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Vol. 008 Issue 012 (December 2 2002)
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Scrapbook
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Scrapbook Harvard's Disappearing Backbone Last week, THE SCRAPBOOK foolishly ran an item under the headline, "Harvard Grows a Backbone." We won't make that mistake again. Shortly after we...
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Casual
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Epstein, Joseph
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Casual MONEY WRITER Many years ago, when I was a sub-editor at the New Leader magazine, I .tried to get the literary journalist Dwight Macdonald, whom at the time I much admired, to write...
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Correspondence
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Correspondence THE U.N. TRAP WHILE I READ with considerable interest "The U.N. Trap?" (Nov. 18), I couldn't help but think that William Kristol and Robert Kagan ignore at least one logical...
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The Democrats' Abuse Excuse
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EDITORIAL The Democrats' Abuse Excuse After an electoral loss, sour grapes is a normal response. Few politicians are big enough to man- age a nobler one. A political candidacy puts forward a set...
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Hamilton, Madison, & Jay in Jerusalem
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BERKOWITZ, PETER
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Hamilton, Madison & Jay in Jerusalem How do you say The Federalist in Hebrew? BY PETER BERKOWITZ Jerusalem WHATEVER may be going on in the cultural and intellectual life of other countries in...
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Going It Together
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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Going It Together The Bush administration assembles an ever-larger coalition for war. BY STEPHEN F. HAYES NOT SURPRISINGLY, top Bush administration officials have no confidence that Saddam Hussein...
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When Professors Attack
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BABBIN, JED
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When Professors Attack They make fools of themselves. BY JED BABBIN LIKE THE POOR, those who hate the military will always be with us. They believe that America is bad, and that a soldier's only...
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The Sick Man of Europe Revisited
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ROBBINS, GERALD
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The Sick Man of Europe Revisited Don't panic about the Islamic victory in Turkey. BY GERALD ROBBINS Ankara WHEN THE VOTE TALLIES started trickling in from Yozgat, my Turkish colleagues knew that...
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Dartmouth Does Diversity
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MacDonald, Heather
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Dartmouth Does Diversity A bad idea whose time has come . .. again and again and again. BY HEATHER MAC DONALD The country is on the brink of war, it faces the likelihood of another terrorist...
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Fundraising Arizona
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BOLICK, CLINT
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Fundraising Arizona We've just seen the future of campaign finance reform, and it's not pretty. BY CLINT BOLICK Phoenix On November 6, when most Americans were awakening to Republican electoral...
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The White House at War
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BARNES, FRED
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The White House at War BY FRED BARNES Let's get right to the scoreboard. The winners in Bob Woodward's account of President Bush's response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are...
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Furst Among Equals
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WEST, WOODY
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Furst Among Equals Alan Furst masters the spy story. BY WOODY WEST It can be a pleasing happenstance how one becomes acquainted with an author—a book review, an appealing title perhaps, but more...
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A Wilting Petal
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BOERNER, MARGARET
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A Wilting Petal How not to revive the modern novel. BY MARGARET BOERNER During the second half of the twentieth century, readers complained that the "postmodern" novel—that dark, deconstructing...
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Man of War
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NOVAK, ROBERT D.
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Man of War General George Patton defeats his latest biographer BY ROBERT D. NOVAK Is there any justification for yet another biography of the much-chronicled General George S. Patton Jr.,...
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Working Mothers
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GUR, MEGHAN COX
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Working Mothers Allison Pearson's novel of a woman who wants to have it all. BY MEGHAN COX GURDON 2:11 P.M. Am typing frantically while toddler with bronchitis lies on sofa, pale and hollow-eyed,...
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Tartted Up
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WEBB, KANE
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Tartted Up Donna Tartt proves that even the pretentious can have real talent. BY KANE WEBB No one seems able to talk about Donna Tartt's new novel, The Little Friend, without talking about Donna...
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THE STANDARD READER
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The Standard Reader GOP NEA? On November 14, after a delay of nearly nine months, the Senate confirmed the appointment of David Gelernter to serve on the National Council on the Arts. A painter,...
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Parody
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Parody The Today show NBC News Transcript November 22, 2002 Friday AL GORE SEGMENT COURIC:We're now joined by former Vice President AL Gore whohas written a new book .Joined At the Heart: My...
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Vol. 008 Issue 013 (December 9 2002)
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Vol. 008 Issue 014 (December 16 2002)
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Vol. 008 Issue 015 (December 23 2002)
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Vol. 008 Issue 016 (December 30 2002)
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