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Articles in June 6, 2005 issue of National Review

• Notes & asides
  by Robert R. Rodriguez
• Michael Bruce Ross murdered eight young women, in most cases after raping them, in a three-year spree in the early 1980s
• "Time is on my side," sang the Rolling Stones back in 1964
• Man is one of the smelliest of all creatures, though the fact is not widely known
• What we lost at the Astor
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Of the people
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Help!!!!
• The corrections file …
  by Rob Long
• Exiting Iraq
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Columbia University's senate, a governing body composed of faculty, students, and administrators, voted 53-10, with five abstentions, not to return ROTC to the Columbia campus
• Revenge of the Sith, the last Star Wars film, is not in the theaters as we write, but reviewers have already spied digs at George W. Bush in it
• Voting for democracy
• "Christ is not speaking to the press at this time," said West Virginia attorney A. P. Pishevar the other day
• 1968 Ad
  by Byron York
• Newsweek caused quite a stir in the world
• The doctor is in
  by David Pryce-Jones
• For a moment there it looked like Europe's tireless attempts to bribe Iran into giving up key parts of its nuclear program had finally come to an end
• Yalta's ghosts
• Would anyone in the private sector hire Sen. George Voinovich, the Ohio Republican?
• United Airlines is defaulting on its pensions
• Since the president came out for personal accounts and progressive benefit cuts for Social Security, the Democrats have launched critique after critique-but so far, they have not landed a glove on its substance
• "Diversity," "sensitivity," "inclusion" …
• A red's white elephant: in Ceausescu's palace, gigantism and heartache
  by Anthony Daniels
• GI Jane, again: the Army tries to sneak women into combat, and some congressmen try to stop it
  by Mackubin Thomas Owens
• At the time of writing, an astonishing event is scheduled to take place in Havana: the General Meeting of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society in Cuba
• Tina Brown takes American citizenship
• Navasky's lullaby
  by Neal B. Freeman
• Mexican president Vicente Fox thinks it is a fine thing that several million of his citizens have moved themselves, legally or not, to the United States
• Looks like Barney Frank, the grumpy gay left-winger, is the only Democrat willing to house-train Howard Dean
• A Tory victory: one of conservatism's best writers is elected to Parliament
  by Jay Nordlinger
• The latest amnesty: McCain and Kennedy make a bad pair on immigration
  by Mark Krikorian
• Whiz kid
  by Nick Schulz
• The Oil-for-Food revelations just keep coming
• Option four: a compromise on gay marriage
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Degrees of honor: whom colleges reward, says a lot
  by Roger Kimball
• Bush Goes East
  by W.H. von Dreele
• A prag
  by Nathan W. Harter
• Alumni of Dartmouth College elected two petition candidates to the college's board of trustees—two conservatives, no less
• Salama Na'mat, the Washington, D.C., bureau chief of the London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat, published an article in his paper criticizing Arab regimes and the Arab media for encouraging the Iraqi insurgents
• A coalition of losers
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Framing the framers: the Left enlists some 'dead white males' in the cause of today's international law
  by David B. Rivkin, Jr.
• 'No one's liberty is expendable': Bush remembers WWII in his distinctive way
  by John O'Sullivan
• Supporters of a Federal Marriage Amendment have warned that without it, federal judges would impose same-sex marriage on the nation
• Gifts
  by Daniel Mark Epstein
• The Senate has sired a new incarnation of that monument to wasteful spending, the federal highway bill
• Whose health care is it anyway?
  by Scott W. Atlas
• Busted Flush
• Usable past
  by Michael Potemra
• What's in a boycott? The campaign to delegitimize Israel has smelly historical roots
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Ron Chernow, biographer of Alexander Hamilton, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times explaining what the Founders would think about filibustering judicial nominees
• Some weeks ago, one Anna Ayala, a 39-year-old resident of Las Vegas, "found" part of a human finger in the bowl of chili served to her at a Wendy's fast-food franchise in California
• Newt Loves Hillary
  by W.H. von Dreele
• In the book
  by Max Hocutt
• A federal appeals court ruled that the records of the energy task force run by Vice President Dick Cheney four years ago could remain secret
• On the face of it, the Air America sketch was humor—very leaden humor
• Disappointments and opportunities
• Bushspeak in Europe
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Britain turns
  by John Derbyshire