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Vol. 014 Issue 011 (December 1 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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"Puff, Puff, Puff"
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Scrapbook Puff, Puff, Puff THE SCRAPBOOK has always treasured the story that President William McKinley was contentedly puffing on his cigar in the White House one afternoon when a...
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DAYS OF WINE AND OYSTERS
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MATUS, VICTORINO
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Casual DAYS OF WINE AND OYSTERS Every year just before Thanksgiving, the Old Ebbitt Grill in Washington holds an “oyster riot”—an event featuring a live band, copious amounts of wine, and...
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ASSESSING PORTER
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ALLENSWORTH, JAMES
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Correspondence ASSESSING PORTER THERE WE WERE IN the height of our silly season, the presidential elections, and you found space for a gem of an essay on Katherine Anne Porter (“Pale...
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The Sector Formerly Known as Private
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CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
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EDITORIAL The Sector Formerly Known as Private We’re beginning to get a sense of what the next four years will look like. It won’t be a conservative era, that’s for sure. Nor will it,...
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"Bail Me Out, Mr. Paulson"
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O'ROURKE, P.J.
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Bail Me Out, Mr. Paulson Print journalists aren’t feeling the love these days. BY P. J. O’ROURKE Hello? Bailout people? Mr. Secretary of the Treasury Paulson? Aren’t you...
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A Time for Thanksgiving
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CRITTENDEN, JULES
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A Time for Thanksgiving Obama’s debt of gratitude to George W. Bush. BY JULES CRITTENDEN As the transition progresses and Barack Obama’s inauguration draws closer, it’s a good moment to...
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Twin Cities Throwdown
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Mccormack, John
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Twin Cities Throwdown The Coleman-Franken recount may end up like a replay of Florida 2000. BY JOHN MCCORMACK Last Wednesday, campaign volunteers for Democratic candidate and comedian Al...
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The Mosque and the Imam
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SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN
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The Mosque and the Imam Washington’s Islamic Center is riven by scandal and lawsuits. BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ The Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., is among the most prominent and...
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Clear and Present Danger
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JOSCELYN, THOMAS
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Clear and Present Danger The Obama administration is about to discover that the terrorists detained at Guant?namo are there for good reason BY THOMAS JOSCELYN On Sunday, November 16, CBS...
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Building a Better Bailout
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LINDSEY, LAWRENCE B.
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Building a Better Bailout It’s time to reward virtue BY LAWRENCE B. LINDSEY The U.S. government’s efforts at containing the fi nancial crisis have to date been aimed at shoring up...
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Our Hapless Automakers
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STELZER, IRWIN M.
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Our Hapless Automakers The choice before Congress is bankruptcy now or bankruptcy later BY IRWIN M. STELZER Set out a giant honey pot, and the bears will come. And the more bearish they are...
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"Happy Birthday, Milton"
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WIEDER, LAURANCE
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Happy Birthday, Milton The poet-prophet turns 500 BY LAURANCE WIEDER I wouldn’t recommend John Milton’s sacred epics, or even his short poems, to a newcomer to the English language. The...
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Seeing Red
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EASTLAND, KATHERINE
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Seeing Red Happy, productive peasants can’t be wrong: Socialist Realism lives! BY KATHERINE EASTLAND At the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art in 1942, Mao Zedong declared that “in our...
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He Saw the Future
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MCDONALD, MICHAEL
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He Saw the Future From poet to propagandist in Bolshevik Russia. BY MICHAEL MCDONALD The Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was born in 1893 in Baghdati, Georgia, and committed suicide...
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God's Politics
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KNIPPENBERG, JOSEPH
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God’s Politics Is religion a menace, or an asset, to the American experiment? BY JOSEPH KNIPPENBERG It’s hard to have a conversation or argument about religion and politics in America without...
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Man on the Brink
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WALSH, PATRICK J.
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Man on the Brink Nine decades since ‘The Education,’ a look back at Henry Adams. BY PATRICK J. WALSH At the Massachusetts Historical Society’s library, an American classic lies open before...
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Small Is Beautiful
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Small Is Beautiful You lose some effects, but keep the story, in portable moviegoing. BY JOHN PODHORETZ For a while, movie theaters were getting better. After decades in which the...
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Vol. 014 Issue 012 (December 8 2008)
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Vol. 014 Issue 013 (December 15 2008)
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Vol. 014 Issue 014 (December 22 2008)
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Vol. 014 Issue 015 (December 29 2008)
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