National Review back issues from October 1998:
North of the border.(Mexico lobbies for specific U.S. educational policies)(includes related article on California's Proposition 227)
Oct 12, 1998; ... America gets some help in formulating its education policy--from the Mexican government. WHEN California voters passed Proposition 227 this June--effectively ending bilingual education in their state--they were all too aware of the stiff opposition the measure faced from liberal ...
Power walk.(The Million Youth March in Harlem, New York, about power, not young people)
Oct 12, 1998; ... The Million Youth March had little to do with Harlem's youth, and a lot to do with power."Get him!"The Million Youth March in Harlem had degenerated into a violent standoff between marchers and police, and now, amidst the shouting and the pulse of bongo drums, a long ...
Upswing.(jitterbug, or swing, dancing popular in 1998)(Brief Article)
Oct 12, 1998; ... Rock 'n' roll can never die? Think again-here comes swing.It seems that every development of national consequence these days involves The Gap. There was, of course, Monica's navy blue dress, about which the less said the better. And then there was the Jump, Jive, and Wail ...
The Clinton meltdown.(President Bill Clinton perjured himself)(includes related article on Watergate)(Cover Story)
Oct 12, 1998; ... Guess what he can't do his job either. From Russia to taxes, from spin to substance, from the domestic agenda to the Lewinsky affair, the Clinton administration is heating up and shutting.Kenneth Starr has now filed his report with Congress, and it is unequivocal. This being ...
Senseless. (censure of President Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinsky affair not strong enough)(The Clinton Meltdown)(Brief Article)
Oct 12, 1998; ... Not only is censure extra-constitutional, it's a non-punishment.Republicans say it won't fly. But many Democrats, opinion-makers, and poll respondents say they like the idea of censure. They are reluctant to remove a President from office, but they don't want to approve of perjury ...
Spinning wheels. (the White House's public relations efforts in the Monica Lewinsky affair)(The Clinton Meltdown)
Oct 12, 1998; ... The scandal is beyond the control of even Clinton's best flacks.For the White House, the Starr Report was a political neutron bomb: it left the institution standing but fatally poisoned everybody inside. Ann Lewis, Rahm Emanuel, Paul Begala, and the others who had lied and attacked ...
The bystander. (President Bill Clinton has instituted few public policy changes)(The Clinton Meltdown)
Oct 12, 1998; ... Clinton's scandals are spectacular; his record isn't.From time to time, the Clintons explain that their troubles are just more evidence of how much good they have done. The motivation of the vast right-wing conspiracy, they say, is outrage at President Clinton's policies of ...
Half bright. (Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, fails to adequately respond to world events)(The Clinton Meltdown)
Oct 12, 1998; ... Madeleine Albright is the perfect secretary of state for the Clinton Administration. IT was the domestic version of a fatal diplomatic faux pas: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stood outside the West Wing of the White House on January 23, a few minutes after President ...
The icon and hacks. (U.S. policy toward Russia inadequate)(The Clinton Meltdown)(Brief Article)
Oct 12, 1998; ... The Administration has hopelessly botched its Russia policy. The departure of the radical reformers from the Russian government may not be the end of an era, but it certainly entails a significant adjustment of Russia's course. It is also a major defeat for the Clinton ...
Village idiot. (Monica Lewinsky affair exposes contradictions between public and private life of Hillary Rodham Clinton)(The Clinton Meltdown)(Brief Article)
Oct 12, 1998; ... The scandal has put the contradictions of Hillary Clinton painfully on view.FORGET Congress's reaction to the President's perjuries, obstructions of justice, and violation of his oath of office. Bill Clinton's ultimate fate is thought to rest with a jury of one. Following his ...
Downdraft. (Congress and President Bill Clinton unwilling to take steps to halt economic slowdown)(The Clinton Meltdown)(Brief Article)
Oct 12, 1998; ... Prices are falling, and so are other economic indicators. What to do?The stock-market decline is sending a message. So are other crucial economic indicators. But both congressional Republicans and the Clinton Administration seem bent on ignoring the looming signs of an economic ...
The sex files. (American attitudes toward sex are confused)(The Clinton Meltdown)(Brief Article)
Oct 12, 1998; ... The scandal displays America's continued confusion about the mysterious matter of sex.To an outside observer, nothing is more striking in the scandal surrounding President Clinton than the fact that everyone involved is completely bewildered by sex. Indeed, we can see in this ...
Memorandum.(facetious letter written in Vice President Albert Gore Jr.'s name)(Brief Article)
Oct 12, 1998 ... Memorandum DATE: September 19, 1998 FROM: Podesta et al. TO: All White House Personnel CC: Clift, Carlson, Rivera, Salon magazine IN RE: SOME TALKING POINTS FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKSThe following are a series of questions we expect to be asked in the coming weeks, along with some ...
Tell Me Why: A Father Answers His Daughter's Questions about God.
Oct 12, 1998; ... IMAGINE, fathers. Imagine an extremely bright, articulate, independent daughter in her mid twenties who still thinks enough of her old man to come to him with her most heartfelt questions about life, death, good, evil-and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Imagine that she patiently ...
The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals.
Oct 12, 1998; ... High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case against Bill Clinton, by Ann Coulter (Regnery, 358 pp., $24.95)MAY it please the court: I rise in defense of William Jefferson Clinton. Defendant Clinton stands accused in these books of moral turpitude, of "defining public morality down," and ...
High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case against Bill Clinton.
Oct 12, 1998; ... MAY it please the court: I rise in defense of William Jefferson Clinton. Defendant Clinton stands accused in these books of moral turpitude, of "defining public morality down," and of "assaulting" the ideals and standards of the people of the United States of America. "He is a reproach," ...
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do.
Oct 12, 1998; ... OCCASIONALLY, the Great American Intellectual Hype Machine trumpets a book well worth reading. Even before The Nurture Assumption's publication, major magazines were ballyhooing Judith Rich Harris's epiphany. A New Jersey grandmother without academic connections, she had written conventional ...
Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World.
Oct 12, 1998; ... Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World, by James Chace (Simon & Schuster, 512 pp., $30) HISTORY has been kinder to Dean Acheson than commentary in his own time, particularly from conservatives. Policy controversies of the time--the "loss of China," the ...
Gotham.
Oct 12, 1998; ... THESE two books, which together run almost a million words, tell a lot about New York's past, and about us.Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace survey the story of the city from the arrival of the Dutch in the early 1600s to the union of the present five boroughs in 1898. This works out ...
The Murder of Helen Jewett.
Oct 12, 1998; ... THESE two books, which together run almost a million words, tell a lot about New York's past, and about us.Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace survey the story of the city from the arrival of the Dutch in the early 1600s to the union of the present five boroughs in 1898. This works out ...
Cities of the Plain.
Oct 12, 1998; ... LIKE every writer of the first rank, with each book Cormac McCarthy sets himself unreachable standards and impossible tasks. All the great themes in American literature are his, and he bravely accepts every risk in order to tackle them. He is not simply the finest American prose artist of ...
A Merry War.
Oct 12, 1998; ... GEORGE Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying, a title considered too esoteric for the U.S.A., appears in its movie version as A Merry War. I haven't read the novel (I always respected Orwell more than I enjoyed him), but I gather that it has been reasonably faithfully adapted by Alan Plater ....
The Eel.
Oct 12, 1998; ... But if there's no more Ealing, there is The Eel, the latest from Japan's distinguished and venerable director Shohei Imamura-perhaps the finest now that Kurosawa is gone. Based on a novel by Akira Yoshimura, the film tells of Takuro Yamashita, a lowly white-collar worker who, goaded by an ...
America's 30 Years War: Who Is Winning?
Oct 12, 1998; ... MASTER Pianist Balint Vazsonyi writes about politics as if he were playing a concerto. He introduces America's 30 Years War with vignettes of his life as a musical prodigy in Communist Hungary and as a grateful refugee in Sixties America. These experiences grow into the themes of his book, ...
Going, going - gone. (what action to take against President Bill Clinton is unclear)(On the Right)(Column)(Brief Article)
Oct 12, 1998; ... The day after the Starr report was filed Clinton loyalists had a very hard time. As anticipated, they settled on the line: "Wait until you hear the other side of the story." The line was repeated in several forms by several apologists, notably Sen. Tom Daschle and Reps. Barney Frank and ...
The disintegration of Russia. (form of U.S. economic aid to Russia uncertain)(On the Right)(Column)(Brief Article)
Oct 12, 1998; ... It helps, meditating the awful crisis in Russia, to acknowledge that there isn't anything we can do about it. Yes, if there is a threat of terrible hunger we can contribute, but to look after the feeding of 150 million people spread out over 11 time zones is something that not even Iowa and ...
The final minutes of Flight 111. (conjuctures about SwissAir 111 disaster)(On the Right)(Column)(Brief Article)
Oct 12, 1998; ... Every plane crash is uniquely a tragedy, but some cast especially awesome shadows for personal reasons far removed from the loss of friend or family member. Swissair #111 is the flight on which I & family have traveled for a generation, going to Geneva every January. And we have sailed in ...
The misanthrope's corner.(psychological analysis of baseball player Mark McGwire)(Brief Article)(Column)
Oct 12, 1998; ... THE Home Run Chase promised to be the perfect antidote to the first anniversary of Princess Diana's death. As late August approached, all signs pointed to a shutout of female compassion by male competition and the victory of cold dry statistics over hot moist emotions. Vulnerability was out, ...
Establishment Cause.
Oct 26, 1998 ... In Washington, the establishment is leading the fight to preserve racial preferences. Mary Radcliffe knows about discrimination. This cocoa-colored daughter of the segregated South has experienced it all her life. As a child she was barred from buying ice cream at the ...
Gentle Jeb.(Jeb Bush runs a new kind of campaign in his race for governor of Florida)
Oct 26, 1998 ... Whatever's going on in Texas, Florida has a Bush who shows what 'compassionate conservative' means. 'WHO would have thought that in Alachua County this many people would come out for the Republican candidate for governor?" The question, asked by the candidate himself, had an ...
Fighting Irish.(author Frank McCourt's memoir has helped spur an increase his the popularity of all things Irish)
Oct 26, 1998 ... Our infatuation with all things Irish is a hopeful sign in post-modern America. Rumors that the Irish Republic has considered changing its name to "Frank McCourt" are without foundation. Yet in the present craze for everything Irish, not least Mr. McCourt's ...
THE LAST SEDUCTION.
Oct 26, 1998 ... Republic of Lies Clinton's failures aren't personal, they're symptoms of the welfare state's late-decadent stage. Mr. McGinnis is a professor of law at Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. The struggle over President Clinton's conduct will not be ended even by ...
Letter from AL.
Oct 26, 1998 ... Dear Rusty! The new policy around the Gore household is that we're not going to talk about it. That's right. You heard me. We are Not Going To Talk About It at all. That's final, you have it from me. Tipper's got some kind of repetitive-motion injury from flipping ...
BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS.(Review)
Oct 26, 1998; ... The Daredevil Lindbergh JOHN J. MILLER Mr. Miller, NR's national political reporter, is the author of The Unmaking of Americans: How Multiculturalism Has Undermined America's Assimilation Ethic. Lindbergh, by A. Scott Berg (Putnam, 628 pp., $30) ...
Kid Stuff.
Oct 26, 1998; ... KATE O'BEIRNE Saving Childhood: How to Protect Your Child from the National Assault on Innocence, by Michael and Diane Medved (HarperCollins, 324 pp., $24) ALAS, this book comes along too late in the day for Bernard Lewinsky, whose daughter too early in life "knew ...
Grand Illusions.
Oct 26, 1998; ... ANDREW J. BACEVICH Mr. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University. A World Transformed, by George Bush and Brent Scowcroft (Knopf, 568 pp., $30) OFFERING us the Bush years as George Bush wishes us to remember them, this ...
Shadow Boxing.
Oct 26, 1998; ... JAMES BOWMAN Mr. Bowman is the American Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship across Five Continents, by Paul Theroux (Houghton Mifflin, 288 pp., $24) IF only Paul Theroux had consulted Dr. Laura Schlessinger. When she ...
FILM.
Oct 26, 1998; ... From the Mouths of Daughters JOHN SIMON IMISSED the first few minutes of A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, during which the enchanting Virginie Ledoyen writes a letter to her unborn son whom she'll offer for adoption. She is 15, and not ready for motherhood. Of ...
CITY DESK.(residents of New York, New York's, attitude toward President Bill Clinton)(Brief Article)
Oct 26, 1998; ... Age of Shame RICHARD BROOKHISER MY city is no stranger to the politics of shamelessness. Historian James Thomas Flexner was a reporter in the days of Jimmy Walker. When the dapper mayor showed up late for an interview, a glum young Flexner complained, "I'm going to ...
LEISURE.(a man learns ballroom dancing)(Brief Article)
Oct 26, 1998; ... Shall We Dance? JOHN DERBYSHIRE Mr. Derbyshire is the author of the novel Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream. UNTIL recently, in my mind ballroom dancing came under the scope of that useful British adjective naff: faded, dated, and slightly cheesy, lacking ...
THEATER.(Shaw Festival, Niagra-on-the-Lake, Ontario)(Review)
Oct 26, 1998; ... Saints and Sinners LINDA BRIDGES AFEW weeks ago NR mused editorially on the spate of plays and films about Oscar Wilde. The editorial compared Wilde and his whole fin-de-sicle generation unfavorably to the great Victorians who had preceded them and the great ...
ON THE RIGHT.(Column)
Oct 26, 1998 ... More Facts? NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 29 The Democrats have done what they could in the present mess, and the focus of their opposition has been the selectivity of the material being made public. The first complaint was over the failure of Kenneth Starr to give the ...
THE MISANTHROPE'S CORNER.(personal look at President Warren Harding's wife Florence Harding)(Brief Article)(Column)
Oct 26, 1998 ... Miss King can be reached at P.O. Box 7113, Fredericksburg, Va. 22404. FINDING my inner First Lady is easy: Mrs. Warren Harding's maiden name was Florence Kling. When Carl S. Anthony's biography of her came out this year I vowed to read it purely for pleasure so as not to be ...