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Articles in June 20, 2005, issue of National Review

• A matter of shame
  by David Stevens
• The birds and the bees
  by John Derbyshire
• Nightline marked Memorial Day with an extended broadcast, devoted to the names and pictures of all the American servicemen who died in Afghanistan and Iraq during the last year
• Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci called her latest book The Strength of Reason
• After tragedy
  by Ross G. Douthat
• Notes & asides
• Built to last
  by Wayne Eleazer
• Whew
• According to a new book by Washington Post reporter John F. Harris, Hillary Clinton taunted her husband's staffers for not being tough enough
• Dr. Frist's operation: how the Senate majority leader played a game of filibuster chicken
  by Byron York
• 'Lucky pawns'
  by Gina R. Dalfonzo
• If we accept the principle that making information more generally available to the public free of charge is a Good Thing, then Google's effort to digitize and place online all or part of the colossal holdings of major libraries must be counted as a Great
• Cold Utopia
  by Wesley J. Smith
• Politically correct
  by Jim Huber
• Not the answer they expected: French voters say no to the EU constitution
  by John O'Sullivan
• Rooting section
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Remember Eason Jordan?
• France Votes Non
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The media have been desperate to declare the Newsweek Koran-flushing story "fake but accurate"
• A scandal so immense … our neighbors to the north have been very, very naughty
  by David Frum
• Whose money is it?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• There are few institutions more jealous of their dignity than the United States Senate
• Conspicuous consumption goes differently in different cultures
• The Air Force has requested, and President Bush will probably issue, a national-security directive on the military use of space
• Looking for boundaries: there is gross sexual confusion in our society, as illustrated by the Michael Jackson case
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• Phony apocalypse
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The leader of men must be wise and strong; when he is not, he must seem so, putting on what John Keegan called the mask of command
• Senate Vibes
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Lieutenant governor Michael Steele of Maryland is a red-blooded Republican in a true-blue state
• The wrong road
  by Stephen Moore
• Britain has a special place in its collective memory for the bloodiest of its wars, World War One—still commonly referred to over there as "the Great War"
• Matinee Mitt: the governor of Massachusetts may soon be appearing in a theater near you
  by John J. Miller
• Europe Kaput
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Denmark was last in the news a few months ago when the nation claimed sovereignty over the North Pole
• MacArthur's night reconnaissance
  by William W. Runyeon
• The London tabloid the Sun is perhaps best known for the young ladies who appear on Page Three, wearing very little
• Putin's Russia—Stalin lite
  by Arnold Beichman
• Bad news from television land: The Dennis Miller show, on CNBC, was canceled
• 'Hypocrisy!' He cried: an examination of a favorite charge
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• This year's U.N. nonproliferation conference, a 189-nation diplomatic effort held every five years to update the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, ended in failure
• Metaphors are tricky things, dangerous in the wrong hands
• Keeping the deal
• The agony of change: a conference in Jordan, plus an interview with the Iraqi foreign minister
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Sen. Jim Talent, the Missouri Republican, recently proposed—and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources approved—a mandate for 8 billion gallons of ethanol production per year
• It was a small but nonetheless important step in the struggle for liberty in the Middle East: Kuwait's parliament decided, by a vote of 35 to 23, to grant Kuwaiti women full political rights
• Reminds me of '54
  by Arun Khanna
• Tinselgrad
  by Eve Tushnet
• October marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, where British national hero Horatio Nelson, commanding 27 ships, defeated a combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships off the coast of Spain
• Multiple choice: The "Gulag of our times" is a Chinese labor camps; b Castro's dungeons; or c North Korean prisons
• No means no
• The Iraqi foreign minister, on the record
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Enter Eurospeak: an insidious replacement for the Marxist Newspeak
  by Roger Scruton
• From the New York State comptroller's office comes further evidence, if any were needed, that welfare provisions, once established, irresistibly expand beyond all bounds set by reason or concern for the public good
• From the House, a disgrace