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Articles in Jan 29, 2007 issue of National Review

• Somalia is neither a state nor a nation
• Be like Jeb! A suburban agenda for Republicans, with models to emulate
  by John Hood
• Was there ever a president who entered office with a weaker hand than Gerald Ford?
• Keeping The faith
  by James E. Person, Jr.
• An unusual end: Saddam Hussein is tried and executed
  by David Pryce-Jones
• What is it about cuddly animals that overrides the rational faculty of policymakers?
• From 1991 to 2002, this magazine ran Florence King's column "The Misanthrope's Corner."
• The candidates' diaries
  by Rob Long
• For the Left—and, unfortunately, much of the public—conservatives' opposition to raising the minimum wage is proof that we are the kin of Scrooge
• The linguists and lexicographers of the American Dialect Society have picked a Word of the Year for 2006, and the winner is … plutoed
• The too-much-information age
  by James S. Robbins
• The outrageousness of the Duke lacrosse case has now reached its terminal velocity
• Grosser and grosser
  by Florence King
• When the highest court in Massachusetts amends the state constitution, how are the people to amend it back?
• Can Gates succeed?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Join the club: Mitt Romney and pro-life conversion
  by Kate O'Beirne
• One star differeth from another star in glory, said the Apostle Paul
• James Brown wrote in his autobiography, "Hair and teeth
• The book is better
  by Ross Douthat
• Condoleezza Rice has a trip to Libya penciled in her diary
• The question of Carter's cash: in which our reporter follows the money
  by Claudia Rosett
• Spare thoughts on Saddam
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese possessed a brilliant mind, as do many
• Rebels on the Hudson
  by Richard Brookhiser
• At the beginning of the year, Romania joined the European Union
• Bassackwards: Construction Spanish and other signs of the times
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Bury him good
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• A surge in time
• Ask not …
  by Mitchell Langbert
• Ambassador John R. Miller recently resigned from his position as head of the State Department's office concerned with eliminating human trafficking
• Do or die in Iraq: where we've been; where we should go
  by Bing West
• Keynes wins?
  by John Lee Carroll
• Their moment
• For the defense
  by Richard Jorandby
• Damn!
  by W.H. Von Dreele
• Wouldn't it be nice if the media loved Republican presidents
• Gotta watch those Danish artists
• 'Barbaric!' they charge: the arrogance and insularity of death-penalty opponents
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• Did we need reminding of Saddam's nature?
• One of those news stories that turn up so often they could well-nigh be assigned word-processor macros all their own, is the one about the Chinese government protesting because the president of Taiwan has set foot on U.S. soil
• Fantasy & reality
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Let's get this clear right away: Democrats and their allies on the left have a deep, deep respect for the need to protect classified information
• Undiscussable: a question in the Senate
  by Byron York
• The bus system of Grand Rapids, Mich., formerly turned away from their buses any passenger whose face was covered
• Judge, senator, American
  by Jaime Sneider
• From New Orleans, surrounded by the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, former senator John Edwards launched a campaign to fight against global warming and poverty and for universal health care and higher taxes on the rich
• Bad scene
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Michigan and beyond: Ward Connerly keeps after race preferences
  by John J. Miller
• The new Democratic Congress prepared to vote on a bill to fund stem-cell research that kills human embryos
• Readers of Tom Wolfe's novels will recall the scene in A Man in Full where a country-raised southern business mogul, showing a group of urban sophisticates round his stud farm, arranges for them to witness a stallion vigorously serving a mare
• Dates
  by Lee Oser