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Articles in April 5, 2004 issue of National Review

• One of the bonuses of the Iraq campaign was the capture of Abu Abbas in Baghdad, where he was living courtesy of Saddam Hussein
• New Allamo Film promotes PC History
  by B. Forrest Clayton
• Three dead
  by Samuel M. Salamon
• Coming up to the 15th anniversary of the massacres in Tiananmen Square, any expression of sympathy for the demonstrating students and workers remains taboo in China's state-controlled media
• It was a firing heard 'round the world
• Too early to panic: the Bush team has a handle on the situation
  by Kate O'Beirne
• A new kind of army
  by Michael Knox Beran
• Blame game
  by John D. Hosler
• "I've met with foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly," said Kerry at a recent fundraiser, "but, boy, they look at you and say, 'You've got to win this
• The president's council on bioethics, led by Leon Kass, is taking heat from liberals and libertarians upset that it is allegedly stacked with supporters of the president's policies
• What do you mean 'we'? 9/11 families for Bush
  by Byron York
• Blowing it: the administration's spending is inexcusable, no matter what the White House spin
  by Tad DeHaven
• The sickness unto death
  by Thomas Hibbs
• In other opera news, the Los Angeles Times committed a howler with respect to Die Frau ohne Schatten—another Strauss opera
• Farewell, fat man
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Congress approves defense budgets and declares war, the Senate ratifies treaties and confirms top diplomats and bureaucrats
• It isn't even past
  by Terry Teachout
• In Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, President Bush leads Sen. John Kerry, 47 percent to 45 percent
• McCain, Tempted
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Twilight struggles: the Cold War and the Terror War, alike and not alike
  by Richard Pipes
• Pander gridlock alert: John Kerry, defending "gay rights" before a black audience, explained that when "Mr. King gets dragged behind a truck down [in] Texas by chains and his body is mutilated only because he's gay, I think that's a matter
• It doesn't matter who is casting the votes, said Josef Stalin, an undoubted expert—what matters is who's counting them
• Open wide!
  by John Derbyshire
• Professional sports are a business, and, as such, need customers
• A clash of interests: will it be the national interest, or the interests of the 'international community'? This is a campaign question
  by Lee A. Casey
• Our last cold war casualty … and a hero of the age
  by John J. Miller
• Joe Simpson
  by Robert Mezey
• Kerry on Republicans, according to Chicago Tribune: "These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen
• While little old ladies flying to the next state to see their grandchildren can now expect to have their knitting needles impounded by airport security staff, vigilance is about to be relaxed on our nation's borders, at least for one favored class of fore
• Alternatives for Bush
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In the case of Martha Stewart, both justice and injustice have been done
• Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell says he won't run for reelection, reversing earlier decision to seek another term
• Bad news from Spain
• In our last issue, we reported that Orrin Hatch was considering a constitutional amendment that would protect the authority of state legislatures to make decisions concerning marriage
• A new planet has swum into our ken, an icy sphere 1,000 miles across and four times farther from the sun than Pluto
• The impossible reform
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• It would be nice if Congress got the federal budget under control
• Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, whose 1993 essay "The Clash of Civilizations" launched a thousand discussion groups, has been setting the cat among the pigeons again
• Help!!!!
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The German way
  by David Pryce-Jones
• These alleged cures could make matters worse rather than better," says Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on protectionist trade policies
• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger flexed political muscle in getting California voters to approve Propositions 57 and 58
• Bloody passion
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In North Korea, Radio Pyongyang broadcasts Kerry speeches and comments on them "in glowing terms," according to Financial Times
• Think of her as the East Coast variant of that rare and fragrant California bloom Johnus Walkerus Lindhus
• "Suggest that immigration, legal or otherwise, not only is in the American tradition but a net benefit to our economy besides, and watch the editors at National Review and the pseudo-populists at Fox News come unhinged"
• No more Mr. nice guy: the death of George W. Bush's 'compassionate conservatism'
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Uneasy Dems
  by W.H. von Deere
• American policy is cracking the ice cap of Baathist oppression that has settled over Syria these 40 years
• Senator Kerry says he is running to be America's second black president
• Bad policy, pure and simple
  by Rick Geddes
• You can say that again: Bill Clinton, in New York Daily News
• The phrase "Cheeseburger Bill" refers not to the 42nd president, but to H.R. 339, a piece of legislation intended to prohibit obese people from suing fast-food franchises for their condition
• It is with great pleasure that we announce the birth of a new conservative magazine—a Canadian one—christened Western Standard
• A defeat in Spain
• A wretched place on earth: the agony of Haiti, unending and worsening
  by Anthony Daniels
• 2004 Bermuda Cruise: sailing May 12-19 on the Radisson Seven Sea Cruises MS Navigator
  by Richard N. Perle
• Notes & asides
  by Patrick M. Dempsey
• Accidental discovery of mysterious "Gold Rush" coin stuns experts: world's rarest U.S. $20 gold proof found: the San Francisco Mint 1854 double eagle proof!
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Saving life
  by Douglas A. Sylva
• Though you wouldn't know it from most media accounts, the U.S. achieved an important victory against nuclear-weapons-acquiring rogue states on March 13, when the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency resolved to criticize Iran for not fully disclosin
• Bush is the one: there is no choice—and he is not an echo, either
  by David Frum
• I'd rather quit than fight
  by Eugene W. Muller
• 2004 has been a hard-hitting campaign so far, and rightly so
• Putting assessments to work in the classroom
  by Kurt M. Landgraf
• Defend the Bush Economy, Stupid!
  by Stephen Moore