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Articles in Jan 31, 2005 issue of National Review

• Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, was elected president of the Palestinian Authority
• In 1905 Albert Einstein published three brilliant scientific papers, each of which had a profound effect on the development of the physical sciences
• Freedom of speech has been bumping up against religious sensibilities in Britain, with results that cast an interesting light on current sensibilities
• Notes & asides
  by Don Snedeker
• The misanthropes
  by Hadley Arkes
• Penetrating social security
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The gondoliers of Venice are to face spot checks on their sobriety after a spate of accidents thought to have been caused by operators' plying the city's famous canals while under the influence
• On Venezuela
  by Mark Weisbrot
• Gonzales, Worked Over
  by W.H. von Dreele
• One common failing of criminals is that, being so focused on instant gratification, they omit to think things through
• Bush's unwelcome welcome mat: divorced from reality on immigration
  by John O'Sullivan
• British Isles Cruise: a once-in-a-lifetime experience: the National Review 2005
• Uncle Scrooge
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Conservative commentator Armstrong Williams says that he "exercised bad judgment."
• The calamitous decline of the Catholic Church In the U.S
• An idea whose time has come: the necessity and desirability of Social Security reform
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Photograph
  by Coman Leavenworth
• Whither taxes?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Gays may not recruit your children, but they will recruit your ancestors, if your ancestors were famous
• Michael Gerson has served George W. Bush magnificently as chief speechwriter, during both the 2000 campaign and the first term in office
• Not being able to find political bias at CBS News is like not being able to find political bias at ABC
• Guy Davenport, for many years a professor of English at the University of Kentucky, died at 77
• Three-piece suits and black robes: business should get serious about judicial appointments
  by Michael Greve
• John Kerry summoned Evan Thomas of Newsweek to his home to complain about the magazine's post-election coverage
• Harvard's Lawrence Summers, the first Ivy League president to forcefully condemn the rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses, recently reported that things were looking up in academe: The anti-Israel divestment movement has died down and tensions overa
• Rosemary Kennedy, sister of the late president, was born in 1918, apparently mildly retarded
• Iraq continues to produce gruesome news almost hourly
• The Club for Growth, under the leadership of Stephen Moore, has been remarkably successful at electing progrowth conservatives to Congress, and at striking fear in the hearts of liberal Republicans
• Cooled down: the global-warming hype is running out of gas, as it very much deserves
  by Steven F. Hayward
• The prophet
  by Arthur Herman
• Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, argues that conservatives don't care about people in other countries unless they affect America's national interest
• The meaning of a riot: in Britain, Sikh militants close a play—early
  by Anthony Daniels
• The Senate confirmation hearings of attorney-general nominee Alberto Gonzales included one moment that left many of us, well, gasping for air
• Under pressure
• Before you join … Turkey, and the rest of us, should rethink its accession to the EU
  by Alexander Rose
• American icons
  by Michael Knox Beran
• Relaxation therapy for your feet: visco-elastic foam has changed the way people sleep, now it helps the way you walk
  by Leigh Ligon
• William Rehnquist is not only the chief justice of the Supreme Court, but the head of the federal judiciary
• Fahrenheit 9/11 was voted favorite movie at the People's Choice Awards, a run-up to the Oscars
• Asbestos kills: and more than just people: jobs, ethics, and elementary justice
  by Lester Brickman
• Here's a question for the Democratic leadership in the Senate
• The eye blinks
• You deserve a factual look at …: an assessment of Arafat: will his death open the way for peace?
• Mother's boy
  by Algis Valiunas
• Resolve to ridicule
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The first rule of election recounts is: count until you pull ahead, and then declare the counting over
• With the Chinese Christians: worshipers in a dark place
  by Jason Lee Steorts
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Jump street
  by Richard Lowry
• Cutting-Edge commentary on K-12 education
  by Lewis Solmon
• Choose life: grow young with HGH
• House Republicans got off to a clumsy start of the critical new congressional session when they hastily retreated from hastily proposed reforms to the ethics rules
• The mid-Hudson Valley, sleepy home of Rip Van Winkle, is suddenly hopping
• Since his service as U.S. attorney general under Lyndon Johnson, Ramsey Clark's career has been a case study in American anti-Americanism
• Disaster
• Help!!!!
• President Bush has nominated Michael Chertoff, an appeals-court judge on the Third Circuit, for the position of Homeland Security chief
• Susan Sontag, R.I.P
• To convict one doctor, zealots at DEA tore up pain guidelines developed over four years
• Putin's Russia
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Offstage moments
  by Richard Brookhiser