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Articles in Dec 27, 2004 issue of National Review

• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on winning the 2004 George Bush Award
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Just say no
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In the 'Borderland': the struggle for Ukraine
  by Richard Pipes
• 'Pioneers,' 'rangers,' Indians! A flourishing American ethnic group gets a little political
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Many law schools have blocked military recruiting on campus to protest the military's ban on openly homosexual servicemembers
• See no evil: illegal aliens and the specter of another 9/11
  by John O'Sullivan
• GOP activists launch "Draft Mark Sanford for President" website, but so far Gov. Sanford says he has no plans beyond running for reelection in 2006
• Howard Dean is running for DNC chairman
• Tasked by her teacher with writing a Thanksgiving poem, fifth-grader Kaeley Hay of the Lincoln-Franklin Elementary School in Garwood, N.J., came up with this charming little idyll
• Heart of valor
  by MacKubin Thomas Owens
• 2004 Ad
• The political economy of anti-Americanism
  by Russell A. Berman
• The National Review 2005: British Isles Cruise
• Exit Danforth—enter Danforthism?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Alabama is being pilloried for its alleged racism
• Cuban Americans are angry at the Burlington Coat Factory for marketing a line of Che Guevara T-shirts, just in time for Christmas
• Help!!!!
• Sen. Norm Coleman on U.N. secretary general and oil-for-food scam, in Wall Street Journal: "It's time for Kofi Annan to step down
• The baseball steroid scandal insults the intelligence in several ways
• Confronting Tehran
  by Rachel Friedman
• Available in '08
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The president has nominated Carlos M. Gutierrez for the position of secretary of commerce
• GI Janes, by stealth: the Army tries to pull a fast one
  by MacKubin Thomas Owens
• Noting rightly that the U.S. and the European Union had jointly helped to keep Ukraine free and democratic, Robert Kagan, in the Washington Post, went on to conclude that America should welcome further European integration
• Wolfe enrolls
  by Thomas S. Hibbs
• In the spring of 2002, Pat Tillman, a defensive back with the Arizona Cardinals, walked away from his multi-million-dollar contract to enlist in the U.S. Army Rangers
• Dino Rossi, the Republican who won the Washington gubernatorial election by 42 votes, was asked by Judy Woodruff, "Are you the winner?
• Pride about privilege
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Season of hope
  by Michael Potemra
• Freedom fighter: meet the 'very focused, and tough' Nina Shea
  by Meghan Clyne
• For DOGMA
  by Kevin O'Malley
• Most of official Washington is now busy hailing—with varying degrees of sincerity—the passage of the intelligence-reform bill
• A serious push has begun to postpone the Iraq elections currently scheduled for Jan. 30
• President Bush's visit to Ottawa and Halifax was a diplomatic triumph
• Winter in California
  by Chryss Yost
• The virtue of loyalty
• The true Sprit of Chrismas
  by Aloise Buckley Heath
• Targeting target
  by Thomas J. Kelly
• Immediately after the International Atomic Energy Agency welcomed Iran's offer to suspend uranium enrichment while negotiating with Britain, France, and Germany over a long-term nuclear deal, Iran's chief negotiator, Hassan Rohani, declared, "We have
• Friends of Hugo: Venezuela's Castroite boss has all the usual U.S. supporters
  by John J. Miller
• The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, 2 vols
  by John J. Miller
• In the current issue of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, Heather Mac Donald reports on a little-noticed way in which political correctness and our litigation-ready culture undermine national security
• Dan Rather, who will retire as anchorman of The CBS Evening News next March, capped years of failure with a moment of disgrace
• Orangemen
• A rebellion
  by Howard W. Conner
• In Pacific Research Institute's U.S. Economic Freedom Index, Kansas finishes as most free and New York as least free
• Gay old times? Oliver Stone perpetuates a classical myth
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• Sick and tired
  by Richard Brookhiser
• Conventional macroeconomics, as Alan Reynolds remarked some years ago, leaves you wandering in a maze of paradoxes
• Secularism and its discontents: the debate over religion and politics is in desperate need of sanity
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Unbuttoned
  by Sean Quinn
• Colombian rebels sought to assassinate Bush during recent visit to Cartagena, according to defense minister Jorge Uribe
• No reader of this magazine will be surprised to hear that the faculty at American universities are overwhelmingly left-wing
• They're Irrelevant
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Dumb bright guys
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Is there a way to pursue the possible benefits of embryonic stem-cell research without killing human embryos?
• Hamilton College, a small liberal-arts school in upstate New York, announced the appointment of Susan Rosenberg as an "artist/activist-in-residence," teaching a half-credit seminar in January
• Notes & asides
• USA Today/CNN poll: President Bush earns approval rating of 55 percent