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 Vol. 014 Issue 028 (April 6 2009)
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Vol. 014 Issue 029 (April 13 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Scrapbook
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Book-Banning at the Supreme Court THE SCRAPBOOK has not seen Hillary: The Movie, a 90-minute documentary produced during the secretary of state’s unsuccessful campaign for the presidency last...
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Casual
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Epstein, Joseph
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Casual JOSEPH EPSTEIN HAS A COLD In the April 1966 issue of Esquire, Gay Talese published a famous article called “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” All I remember of the article is its moral: which...
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A Budget Deficit
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A Budget Deficit You can learn a lot from a budget. President Obama’s $3.6 trillion behemoth isn’t just a bunch of numbers and tables. It’s a vision of where America ought to be in the future....
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A Nation of Moochers
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O'ROURKE, P.J.
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A Nation of Moochers BY P. J. O’ROURKE As April 15 rolls around let us take a moment to recall why we Americans pay taxes: Because some of our country’s goodfor- nothing bums are too chicken to...
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The Master of Misdirection
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BARNES, FRED
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The Master of Misdirection How Obama maintains his popularity. BY FRED BARNES In football, it’s called misdirection. When the ball is snapped, offensive linemen pull from the line of scrimmage...
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The New Spanish Inquisition
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RABKIN, JEREMY; LOYOLA, MARIO
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The New Spanish Inquisition Judge Garz?n launches a crusade. BY JEREMY RABKIN & MARIO LOYOLA The Spanish Inquisition was established in the late 15th century to stamp out heretical deviations...
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In Praise of a GOP Moderate
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TOMLINSON, KENNETH
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In Praise of a GOP Moderate Mark Kirk is the party’s best hope in Illinois. BY KENNETH TOMLINSON In early summer of 2005, I was preparing to go to Afghanistan to examine the state of U.S....
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American Interests in Pakistan
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Gartenstein-Ross, Daveed
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American Interests in Pakistan Zardari serves them better than Sharif. BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS Recent turmoil in Pakistan has altered the political landscape in ways that should register...
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Honor Killing, American-Style
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SCHULMAN, SAM
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Honor Killing, American-Style What science and Roe v. Wade made possible has become virtually mandatory among our self-anointed elites. BY SAM SCHULMAN President Obama’s appointees, so...
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A Question for the Economists
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MANSFIELD, HARVEY
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A Question for the Economists Is the overly predicted life worth living? BY HARVEY MANSFIELD One group of those involved in the present fi nancial crisis has so far escaped notice—the...
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Regals and Eagles
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WHEATCROFT, GEOFFREY
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Regals and Eagles The lure of the House of Windsor BY GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT In the autumn of 1985 I was in Washington when the “Treasure Houses of Britain” show at the National Gallery was...
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Handy's Version
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GIOIA, TED
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Handy’s Version There’s a story behind the story of ‘St. Louis Blues.’ BY TED GIOIA On Beale Street in Memphis, passersby can see a lifesized statue of W.C. Handy, often lauded as “The Father...
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Founder's Killing
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LANKFORD, NELSON D.
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Founder’s Killing The strange death of a pioneering jurist. BY NELSON D. LANKFORD ‘Instead of haggling on halfway measures,” George Wythe demanded an absolute break with Great Britain and...
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Diamond Judges
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CHALBERG, JOHN C.
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Diamond Judges The men (and occasional woman) behind the plate. BY JOHN C. CHALBERG Baseball fans beware: A New York Times theater critic has written one fascinating baseball book. But be...
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Southern Gothic
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Macomber, Shawn
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Southern Gothic The universal voice in Milledgeville, Georgia. BY SHAWN MACOMBER It is a great, albeit somewhat paradoxical, compliment to Brad Gooch that, midway through Flannery, readers may...
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God Looked East
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MARSHALL, PAUL
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God Looked East The disappearance of Christianity in its homeland. BY PAUL MARSHALL In the summer of 2002, I traveled in southeastern Turkey to meet with members of the twomillennia- old Syriac...
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Soap Opera
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AIKMAN, DAVID
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Soap Opera How and why Americans got so clean. BY DAVID AIKMAN An outbreak, as it were, of recent books on personal and public hygiene in the Anglo-Saxon world reminds us 21st-century folk of...
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Budapestilence
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PALMER, ANDREW
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Budapestilence The cost of communism to the human heart. BY ANDREW PALMER Budapestilence The cost of communism to the human heart. In this startling novel, the fi rst of Hungarian writer Attila...
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Uprooted Man
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SWICK, THOMAS
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Uprooted Man A chronicler of housing in search of a home. BY THOMAS SWICK A profession will occasionally produce people who can explain its intricacies and profundities to the outside world...
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No Mystery Here
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BREEN, JON L.
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No Mystery Here Building the case for Reginald Hill. BY JON L. BREEN Reginald Hill’s fi rst novel, A Clubbable Woman, was published in Great Britain in 1970. Though it introduced one of the...
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Works in Theory
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STELZER, IRWIN M.
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Works in Theory Flash! Economics is an art, not a science. BY IRWIN M. STELZER The authors’ claim is nothing if not immodest: “We accomplish what existing economic theory has not. We produce a...
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'Truth and Metre'
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Short, Edward
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‘Truth and Metre’ A poet in touch with his critical faculties. BY EDWARD SHORT In 1891, Henry James reaffi rmed his respect for criticism by stressing what he might have called its exiguity:...
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We Recommend...
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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We Recommend . . . Four new books from contributors to Books & Arts. BY PHILIP TERZIAN Joe Queenan is an essayist whose jaundiced eye, sharp tongue, and sharper humor have dissected the great...
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PARODY
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“If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always. Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it’s ever...
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Vol. 014 Issue 030 (April 27 2009)
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