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 Vol. 017 Issue 012 (December 5 2011)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK Gallantry in Action A reader points out that the Marine featured in our cover photo three weeks ago is Captain Timothy R. Sparks, who was recently honored with a Silver Star for his...
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CASUAL
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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CASUAL 1968 and All That My alluring wife accuses me of harboring a “weird aversion” to the televised debates that seem to be the sum and substance of the Republican campaign for the presidency. I...
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ASSAD MUST GO
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BOOT, MAX
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EDITORIALS Assad Must Go The “realist” case for Bashar al-Assad—and before him, for his father, Hafez—was that he was supposedly a pillar of stability. The Assads, we were told, were all that...
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GRAND OLD REFORM PARTY
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levin, yuval
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Grand Old Reform Party In 2010, Republicans won control of the House by offering to resist the Obama agenda. But their victory left open the question of whether they would also confront the grave...
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CLEANING UP CONGRESS
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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Cleaning Up Congress When former New Hampshire senator Judd Gregg was being considered for Commerce secretary in early 2009, his investments came under scrutiny. Among other things, Gregg had...
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BE BOLD ON TRADE. . .OR BE LEFT IN THE DUST
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Donohue, Thomas J.
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Be Bold on Trade ... Or Be Left in the Dust By Thomas J. Donohue President and CEO U.S. Chamber of Commerce America's global trade agenda stands at a crossroads. With the victory of passing...
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ABRAMOFF AND HIS NEW PALS
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CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
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Abramoff and His New Pals Rehabilitation, Washington style. by Matthew Continetti The rehabilitation of Jack Abramoff began on November 6, with a sympathetic 60 Minutes profile, and climaxed on...
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NOT SO YOUNG GUNS
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BARNES, FRED
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Not So Young Guns The House GOP’s new establishment. by Fred Barnes The three House Republicans who founded Young Guns—Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan—weren’t much of a force when they...
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THE CHUMP EFFECT
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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The Chump Effect Reporters are credulous, studies show. by Andrew Ferguson Lots of cultural writing these days, in books and magazines and newspapers, relies on the so-called Chump Effect. The...
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HASTA LUEGO, ZAPATERO
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Caldwell, Christopher
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Hasta Luego, Zapatero The rout of the Spanish socialists. by Christopher Caldwell Just as incoming American presidents are given the atomic “briefcase” by their predecessors, along with the codes...
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THE XINJIANG PROCEDURE
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GUTMANN, ETHAN
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The Xinjiang Procedure Beijing’s New Frontier ’ is ground zero for the organ harvesting of political prisoners. By Ethan Gutmann To figure out what is taking place today in a closed society such...
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SINCERELY, T. S. ELIOT
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Short, Edward
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Books&Arts Sincerely, T. S. Eliot New letters from Old Possum by Edward short In 1909 Henry James took thousands of letters that he had received over the years into his garden at Lamb House in...
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VICTORY AT SEA
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CALLO, JOSEPH F.
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Victory at Sea The Navy comes of age in the War of 1812. by Joseph F. Callo Towards the end of 1812 there’s a key passage. It contains a response by the Duke of Wellington to his prime minister’s...
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THE GOOD BOOK
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BOTTUM, JOSEPH
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The Good Book How the King James Version came to be. by Joseph Bottum The King James Bible— the Authorized Version of Holy Scripture, dedicated to James I as “principal mover and author”—is not...
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ON THE HOUSE
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WOOSTER, MARTIN MORSE
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On the House Why Americans are at home in a bar. by Martin Morse Wooster There are many reasons why people go to bars: to find a date, cheer on a team, or simply to get stewed. But the best reason...
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ABE'S ANGLE
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Yoder, Edwin M. Jr.
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Abe’s Angle Lincoln as president and commander in chief. by Edwin M. Yoder Jr. Given the everlasting cascade of books about Abraham Lincoln, is anything at all left to be said? Perhaps. We...
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PILGRIMS' PROGRESS
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RITTELMEYER, HELEN
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Pilgrims’ Progress Literary shrines and the people who worship them. by Helen Rittelmeyer The question asked in Simon Goldhill’s new book is why someone who enjoys an author’s books would want to...
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WHAT MAKES AMERICA?
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BANNER, JAMES M. Jr.
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What Makes America? A historian’s lifetime in search of an answer. by James M. Banner Jr. Few historians write about the long era of the American Revolution with greater authority than the author...
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BACK ON THE JOB
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BREEN, JON L.
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Back on the Job Familiar faces, contemporary cases. by Jon L. Breen Rex Stout, asked his opinion of writers who take over a deceased colleague’s fictional characters, compared them to vampires and...
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MIRÓ ON THE WALL
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Henderson, Amy
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Miro on the Wall The art of performance in 20th-century art. by Amy Henderson cannot remember a time,” Rosamond Bernier announces early in this memoir, “when I didn’t know Leopold Stokowski.” She...
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Vol. 017 Issue 013 (December 12 2011)
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Vol. 017 Issue 014 (December 19 2011)
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Vol. 017 Issue 015 (December 26 2011)
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