Articles from National Review (April 19, 2004)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Outsourcing" is to this election year what "downsizing" was to 1996.		Brief Article	186
20/40 hindsight.			846
A Sheikh's death: the meaning of a 'targeted assassination'.	Pryce-Jones, David		1416
After the Supreme Court approved the University of Michigan's color-coded admissions system last summer, Ward Connerly and other foes of racial preferences sprang into action.		Brief Article	198
Al Franken, the comedian and author, is a bright and talented guy.			75
Alistair Cooke, R.I.P.	Buckley, Wm. F., Jr.	Obituary	1001
An election is coming up in the Republic of South Africa, and incumbent president Thabo Mbeki, addressing a rally, wished to impress on followers of his African National Congress the folly of voting for the opposition African Christian Democrats.		Brief Article	139
Back to '32.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	37
Barney Frank, defending same-sex marriage, notes that it would not be "mandatory.".			19
Bermuda Cruise.		Advertisement	434
Canadian relief.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		634
Clarke's problems.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		755
Compassion lives.	Santorum, Rick	Letter to the Editor	193
Dick Clarke's not-so-grand stand: a former national-security aide is all over the map.	Lowry, Richard		2240
Do you suppose that John Edwards is interested in his party's vice-presidential nomination?		Brief Article	119
Facing race.	Seligman, Dan	Book Review	1210
Fatal visions: one is pre-9/11, the other is post-. Which will prevail?	O'sullivan, John		1298
Gov. Mitt Romney (R., Mass.) on Kerry's two marriages to wealthy women.			26
Help!!!!	von Dreele, W.H.	Cartoon	59
How Long, how long?	Buckley, William F., Jr.		576
In Florida Sun-Sentinel poll, only 48 percent of Cuban Americans say they'll "definitely" vote for Bush.		Brief Article	116
In many states, assaults on pregnant women are treated as assaults on their unborn children as well.		Brief Article	190
In Newsweek poll of registered voters, President Bush leads Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.), 45 percent to 43 percent.		Brief Article	191
John McCain for secretary of defense--President Kerry's secretary of defense, that is?		Brief Article	151
Justice Scalia may not have realized that a duck-hunting trip with his old friend Dick Cheney would end in his becoming the prey.		Brief Article	193
Kerry foreign-policy adviser Rand Beers: "It is simply not appropriate for any foreign leader to endorse a candidate in America's presidential election.		Brief Article	96
Manfully resisting the temptation to open this paragraph with the words "Move over, Eve Ensler!" we note the forthcoming appearance of a rap opera with the title The Viagra Monologues.		Brief Article	183
Money.	Gioia, Dana	Poem	98
National security adviser Condoleezza Rice on former terrorism official Richard Clarke, on Fox News: "I can't judge his motives.		Brief Article	194
New light on frost.	Hart, Jeffrey	Book Review	1200
No child is required to say the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.		Brief Article	208
Notes & asides.	Buckley, Wm. F., Jr.	Letter to the Editor	519
NR on stem cells.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		2659
On August 9, 2001, President Bush announced that the federal government would fund research on stem cells that had already been taken from human embryos, but would not provide funding that encouraged the destruction of any more embryos.		Brief Article	260
Power to the people.	McVickar, John A.	Letter to the Editor	104
Pride of Poland.	Sikorski, Radek	Book Review	1247
Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism expert for Presidents Clinton and Bush, began his testimony before the 9/11 commission with an apology: "Your government failed you.		Brief Article	144
Scholars and poets.	Potemra, Michael	Book Review	679
Sen. Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) on Republicans: "They have no credibility on fiscal issues to begin with.		Brief Article	149
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the wheelchair-bound founder of Hamas whom the Israelis wheeled to kingdom come with a few well-aimed missiles, was known as Hamas's "spiritual leader.".		Brief Article	157
Some sobering thoughts on Pakistan's future--and ours.	Nashat, Guity		535
Spain's Socialist prime minister-elect, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, according to International Herald Tribune: "We're aligning ourselves with Kerry.".		Brief Article	109
Standing out.	Brookhiser, Richard		996
The democratic myth machine: about John McCain and Max Cleland, those (alleged) political martyrs.	York, Byron		2499
The Kass council has followed up that report by issuing a set of recommendations about embryo research.		Brief Article	219
The long view.	Long, Rob		800
The new colossus: Wal-Mart is America's store, and the world's, and its enemies are sadly behind.	Nordlinger, Jay	Cover Story	2593
The road to wealth.	Griswold, Daniel T.	Book Review	1182
The two Clarkes.	Von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	55
The use of Palestinian children as bomb-delivery devices came in for some unanticipated criticism when a cameraman for Associated Press Television News captured footage of Hussam Abdo, a very scared and very gullible 16-year-old, surrendering at an Israeli checkpoint.		Brief Article	150
The Washington press dinner at which presidents make self-deprecating appearances is a tribal custom valued by those who work in the Beltway, incomprehensible to those outside it.		Brief Article	144
There's good news and bad news to report in the continuing struggle to confirm President Bush's judicial nominees.		Brief Article	195
They've got to be chugging Maalox in the headquarters of Arlen Specter, who is facing conservative congressman Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania's April 27 Republican Senate primary.		Brief Article	166
Trouble in Taiwan: a messy election warns of a dark future.	Munro, Ross H.		1545
Twisted words and phrases (1).		Advertisement	860
Under way is the trial of Donna Mills, the Manhattan supreme court justice who, in a spirit of Dionysian merriment, used her father's Rolls-Royce to play bumper cars with a few vehicles parked near the NYPD's 50th Precinct station.		Brief Article	175
UNESCO awarded the World Press Freedom Prize to Raul Rivero Castaneda, a Cuban journalist.		Brief Article	86
Unsung hero.	Horowitz, Michael	Letter to the Editor	130
Wars new and old.	Hanson, Victor Davis	Book Review	1471
Washington is learning, to its astonishment, that the expansion of Medicare it enacted this winter is turning out to be more expensive than it had expected--although quotation marks need to be placed around the words "learning," "astonishment," and "expected.".		Brief Article	194
Why are gasoline prices on the rise? Unexpectedly strong demand from China and India is the main culprit driving higher world crude prices.		Brief Article	168
Why is it that, like William J. Clinton, U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan consistently leaves behind him a trail of destruction amid the odor of carelessness?		Brief Article	180
You know Richard Simmons, the boyish 55-year-old begetter of numerous videos promoting cardiovascular fitness, with titles like "Sweatin' to the Oldies.".			140