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Articles in Feb 11, 2008, issue of National Review

• It's not at all clear that the economy is entering a recession
• Visiting the Middle East, President Bush hoped to advance the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, and also to strengthen the Gulf Arabs in the face of the Iranian threat
• Okay, so this Polish guy walks into a brothel and finds his wife working as a call girl
• The Obama appeal: he's post-racist, but also post-American
  by John O'Sullivan
• Primary confusions
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In the Democratic presidential candidates' South Carolina debate, Hillary said, "I will make the commitment to have people in the White House who are honest and trustworthy."
• Christians honor the Man of Sorrows
• The legislature of New Jersey voted to apologize for slavery
• When Philip Agee died in early January, Reuters called him a "whistleblower."
• How to fight a Huck: don't revile his supporters
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Minnesota standoff: the specter of a brokered convention haunts the Republican field
  by David Freddoso
• One interesting, perhaps prophetic, aspect of the Democratic spats is Bill Clinton's role
• Tornado at a frat party
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Bobby Fischer's 1972 world-championship chess match with Boris Spassky in Reykjavik was rightly seen as a Cold War allegory
• Around the world with Shultz: a visit to the former secretary of state
  by Jay Nordlinger
• The Sierra Club congressman: will conservatives revolt against Rep. Wayne Gilchrest?
  by John J. Miller
• John Edwards has become the incredible shrinking populist
• The New York Times is apparently having so much trouble finding genuine examples of U.S. soldiers who commit atrocities abroad that it has decided to look for them at home
• In April 1958, Americans were lining up outside department stores waiting for the latest delivery of Hula-Hoops
• Poisoned root
  by Paul Johnson
• A knave and his index: Lewis Lapham continues to wound our culture
  by Roger Kimball
• Will Ron Paul be "read out" of the libertarian movement?
• On the Golf Channel, Kelly Tilghman, an anchorwoman, and Nick Faldo, a legend of the game, were having a chat
• If Napoleon met Goethe with the words "Voila, un homme," what would he have said about Sir Edmund Hillary?
• Trial by fire
  by David Frum
• Nicolas & Carla & Bill & Hillary: menages old and new
  by Rob Long
• Nevada is one of twelve states that has voted in favor of medical marijuana
• A new study says that mandatory diversity training backfires: after looking at data from 830 workplaces, researchers discovered that sensitivity seminars and their ilk led to declines in the number of women and minorities in management
• A national primary
• The lives of others
  by Andrew Stuttaford
• Iraq reborn: what our troops have wrought, and how to preserve it
  by Wesley Morgan
• Date in Pyongyang
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho pled guilty to disorderly conduct last August after he was accused of soliciting sex from an undercover cop in a bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport
• Allow us to offer Canada's "human-rights commissions" a slogan: "we may disapprove of what you say—and if we do we'll make you pay."
• Benchmarked
• The code
  by Daniel Mark Epstein
• Help!!!!
• Inside Obama
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• There has been a good deal of controversy about voter-identification laws, and the Supreme Court recently heard a challenge to Indiana's policy
• 2006 Ad
• One fight, two fronts
• Less than monstrous
  by Ross Douthat
• Therapist's notes: the New York Times company mental health clinic
  by Rob Long
• Last year, Judge Laurence Silberman threw out the D.C. handgun ban as a violation of the Second Amendment
• The Village Voice is celebrating a half century of reporting and commentary by Nat Hentoff
• Evan Galbraith, R.I.P
• Gripe homeostasis
  by John Derbyshire
• A life in letters
  by Henry A. Lowenstein
• It is one thing to allow foreigners to invest in U.S. companies
• New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that director Philippe de Montebello will retire at the end of 2008, after 31 years on the job
• Maverick no more: but will conservatives embrace John McCain?
  by Byron York
• See who gave
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.