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Paid article Defending the Foreign Service
Scrapbook Defending the Foreign Service Last week, we editorialized on the well-publicized caterwauling of a senior foreign service officer, Jack Croddy, who is deeply unhappy that the State...
Paid article NIL NISI BONUM
Messenger, Robert
Casual NIL NISI BONUM I have a thing for obituaries. At my age, it’s not yet a matter of keeping score against my contemporaries. It’s more a taste for the appreciative and anecdotal....
Paid article SAVING ANTIOCH COLLEGE
Correspondence SAVING ANTIOCH COLLEGE AS AN ALUMNUS of Antioch College, I feel that Charlotte Allen’s article on my alma mater (“Death by Political Correctness,” November 12) mingled many...
Paid article "Say It's So, Joe"
editorial Say It’s So, Joe If a senator gives a speech, and no major newspaper reports it, does it matter? Joe Lieberman spoke in Washington Thursday on “the politics of national security.” The...
Paid article Off-Year Blues . . .
BARNES, FRED
Off-Year Blues . . . But next year, Republicans may be singing a happier tune BY FRED BARNES Republicans lost the governorship of Kentucky and the state senate in Virginia last week. But the...
Paid article Don't Blame Democracy
WEHNER, PETER
Don’t Blame Democracy It’s still the solution—not the problem. BY PETER WEHNER Two and a half years ago— in the wake of elections in Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, and especially...
Paid article Don't Give Up The Ships
CROPSEY, SETH
Don’t Give Up The Ships The Navy’s fl awed new strategy BY SETH CROPSEY The war on terror is being fought almost entirely on land, and the public neither knows about nor appreciates the U.S....
Paid article Ahmadine-Jets
JOHNSON, REUBEN F.
Ahmadine-Jets Welcome to the Iranian Air Force. BY REUBEN F. JOHNSON In the old westerns, it was not uncommon to see a final showdown in which the white hats confront the black hats with an...
Paid article "Big Labor, Big Plans"
Blake, Whitney
Big Labor, Big Plans Unions look to cash in after ’08. BY WHITNEY BLAKE Organized labor did well in the new Democratic Congress, winning a hike in the minimum wage and impeding the free...
Paid article How They Did It
KAGAN, KIMBERLY
How They Did It Executing the winning strategy in Iraq BY KIMBERLY KAGAN The surge of operations that American and Iraqi forces began on June 15 has dramatically improved security in Baghdad...
Paid article Our Pakistan Challenge
TWINING, DANIEL
Our Pakistan Challenge Something good can come out of the emergency BY DANIEL TWINING Pakistan is the swing state in the worldwide struggle against Islamic terrorists. Its decisive position...
Paid article Fascinating Rhythm
Short, Edward
Fascinating Rhythm Tin Pan Alley and the Great American Songbook BY EDWARD SHORT The novelist and critic Wilfrid Sheed calls his new book “a labor of love, not a work of scholarship, which...
Paid article Skin of Our Teeth
Achorn, Edward
Skin of Our Teeth The War for Independence was no cakewalk, either. BY EDWARD ACHORN Three years into what we call the War of Independence, a British journalist observed that any “other...
Paid article Out of the Past
BecK, Stefan
Out of the Past ‘A complex time scheme’ by Lifetime Channel standards. BY STEFAN BECK The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell’s fourth novel, has received rave reviews in...
Paid article With This Bling . . .
DICARLO, RACHEL
With This Bling . . . The wedding business and the business of weddings. BY RACHEL DICARLO A friend of mine told me recently, about three months after getting engaged, that she had her whole...
Paid article Back to Normalcy
HANNAFORD, PETER
Back to Normalcy Smoke-fi lled rooms, the League of Nations, and the second Mrs. Wilson. BY PETER HANNAFORD At the moment we have several senators vying for the presidency. In 1920, it was...
Paid article Saving Danny Glover
QUEENAN, JOE
Saving Danny Glover The Saint of Fort Washington meets Hugo B. DeMille. BY JOE QUEENAN Men of goodwill dread the moment when an autocrat morphs into a tyrant, when a powerhungry dictator...
Paid article Calling Senator Cruise
PODHORETZ, JOHN
Calling Senator Cruise Robert Redford descends from the mountain to make us think. BY JOHN PODHORETZ Lions for Lambs, the new movie directed by and starring Robert Redford, is designed to move...
Paid article Not a Parody
Not a Parody “Txhxisxx fxa”l l , t—hexx Uxniversity of Delaware required 7,000 students living in dormitories to attend training sessions, fl oor meetings, and “one-on-one” discussions about the...
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