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Most Americans had long since stopped paying attention to manned space flight. The shuttle? So what (except during some stunt like the John Glenn flight)? The moon? Been there, done...
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Now that Hussein’s out of the picture
"One of the attacks they don't bring up very often anymore is the Saddam Hussein thing, that it's not safer since Saddam Hussein's been captured--because we now have 23 troops...
When the going gets tough, dictators give up
"Libya Vows to Give Up Banned Weapons; Two Decades of Sanctions, Isolation Wore Down Gadhafi" --Washington Post headline, front-page news analysis, Dec. 20. Yeah, sure. After 18 years of American...
Gore anoints himself king of the kingmakers
Al Gore's dramatic endorsement of Howard Dean catapults Dean to prohibitive favorite because, according to conventional wisdom, it connects the outsider campaign to the ultimate insider. The insurgency gains access...
Thrill of pitting man against X3D Fritz
Scoff if you will, but I stayed home Tuesday to watch a chess game. I don't get ESPN in my office, and I was not about to miss the tiebreaking...
Combat and heroics on the high seas
The great director Billy Wilder was once asked about subtlety in movies. "Of course, there must be subtleties," said Wilder. "Just make sure you make them obvious." The trailer for...
Taking on a very touchy image
Howard Dean wants the white trash vote. That's not exactly what he said, but that's clearly what he meant when he said he wanted the votes of "guys with Confederate...
Defeating the car bombs
It is possible to win a counterguerrilla war. The British did so in Malaya in the 1950s. The United States may succeed in doing so in Iraq today. It is...
Anti-semitism is surging, but give Easterbrook a break
After seeing the box office hit "Kill Bill," New Republic writer Gregg Easterbrook was so furious at those who would produce and promote it that he was moved to write...
The problem with armchair pundits
On the reconstruction of Iraq, everybody is a genius. Every pundit, every ex-official and, of course, every Democrat knows exactly how it should have been done. Everybody would have had...