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Articles in Sept 15, 2008 issue of National Review

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• Ticking away in the red-brick row houses of Britain's old industrial cities are thousands of young Islamists
• When Ali Kordan was nominated to run Iran's interior ministry, he capped off his list of qualifications by producing an honorary doctorate of laws from Oxford University
• In its latest rankings, U.S. News & World Report lists George Mason University first in the new category of Up-and-Coming National Universities
• A group of college presidents calling themselves the Amethyst Initiative wants to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18
• Kerri Walsh, American gold medalist in beach volleyball, had a post-victory message for George W. Bush
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• A cautionary tale of justice at work comes from the mean streets of Grafton, Wisc., where Heidi Dalibor was recently arrested for not returning a pair of library books
• The glories of our blood and state / Are shadows, not substantial things;
• Official transcript: Larry King Live: October 10, 2008
  by Rob Long
• The way to win
  by Mackubin Thomas Owens
• Construal
  by Len Krisak
• It's not just the executive
  by Michael M. Uhlmann
• Watergate story
  by Duncan Currie
• Hit and miss
  by Ross Douthat
• Built to last
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Just in from our stinky cove desk
  by Christopher Buckley
• Change you can believe in
• For the press, intra-Democratic disputes have all the intrinsic interest, and all the unpleasantness, of a fight within one's social circle
• John McCain committed a whopper when he ducked a Politico question about how many houses he has
• During his days in the Illinois state legislature, Barack Obama opposed bills to provide legal protection to infants who survive botched abortions
• Bill Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist responsible for various bombings
• Jacob Weisberg of Slate is an either/or guy
• When it comes to oil and energy, now is an excellent time for Congress to do nothing
• To avoid a reprise of 9/11, the Justice Department has worked to shift the FBI from traditional policing, in which crimes are investigated after the fact, to an intelligence orientation, aimed at preventing attacks by breaking up cells and plots at an ear
• Citing the recent drop in commodity prices, Ben Bernanke said that the Fed was not going to hike interest rates anytime soon
• William Shanahan, debate coach at Fort Hays State University , got into an argument at a debate tournament in Wichita last spring, during which he shouted and dropped his pants
• In systems that lack settled procedures for leadership succession, it sometimes happens that while the alpha males wrestle grimly among themselves for supremacy, a complete mediocrity rises to brief prominence: a Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, a Richard Cromwel
• Russia's new cold war
• The Denver Democrats
• Candidate of caution
• Thank you
  by Kelly Blystone
• Warrior for the surge: ahead of almost everyone, John McCain knew how to win in Iraq
  by Richard Lowry
• Cold War II: it isn't just Georgia that's in danger
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Caucasus diary: 'a shiver of instability runs through …'
  by John O'Sullivan
• The case for McCain: the Republican nominee offers what voters have demanded
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Before Barack Obama announced his vice-presidential pick via text message, more than one pundit joked that he should do so at 3:00 A.M., just as a slap at Hillary Clinton
• 'The most gut-wrenching decision': how John McCain became a hero
  by John J. Miller
• Thrifty, brave, clean, and persecuted: across the country, the Boy Scouts are under attack
  by William Tucker
• In victory's direction: where we're headed in Iraq, and why we must arrive
  by Bing West
• Adultery through green eyeshades
  by Florence King
• HELP!!!!
• Tales of two conductors
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Olbermann Broadcast Corporation: one very loud mouth a network doth tarnish
  by Stephen Spruiell
• Behind every great man …
  by Lee Browne
• Dueling batmen
  by Rick Medlin
• Another indicator for Bernanke to watch: Organized-crime groups are increasingly conducting their business in the euro, a Canadian report found
• Not many government operations function well, so it's worth noting the recent performance of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the low-key agency that insures most bank accounts up to $100,000
• California's supreme court has ruled that the government may compel two doctors who declined to artificially inseminate an unmarried woman to do so, in contravention of their religious principles, which the court characterized as "incidental."
• Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki is saying that a new security agreement with the U.S. must contain an unconditional deadline of 2011 for the pullout of all our troops
• Obama and other Democrats who have pushed relentlessly for a pullout from Iraq, insisting on arbitrary timelines and heedless of the need to consolidate battlefield victories, should look hard at Somalia
• The rich, soaked
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Pakistan is close to becoming an unwelcome novelty, a failed state with somewhere between 50 and 100 nuclear bombs
• Russia's invasion of Georgia was preceded by computerized attacks on Georgian Internet sites