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 Vol. 014 Issue 031 (May 4 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Scrapbook
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AIG’s Fables Roving SCRAPBOOK correspondent P. J. O’Rourke sends us the charming pamphlet whose cover is depicted here. It was published by the troubled insurance giant AIG in happier days...
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Casual
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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SIMON SAYS: BUY THIS If there is to be a reaction against Susan Boyle, let it begin here. Of course, if you have been unconscious for the past week or two, you might be unaware of her existence....
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EDITORIALS
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KRISTOL, WILLIAM; EMERY, NOEMIE
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Preening & Posturing ‘We have been through a dark and painful chapter in our history,” President Obama said when he ordered the release of the Justice Department interrogation memos. Actually,...
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Cheney vs. Obama
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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Cheney vs. Obama The CIA interrogation debate is joined. BY STEPHEN F. HAYES The Obama administration is confused. The president says harsh interrogation techniques “do not make us safer,” but...
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So Far, So Good?
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BARNES, FRED
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So Far, So Good? Only 1,361 days to go. BY FRED BARNES ‘Strong job approval, higher personal ratings”—that’s pollster Andrew Kohut’s assessment of President Obama at roughly the 100-day point....
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Pragmatism Obama Style
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BERKOWITZ, PETER
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Pragmatism Obama Style Surprise, it’s left-wing. BY PETER BERKOWITZ As candidate and as president, Barack Obama has presented himself as a postpartisan pragmatist. He has generally refrained...
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The Real Bipartisanship
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CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
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The Real Bipartisanship Frank Wolf, Jim Cooper, and colleagues target entitlements. BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI Congressman Frank Wolf remembers the moment well. Long before the TARP, the stimulus,...
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Bring Him His Machine Gun
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Kirchick, James
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Bring Him His Machine Gun Meet South Africa’s new president. BY JAMES KIRCHICK Last Wednesday, South Africans returned the African National Congress to power for the fourth consecutive time...
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Spy Mystery Solved
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al, JOHN EARL HAYNES et.
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Spy Mystery Solved His name was Wynn. Arthur Wynn. BY JOHN EARL HAYNES, HARVEY KLEHR, & ALEXANDER VASSILIEV In our forthcoming book, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, we identify...
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The SAT and Its Enemies
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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The SAT and Its Enemies Fear and loathing in college admissions BY ANDREW FERGUSON One Saturday morning this month, a quarter million kids or more will slump their way into the fl uorescent...
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What Was the CIA Up To?
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GERECHT, REUEL MARC
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What Was the CIA Up To? There’s one way to fi nd out: Obama should release the intelligence gained from the interrogations BY REUEL MARC GERECHT This is a delicate business involving some...
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The Man Within
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DIRDA, MICHAEL
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The Man Within Graham Greene and his correspondence. BY MICHAEL DIRDA Nobody, as the literary scholar Samuel Hynes once observed, has ever wanted to be a Graham Greene character. His men and...
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Better Off
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Schwartz, Joel
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Better Off The mismeasurement of wealth and poverty in America. BY JOEL SCHWARTZ Economic analysis offers an approach to social problems that is at once vitally important and sharply limited....
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'Laugh Yourself Fat'
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RITTELMEYER, HELEN
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‘Laugh Yourself Fat’ Rediscovering the comic superstar of the Depression. BY HELEN RITTELMEYER She was the fi rst actress to appear on the cover of Time. She was Franklin Roosevelt’s favorite...
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Pre-Camelot
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Hess, Stephen
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Pre-Camelot History has undermined the verdict of 1960. BY STEPHEN HESS Richard Nixon always thought he would not get a fair shake from history: History is written by historians and historians...
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Dr. Franklin's Remedy
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Seaton, James
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Dr. Franklin’s Remedy Improvement, not transformation, in a practical world. BY JAMES SEATON Celebrated in popular culture, Benjamin Franklin has gotten short shrift from academics in recent...
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Well Bred, Well Fed. . .
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TOOLEY, MARK
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Well Bred, Well Fed . . . If John Cheever had invented an Episcopal bishop, he would have been Paul Moore. BY MARK TOOLEY The Episcopal bishop Paul Moore of New York was a wealthy scion and...
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PARODY
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“In dozens of pages of dispassionate legal prose, the methods approved by the Bush administration for extracting information from senior operatives of Al Qaeda are spelled out in careful...
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Vol. 014 Issue 032 (May 11 2009)
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Vol. 014 Issue 033 (May 18 2009)
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Vol. 014 Issue 034 (May 25 2009)
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