National Review articles from August 2003

National Review archives from August 2003

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
August 11, 2003... --Jim Lacey's article "We're Number Twenty?!" (June 30) contains valid points, but his attack on the Center for Global Development's rating system is marred by factual errors, easy pronouncements, and a derisive tone. I will respond area by...

The Week.
August 11, 2003... -- Uday and Qusay are ead-day. -- Gen. John P. Abizaid, newly in charge of operations in Iraq, called the ongoing fighting there "a classical guerrilla-type campaign. . . . It's low-intensity conflict in our doctrinal terms, but it's war...

Editorial: LAW: A Necessary Amendment.
August 11, 2003... Any day now, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts is expected to declare that men can marry men and women can marry women. National politicians are already trying to figure out what response, if any, they should make. The instinct...

OBITUARY: Rosalyn Tureck, R.I.P.(Obituary)
August 11, 2003... She died (finally) on July 17. As it happened, only a few minutes after a Tureck tribute at the Mannes School in New York at which the audience-more accurately, the congregants-heard her playing on video and tapes, listened to a lecture or two...

Notes & Asides.
August 11, 2003... -- Dear Mr. Buckley: My mother died last year at the age of 76. In her papers I found her longhand copy of a poem that caught her schoolgirl fancy sometime (I estimate) in the late 1930s. She attributes it to the Queen's University...

Pick Your Poison: For conservatives, the prescription-drug options are pretty distasteful.
August 11, 2003... 'There's a bet being made about the future of American health care," says a White House aide. Ted Kennedy, he explains, is betting that a new prescription-drug entitlement will, over time, expand government control of medicine. The Bush...

Introducing Pork-Barrel Homeland Security: A little here, a lot there . . .
August 11, 2003... Since the attacks of September 11, federal spending on assistance to the states for law enforcement, emergency services, and firefighting has increased by more than 1,000 percent. The total amount spent on beefing up the ability of "first...

A Sweet Sixteen: Plenty of reasons to cheer the post-Taliban Afghanistan.
August 11, 2003... It is no secret that the U.S. has its hands full in Afghanistan. Warlords masquerading as "regional leaders," criminal Islamists, heroin trafficking, and general lawlessness are but a few of the immediate challenges. And then there are the...

Big Men, Big Corruption: The way it's done on the (not so) dark continent.
August 11, 2003... On July 14, the Financial Times reported that the governments of only two countries in Africa, Botswana and Uganda, had taken up the offer of the German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim to provide free supplies to African countries...

Jerry's Kid: I am Candidate Springer's whipping boy.
August 11, 2003... If you go to Jerry Springer's website, you will see this: "Click on the image to view Jerry's message of hope and inclusion as he does battle against elitists who think Middle America is populated with 'slack- jawed yokels, hicks, weirdos,...

Take Your Boxes and . . .: A nation of race rebels?
August 11, 2003... When the Michigan decisions were handed down-the ones that upheld affirmative action-many Americans underwent a bout of race-pondering. Of course, race is never far from our eyes: It's on our forms, for one thing. When applying to college, for...

California, Here they Come (and Come): E Pluribus unum is losing to La Raza.
August 11, 2003... Sometime in the last 30 years, we in California gave up on confronting the flood of illegal immigration from Mexico, even as an equally exasperated federal government abdicated its responsibility to control our borders. Now we just shrug at...

Saudi Kidnapping: Enough: Since State won't deal with it, Justice must.
August 11, 2003... Is there an Arabic word for "chutzpah"? I ask because Saudis might find it odd to use a Yiddish term in characterizing the most self- consciously Islamic regime in the world. For nearly two decades, the House of Saud has unblinkingly...

Not To Be Confused with Coolidge: Howard Dean as governor of Vermont.
August 11, 2003... When asked about his eleven-year reign as Vermont's governor, Howard Dean likes to paint himself as a maverick who boldly fought for principles and unified his state on a platform of fiscal responsibility and social tolerance. Many Vermonters...

The Long View.
August 11, 2003... Official Transcript Larry King Live July 21, 2005 larry king: "So it's been a little more than a year since . . . since November . . ." howard dean: "You can say it, Larry." larry king: "Okay. Fair enough. Since the...

Thicker Than Water.("In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History")(Book Review)
August 11, 2003... In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History, by Adam Bellow (Doubleday, 576 pp., $30) This is an entertaining but serious book on a slippery subject. The Latin word nepos, usually translated "nephew," can mean almost any younger male member...

City of Light.("Seven Ages of Paris")(Book Review)
August 11, 2003... Seven Ages of Paris, by Alistair Horne (Knopf, 480 pp., $35) Whether we go to Paris in the flesh, braving traffic, strikers, Arabs, and the indigenous rock and roll, or visit it from the comfort of our chairs, we need a guide. None could be...

Sino Infection.("The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means to the United States")(Book Review)
August 11, 2003... The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means to the United States, by Ross Terrill (Basic, 400 pp., $30) In recent years, many of America's leading academic Sinologists have fumed as uncredentialed China hands have turned out books and...

Citizens, Not Outlaws.("Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy")(Book Review)
August 11, 2003... Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy, by Michael J. Perry (Cambridge, 216 pp., $22) 'The vast majority of Americans," Pope John Paul II once observed, "are convinced that religious conviction and religiously informed moral...

Shelf Life: Back from the USSR?(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... 'For the first time in this century, God has smiled on Russia." With these words, literary critic Yuri Karyakin greeted the fall of Soviet despotism in 1991. But the era of optimism was not to last long. In a stark and sobering new book,...

Books in Brief.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... The Dark Side of Liberalism: Unchaining the Truth, by Phil Kent (Harbor House, 201 pp., $24.95) --We need look no further than the first three words of Phil Kent's book to grasp its theme: "Conservatives can win." It's an important...

The Straggler: Post-hole Serenade.
August 11, 2003... Now, don't get me wrong. I am a happy suburbanite. I like suburbia-have even rhapsodized about it ("The Vital Middle," NR, March 22, 1999). The following remarks, which are really in the nature of grumbles, should therefore be taken in the...

On the Right.
August 11, 2003... The Candidates and Buzzwords NEW YORK, JULY 3 The success of Howard Dean's fundraising has got him top political attention. He is not quite first in money in the bank (that's Senator Kerry with $13 million), but he isn't far behind...

What's Right.(Column)
August 11, 2003... Scandalous Everybody seems to agree that the suicide of Dr. David Kelly, the British defense analyst, is a prelude to a scandal-but nobody can quite seem to decide whose scandal it is. The Blair government's? The BBC's? That of Kelly...