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Vol. 027 Issue 006 (June 1 1994)
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The Continuing Crisis
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• April passed, and with it the age of Richard Nixon. Naturally, our thirty-seventh president was fulsomely mourned by those who'd hated him obsessively for the better part of the last fifty years....
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE The Men We Abandoned I was struck by the (obviously unintentional) contrasts in your February issue. The editor-in-chief praises David Brock for his "bold and accurate journalism,"...
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Editorials / Richard Nixon, R. I. P. / Muddlers Abroad
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIALS Richard Nixon, R.I.P. by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. A nd so a stroke felled former president Richard Nixon. His obi body had taken a lot of abuse. He had been a fixture in American life...
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Capitol Ideas / Welfare Wizards
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Bethell, Tom
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Welfare Wizards by Tom Bethell ome may not recall the feverish agitation in the press when Ronald Reagan became president. Every day there was this great whirring of wings, this incessant whine...
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Decontrol Freaks
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Ledeen, Michael; Bryen, Stephen
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Decontrol Freaks The Bush and Clinton administrations' unprecedented giveaway of secret military technology. by Michael Ledeen and Stephen Bryen uring the presidential campaign of 1992, Bill...
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Oh, What a Tangled Webb
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Novak, Robert D.; Novak, Zelda
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Robert D. Novak and Zelda Novak Oh, What a Tangled Webb... Who Webster Hubbell was. E arly last year, as the Senate prepared to consider President Clinton's nomination of his good friend Webster...
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The Travelgate Cover-Up
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Brock, David
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David Brock The Travelgate Cover-Up Hillary Clinton, Vincent Foster, David Watkins, William Kennedy, Harry Thomason, Patsy Thomasson, Betta Carney, Catherine Cornelius, Clarissa Cerda, Darnell...
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Presswatch / The Elves of Whitewater
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Cony, John
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The Elves of Whitewater by John Corry / n the end, it may be a novelist or playwright who will tell the Whitewater story best. The press, by and large, is ambivalent. It is aware of the moral...
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Spectator's Journal / Ferraro and Whitewater
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Adams, James Ring
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Ferraro and Whitewater by James Ring Adams H illary Clinton pulled off a Ferraro. Following advice from White House aides and Bigfoot Washington reporters, she finally held a full-length,...
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Clinton's America/AIDS for Aides
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York, Byron
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AIDS for Aides by Byron York L ast September 30, Bill Clinton ordered every worker in the federal government to undergo AIDS awareness training. Despite its scope, the Federal Workplace AIDS...
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The Nation's Pulse / The Clinton-Gore Incinerator
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Fitzmaurice, Evan
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The Clinton-Gore Incinerator by Evan Fitzmaurice / n a July 19, 1992 campaign speech in Weirton, West Virginia, Al Gore blasted Waste Technologies Industries (WTI), a hazardous waste incinerator...
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The Public Policy / Gun Racket
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Yost, Mark
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Gun Racket by Mark Yost / t was an anti-gun obsessive's Christmas wish come true: a gun buyback program filling news pages and TV screens across the country with pictures not of gangland violence...
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Ben Stein's Diary / Climb Every Mountain
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Climb Every Mountain by Benjamin J. Stein Tuesday p aradise. I'm at The American Spectator's Washington Club dinner (see page 72). It's in a big room at The Four Seasons in Georgetown. I'm the...
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Politics / Home Rule
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Norquist, Grover G.
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Home Rule by Grover G. Norquist W hile home schooling in the sixties and seventies was largely a liberal phenomenon—parents who wanted their children out of the conformist, bourgeois public...
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Russia Watch / Quiet Flow the Dons
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Bernstein, Jonas
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Quiet Flow the Dons by Jonas Bernstein S t. Petersburg seemed even more decayed than in December, when I was last there. As the train approached the city, the landscape was post-nuclear—sprawling,...
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American Arts and Letters / Dwight Stuff
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Lynn, Kenneth S.
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Dwight Stuff by Kenneth S. Lynn young girls with orthodontia. Or the Muscovites now walking around with buttons reading: "Want to lose weight? Ask me how." While the average life expectancy for...
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The Talkies /Proxysms
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Bowman, James
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Proxysms by James Bowman M ore and more it is beginning to seem as if the armies of postmodernism—dressed, I fancy, with comic opera panache and led by Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin in apron...
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If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble
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Queenan, Joe
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BOOK REVIEWS M r. Pulitzer, meet Mr. Joe Queenan, the hottest, zaniest, most wacked-out young humorist this side of Dave Barry and P. J. O'Rourke, a Mark Twain for the '90s. That's what we call a...
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Conquest
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Thomas, Hugh
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/ t was an amazing feat, the conquest of the mighty Aztec Empire by some 530 Spanish adventurers under the resourceful leadership of hidalgo Hernan Cortes in 1519-21. The story has had its Homer in...
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A Woman's Place
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Margolies-Mezvinsky, Marjorie; Feinman, Barbara
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W hen a white male member of Congress jokingly referred to Rep. Marjorie MargoliesMezvinsky as "the three-M girl," the freshman legislatrix tasted gall and wormwood. His sobriquet was "inaccurate,...
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The Knights of Malta
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Sire, H. J. A.
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(D-Ore.) lifts hers from the first issue of Ms. magazine. "Oh my God, laundry! Are we supposed to do that? You mean that pile in the corner of the bedroom? It certainly would be nice to have a...
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Hole in Our Soul
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Bayles, Martha
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T 4 4 oday," the philosopher Theodor Adorno began his treatise on aesthetics, "it goes without saying that nothing about modern art goes without saying." Born just after the turn of the century,...
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The Spectator Spectator/A Reunion of Sorts
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Kalnins, Ojars
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THE SPECTATOR SPECTATOR Ojars Kalnins "A Reunion of Sorts . . . Reflections of an honored guest and past contributor on The American Spectator's annual Washington Club dinner. 9 9 A t The...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Rolling Stone Three weeks after the death of a pop idol, hope springs eternal: According to Nirvana's booker, it's still too early to determine whether Cobain will be well enough to participate in...
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