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Article: Books in brief.(Cry Havoc: The Great American Bring Down and How it Happened)(The Art of Victory: Strategies for Personal Success and Global Survival in a Changing World)(Book review)
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- National Review
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- February 12, 2007
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WHY do conservatives seek, as the famous phrase has it, to stand athwart history yelling Stop? Because they are horrified by the sight of society coming undone. They have witnessed the breakdown of the family, the withering of liberal-arts education, the constriction of economic freedom, the corrosion of aesthetic standards, soaring crime rates, drug addiction ... the list is as familiar as it is dismaying.
Ralph de Toledano, a key figure in the founding generation of this magazine, was there to see it all. In Cry Havoc: The Great American Bring-Down and How It Happened (Anthem, 254 pp., $18), he lays out a chilling history of Western decline. In his capable ...
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Article: Cry havoc and let slip England's dogs of war
Evening Standard - London;
September 28, 2007 ;
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...Tonight Sunday PHIL VICKERY is England's best tight-head prop and the team captain, and that is why I would have started with him in the No3 jersey against Tonga in Paris tonight. This is a huge game, with the losers heading off to the airport for a flight home and the winners going to Marseilles
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