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Articles in March 14, 2005 issue of National Review

• Good news: Jacques Chirac was asked by an American journalist why the French are so spineless
• The United Nations, of all places, might be an ethical step ahead of us on human cloning
• Hunter S. Thompson had some real talent—his prose kept a loose-jointed rhythm long after sense and humor had flown—but never was a writer, not even Truman Capote, so consumed by his persona
• 'Teachable moments': but who will teach the teachers?
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• The face of gallantry: what one Iraqi's case tells us about the struggle for the Middle East, and for freedom
  by David Frum
• Kenner in bloom
  by Michael Potemra
• An attack submarine was named after Jimmy Carter
• Gannongate: the weird story of a non-scandal
  by Byron York
• Rubens resplendent
  by Roger Kimball
• In other news, we received a letter from a reader who said, "I shouldn't have doubted my daughter."
• The South Shropshire shall rise again!
• The president appears to have opened the door to a major tax increase
• Pfc. Rob Jacobs of New Jersey was expecting words of comfort and support when he opened a package of letters from middle-school students in Park Slope, Brooklyn
• "Attention must be paid," said Willy Loman's wife of her husband in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
• Keep it going: the robust economy, that is—and you do it by locking in the tax cuts
  by Stephen Moore
• Myths about social security: and the dispelling truth
  by Alan Reynolds
• Movie Theory
  by William W. Runyeon
• Richard Sander, a law professor and economist, has no objection to racial preferences in principle
• We were skeptical about a directorship of national intelligence, but if you're going to have one, you could do worse than to fill it with John Negroponte
• Lebanon Detonates
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The American Council on Education, a coordinating body for higher-ed institutions, reports that more and more students are refusing to answer the race question on their college applications
• Something better
• Solidarity, exemplified: the amazing story of the Czechs and the Cubans
  by Jay Nordlinger
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Vox humana
  by John Derbyshire
• Stetsons and Berets
• Death of a liberal God: reacting to Arthur Miller
  by Roger Kimball
• They're Off!
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Oil-for-U.N
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• A majority of the Congress has favored a reform of class-action lawsuits for some time
• Harvard released a transcript of Lawrence Summers's controversial comments on the dearth of female scientists on the faculties of top universities
• Help!!!!
• Howard Dean—you know him: the former governor of Vermont who's now chairman of the Democratic National Committee and who recently declared, "I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for"—met with the DNC's "black caucus.&q
• On January 25, about seven Iranian political prisoners began a hunger strike to protest their government's abuses, including its crackdown on journalists and political activists, and its incarceration of dissidents with ordinary, often dangerous, criminal
• Duty calls: it certainly calls Elizabeth II—but what about her eldest son?
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• Politically correct
  by Jim Huber
• A New York jury found Lynne Stewart—the radical lawyer accused of helping her terrorist client, "blind sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with his Islamist followers from prison—guilty on all of the counts against her, including co
• Eason Jordan, chief news executive of CNN, resigned two weeks after telling a Davos panel that the U.S. military "targeted" journalists in Iraq
• Jews on the brain
• How to be a hero of liberty: you may have to gild the lily …
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Royal pastimes
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Also in Iran, a group of prominent intellectuals, activists, and student leaders have launched a nationwide call for a referendum on Iran's constitution, which would be an up-or-down vote on the current clerical regime
• Got I.D.?
  by Michael Behe
• Notes & asides
  by Jim Clark
• A cowboy in Brussels: President Bush's trip and the great reckoning with Europe
  by John O'Sullivan
• Sphere of influence?
  by Keith Windschuttle
• Those plucky Danes
• Susan Estrich, law professor and manager of Michael Dukakis's presidential campaign, has been living on the West Coast
• Military options
  by Mark Cancian
• Time for Welfare Reform II
  by Stephen Moore
• Greenpeace should choose its targets more wisely
• Undismal scientist
  by Ross Douthat
• Pyongyang knocking
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Victories against terrorism
  by Robert Zelnick
• Recapture the glory that was Ancient Greece with this brilliant course … Ancient Greek Civilization offers 24 information-packed lectures on one of the greatest cultures the world has ever seen
• The New York Times has run a series of elegiac articles on the closing of 22 Catholic elementary schools in Brooklyn and Queens