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Paid article Scrapbook
Scrapbook Benoit's Gall Shortly after Bulgarian truck driver Georgi Lazov's headless body was fished out of the Tigris River on July 14, his country's NATO ambassador in Brussels, Emil Valev,...
Paid article Casual
MATUS, VICTORINO
Casual TAKE ME TO YOUR AGENT Every time I pass my lefty neighbors' car, there seems to be a new bumper sticker plastered on the back of it. There are anti-Bush slogans like "Hail to the Thief,"...
Paid article Correspondence
Correspondence QUESTIONING KERRY WILLIAM KRISTOL presents four excellent questions for John Kerry ("Four Questions for Kerry," August 2). But i would also like to see the Massachusetts senator...
Paid article The Antiwar Candidate
EDITORIAL The Antiwar Candidate Everyone knows that John Kerry is ambivalent about the war in Iraq. In fact, he's so ambivalent that he won't say anything more definite about whether or not we...
Paid article No Silver Lining in the Kerry Cloud
BARNES, FRED
No Silver Lining in the Kerry Cloud If he wins, there will be no consolation prizes for conservatives. BY FRED BARNES THE PRESIDENCY of Bill Clinton had a silver lining for Republicans and...
Paid article The Issue That Dare Not Speak Its Name
BELL, JEFFREY
The Issue That Dare Not Speak Its Name The candidates won't be able to avoid the gay marriage debate. BY JEFFREY BELL & FRANK CANNON THE JUXTAPOSITION last week was startling. On the same day,...
Paid article Bad Headlines for Bush . . .
STELZER, IRWIN M.
Bad Headlines for Bush . . . Though the economy is actually doing pretty well. BY IRWIN M. STELZER THERE WAS A FLOOD of economic data last week—and of political commentary on the data—and John...
Paid article Barbarism Then and Now
LOCONTE, JOSEPH
Barbarism Then and Now Appeasement still doesn't work. BY JOSEPH LOCONTE THE RECENT WAVE of church bombings, kidnappings, and executions of civilians in Iraq seems to support a contested claim by...
Paid article Inside the Zarqawi Network
SCHANZER, JONATHAN
Inside the Zarqawi Network An interrogation memo sheds new light on the top terrorist in Iraq. BY JONATHAN SCHANZER AT LEAST 13 IRAQIS were killed in fighting with U.S. soldiers in the Iraqi city...
Paid article Give Them Shelter
Currie, Duncan
Give Them Shelter Congress moves to help North Korea's defectors— and its people. BY DUNCAN CURRIE LAST SUMMER, as Americans prepared to celebrate their independence, four refugees half a world...
Paid article Is Reading Really at Risk?
Epstein, Joseph
Is Reading Really at Risk? It depends on what the meaning of reading is BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN Reading at Risk" is one of those I M hardy perennials, a government M W survey telling us that in some...
Paid article Not Worth a Blue Ribbon
GERECHT, REUEL MARC
Not Worth a Blue Ribbon The conventional (and unhelpful) wisdom of the 9/11 Commission BY REUEL MARC GERECHT The 9/11 Commission says it wants to have a national debate about its report....
Paid article Purple America
ROBINSON, MICHAEL; ELLIS, SUSAN
Purple America Forget polarization—the country is really an even mix of blue and red. BY MICHAEL ROBINSON & SUSAN ELLIS On June 1, Stephanie Herseth, a true-blue Democrat, won a special election...
Paid article Land of Hope and Fear
MCCLAY, WILFRED M.
Land of Hope and Fear Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American past By WILFRED M. MCCLAY Of all the complaints leveled at the canon of nineteenth-century American books, the hardest to credit is the...
Paid article Morning in America
REES, MATTHEW; SCHLESINGER, ROBERT
Morning in America Rewatching the movie Red Dawn, twenty years later. BY MATTHEW REES AND ROBERT SCHLESINGER This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the first movie released with what was,...
Paid article THE STANDARD READER
The Standard Reader Books in Brief Dawn Over Baghdad-How the U.S. Military is Using Bullets and Ballots to Remake Iraq by Karl Zinsmeister (Encounter, 237 pp., $25.95). During the drive on...
Paid article Parody
Parody "Volvo's recent ads . . . highlight what safety advocates say is a shift toward speed and high performance in the auto industry and the glorification of those qualities in...
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