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Vol. 019 Issue 032 (May 1 2014)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Scrapbook
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THE SCRAPBOOK Werner Dannhauser, 1929-2014 e’re sorry to report the death last week of Werner Dannhauser, whom we had the honor of occasionally publishing in these pages. He was a serious thinker...
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Uncommon Grounds
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LAST, JONATHAN V.
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JORI BOLTON CASUAL Uncommon Grounds he affair ended as suddenly as it began. Twelve years ago I purchased a mid-grade espresso machine. It wasn’t the sort of thing they sell at Macy’s, but...
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIALS Standard Calm, Cool, Collected? It’s mature to be calm. Republicans are nothing if not mature. It’s chic to be cool. Republicans yearn to be chic. It’s a sign of gravitas to be...
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Getting Ready for a Bad Deal
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ABRAMS, ELLIOTT
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Getting Ready for a Bad Deal Israel’s security establishment steps up. BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS The world’s attention was largely turned to Ukraine last week. To the extent that the Middle East was on the...
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Shut Up, They Explained
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BARNES, FRED
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Shut Up, They Explained The illiberal left. by Fred Barnes Another open-minded liberal outside GOP state headquarters in Los Angeles, 2013 A favorite saying of liberals not long ago was:...
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The Slush Fund
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COST, JAY; ANDERSON, JEFFREY H.
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The Slush Fund How Obamacare pays off insurers. by Jay Cost & Jeffrey H. Anderson When the government provides medical care, it normally delegates the task. Under Medicare, Washington doesn’t...
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Rumors of Instability
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Guitta, olivieR
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Rumors of Instability Is Bouteflika losing control in Algeria? by Olivier Guitta Plus ga change. . . . Algeria, ever obedient to the wishes of the army and Security Services, reelected its ailing...
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Diminishing Returns
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LEHRER, ELI
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Diminishing Returns The campaign against (if you can believe it) third-hand smoke. by Eli Lehrer Still fresh from victories over both cigarettes and the secondhand smoke they emit, many public...
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Russia as a Regional Power
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LINDBERG, TOD
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Russia as a Regional Power Has Obama given up on Putin? Let’s hope so. by Tod Lindberg It’s hard to look on the bright side of the dismemberment of a sovereign state by force of arms. But because...
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So You Want to Live Forever
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ALLEN, CHARLOTTE
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So You Want to Live Forever Immortality through advanced technology and primitive diet By Charlotte Allen Mountain View, Calif. Aubrey de Grey, 51, is the man who insists that within a few...
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He Chose Wrong
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SMITH, LEE
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He Chose Wrong Gabriel García Marquez’s ignoble decision to embrace Fidel Castro By Lee Smith While the encomia from world leaders and cultural figures continue to pour in after the death of...
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Natural Wonder
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LODGE, SARA
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Books ^Arts Natural Wonder Celebrating the art (and life) of Thomas Bewick. by Sara Lodge When we first meet Jane Eyre in Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, she is hiding behind the curtains...
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Mediterranean Mystery
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KRISTOL, SUSAN
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Mediterranean Mystery A sudden, and inscrutable, Bronze Age catastrophe. by Susan Kristol Okay, history buffs, let’s do a brief test, a free-association game about the Bronze Age. I say Mycenae,...
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Horror Hits Home
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sChaRPeR, diane
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Horror Hits Home A tale of the Warsaw Ghetto and its aftermath. by Diane Scharper In October 1940, the Germans, with help from the Poles, crammed 400,000 Jews into the Warsaw ghetto. They sealed...
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Hello, Suckers
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Ehrenfeld, Temma
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Hello, Suckers What you don’t know about the versatile octopus. by Temma Ehrenfeld This volume is full of unexpected revelations, not for the squeamish, starting with the fact that the preferred...
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Vanna-ty Fare
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SIMON, JOHN
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Vanna-ty Fare The confessions of a ‘Wheel of Fortune’ fan. by John Simon Let me say, remotely alluding to Robert Frost, that something there is that loves a puzzle. Any kind of puzzle, as long as...
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Variation on a Theme
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Variation on a Theme An old idea gets a surprisingly fresh treatment. by John Podhoretz Adultery comedies usually follow a pat formula: A perfectly sensible married person is being cheated on....
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Parody
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hope, Chicago
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“The production team for [CNN series ‘Chicagoland’] told [Rahm] Emanuel’s staff that particular scenes would present the mayor in a positive light, with one of the producers expressing a desire to...
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