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Vol. 014 Issue 043 (August 3 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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SCRAPBOOK
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Scrapbook And That’s the Way It Wasn’t It seems somehow oddly appropriate that the passing of TV news giant Walter Cronkite should have produced in turn a gigantic correction in the New York...
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CASUAL
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BARBIC, KARI
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Casual Sister Kari I arrived at the church promptly at 9 A.M. Five millimeter pearl studs graced my earlobes; my hair was swept back into a neat bun. Remarkably, I was up, dressed, and ready...
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OBAMACARE: IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK
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CaPretta, James C.; levin, yuval
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Obamacare: It’s Even Worse Than You Think President Obama’s strategy to pass sweeping health care legislation rested on stealth and speed. The idea was to fi ll the conversation for months on...
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NEED A STUDENT LOAN?
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Need a Student Loan? Boy, does Uncle Sam have a deal for you. by Andrew Ferguson The House Committee on Education and Labor is having a busy summer. (Everybody in Washington is having a...
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MARXISM'S MAIN CRITIC
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KIMBALL, ROGER
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Marxism’s Main Critic Leszek Kolakowski, 1927-2009. by Roger Kimball The Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was just a few months shy of his 82nd birthday when he died at his home in...
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TRIED AND FOUND WANTING
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LUCAS, FRED
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Tried and Found Wanting Tennesseeans are especially skeptical of Obamacare—with reason. by Fred Lucas At the Biloxi, Mississippi, gathering of the National Governors Association in...
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THE MASTER OF ROOM 205
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WEINSTEIN, KENNETH R.
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The Master of Room 205 Before he was a bestselling author, Frank McCourt was an English teacher. by Kenneth R. Weinstein Frank McCourt, who died in New York City on July 19 after a battle with...
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KNOW-NOTHING-IN-CHIEF
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BARNES, FRED
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Know-Nothingin-Chief There’s no evidence Obama has even a sketchy grasp of economics. by Fred Barnes Is President Obama an economic illiterate? Harsh as that sounds, there’s growing evidence...
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GATES-GATE
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MOYNIHAN, MICHAEL C.
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Gates-gate A Harvard prof versus a Cambridge cop: Who do you believe? by Michael C. Moynihan On Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, across from the Harvard campus, the Maoist proprietors of...
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TO HAVE AND TO HOLD
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BOOT, MAX
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To Have and To Hold A long overdue rethinking of detention policies in Afghanistan. by Max Boot Detention policy is one of the least discussed but most important aspects of the war in...
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THE COCKTAIL RENAISSANCE
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Messenger, Robert
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The Cocktail Renaissance Cheers! By Robert Messenger The cocktail is a lovely simple thing: a mixture of spirits and fl avorings that whets the appetite, pleases the eye, and stimulates the...
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JADED BUT WISE
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Klepp, Lawrence
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Jaded But Wise An ancient school teaches us moderns. by Lawrence Klepp The third-century B.C. philosopher Diogenes the Cynic was, arguably, Western civilization’s fi rst Marx Brother....
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A MAN, A PLAN
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ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
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A Man, a Plan . . . When one branch of government declares war on another. by Charlotte Allen On February 5, 1937, just 16 days after his inauguration to his second presidential term,...
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BLACK HUMOR
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MUNSON, ZACH
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Black Humor One-liners from the national conversation on race. by Zach Munson Just to get this out of the way, a disclaimer and an admission: I am white. Yes, white. Caucasian...
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REBELS WITH CAUSE
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SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN
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Rebels With Cause The key to a successful revolution is the shopkeepers. by Stephen Schwartz Dramatic events in Iran, as weeks of tumult turn into months, seem to reproduce archival images...
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NEED TO KNOW?
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TORRANCE, KELLY JANE
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Need to Know? Facebook forces us to pick our Fab Five. by Kelly Jane Torrance Rob Fleming, the hero of Nick Hornby’s pleasurable novel High Fidelity, approaches life as something to be...
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Vol. 014 Issue 044 (August 10 2009)
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Vol. 014 Issue 045 (August 17 2009)
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Vol. 014 Issue 046 (August 31 2009)
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