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Vol. 003 Issue 029 (April 6 1998)
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OH, SO THAT'S THE PROBLEM
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Oh, So That's the Problem In the latest issue of the liberal journal American Prospect, John Judis weighs in on the Lewinsky affair. Judis is deeply disturbed by the behavior of the media;...
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Bullying China
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Bullying China You write of the human-rights resolution that eventually passed the Senate by a vote of 95-5 ("DiFi Returns," Scrapbook, March 9). I was one of the five dissenters. The resolution...
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A Wordsmith's Lament
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A Wqrdsmith's Lament One among my several immodest ambitions is to leave behind a word or two of my own invention before departing the planet. I want to leave a precise word, a useful word, a good...
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Droit de Seigneur
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Droit de Seigneur Let's see if we've got this straight. It is legally actionable—a tort—when blue-collar workers paste girlie posters inside their lockers. It is a tort when white-collar workers...
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DeLay Up
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REES, MATTHEW
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DeLay Up by Matthew Rees In the babble about who's up and who's down among House Republican leaders, Tom DeLay of Texas doesn't get much play. He's majority whip, the third-ranking Republican, but...
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Tony Blair's Millennium
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BROOKS, DAVID
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Tony Blair's Millennium by David Brooks Does any country have more reasons to be proud of itself than Great Britain? Twenty-five years ago the United Kingdom was a basketcase. Its economy was a...
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Oil for Nothing?
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STELZER, IRWIN M.
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Oil for Nothing? by Irwin M. Stelzer Oil is not like other commodities, as Winston Churchill found out early in his career. In 1911, Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, decided to rest...
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Canada's Tory Story
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FRUM, DAVID
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Canada's Tory Story by David Frum The once-mighty Progressive Conservative party of Canada took another step toward extinction late last month. There are not many left to go. In a move for which...
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A DHumb Idea at 25
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Caldwell, Christopher
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A DHumb Idea at 25 The Failure of the Designated-Hitter Experiment By Christopher Caldwell On a blistering cold Boston afternoon twenty-five years ago this week, I was a witness to history for...
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The Decline of Baseball Civilization
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KRAUTHAMMER, CHARLES
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The Decline of Baseball Civilization By Charles Krauthammer Tom Boswell, sportswriter and baseball fan extraordinaire, once wrote a book called Why Time Begins on Opening Day. And so it does. Life...
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In the Court of Sultan Bill
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CEASER, JAMES W.
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In the Court of Sultan Bill By James W. Ceaser In the complex relationship between sex and politics that has preoccupied Americans for the past three months, many of those seeking to condemn the...
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Trading Down
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FRUM, DAVID
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Trading Down Pat Buchanan's History of America By David Frum In his newspaper columns and on the campaign trail, Pat Buchanan has bitterly attacked the overpowering consensus among political...
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Confessor of the House
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BARNES, FRED
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confessor of the house Gingrich Shoulders the Blame By Fred Barnes Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says he blew it, trying to govern the country from Capitol Hill. It was "inexcusable" for him...
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Playing the Greens
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NORDLINGER, JAY
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Playing the Greens Jackets, Fairways, and Dollars at Augusta By Jay Nordlinger If April is here and the dogwood is blooming in Augusta, Georgia, it must be time for the Masters, the world's most...
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Sculpting Happiness
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Nordlinger, Pia
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Sculpting Happiness The National Gallery Exhibits Alexander Calder By Pia Nordlinger At the age of nine, the twentieth-century American sculptor Alexander Calder drew a self-portrait—a picture of...
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Parody
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THE UGANDA COLLECTION “I don’t say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.” —ORSON WELLES The sophisticated traveler is unfazed by the burning sun. Shielded by...
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Vol. 003 Issue 031 (April 20 1998)
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Vol. 003 Issue 032 (April 27 1998)
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