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Vol. 014 Issue 035 (June 1 2009)
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Scrapbook
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Save Your Money: Don’t Buy This Book Vying for the title of least sympathetic financial hardship case ever is New York Times (economics!) reporter Edmund L. Andrews, whose article “My Personal...
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Casual
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SKINNER, DAVID
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Casual OUR SUNDAY WORST The best seats at a boxing match, dog show, or Broadway play are the worst seats at Mass. I’m still not sure why, but almost everyone knows it. As an altar boy I used to...
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Correspondence
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Correspondence JEFFERSON AND HEMINGS NOEMIE EMERY’S April 27 review of two books on Thomas Jefferson (“Jefferson Revised: Was the architect of liberty our fi rst limousine liberal?”) is...
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But Enough About Me ...
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KRISTOL, WILLIAM
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But Enough About Me . . . Barack Obama spoke at the National Archives last Thursday on the war on terror (not that he used that term). After paying tribute to the Declaration of Independence, the...
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Some Industries Deserve Bankruptcy
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Some Industries Deserve Bankruptcy ‘Newsweek’ and Katie and Maureen—oh my! BY ANDREW FERGUSON I looked for them—looked hard— but I don’t think Jon Meacham or Maureen Dowd made it to the gala...
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Manifesto for Banana Republicans
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O'ROURKE, P.J.
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Manifesto for Banana Republicans Welcome to the Third World. BY P.J. O’ROURKE The other day a journalist friend of mine in Washington got a phone call from a colleague in South America. “How’s...
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An Overleveraged Presidency
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BARNES, FRED
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An Overleveraged Presidency Barack Obama’s risky initiatives. BY FRED BARNES Like a troubled bank, President Obama is overleveraged. When a bank makes risky loans and many of them default, the...
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Conservatism Is in Good Shape ...
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CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
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Conservatism Is in Good Shape . . . Even if the GOP isn’t. BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI The Republican party is in a whole lot of trouble. The latest Pew Research Center report on “Trends in Political...
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Openness for Thee, but Not for Me
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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Openness for Thee, but Not for Me Obama gives a whole new definition to ‘transparency.’ BY STEPHEN F. HAYES ‘I ran for president promising transparency, and I meant what I said. And that is why,...
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Reagan in Opposition
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EMERY, NOEMIE
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Reagan in Opposition The lessons of 1977 BY NOEMIE EMERY In 1977, as in 2009, the future seemed dark for the country’s conservatives, shut out of all of the conduits to power, with nary a...
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Arabs vs. Iranians
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GERECHT, REUEL MARC
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Arabs vs. Iranians Courtesy of the Jews BY REUEL MARC GERECHT Americans like to think big in foreign policy, so they yearn to settle the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation. Both Democrats and...
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The Worst Thing About Gay Marriage
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SCHULMAN, SAM
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The Worst Thing About Gay Marriage It isn’t going to work BY SAM SCHULMAN There is a new consensus on gay marriage: not on whether it should be legalized but about the motives of those of us...
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Memory on Trial
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NICOL, CAITRIN
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Memory on Trial Psychotherapy as expert witness BY CAITRIN NICOL In 1993, an elderly couple in Lowell, Massachusetts, were convicted of trapping their grandchildren in a cage in their basement,...
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Spanish Revision
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SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN
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Spanish Revision What we know, and what we think we know,about Franco. BY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ This year marks the 70th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s victory in the Spanish Civil War. But since...
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Greatness Quantified
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AIKMAN, DAVID
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Greatness Quantified The individual makes a difference in history. BY DAVID AIKMAN It was just after his reelection in 1864 that Abraham Lincoln memorably said: “It has long been a grave...
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Lost in Transition
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Lavin, Abigail
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Lost in Transition An American drama in post-Maoist China. BY ABIGAIL LAVIN On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, I sit in my neighborhood hair salon in downtown Shanghai, chatting with...
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Remains of the Day
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BENSON, CHRISTOPHER
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Remains of the Day A post-mortem on the ‘great five-hundred year Humanist experiment.’ BY CHRISTOPHER BENSON John Carroll belongs to that now common guild of writers—the Intellectual Undertaker....
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Hankering for Tom
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Hankering for Tom Forget sainthood. How about some laughs for a change? BY JOHN PODHORETZ On the May 16 edition of Saturday Night Live, Tom Hanks made a cameo appearance playing a very stupid...
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Vol. 014 Issue 036 (June 8 2009)
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Vol. 014 Issue 037 (June 15 2009)
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Vol. 014 Issue 038 (June 2 2009)
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Vol. 014 Issue 039 (June 29 2009)
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