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Articles in August 29, 2005, issue of National Review

• Only what's necessary
  by Michael J. Ellis
• Israel is moving ahead with its pullout from Gaza
• The uphill fight: can John Roberts restore the constitutional order?
  by Robert H. Bork
• When truth becomes dangerous: the 'Barondofsky question'
  by Judith Miller
• No fear or loathing
  by Andrew Stuttaford
• Republican Jean Schmidt won the special election in Ohio's heavily Republican second district with only 52 percent of the vote
• New York governor George Pataki announced he would not seek a fourth term, bringing to a close a tenure that long outlived its bright beginnings
• "You really shouldn't be here at all."
• Conscripting facts
  by Scott Swett
• Uzbekistan was always as good a location as any for some Bush administration hypocrisy
• The right fight: put security dollars where it counts
  by Veronique de Rugy
• Social injustice: trial lawyers woo social conservatives
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good
  by Loredana Vuoto
• Check out the Garden State
• Forgive us for not breathing a sigh of relief upon reading that a new intelligence estimate puts Iran ten years away from having a nuclear bomb instead of the previously thought five
• Strangle holds: does the Senate realize we are at war?
  by Kate O'Beirne
• The Chavez challenge: Venezuela's leader is a regional nuisance
  by Mark Falcoff
• Revels with a cause
  by Linda Bridges
• Bush sent John Bolton to the U.N. on a recess appointment
• Getting to know John Roberts
• Unsettled settlers: will Sharon's bold move work?
  by David Pryce-Jones
• The Central American Free Trade Agreement passed the Congress, just barely
• Profiles in pointlessness
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Stem sell out
• Steep road to free trade
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Upstate burgeoning
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Two guys and a duck
• Congress celebrated the arrival of its summer recess by going on a bender
• For devolution
• Radiogate: low ratings and a scandal hit Air America
  by Byron York
• The Clinton Years, Con't
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Chewing nails
  by Jay Nordlinger
• "Having invented a new Holocaust," wrote Robert Frost, America cried "King's X—no fairs to use it anymore!"
• The new Rolling Stones album has a track—called "Sweet Neo Con"—bashing George W. Bush and Condi Rice
• Prospero
  by Richard O'Connell
• Bearing down on the stem cell
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Many state governments effectively prohibit people from buying cheap, basic health insurance by imposing all kinds of mandates
• Muddling through? Blair's improvisation isn't enough
  by John O'Sullivan
• Sources point to Melvin Barondofsky, former accountant, as snitch
  by Judith Miller
• Shared experience
  by Jeffrey Hart
• Why has Latin America turned left?
  by Stephen Haber
• Illusions of realism
• A passionate rapprochement
  by Richard DiNardo
• The heir presumptive, it has been revealed, to the earldom of Essex is William Capell
• Search us
• London falling: signs of weakness in Britain's war on terror
  by Anthony Daniels
• Prison food not part of sustainable agriculture movement, study says
  by Judith Miller
• The role of casualties
• Jeanine Pirro, the district attorney of Westchester, will run as a Republican for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat
• The glamour of the Space Shuttle is its ordinariness
• Rights and privileges
  by Andrew Engebretson
• Frist Peels Off
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Notes & asides
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Gore TV: Al Gore … is on to something? Yep
  by Rob Long
• Doonesbury's heroes
  by Michael Potemra
• It was an idea whose time had passed as soon as it came: various administration bigs suggested renaming the war we are in "the global struggle against violent extremism."
• The life and times of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, an octogenarian, explain why the Arab world is in so deep a mess
• Unreasonable searches: policing without profiling makes no sense
  by Andrew C. McCarthy
• Smokes, friendship, and issues of race in block 7A, cell 1054: a seven-part series examining the troubled relationship of Lawrence and Luis
  by Judith Miller
• The Democratic money machine, already reeling from the collapse of their voter-registration group, America Coming Together, suffered another blow with a deep split in the AFL-CIO
• Peter Jennings, longtime anchor of the ABC evening news, was not the last of a breed