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Articles in Sept 12, 2005 issue of National Review

• The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission held hearings recently in San Francisco
• Mozart minus one
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Hunter S. Thompson, the counterculture's favorite writer, who shuffled off this mortal coil six months ago by firing a bullet into his drug-addled brain, has finally been laid to rest in an appropriately eccentric style
• Poor Kofi Annan. It must be so hard to run the world when everyone around you is a crook
• The GOP's immigration problem: will the elites get a clue?
  by John O'Sullivan
• Challenging Chavez
  by Thor Halvorssen
• The Israeli military evacuated the last Jewish settlers from Gaza
• Rules of the game: how Democratic senators will try to trip John Roberts up
  by Shannen W. Coffin
• Is there a doctor in the house?
• The appointment of Jay Lefkowitz as the new U.S. human-rights envoy for North Korea might be dismissed as an exercise in futility
• Who are we? An ancient, many-faced question, now with acute relevance
  by David Frum
• Redemption at Hogwarts
  by Ross G. Douthat
• Not so intelligent
  by Kale Bongers
• Hawaii senator Daniel Akaka, a Democrat, is proposing legislation that would allow native Hawaiians to govern themselves in the same manner as American Indians
• Ethnic cleansing, continued: the fate of Serbs in Kosovo
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• From the Cindy Sheehan inbox, September 2006 …
  by Rob Long
• Grand Tour
  by John Derbyshire
• John Paul II founded World Youth Day, a periodic religious gathering, and conditioned us to see such events as Roman Catholic Woodstocks
• Our country's educational system has lost a gem with the recent death of Johns Hopkins University professor Julian Stanley
• London will apparently crack down on Al-Tajdeed Radio, which preaches violent jihad
• It is hard for the visitor to Italy to avoid the impression of a country not well run, perhaps even a sort of First World failed state in the making
• Next-day thought in Britain
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Hating America, hating humanity: yup, that's what they do—especially the intellectuals
  by Paul Johnson
• We are told ad nauseam that European diplomacy is superior to George W. Bush's "unilateralism."
• Notes & asides
• Let's say you're a Democratic senator
• Yes to senator no: an interview with Jesse Helms
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Myth
  by Mary Ewald
• Primary reform
  by Bill Whalen
• Ohio's Bob Taft was never our favorite governor
• The NCAA has declared that it will begin banning schools from using "hostile" or "abusive" nicknames and logos during post-season sporting events, in an effort to force some 18 colleges and universities to drop team names such as the B
• Not so realistic: why some would-be immigration reformers don't have the answer
  by Mark Krikorian
• The Cesspool
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• To the history of high culture in the land of l'art pour l'art, add this episode: In Strasbourg's Palais de la Musique, the German conductor Volker Hartung mounted the podium to lead his orchestra in an encore, gave the downbeat—and was promptly drag
• "Oompah Loompah doompadee doo, I've got a perfect puzzle for you."
• A man who knew his century: Arthur Koestler, born 100 years ago
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Mother wit
  by Susan Konig
• Looking ahead—oil
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• "Roberts Resisted Women's Rights," headlined a front-page Washington Post article examining memos the Supreme Court nominee wrote as a young counsel in the Reagan White House
• Enforcement first
• William Weld, Republican governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, now wants to be governor of New York
• In the teeth of fierce accusations of "racism" and "elitism" by opponents, and with the support of Mayor Shirley Franklin , the city council of Atlanta has enacted a measure to ban panhandling from a large zone of the city's downtown
• Two Sheehans
• The "Able Danger" controversy is a moving target
• Was there anyone not offended by our August 8 cover of Sen. Charles Schumer as an inquisitor?
• The Arafat model: some leaders in Iraq are following it, and they must not get away with it
  by Michael Rubin
• Clinton hits a bump
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Edmund Wilson, at last
  by Jeffrey Hart
• The druggies' drug of choice these days seems to be meth, but the drug warriors' drug of choice is still pot
• Birth pains
• In the Iraqi city of Mosul, Faris Yunis Abdullah and two other Sunni election workers were putting up voting posters
• Politically correct
  by Jim Huber
• Bug-Out Fever
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The campaign against terror in Afghanistan and Iraq has scrambled the geopolitical cards far and wide
• Cindy's movement: is this what the antiwar people really want?
  by Byron York