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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK Indentured Servant? The Scrapbook’s Headline of the Week has to be a subhed from the front page of last weekend’s USA Today. It’s a story—a very long story, by USA Today standards—to...
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CASUAL
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Epstein, Joseph
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CASUAL The Proustian Solution Five or six years ago I found the seats at classical music concerts becoming uncomfortable. I blame the seats, but in fact I had lost the Sitzfleisch—in German...
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WHY NOT THE BEST?
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KRISTOL, WILLIAM
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Why Not the Best? This issue of The Weekly Standard features advice from Yuval Levin and Jay Cost for Mitt Romney in his presidential race. A Romney victory is devoutly to be desired. But a truly...
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CRONIES 'R' US
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Cronies ’R’ Us We were struck last week by a pair of instances of Republicans doing what Republicans do—one encouraging, one not so much. On the encouraging side, we had Sen. Tom Coburn, who never...
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HOW ABOUT LEADING FROM THE FRONT?
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SMITH, LEE
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How About Leading from the Front? According to recent news reports, the Romney foreign policy team is trying to figure out what the presumptive Republican candidate thinks America’s role in the...
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LETS SMALL BUSINESSES DRIVE GROWTH AND CREATE JOBS
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Donohue, Thomas J.
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Let Small Businesses Drive Growth and Create Jobs By Thomas J. Donohue President and CEO U.S. Chamber of Commerce American small business men and women have a lot of balls in the air For most,...
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MONUMENTAL BATTLES
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SCHAUB, DIANA
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Monumental Battles Why we build memorials. by Diana Schaub The Freedmen’s Monument in Washington’s Lincoln Park In the midst of the current controversies over the Martin Luther King and Dwight...
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KEEP IT SIMPLE, TEAM ROMNEY
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COST, JAY
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Keep It Simple, Team Romney The core Republican message is a winning one. by Jay Cost Now that Mitt Romney has sewn up the Republican presidential nomination, the general election battle has...
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MITT ROMNEY'S SCHOOLDAYS
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EMERY, NOEMIE
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Mitt Romney’s Schooldays The Washington Post invents a narrative. by Noemie Emery There is literal truth, grounded in fact; there is poetic license, which is truth stretched a little to make it...
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MORALITY, NOT THEOLOGY
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Soloveichik, Meir Y.
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Morality, Not Theology The importance of Romney’s Liberty University speech. by Meir Y. Soloveichik In 2007, Mitt Romney, facing a surging Huckabee campaign in an Iowa caucus that was supposed to...
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FORGIVE US OUR DEBTS?
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STELZER, IRWIN M.
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Forgive Us Our Debts? The war between lenders and borrowers. by Irwin M. Stelzer Debtors of the world, unite— you have nothing to lose but your IOUs! That seems to be what the Greeks are...
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NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY
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BARNES, FRED
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No More Mister Nice Guy Obama squanders the likability factor. by Fred Barnes By the time he took office in 2009, President Obama had fashioned a reputation as an idealist committed to reforming...
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THE POLITICS OF POLARIZATION
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BELL, JEFFREY
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The Politics of Polarization Why you won’t see a centrist Third Way this year. by Jeffrey Bell The organization “Americans Elect” spent $35 million on a new “centrist” party and nobody came. In...
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OUR AGE OF ANXIETY
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levin, yuval
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Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback By Yuval Levin There is something very strange about the 2012 presidential race...
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HIGH NOON IN WISCONSIN
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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High Noon in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker hangs tough By Stephen F. Hayes Caledonia, Wis. Geeta Jensen had some exciting news: Governor Scott Walker was visiting Jensen Metal Products to...
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BIG WHEELS
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O'ROURKE, P. J.
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Books&Arts Big Wheels The American and his/her car. by p j. O’Rourke Paul Ingrassia, former Detroit bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, is probably the best broadsheet reporter ever to...
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VIENNESE WALTZ
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BecK, Stefan
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B&A Viennese Waltz The second novel from a master of historic horror. by Stefan Beck Graham Greene famously divided his books into two categories: novels, and what he called “entertainments.” He...
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SEXUAL OVERLOAD
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marLowe, ann
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B&A Sexual Overload Sometimes promiscuity is just promiscuity. by Ann Marlowe Sex addiction may not exactly be an existential threat to the United States, but as this book makes clear, the...
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CHAIN OF MIRACLES
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GOLDBERG, ROBERT M.
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B&A Chain of Miracles A rabbi reflects on the meaning of survival. by Robert M. Goldberg There are many remarkable episodes in this compelling autobiography of Israel Meir Lau, the former chief...
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DRAMATIC LICENSE
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Yoder, Edwin M. Jr.
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B&A Dramatic License The character in ‘The Columnist' is not the Joseph Alsop I knew. by Edwin m. Yoder Jr. As the perpetrator of two historical novels and other fictional pieces that place real...
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GEEZERS' DELIGHT
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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B&A Geezers’ Delight A fable for the underserved, over-50 crowd. by John Podhoretz Every year, there is a movie that becomes an unexpected hit because it finds an audience among people the...
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