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Articles in Oct 22, 2007 issue of National Review

• The Burmese have endured military dictatorship since Gen. Ne Win's coup against the post-independence parliamentary republic in 1962
• Words better unspoken
• Transcript from Larry King Live: October 4, 2008
  by Rob Long
• Books, books, books
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Way of light
  by Michael Salwitz
• Gen. Peter Pace has stepped down as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and retired from the Marines
• 2008 Ad
• Six high-school students assaulted another one, knocking him unconscious and kicking him
• Wars budgetary and military: a showdown between Bush and Congress
  by Kate O'Beirne
• Cartoon
• Speak up in English
• Jesse Adam Macbeth became an antiwar hero when he claimed to have committed atrocities in Iraq as an Army Ranger, including the murders of hundreds of innocent civilians
• Nuon Chea, the number-two leader of the Khmer Rouge, was arrested in Phnom Penh and charged with crimes against humanity
• For Britain's Conservatives, the stakes could hardly be higher
• A healthy veto
• Staying on
  by W.H. von Dreele
• World War IV?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The State of D.C
  by Les Leinaweaver
• Eliot Spitzer, governor of New York, wants to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants
• For years and years, they have trooped down to Castro—a galaxy of Hollywood stars: Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Steven Spielberg; Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Leonardo DiCaprio
• One fine day, "Don't tase me, bro'" replaced "The senator assumes a wide stance" as the number-one buzz-sentence in America
• Asia fundraising-gate, Part II: just when you thought you'd never hear the word 'Lippo' again …
  by Byron York
• Mommies dearest
  by Florence King
• Lunching free
• Wordplay
  by Gary Gabbard
• Blackwater, the private security firm, has lost its license to operate in Iraq
• The judges are still studying the photo finish, but the Self-Hatred Hundred Yard Dash held in conjunction with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York brought out two superb athletes
• Back in June of this year the mayor of Kansas City, Mo., appointed Frances Semler, a 73-year-old grandmother, to the city's five-member parks board
• A beautiful, nasty country: the long-running woes of Burma
  by Anthony Daniels
• Cooler heads prevail
  by Steven F. Hayward
• Abu Bin Fred?
  by Wally Harpen
• The decline of the dollar—it is now worth less than Canadian currency!—is more than an indignity
• The United Auto Workers and GM have hammered out a new agreement after a short-lived strike
• As Belgium goes … so goes Europe?
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Mr. Alfred Uruguay
  by Richard O'Connell
• If there were gays in Iran
• Ahmadinejad's comeuppance
• Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema was a Dutch war hero whose exploits earned him the proud title of Soldier of Orange, a tribute to his service to the Dutch royal family, historically known as the House of Orange
• Right-leaning celebrity alert! Watch the comedian Drew Carey
  by John J. Miller
• Don't fence her in
  by Myrna Blyth
• Newt Gingrich says he will not run for president, and, in our opinion, the presidency is not a job to which he would be well suited
• As Americans wonder how to cope with Iran, Iran keeps killing Americans
• For a generation, the National Taxpayers Union has rallied behind a simple slogan: "This is your money and the government should return it to you."
• The freest black man in America: Clarence Thomas, associate justice from Pin Point, Ga
  by Shelby Steele
• So great a conspiracy?
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• John McCain said in an interview that he would prefer to have a Christian president, but could support a well-qualified Muslim one
• There has been little reaction to the Lieberman-Kyl amendment on the Muslim street, but some of our politicians are taking offense for the silent billion
• The world has lost Marcel Marceau, its best-known practitioner of the tiny art of mime
• Doing their duties: Congress disguises protectionism as China indignation
  by Stephen Spruiell
• Poet Laureate
  by James E. Person, Jr.
• U.S. government officials have now anonymously confirmed to reporters that the target of a Sept. 6 Israeli raid on Syria was a suspected nuclear site—one that allegedly operated in cooperation with North Korea
• Rudy Giuliani has proposed expanding NATO to include India, Israel, Japan, Australia, and Singapore
• The games we play
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• A model justice
• One writer, unmotivated: an unhappy outing to a Get Motivated! seminar
  by Mark Hemingway
• Mystery Train
  by Ross Douthat
• Some social-conservative leaders are musing about supporting a third-party presidential candidate if Giuliani wins the Republican nomination
• Few regimes on earth can compete with the Burmese junta for pure evil