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Vol. 013 Issue 017 (January 14 2008)
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Vol. 013 Issue 018 (January 21 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Scrapbook
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Scrapbook The Peaceable Political Kingdom THE SCRAPBOOK has its sentimental moments, but last Saturday evening, January 5, in Manchester, New Hampshire, was not one of them. We refer to the...
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Casual
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Epstein, Joseph
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Casual GIMME SHELTER You live, they say (usually accompanied by a sigh), and you learn. They say it; I don’t. You live, I say (with an even deeper sigh), and you yearn. And I generally make...
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The Surge Effect
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BARNES, FRED
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EDITORIAL The Surge Effect The match is almost perfect. As the surge in Iraq has succeeded, the presidential campaign of John McCain has risen from the ashes. This is no coincidence, and the...
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The Triumph of Experience over Hope
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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The Triumph of Experience over Hope How Hillary Clinton came back. BY JONATHAN V. LAST Manchester, N.H. It is popular to attribute Hillary Clinton’s poll-defying surprise victory in New...
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Unity08, We Hardly Knew Ye
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Unity08, We Hardly Knew Ye The death of another third-party dream. BY ANDREW FERGUSON “Your torch has been lit!” read the email I got last summer. And now my torch has guttered out! Yours...
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The Giuliani Implosion
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CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
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The Giuliani Implosion From frontrunner to also-ran in eight short weeks. BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI It’s a good thing for Rudy Giuliani that he believes in the power of optimism. These days his...
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Symbolitics as Usual
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DIIULIO, JOHN J. Jr.
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Symbolitics as Usual A guide to non-instant election analysis. BY JOHN J. DIIULIO JR. For those who thought that Hillary Clinton was through because Barack Obama won the Iowa caucus, or...
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Living in a Dream World
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RUBIN, MICHAEL
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Living in a Dream World The political fantasies of foreign service officers. BY MICHAEL RUBIN As pundits begin to write their obituaries of the Bush presidency, much ink will be spilled over...
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Slugging It Out
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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Slugging It Out John McCain reclaims the lead by sticking to his guns on Iraq BY STEPHEN F. HAYES Peterborough, New Hampshire Wearing the uniform of the young Republican male—navy sport coat,...
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The Case of the Amazing Disappearing Hate Crime
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ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
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JENA THE CASE OF THE AMAZING DISAPPEARING HATE CRIME The Jena Six became a national symbol of racism not because of an unequal justice system and the rise of a ‘new Jim Crow,’ but because...
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Nasty, Brutish, and Funny
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BERING, HENRIK
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Books&Arts Nasty, Brutish, and Funny The satirist’s London of the 18th century BY HENRIK BERING City of Laughter Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London by Vic Gatrell Walker, 695 pp.,...
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Ford, Not a Lincoln
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WHITCOMB, ROBERT
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Ford, Not a Lincoln Post-White House table talk of the 38th president. BY ROBERT WHITCOMB Write It When I’m Gone Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford by Thomas M....
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What Hath God Wrought
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Klepp, Lawrence
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What Hath God Wrought When an elderly philosopher meets a Dallas business consultant. BY LAWRENCE KLEPP There Is a God How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony...
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True Love Waits
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Salam, Reihan
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True Love Waits Abstinence leads to all kinds of adventures. BY REIHAN SALAM The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta St. Martin’s, 368 pp., $24.95 Ever since Tom Perrotta struck comedy gold...
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Farewell to Flashman
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HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER
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Farewell to Flashman The singular creation of George MacDonald Fraser, 1925-2008. BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Looking back over the nearly 40 years since I fi rst found myself immersed in a...
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America Divided
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SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN
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America Divided A historian sees three phases in the life of the Republic. BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ America’s Three Regimes A New Political History by Morton Keller Oxford, 384 pp., $27.95 As...
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Touch of Evil
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Touch of Evil ‘As painful as a root canal,’ but worth it? BY JOHN PODHORETZ There Will Be Blood Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Over the course of three decades, from 1898 to 1927, we watch...
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Parody
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Parody “I’ve always thought that . . . pollsters who call people up and ask them how they’re going to vote, speak in perfect English, and standard English; they speak with a kind of politically...
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Vol. 013 Issue 019 (January 28 2008)
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