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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK He’s Richard the Third, He Is A s readers may have guessed, THE SCRAPBOOK was delighted by the news that the bones dug up from under a parking lot in the British Midlands a few...
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CASUAL
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CASUAL Ed Koch, 1924-2013 I knew Ed Koch, and Mayor Bloomberg is no Ed Koch. That does not mean that Bloomberg is a bad mayor, only that he and others who took over city hall after Koch’s...
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIALS Don’t Be Seduced by the Sequester It’s understandable that Republicans are tempted by the prospect of allowing the “sequester”—the automatic cut to defense and domestic discretionary...
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THE COMPLETE PACKAGE
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BARNES, FRED
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The Complete Package Ronald Reagan, the great narrator. BY FRED BARNES In February 1981, President Reagan was searching for ways to win support for spending cuts. He’d been president less...
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THE UNCHANGING CIA
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GERECHT, REUEL MARC
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The Unchanging CIA Technology and spies go well together. BY REUEL MARC GERECHT John Brennan’s nomination to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency has sparked another debate...
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NOT A REAL OLIVE BRANCH
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SMITH, WESLEY J.
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Not a Real Olive Branch Obama’s phony compromise on contraception. BY WESLEY J. SMITH The Obama administration pulled another fast one last week, announcing its muchanticipated “compromise” on...
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A TEMPORARY MAJORITY
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COST, JAY
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A Temporary Majority The problem Democrats can’t solve. BY JAY COST A tradition after each national election, presidential or midterm, is for the pundit class to pontifi cate on whether...
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EGYPT AGAINST ITSELF
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SMITH, LEE
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Egypt Against Itself A society on the edge of chaos. BY LEE SMITH This week marks the second anniversary of the fall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Two years after the refrain “the...
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WE, THE GRAND JURY
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Anderson, Claudia
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We, the Grand Jury An education in American citizenship BY CLAUDIA ANDERSON The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution gave its name to the protection against selfincrimination, and it also...
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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER?
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ABRAMS, ELLIOTT
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Better Late than Never? Obama’s trip to Jerusalem and the ‘peace process’ BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS President Obama will make his fi rst presidential visit to Israel in March, and Secretary of...
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HERE'S LOOKING AT EUCLID
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GUASPARI, DAVID
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Here’s Looking at Euclid Why geometry matters in the life of the mind. BY DAVID GUASPARI Many ancient societies knew important mathematical facts, but only one discovered mathematics— which is...
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A FAITHFUL POET
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Short, Edward
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A Faithful Poet From the darkness of her existence, Elizabeth Jennings comes to light. BY EDWARD SHORT When John Betjeman was charged with helping fi nd a proper recipient for the Queen’s...
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UNIVERSAL EMPIRE
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BOTTUM, JOSEPH
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Universal Empire All roads, historically speaking, lead to Rome. BY JOSEPH BOTTUM Athens and Jerusalem are not the sum of symbolic ancient cities. And in truth, they never have been....
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WIFE IN SHADOW
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POWERS, ELIZABETH
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Wife in Shadow Oscar Wilde’s marriage did not end happily. BY ELIZABETH POWERS Because of the prosecution of homosexual acts and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895, which ended a...
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TOKYO MYSTERIES
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EPSTEIN, ETHAN
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Tokyo Mysteries Why Japan’s most popular novelist is so popular. BY ETHAN EPSTEIN In the popular imagination, Japan is a tech-obsessed cyber utopia awash in neon lights,...
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GEEZERS WITH GUNS
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Geezers with Guns Is the Activia motion picture past its prime? BY JOHN PODHORETZ The other weekend, a movie starring Sylvester Stallone called Bullet to the Head died at the box offi ce. It...
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PARODY
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PARODY “Bin Laden city Abbottabad to build amusement park” —BBC, February 4,...
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