National Review articles from May 2006

National Review archives from May 2006

Patchwork solutions.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2006... Florence King's "The Great Uninsured" (April 24) provides a clever and fresh analysis of the cultural implications of health insurance in this country since its inception. While I find her catalogue of past mistakes highly instructive, I would...

There once was ...(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2006... May I add a little-known but telling fact to Lou Cannon's touching obituary of Lyn Nofziger (April 24)? Lyn wrote political limericks. I never met him face to face, but two years ago when he learned I was editing a book called Liberating the...

A salad bar?(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2006... Dave Shiflett's article on Bill Clinton's war on obesity ("Chief of the Fat Police," March 27) made me laugh. I think I remember that Clinton called McDonald's the "greatest invention" of the 20th century. I wonder if he has a prescient pick...

A new study casts doubt on the power of prayer.(power of prayer)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * A new study casts doubt on the power of prayer. Bad news for congressional Republicans.

The New York Times won the Pulitzer prize for exposing President Bush's efforts to identify al-Qaeda terrorists before they kill us.(New York Times win Pulitzer prize )(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * The New York Times won the Pulitzer prize for exposing President Bush's efforts to identify al-Qaeda terrorists before they kill us. Of course it did.

Gov. Mitt Romney signed a plan to achieve universal health coverage in Massachusetts.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * Gov. Mitt Romney signed a plan to achieve universal health coverage in Massachusetts. He is getting rave reviews in the national press, but the plan really isn't that bad. It is heavier on regulation than we would like. It mandates that...

Roy Warden was charged with reckless burning after he torched a Mexican flag at a counter-protest to a pro-illegal-immigration rally in Tucson.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * Roy Warden was charged with reckless burning after he torched a Mexican flag at a counter-protest to a pro-illegal-immigration rally in Tucson. Warden's action drew a disapproving comment from Lourdes Aranda, Mexico's assistant foreign...

Zacarias Moussaoui's contempt for America has no doubt been fortified by his trial.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * Zacarias Moussaoui's contempt for America has no doubt been fortified by his trial. So many pains, to fry a slug. The elaborate sentencing phase, in which the jury must decide whether he will be executed, is a byproduct of our discomfort with...

In January, Rhode Island became the eleventh state to legalize medical marijuana, and its first resident to apply for a drug permit was a 43-year-old woman suffering from multiple sclerosis.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * In January, Rhode Island became the eleventh state to legalize medical marijuana, and its first resident to apply for a drug permit was a 43-year-old woman suffering from multiple sclerosis. She expects her application to be granted, but...

Former President Clinton, in a speech to a black think tank in Washington, said something as striking as it was characteristic.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * Former President Clinton, in a speech to a black think tank in Washington, said something as striking as it was characteristic. "The idea that I live in a country I spent my lifetime trying to make better, but there's still hundreds of...

Katherine Harris will not be the next senator from Florida. She can win the Republican nomination, but she cannot defeat Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * Katherine Harris will not be the next senator from Florida. She can win the Republican nomination, but she cannot defeat Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson. On paper, there is much to like about her candidacy. She won a statewide election for...

The Italian elections have thrown up a virtual tie.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * The Italian elections have thrown up a virtual tie. Out of 38 million votes cast, something like 25,000 votes give the Socialist challenger Romano Prodi the lead over the incumbent conservative Silvio Berlusconi. It's those hanging chads all...

AT&T, Too.(The Week)(Poem)
May 8, 2006... AT&T, TOO I'd never protest if Aunt Minnie, On the horn with Kubla Khan, Gets bugged like crazy: Auntie could be Plotting some infernal con. But when the woman's chatting-up that Dreary bag who lives next...

The demonstrators have drifted off the streets of Paris, taking home with them a famous victory.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * The demonstrators have drifted off the streets of Paris, taking home with them a famous victory. President Chirac and Dominique de Villepin, his prime minister and crony, passed a law aimed at remedying the country's chronic unemployment by...

The U.S. has announced that it won't seek a seat on the new U.N. Human Rights Council.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * The U.S. has announced that it won't seek a seat on the new U.N. Human Rights Council. In the spirit of "he who lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas," one might think this a good thing. After all, the whole point of reforming the old...

Described by one news account as a "blonde student with a photogenic pout," 23-year-old Tamar Goregian was crowned Miss Iraq at a beauty pageant in Baghdad.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * Described by one news account as a "blonde student with a photogenic pout," 23-year-old Tamar Goregian was crowned Miss Iraq at a beauty pageant in Baghdad. The ecstatic young queen told a jubilant audience, "Maybe beauty is the final step to...

A trailer is supposed to give a foretaste of a movie.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * A trailer is supposed to give a foretaste of a movie. Therefore the trailer for United 93, about the flight whose passengers died struggling to wrest it from terrorists, shows a montage of events of 9/11. Some popcorn-munchers have objected,...

A woman hired to strip at an off-campus party for the Duke lacrosse team says that she was raped by three players, and the case chased even Barry Bonds off the TVnews.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * A woman hired to strip at an off-campus party for the Duke lacrosse team says that she was raped by three players, and the case chased even Barry Bonds off the TVnews. The dancer was black, and all but one of Duke's lacrosse players were...

Here is the saddest illegal-immigrant story of all.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * Here is the saddest illegal-immigrant story of all. In one of those daunting yet pointless enterprises, an Englishman and an American, Karl Bushby and Dimitri Kieffer, took it into their heads to walk around the world, or as much of it as can...

The Bible of the enlightened just grew longer--like the Constitution, it is a living document--with the addition of the "Gospel of Judas," a Coptic text from 300 A.D., telling a story that was perhaps 120 years older.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * The Bible of the enlightened just grew longer--like the Constitution, it is a living document--with the addition of the "Gospel of Judas," a Coptic text from 300 A.D., telling a story that was perhaps 120 years older. Discovered in Egypt in...

Out in those great blank spaces beyond our shores, anti-Americanism is rampant, and we are being urged to help improve our nation's image.(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * Out in those great blank spaces beyond our shores, anti-Americanism is rampant, and we are being urged to help improve our nation's image. A group of U.S. corporations, working with the State Department, has produced an etiquette guide for...

The annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn drew thousands of parents and children, as it has for 130 years now.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * The annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn drew thousands of parents and children, as it has for 130 years now. This year, however, 200 or so of the parents were wearing artificial leis in rainbow colors. Why thus distinguish...

Muriel Spark was an artist through and through.(The Week)(Brief article)
May 8, 2006... * Muriel Spark was an artist through and through. She saw the world as a rich and wonderful provider of stories. The human comedy captivated her. A Catholic, she knew about Good and Evil, and wasn't afraid to depict them; the Devil himself...

High anxiety.(in Americans )
May 8, 2006... WE live in strange economic times. We are in the midst of a lengthy economic boom, unemployment is low, and GDP growth in the first quarter of this year was likely more than 5 percent. The latest Federal Reserve data suggest that factories are...

Before the fall.(POLITICS)
May 8, 2006... REPUBLICANS on Capitol Hill seem more interested in complaining about the Bush administration than in winning, or at least limiting their losses in, the midterm elections. The White House is arrogant; it is out of touch; it does not face the...

No left turn.(Americans want illegal immigration to stop)
May 8, 2006... THE latest line from the open-borders lobby is that the American public is now with them. Don't believe it. The latest Gallup poll, from early April, has 47 percent of the public thinking that immigration should be decreased, compared with 35...

Fall guy.(Donald Rumsfeld and military of United States)
May 8, 2006... THE last few weeks could be called "The Army's Revenge." There had been resentment toward Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld from the beginning over his attempts to transform the military into a lighter, more modern force. Now, a handful of...

Unacceptable.(IRAN)
May 8, 2006... FOUR years ago, President Bush said his administration would not "permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." Yet precisely that is about to happen. With Iran's announcement that it has...

Notes & asides.( William Sloane Coffin)
May 8, 2006... * William Sloane Coffin, RIP A Personal Obituary It was the routine, when Charles Seymour was the president of Yale, that the chairman (as we were then designated) of the Yale Daily News should visit with President Seymour for a half hour...

Illegal immigrants, unite! And under the union banner, too.
May 8, 2006... AT the big pro-illegal-immigration rally on the Mall in Washington on April 10, thousands of demonstrators held aloft dark blue signs that read, "We Are America." Below those words, in smaller letters, was the name "New American Opportunity...

A gotcha! Gone bad: how the get-Bush mentality leads to dumb errors.
May 8, 2006... 'CHENEY's Aide Says President Approved Leak." So blared the Page One headline of the April 7 New York Times. It is a story as old as The Flood that the mainstream media are adamantine in their bias against the Bush presidency in general and the...

Pork busters, and keepers: a telling fight among Republicans.(United States spendings)
May 8, 2006... AT the eleventh hour, House Republicans failed to pass a budget resolution before leaving for a two-week break. A tenuous deal between fiscal conservatives and the House leadership collapsed when big-spending Republicans on the House...

A particular madness: understanding Iran's Ahmadinejad.(Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)(Biography)
May 8, 2006... ELECTED less than a year ago, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a president unlike any other. He is doing his utmost to alienate the entire West, mobilizing as much military technology as possible, and now enriching uranium in quantities apparently enough...

The war atop the world: murderous Maoists and a blundering king.
May 8, 2006... WHEN the Maoists first came to Padmaraj Kandel's village in central Nepal seven years ago, they were greeted with hope. The young rebels were clean-cut and conscientious. Keen listeners who visited every house, they seemed to understand the...

France's rougher, tougher future: not to mention ours.
May 8, 2006... A FEW years ago, standing in line at a post office in Paris, I made the mistake of glancing briefly at my shoes. In the eye-blink's moment that my attention was diverted, two things happened: One, the person directly in front of me moved...

Winning, and losing, on abortion: how go the wars?(Cover story)
May 8, 2006... PRESIDENT BUSH has done almost nothing for the NRA. He hasn't had to. Partly that's because a Republican Congress has kept anti-gun legislation from reaching his desk. The ban on assault weapons expired without any congressional action to renew...

Saint Sam: Senator Brownback of Kansas is one of the country's leading virtuecrats.(POLITICS)
May 8, 2006... ABOUT five years ago, at a weekly prayer meeting of senators, Sam Brownback came as close as he ever had to confessing to a hate crime. "I was scheduled to be the speaker that morning," recalls Brownback, a Kansas Republican. "As I was...

Immigrants in, wages down: how to do the figuring.(PUBLIC POLICY)
May 8, 2006... DO immigrants harm the employment prospects of native-born Americans? If so, how serious is the harm? Economists have analyzed these questions for the past quarter-century. Most of the early studies concluded that the wage impact of immigration...

Border Etiquette.(HELP!!!!)(Poem)
May 8, 2006... Border Etiquette Lichtenstein has border guards. Thais examine plastic cards. Soviets were more than rude When airliners would intrude. Teddy's for revolving doors. Sensitive McCain abhors Minutemen who make...

The long view.(Judas Iscariot )
May 8, 2006... Transcript: Larry King Live, May 5, 2006 LARRY KING: "Tomorrow night! Remembering Don Knotts! A surprising hour! From Chicago, Illinois, you're on with our guest, Judas Iscariot! Hello!" CALLER: "Hi, Larry. Hi, Judas. Can I call you...

The Male Calling.(Manliness)(Book review)
May 8, 2006... Manliness, by Harvey C. Mansfeld (Yale, 304 pp., $27.50) ASKED by Harvard Magazine to comment on a former professor of his, Harvey Mansfield replied, "What impressed all of us about him was his manliness." "There was," Mansfield relates,...

Not our gang.(The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine)(Book review)
May 8, 2006... The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine by Matthew Continetti (Doubleday, 273 pp., $24.95) 'I THINK the key thing to remember with all these clients is that they are annoying, but that the annoying losers are the only...

Euro scare?(Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too)(Book review)
May 8, 2006... Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too, by Claire Berlinski (Crown Forum, 288 pp., $25.95) THERE's a bright, shining, merciful moment, right towards the end of this infuriating, odd, but occasionally perceptive...

Take back the schools.(The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America)(Book review)
May 8, 2006... The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, by David Horowitz (Regnery, 448 pp., $27.95) IN most professions, winning East Germany's International Lenin Peace Prize--formerly known as the Stalin Peace Prize--isn't much of...

Outside of This.(Poem)
May 8, 2006... OUTSIDE OF THIS Who finds heaven on earth will end in hell, Lovers have proven in a stolen year When pleasure fell in debt to future pain. There is joy and peace; then there is rapture That carries us so far beyond...

Keeping the tablets.(American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia )(Book review)
May 8, 2006... 'CONSERVATISM," like "liberalism," has been in the United States a remarkably capacious term. Social conservatives, libertarians, paleos, neos, Burkeans, Agrarians, Austrianschool economists, and many other types of thinkers have all sheltered...

DDS at 100.(MUSIC)
May 8, 2006... THE music world loves an anniversary, and the big one this year, of course, is Mozart's: the 250th anniversary of his birth. But there is another one going on as well: the 100th of Shostakovich's birth. You may not think that composers of this...

The future comes apace.(United States-immigrants' protest)
May 8, 2006... WATCHING those demonstrations for "immigrant rights," it occurred to me that we are the fools of the world. Americans labored and fought to create the freest, richest, most generous society that ever existed. Having done so, we threw open the...

The killings tell a story.(killing American soldiers in Iraq)
May 8, 2006... NEW YORK, APRIL 4 THE fatality figures in Iraq are perhaps telling a story, which would be that the war focuses progressively on internecine killings. The American death rate for March was 31 fatalities, a gruesome toll, yet the second...

Iran in our future.(nuclear aspects)
May 8, 2006... NEW YORK, APRIL 7 HALF the concerned world is wondering what to do about Iran. The other half will benefit from it all, or go down in the big sinking ship. A highly readable symposium on the subject has just been published by the...

Illegal conundrums.(illegal immigrants and their succeeders)
May 8, 2006... NEW YORK, APRIL 11 DEMOCRATIC protocols get pretty elusive these days. In an attempt to sort it all out, we hovered for a moment on a wild idea. Why not send the illegals to France? But delirious ideas have short lives, as they should...

A hitch in our limerick.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2006... If in his May 8 letter to the editor Ernest Lefever is citing the late Lyn Nofziger correctly, then I am very much afraid that he is doing a disservice both to the departed and to the limerick. At least in its modern post-Edward Lear form, the...

Planting axioms.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2006... In an editorial in the April 24 issue it is written that supporters of the Senate immigration amnesty bill must believe in part that "the key to our economic future is to have as many low-income, poorly educated workers as possible." If one is...

A democratic champ.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2006... Ramesh Ponnuru's essay "Winning, and Losing, on Abortion" (May 8) was much needed. It touched on the plight of prolifers in the Democratic party. In a party rife with Labor Democrats, Environmental Democrats, Tejano-La Raza Democrats, etc., I...

A not-so-happy birthday?(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2006... I was saddened to see the cartoon of Hugh Hefner in the May 8 issue with the caption, "Hugh Hefner is observing his 80th birthday--and our Roman Genn celebrates." Hefner's Playboy Enterprises has done nothing good for the human condition: It...

Manhandled.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2006... I thoroughly enjoyed Charles R. Kesler's review of Harvey C. Mansfield's excellent new book, Manliness ("The Male Calling," May 8). It reminded me of the old suggested feminist motto: Men are terrible--let's go and be like them. Josephine...

Okay, we'll compromise on the anthem.(The Week)
May 22, 2006... Okay, we'll compromise on the anthem: "Jose, can you see?"

Leftist political organizers arranged a Day without (Illegal) Immigrants.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Leftist political organizers arranged a Day without (Illegal) Immigrants. Why can't our border enforcement do the same?

Tony Snow is a welcome addition to a White House long on battle-weary veterans but short on fresh talent.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Tony Snow is a welcome addition to a White House long on battle-weary veterans but short on fresh talent. The conservative columnist and Fox News host will be a more articulate, self-assured presence at the podium than his predecessor. But we...

The good news is that the economy is flourishing despite the bad news.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... The good news is that the economy is flourishing despite the bad news. The Fed has been raising interest rates, oil and commodity prices have skyrocketed, uncertainties about the Middle East have contributed to terrible consumer sentiment, and...

Rush Limbaugh has emerged unbowed from a Kafkaesque journey through Florida's justice system.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Rush Limbaugh has emerged unbowed from a Kafkaesque journey through Florida's justice system. While addressing painful medical conditions, Rush became addicted to painkillers. He faced the problem, sought treatment, and has been clean for...

Sean Wilentz is the modern Arthur Schlesinger Jr.--an Ivy League historian who puts his brisk crossover prose at the service of the Democratic party, past and present.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Sean Wilentz is the modern Arthur Schlesinger Jr.--an Ivy League historian who puts his brisk crossover prose at the service of the Democratic party, past and present. Rolling Stone asked him to assess "The Worst President in History?" "From...

Colin Powell joined the retired generals' Bush barbecue.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Colin Powell joined the retired generals' Bush barbecue. In interviews with Britain's ITV and AARP The Magazine, Powell explained that he was not as these publicans. He warned, before the war, that we needed more troops: "I made the case to...

Say you're a Hollywood mogul.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Say you're a Hollywood mogul. You've got a problem. It could be that some pesky actor wants out of a contract. Or an old girlfriend is threatening to sue. Or a business partner is making trouble. Who you gonna call? We've been learning lately...

The FDA has proclaimed that there is no scientific support for the medicinal benefits of marijuana.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... The FDA has proclaimed that there is no scientific support for the medicinal benefits of marijuana. Yet the pronouncement appeared to be driven more by politics than by science. The FDA's statement conflicts with earlier studies, most notably...

Those lovable grannies!(three old women are arrested for blocking the door )(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Those lovable grannies! Who? Read the New York Times, which ran two gushing stories on 18 older women who were arrested for blocking the door of the military recruitment center in Times Square last fall. They're sprightly and feisty--"Listen to...

Chinese president Hu Jintao, standing on the south lawn of the White House with President Bush, was heckled by a protester objecting to China's persecution of Falun Gong.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Chinese president Hu Jintao, standing on the south lawn of the White House with President Bush, was heckled by a protester objecting to China's persecution of Falun Gong. This moment captured something of the contradiction of modern China. On...

Dahab is a tiny seaside resort on the Egyptian shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, with a beach of fine white sand and a coral reef.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Dahab is a tiny seaside resort on the Egyptian shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, with a beach of fine white sand and a coral reef. Bombers struck three business establishments there, killing 18 people and injuring many more. In separate incidents...

The Palestine Authority is spiraling toward paralysis, chaos, or worse.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... The Palestine Authority is spiraling toward paralysis, chaos, or worse. Its president, Mahmoud Abbas, represents the nationalist PLO, but its elected government is drawn exclusively from the Islamist Hamas, and the jockeying for power between...

You can't get away from the topic of immigration nowadays.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... You can't get away from the topic of immigration nowadays. Here comes aging falsetto folk-rock singer Neil Young with a ditty in which he urges us to impeach President Bush. Sample: "Let's impeach the president for lying, / And leading our...

Gotterdammerbust.(Day without Immigrants)
May 22, 2006... WELL, that was a letdown. The "Day without Immigrants" protest, timed to coincide with the socialist holiday of May Day, turned out to be one of the greatest fizzled-out Gotterdammerungs since Y2K. While some media outlets raised the prospect...

Allan MacDonell has written a memoir of the 20 years he worked for Hustler publisher Larry Flynt.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Allan MacDonell has written a memoir of the 20 years he worked for Hustler publisher Larry Flynt. In an interview with the New York Times, MacDonell recalled various high points, including his wedding, at which his mother-in-law, "a devout...

The smallest species of penguin is eudyptula minor, native to New Zealand and southern Australia.
May 22, 2006... The smallest species of penguin is eudyptula minor, native to New Zealand and southern Australia. The prosaic New Zealanders refer to these creatures as little blue penguins, but to the more romantically inclined people of Australia they are...

The Juilliard School premiered a new opera, Miss Lonelyhearts, by Lowell Liebermann.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... The Juilliard School premiered a new opera, Miss Lonelyhearts, by Lowell Liebermann. It is based, of course, on the 1933 novella by Nathanael West. The opera, like the novella, is very dark, not to say brutal: It features fornication,...

Jane Jacobs was not a conservative in the conventional sense--a native of Scranton, Pa., she opposed the Vietnam War and moved to Toronto in 1968--but there was something positively Burkean about her love of neighborhoods.(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Jane Jacobs was not a conservative in the conventional sense--a native of Scranton, Pa., she opposed the Vietnam War and moved to Toronto in 1968--but there was something positively Burkean about her love of neighborhoods. Her most influential...

Jean-Francois Revel was France's most prominent intellectual, earning the right to a place along with the great French writers of the past.(Brief article)
May 22, 2006... Jean-Francois Revel was France's most prominent intellectual, earning the right to a place along with the great French writers of the past. Whether writing about philosophy, politics, international affairs, literature, or art, he was always a...

Forward.(Iraq political aspects)
May 22, 2006... THE selection of a compromise prime minister in Iraq is a major victory for that country's fledgling political class, and for the Bush administration. Purveyors of doom on Iraq now have some explaining to do: If the country is in the midst of a...

Their Himno, and ours.( illegal-immigration bill )
May 22, 2006... CONGRESS wants to pass an illegal-immigration bill before Memorial Day, in the face of the confusion of the White House, and the self-confidence of lawbreakers. President Bush, deep in the hole of bad premises and sentimentality, keeps...

It's about votes.(Poem)
May 22, 2006... IT'S ABOUT VOTES Oh say can you see if Pelosi Is waving the Mexican flag? They're singing the anthem in Spanish, And folks are beginning to gag. The Congress keeps heeing and hawing; The White House is clearly in...

Gaseous.(oil industry price gouging)
May 22, 2006... AND we thought the GOP was the party of free markets. Not when it comes to energy policy. We've heard Denny Hastert and Bill Frist demanding an investigation of potential oil-industry "price gouging"; Arlen Specter singing the praises of...

John Kenneth Galbraith, R.I.P.(Obituary)
May 22, 2006... I FILE this story, remarking the death of John Kenneth Galbraith, only with the forbearance of the editors of NATIONAL REVIEW. I draw deep into the forbearing capital I have accumulated in this journal by writing so personal an account of his...

Notes & asides.(social security)
May 22, 2006... * Many years ago (about 1956), the New York Times began to feature frequent articles by someone denominated as "McCandlish Phillips." Well, NATIONAL REVIEW had earlier published a satire by John M. Phillips, but the new name at the Times caught...

Enter Tony Snow: the president gets a new press secretary.
May 22, 2006... TONY SNOW knows when to dodge a question. Ask the new White House press secretary just what wasn't working in the West Wing, and why Josh Bolten, the new chief of staff, needed to overhaul the press operation, and Snow stays a mile away from...

Democratic Muslims: Denmark's Naser Khader and his band.
May 22, 2006... THE restaurant, unpretentious and vaguely chic, and the weather, cold and rainy, were as they should have been in northerly, elegant Copenhagen. The watchful plainclothes policemen were not. These are strange, unsettling times in Denmark:...