Articles from National Review (June 14, 2004)

Title	Author	Type	Words
2004 Caribbean: sailing November 13-20 on Holland America Line's MS Zuiderdam post-election cruise.		Advertisement	1141
A kinder, gentler Khan.	Rose, Alexander	Book Review	1158
A Mexican TV production company has produced a feature film titled A Day Without a Mexican.		Brief Article	129
After ten years on the air, Friends finally came to an end.		Brief Article	170
An Accommodation.	Mezey, Robert	Poem	74
Are we alone in thinking that one of the most wearily depressing minor features of our current national life is the 20-year effort to purge all references to Indian tribes and their martial qualities from the names of college and professional sports teams?		Brief Article	198
As an actor and comedian, Bill Cosby enjoys a great deal of popularity.		Brief Article	143
Behind the facades.	Brookhiser, Richard	Column	998
Bernd Runge, 43, of Berlin, has a very nice life.		Brief Article	198
China scrutable.	Nordlinger, Jay	Book Review	1454
David Brock is buzzing again: and the gadfly's main target is rush (and Bush, of course).	York, Ron		1234
Dumb, dumbest.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		562
Fans of the late, but immortal, James Mason will recall the line from his last movie, The Shooting Party, delivered when the Edward Fox character, out on an aristocratic pheasant shoot, has just brought down one of the beaters through an excess of competitive zeal: "You were not shooting like a gentleman, Gilbert.".			166
Finding honor in Abu Ghraib.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		640
For some time now, we have been keeping an eye on Jian-li Yang, who visited our offices in the summer of 2001.		Brief Article	233
Grand slammer.	Dukes, Frank	Letter to the Editor	136
Help!!!!	Von Dreele, W.H.	Cartoon	70
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) calls Bush "incompetent leader," adding: "In fact, he's not a leader.		Brief Article	112
Immaculate preemption.	Pryce-Jones, David	Book Review	962
In a May 7 op-ed, Sen. Fritz Hollings, a Democrat from South Carolina, denounced the Iraq war as a Bush ploy to secure Israel, which he identified as part of a larger Bush ploy to secure re-election by wooing Jewish voters.		Brief Article	151
In an upset, India's Congress Party won the national elections.			268
In common with most other states, Kansas subsidizes tuition in state colleges for state residents.		Brief Article	166
In Time/CNN poll, President Bush earns 46 percent approval rating.		Brief Article	120
Indispensable nation.	Frum, David	Book Review	932
Is everybody brutal?	Buckley, William F., Jr.		789
It is wrong, wrong, wrong, for athletes to use performance-enhancing drugs in competition.		Brief Article	187
Jay Leno: "Yesterday John Kerry and Ralph Nader met face-to-face.			29
Jitters on the right.	Salam, Reihan	Letter to the Editor	309
Justice behind bars: getting back to our own prison problem ...	Lehrer, Eli		1447
Kerry, to AP: "When Bill Clinton left office, not one young American was dying in war anywhere in this world".		Brief Article	223
Kerry-McCain '04?			14
Meet Eliot Spitzer: the most destructive politician in America.	Ponnuru, Ramesh	Cover Story	3442
Mel Lasky played a central part in the Cold War against Communism, and relished every moment of it.		Obituary	220
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, a propaganda film dedicated to discrediting the War on Terror, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.		Brief Article	131
More or less lost in the media's unending feast over revelations at Abu Ghraib was news of an important discovery in Iraq.		Brief Article	131
No child left behind: how to ace those tests.	Hirsch, E.D., Jr.		586
Notes & asides.	Snedeker, Don	Letter to the Editor	465
Oh, grow up!	Klinghoffer, David	Book Review	1125
Oral arguments were heard on May 20 in the case of five Norwood, Ohio, property owners whose homes and small businesses are in danger of being confiscated and handed over to a private real-estate developer.		Brief Article	175
Pain management in crisis!			384
Perversion: an 'outdated' concept, desperately and perpetually needed.	Scruton, Roger	Column	1741
Picture this.	Goldberg, Jonah	Column	560
POWs and others: detainees do not share a single status.	Rivkin, David B., Jr.		2528
Rafah is a ramshackle spread of housing at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, right alongside the Egyptian border.		Brief Article	179
Russia indicates it will support Kyoto global-warming treaty if EU endorses its bid to enter WTO.		Brief Article	82
Sen. Zell Miller (D., Ga.): "You can't make a chicken swim and you can't make John Kerry anything but an out-of-touch ultraliberal from Taxachusetts".		Brief Article	194
Slippery John.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	46
Slogging ahead.			750
Staying human.	Smith, Wesley J.	Book Review	1181
Sumer Is Icumen In.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	54
Susan Sontag, in an essay for the New York Times Magazine on Abu Ghraib ("Regarding the Torture of Others," May 23), says some true things about the unquenchability of images in the digital age, mixed in with the sweeping assertion that the torture flowed organically from the Iraq war, and from the War on Terror in general ("the photographs are us").		Brief Article	150
The 9/11 Commission moved to New York City, where it suffered its first rebuke.		Brief Article	178
The Bush White House would like you to believe that its recent deal with Senate Democrats on judges was not a presidential surrender.		Brief Article	210
The crime scene.	Noe, Denise	Letter to the Editor	77
The Kerry campaign is reportedly toying with the idea of holding a non-nominating Democratic Convention in Boston at the end of July.		Brief Article	75
The long view.	Long, Rob		697
The Patriot Act without tears: understanding a mythologized law.	McCarthy, Andrew C.		2946
The people of Russia, having freed themselves from the shackles of Soviet puritanism, are now to get their first museum of erotica, to open soon in St. Petersburg.		Brief Article	158
The soldiers you never hear about: they're not all prisoner-abusers, you know.	O'Beirne, Kate		1521
Those unacquainted with the recent--that is, post-1968--history of tennis may wonder why so many of the best women entered in the French championships are injured, otherwise unable to play, or doubtful.		Brief Article	167
Under court order, Massachusetts began to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.		Brief Article	223
Unhappy anniversary.			347
Vermont became the tenth state (the others are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington) to permit some form of the medical use of marijuana.		Brief Article	82
Washington Post analysis finds 62 percent of federal workers earning merit bonus or other cash award in 2002, with median value of $811.		Brief Article	95
When Colin Powell was taping a series of satellite interviews from Jordan, an aide tried to cut off a session with Tim Russert of Meet the Press because the scheduled ten minutes had stretched to thirteen.		Brief Article	98