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Articles in March 5, 2007 issue of National Review

• Eliot Spitzer, the new Democratic governor of New York, is in a fight with the legislature over filling the position of the state's chief financial officer
• When it was reported that Speaker Pelosi had requested a military plane big enough to fly her and her entourage coast to coast nonstop, Republicans delightedly pounced on a scandalous "Air Pelosi" story
• Terrorism? Islam? What connection?
• Plots to behead: dealing with the phenomena of our time
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• To The Haunted Child
  by Jennifer Reeser
• Senior American military officials gave a briefing in Baghdad on Iranian weapons that have killed 170 Americans and wounded 620 since 2004: EFPs, or explosively formed penetrators, that release armor-cutting molten copper balls
• Like a lot of battle plans, Senate majority leader Harry Reid's didn't survive contact with the enemy
• And now to North Korea: when did Kim Jong Il become trustworthy?
• Thrill Me
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The death of the Hamilton Center: a case in upstate New York has implications all over
  by John J. Miller
• St. John of Harvard yard
  by Edward Feser
• Sen. Hillary Clinton said that the record profits of "the oil companies" should be put in an alternative-energy fund
• If there is one aspect of War on Terror diplomacy that robs administration officials of their sleep more than any other, it is surely the U.S.-Pakistan relationship
• George Santayana, who taught there, called Harvard the "toy Athens" of America
• Into Africa: to Timbuktu and back
  by Rob Long
• God, man & sex
  by Michael Potemra
• 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft asked Sen. Barack Obama what he made of charges that he isn't "black enough."
• The number of nations that extend formal diplomatic recognition to the Republic of China rather than to the People's Republic of China is down to 24
• Fever in the Alps: global elites and global warming
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Move on
  by Richard Brookhiser
• More: the crying need for a bigger U.S. military
  by Jim Talent
• The University of Wisconsin has decided to hire its first military-history professor in 15 years—an action that the student newspaper, the Daily Cardinal, credits NATIONAL REVIEW with motivating
• "What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with his hot, white, sticky Holy Spirit?"
• A nationwide smoking ban went into effect in France, yet another blow to the stereotype of the French as a nation of louche but intellectual libertines, Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon lounging in bed discussing Heidegger through a fug of cigarette smoke
• The Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Journalism is given once a year, to a journalist who exhibits "love of country and its democratic institutions" and "bears witness to the evils of totalitarianism."
• Huxley's period piece: Brave New World turns 75
  by John Derbyshire
• Politics for a billion
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• And the winner is …
  by Ross Douthat
• Three and a half years after the explosion over the CIA leak controversy, we have the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff
• The human-interest story of the fortnight is surely the one about Lisa Nowak, the lovesick astronaut
• Rudy's run
• Our last nerve
  by Florence King
• Howard Hunt, R.I.P
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• China up there
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Most of the commentary on President Bush's proposed 2008 budget has portrayed it as a blowout
• The rule of gambling is that the house always wins
• Global warming
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Sympathy for the devil
  by Peter Sturkiss
• Planet Gore
• Act casual
  by Gregory Golm
• A tired old song
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Ralph de Toledano, R.I.P
• Transcript from Larry King Live: February 10, 2008
  by Rob Long
• Barack Obama is complaining that the press doesn't take him seriously enough
• A little insight into the way we live now was offered the other day by Rick Kushman, TV columnist of the Sacramento Bee
• All in good time
  by Ken Howes
• Not all rallies are reported equal
• The great audacious hope: Senator Obama kicks off
  by Richard Lowry
• Fight the real enemy
  by Roger Kimball
• Our trading partners are pressuring us to reduce our farm subsidies, and record-high crop prices make it a good time to act
• Child's play
  by Stephan Marks
• Sometimes a nomination needs a warning label
• A mandate in Texas: the story of a compulsory vaccination and what it means
  by Kate O'Beirne
• Bio hazard
  by Ronald Bailey