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Articles in May 19, 2008, issue of National Review

• In Italy, Silvio Berlusconi became prime minister for the third time
• If in recent weeks the entire male population of Congo have looked like soccer players defending a free kick, the reason lies in widespread rumors of penis snatchers: sorcerers who, with a single touch, can shrink said appendage or make it non-functional
• The wrong stuff
  by Midge Decter
• Well, he's no longer clinging
• Auto-immune diversity syndrome: that from which the democrats suffer
  by Noemie Emery
• States of recession
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Since taking over Cuba from his infirm brother Fidel, Raul Castro has swept away many of the old regime's restrictions
• Stuck in the big ditch
  by Gerard Alexander
• An anonymous report of sexual abuse set off a raid of a polygamous sect in Texas
• After Gitmo: we urgently need a new system for war on terror detainees
  by Andrew C. McCarthy
• For Che Guevara, the lovin' never stops
• Pope Benedict XVI concluded his trip to these shores by meeting with five victims of priestly sexual abuse and addressing the United Nations
• In Atlanta, a superior-court judge, Marvin Arrington, wanted to give black defendants a dressing-down—without the presence of white people
• Inside story: the truth about consciousness continues to elude us
  by John Derbyshire
• The case of Robert Mugabe, 84 years old and still monstrously eager to wreck Zimbabwe, illuminates the dilemma of many a dictator
• It's now a vast two-winged conspiracy: an expose of Hillary Rodham Clinton's extremist roots has appeared not in National Review but in The Nation
• Not weak enough
• Lesley Stahl interviewed Justice Antonin Scalia for 60 Minutes
• Has Robert Downey Jr. joined playwright David Mamet in embracing the love that dare not speak its name—the love of liberty, order, and personal responsibility—you know, conservatism?
• The big leagues
  by Richard Brookhiser
• When it agreed last September to take up Baze v. Rees, a challenge to the constitutionality of lethal injection, the Supreme Court effectively imposed a national moratorium on the death penalty
• The trial of three detectives responsible for the death of Sean Bell, a young black man killed during a confusing run-in outside a Queens strip club after his bachelor party, ended with the acquittal of all three
• On the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, the author and screenwriter Nora Ephron wrote in the Huffington Post: "This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women
• Hungry for ethanol
• Miley Cyrus is a 15-year-old girl whose alter ego, Hannah Montana, "is" a rock star
• Staff Sgt. Ronald C. Blystone, of the 4th Infantry Division, died patrolling Baghdad on his third tour in Iraq
• Plan for a century
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• John McCain visited New Orleans on what was billed as a tour of "forgotten places"—places forgotten by America, and by the GOP
• Senator empirical: Bob Corker takes on climate change
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• If Barack Obama wants to understand the rural working class, he should get a pair of Truck Nutz
• Sub-prime history
  by John McClaughry
• President Bush's North Korea policy is in disarray
• Toast
  by Stephane Mallarme
• North Carolina Republicans ran an ad zinging Obama for his association with Jeremiah Wright
• Bitter is better: for Hillary, that is
  by Byron York
• The incomparable Kate O'Beirne is changing jobs—but, fortunately, she will still be within shouting distance
• Telescope of a conservative, continued
  by John Kelley
• Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri does the propaganda nowadays for al-Qaeda, and he has found the modern way to keep alive his movement's fantasy of global supremacy
• Population bombing
  by Phillip Longman
• John McCain has proposed suspending the federal gas tax for the summer
• A curious kind of friendship: Barack Obama's dubious record on Israel
  by Mark Hemingway
• The examined gesture
  by Florence King
• Hillary Clinton is joining in for a chorus of "Bomb, Bomb Iran."
• So Jimmy Carter had his meeting with Hamas in Syria
• If personnel is policy, President Bush couldn't have done better than the new jobs he has given Gens
• Official transcript Larry King Live, July 29, 2008
  by Rob Long
• Birth dearth
  by Ross Douthat
• O to be superior! The ObamaHeads project their bitterness
  by Rob Long
• The hopeless pastor
• Clare Short, of Britain's Labour party, is a longtime member of Parliament
• Gun-rights supporters are eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court's upcoming decision in D.C. v. Heller
• Help!!!!
• Unsafe at legal weight
  by David W. Almasi
• 'Context,' you say? A guide to the radical theology of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
  by Stanley Kurtz