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Articles in Nov 21, 1994 issue of Insight on the News

• Asia's political outcast flexes economic muscles - Taiwan's economic and political defiance - includes related article on dissident Hsiu-Lien Annette Lu and the conflict over Taiwan's reunification with China
  by Willis Witter
• Ugly facts trump beautiful concepts - proposal to let NATO manage an international peacekeeping force lacks feasibility - Symposium - Column
  by William J. Taylor, Jr.
• Remarkable triumvirate built the grandest country house; next year, the Biltmore estate in North Carolina will be 100 years old - Ashville, NC mansion
  by Thomas D. Sullivan
• Radical Islam may threaten Muslim world, but not West - overreaction to Islamic fundamentalism mirrors panic about post-World War II communist threats - Column
  by Alvin Z. Rubinstein
• A search for spiritual peace in a land of economic chaos - desperate need for any kind of religious activity in the Ukraine as disenchantment with democracy and free market reform grows
  by Colin Barraclough
• Vamps and Tramps. - book reviews
  by Suzanne Fields
• As latest Iraqi crisis shows, gas tax is answer to Gulf woes - Iraq's threat to invade Kuwait and the need to reduce US dependence on Middle East petroleum - Column
  by Alan Tonelson
• Conservative critic sets his sights on low culture; caustic and unapologetic, veteran art critic Hilton Kramer has made a name for himself as a commentator on the "moral obtuseness" inherent in 20th-century American life - includes related article on Kram
  by Stephen Goode
• For aging rock 'n' rollers, wooden riffs are all the rage - new popularity of acoustic guitars - includes related article on electric guitars
  by Sean Piccoli
• Can senators save Clinton-Kim deal? - nuclear nonproliferation agreement between the US and North Korea - Column
  by Angelo M. Codevilla
• Long-term cure for health care - encouraging private sector incentives for long-term nursing home care - Column
  by Merrill Matthews, Jr.
• Organized labor fights family ties - struggle for control of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters between President Ron Carey and James P. Hoffa Jr - Cover Story
  by Jerry Seper
• Time for a global peacemaking force? - need for international, volunteer force run by NATO - Symposium - Column
  by Ben P. Meredith
• Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women's Studies. - book reviews
  by Cathy Young
• Novel idea: crime and punishment - recidivism rates reflect danger of the lack of emphasis on incarceration for protecting society - Column
  by Bruce Fein
• P.C. pressures may shape teaching of U.S. history; proposed standards for teaching American history, say critics, substitute political correctness for sensible analysis, and students could lose
  by Carol Innerst
• Meanwhile, it's violins on video - violinist Pinchas Zuckerman uses videoconferencing technique to instruct his Manhattan School of Music students while he is on world tour
  by Emily Cary
• Nobody does it better than Helmut Kohl - German chancellor's political success leads to his fourth term - Column
• No black-and-white answers in Murray's The Bell Curve - controversy over Charles Murray's and Richard J. Herrnstein's book about the link between race and intelligence - The Last Word - Column
  by Suzanne Fields