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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK First, I’d Like to Thank the Academy . . . The Scrapbook has a well-documented weakness for acknowledgments. No, not the virtue of gratitude or the practice of recognizing...
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CASUAL
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Epstein, Joseph
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CASUAL Dancing with Wolves I knew a man who allowed his wife to buy the family car, a fact that always astonished me, and still does. Dealing with car salesmen, if I may say so and still elude the...
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IT'S NOT (ONLY) THE ECONOMY . . . AND WE'RE NOT STUPID
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KRISTOL, WILLIAM
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EDITORIALS It’s Not (Only) the Economy . . . and We’re Not Stupid £ "W" t’s the economy, stupid,” was a useful slogan for I the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign. Of course, it wasn’t really true. The...
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THE OBAMA DOCTRINE
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ABRAMS, ELLIOTT
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The Obama Doctrine Since President Obama arrived in the Oval Office three years ago there have been many efforts to explain his foreign and defense policy succinctly. Is there an Obama Doctrine?...
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SLOW AND INFURIATING
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HEMINGWAY, MARK
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Slow and Infuriating Last Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder was called to testify before Congress. His attitude toward his questioners was by any measure unbecoming of his office. At one point...
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OBAMACARE VS. THE CATHOLICS
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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Obamacare vs. the Catholics The administration’s breach of faith. by Jonathan V. Last On the last weekend of January, priests in Catholic churches across America read extraordinary letters to...
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A BRIDGE, BUT LEADING WHERE?
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STUTTAFORD, ANDREW
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A Bridge, but Leading Where? Ponzi at the European Central Bank. by Andrew Stuttaford Purity has no place in a crisis. The 2008 TARP bailout was a clumsy, ugly, and rather shameful creation, but...
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ROMNEY IN CONTEXT
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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Romney in Context The candidate’s rhetoric needs a safety net. by Stephen F. Hayes On October 1, 2010, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney described the genius of the American idea and...
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UBER ALLES AFTER ALL
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Caldwell, Christopher
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Uber Alles After All Europe's German future By Christopher Caldwell Last week Germany reclaimed its status as the leading power in Europe. In the two years since it became apparent that Greece...
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FREE ENTERPRISE DRIVES PROSPERITY-IF WE LET IT
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Donohue, Thomas J.
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Free Enterprise Drives Prosperity-If We Let It By Thomas J. Donohue President and CEO U.S. Chamber of Commerce Assaults on the free enterprise system have gone global. We've heard them in the...
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SO SORRY
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SCHULMAN, SAM
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So Sorry The old story: European politician gets in trouble, helps the Jews By Sam Schulman Geert Wilders, the big-gesture Dutch politician who has made a career out of outspoken enthusiasms and...
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PHILIP THE GOOD
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SIMMONS, TRACY LEE
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Books&Arts Philip the Good The royal consort as hero by Tracy Lee Simmons Last April’s wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, ubiquitously covered from Westminster Abbey by every medium...
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TURNING POINT
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MANSFIELD, HARVEY
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Turning Point Is Lucretius the gateway to the modern world? by Harvey Mansfield Stephen Greenblatt’s book on the influence of Lucretius is clever and curious—and notable for the ambition expressed...
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ONLY THE LONELY
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Wilkinson, Emily
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Only the Lonely The peculiar isolation of American life. by Emily Wilkinson We Americans—so the rough sketch of our archetypal character has it—are a people of rugged individualism, ambition, and,...
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CALL ME, ISHMAEL
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Achorn, Edward
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Call Me, Ishmael An antiquated tale that’s never out of fashion. by Edward Achorn ollars damn me,” Herman Melville confessed to Nathaniel Hawthorne in June 1851, when he was contemplating the...
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WHITE HOUSE OBJECTS
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Cole, Bruce
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White House Objects Things that make a home in the president’s house. BY BRUCE COLE As British troops reached Washington on August 24, 1814, Dolley Madison was emptying the President’s House. As...
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AGENCY LIFE
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BLYTH, MYRNA
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Agency Life The slightly scandalous memoir of a business pioneer. by Myrna Blyth An appropriate accompaniment to this season’s return of Mad Men is Jane Maas’s entertaining and rueful memoir of...
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Vol. 017 Issue 022 (February 20 2012)
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Vol. 017 Issue 023 (February 27 2012)
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