, her...
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RETURN OF THE WONKS
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BROOKS, DAVID
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RETURN OF THE WONKS ... And Now, Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Policy Debates By David Brooks We're reaching the tail end of the contented nineties and there's not a compelling legislative...
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THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING
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CARLSON, ALLAN C.; BLANKENHORN, DAVID
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THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING The Case for a Family-Friendly Tax Cut By Allan C. Carlson and David Blankenhorn Almost everyone in Congress wants to "save" Social Security. And return some of the...
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THE ZSA-ZSA-ING OF THE AMERICAN MIND?
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LYONS, DONALD
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Books & Arts The Zsa-Zsa-ing of the American Mind? Life as a B-Grade Movie By Donald Lyons The notion that new means of expression—the printing press, the novel, the cinema, radio, television,...
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LORD OF THE RING
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MURRAY, BRIAN
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LORD OF THE RING David Remnick's Muhammad Ali By Brian Murray It's October 30, 1974 and the fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali is about to start. Set in Kinshasa, Zaire, the bout has...
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BECH TO THE FUTURE
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BOERNER, MARGARET
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BECH TO THE FUTURE John Updike's Alter-Ego, Again By Margaret Boerner Word after word, line after line, paragraph after paragraph, John Updike writes a seductively perfect prose. He seems as well...
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PARODY
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Parody When congressional staff first saw investigator Charles La Bella's memo to Attorney General Janet Reno on the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign finance scandal, about 70 percent of La Bella's...
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Vol. 004 Issue 014 (December 21 1998)
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Vol. 004 Issue 015 (December 28 1998)
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