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••Contents••
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 "Sally Quinn, Spiritual Adviser"
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Scrapbook Sally Quinn, Spiritual Adviser Readers of the Washington Post were greeted, one recent morning, with an essay by Sally Quinn on why Barack Obama and his family (who have...
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FRIED BREAD LINES
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Caldwell, Christopher
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Casual FRIED BREAD LINES Holes are opening in the populated landscape. Outside the attic window where I write this is an abandoned house. A “For Sale” sign, hanging from a yardarm by the...
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Before He Goes
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KRISTOL, WILLIAM
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EDITORIAL Before He Goes Amid the cold gusts of winter, Republicans will soon be ushered out of power after controlling Congress, the White House, or both for 14 years. Here’s a further...
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Obama's Good Students
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Epstein, Joseph
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Obama’s Good Students A dissent on the ‘valedictocracy.’ BY JOSEPH EPSTEIN Last week the excellent David Brooks, in one of his columns in the New York Times, exulted over the high quality...
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To the Shores of Tripoli
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CROPSEY, SETH
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To the Shores of Tripoli . . . The place to stop pirates is on the beaches. BY SETH CROPSEY The November 15 hijacking 450 miles east of Mombasa, Kenya, of a thousand-plus foot oil tanker...
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The Obama Jolt
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BARNES, FRED
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The Obama Jolt Is Barack a secret centrist? BY FRED BARNES Barack Obama wants to give the economy a jolt. So far, though, the biggest jolt we’ve seen is the one the economy has given to...
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Wrinklies at Work
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STELZER, IRWIN M.
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Wrinklies at Work Why do we think early retirement is sacrosanct? BY IRWIN M. STELZER ‘Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we go” cheerfully sing Snow White’s diminutive friends as they head out...
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The Marriage Juggernaut
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VANCE, KEVIN
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The Marriage Juggernaut Why Arizona fl ipped on gay nuptials. BY KEVIN VANCE Arizona voters last month approved an amendment to the state constitution defi ning marriage as “only a union...
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Remember the Holodomor
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YOUNG, CATHY
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Remember the Holodomor The Soviet starvation of Ukraine, 75 years later. BY CATHY YOUNG This year marks the 75th anniversary of one of the most horrifi c chapters in the history of the...
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"Columbia University, Slumlord"
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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Columbia University, Slumlord Working hand-in-hand with New York City and state, the Ivy League university bullies its neighbors with eminent domain law. BY JONATHAN V. LAST Nick Sprayregen...
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Friendly Persuasion
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Anderson, Claudia
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Friendly Persuasion The Lincoln-Douglass debates BY CLAUDIA ANDERSON A leading 800-page American history textbook of a generation back—The National Experience, published in 1963 and written...
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America's Teams
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BOOT, MAX
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America’s Teams From the Bay Area to the Big D, football is serious business. BY MAX BOOT Both the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys, two of the NFL’s most storied franchises,...
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"Does She, or . . . ?"
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CATTON, PIA
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Does She, or . . . ? Once, only their hairdressers knew for sure. Now . . . BY PIA CATTON One of life’s great conundrums has been solved. And it has been accomplished in a book that poses...
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Over There
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NAGORSKI, ANDREW
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Over There A historian hears the echoes of the Great War, and beyond. BY ANDREW NAGORSKI In The Summer the Archduke Died, Louis D. Rubin Jr. infuses his elegant, absorbing collection...
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Pigs Without Blankets
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Eastland, Terry
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Pigs Without Blankets ‘And yes, you can do a whole hog at home.’ BY TERRY EASTLAND During college, I worked two summers in the Piedmont of North Carolina, in Asheboro and nearby towns. I...
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Tania Unleashed
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Collier, Peter
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Tania Unleashed Before Billy Ayers was a national treasure, he was a ‘phony revolutionary.’ BY PETER COLLIER Today Patty Hearst’s story seems as antique as Pong or hot pants, but the...
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It's Killing Time
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Time, It's Killing
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It’s Killing Time Only the most ‘sensitive and important’ murders for Adam Dalgliesh. BY JAMES GRANT An editorial in the Times (London), written to mark the publication of P.D. James’s...
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Biomorality
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LENZNER, STEVEN
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Biomorality The uses and abuses of science in political life. BY STEVEN LENZNER Among the many authorities we adhere to today, only science rivals that of equality. This is not thought to be...
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Vulture Culture
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Bachrach, Judy
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Vulture Culture What happens when a 103-year-old heiress falls ill. BY JUDY BACHRACH Brooke Astor’s Park Avenue apartment, stuffed in her old age with red velvet Louis XV chairs, her...
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Tin Lizzie Tales
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STRINER, RICHARD
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Tin Lizzie Tales The car that made America an automotive culture. BY RICHARD STRINER For the Model T Ford’s centennial year, Johns Hopkins University Press has produced an extremely...
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Taken on Faith
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LOCONTE, JOSEPH
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Taken On Faith No diplomatic recognition for religion in Foggy Bottom. BY JOSEPH LOCONTE Not long after the toppling of the theocratic Taliban, a delegation of Afghan leaders involved in...
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Tunnel Revision
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SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN
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Tunnel Revision Anti-anti-Communism is alive and well at Long Beach State. BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ The subtitle of this wretched book reveals the arrogance with which the...
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Just One More
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Hays, Charlotte
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Just One More Not for the faint of heart, but who cares? BY CHARLOTTE HAYS When recounting that a certain relative was not infrequently tipsy at dinner, I generally have to add, for the...
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Parody
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Parody “D.C. offi cials say that Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), who recently has been buffeted by questions about his personal taxes and real estate dealings, was incorrectly given a...
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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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