Articles from National Review (October 11, 2004)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A fortune in tuition: why does college cost so darn much?	Vedder, Richard		1237
Al Gore, in The New Yorker: "The Republican right wing has launched a kind of civil cold war in a very ruthless fashion.".		Brief Article	154
An election is being held in the world's largest Muslim nation.		Brief Article	158
Bad press.	McCarthy, Andrew C.	Book Review	1197
Banking on the Brewer: in Colorado, Republican hopes rest on Pete Coors.	Miller, John J.		1530
Canada has seen its first gay divorce.		Brief Article	13
Choice struggles on: the progress of a great and necessary idea.	Bolick, Clint		1130
Class struggle.	Kurtz, Stanley	Book Review	1342
Congress lets expire assault-weapons ban signed by Clinton in 1994.		Brief Article	78
Dead ahead.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		606
Department of welfare.			19
Fallujah turns out to have been an experiment that failed.		Brief Article	295
Fundamental.	Wolanskyj, Lidia	Letter to the Editor	103
God, man & the founding.	Potemra, Michael	Book Review	621
Gruesome and constitutional.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		609
Help!!!!			48
In 1994, President Clinton enacted a ban on "assault weapons," a category of guns that differed from other guns chiefly in cosmetic ways.		Brief Article	105
In its annual report on religious freedom, the State Department has for the first time identified Saudi Arabia as a country that violates such freedom.			120
In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 31 states worth 306 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 17 states worth 212 electoral votes (270 needed to win).			215
James Carville and Paul Begala are busy men.		Brief Article	134
Jay Leno proposes new campaign slogan for Kerry.		Brief Article	14
Jiang Zemin, the most powerful figure in China for most of the past 15 years, has relinquished his sole remaining official position, chairman of the Central Military Commission.		Brief Article	221
John Kerry was against the war after he was for it, before he stopped being against it, prior to supporting it.		Brief Article	132
Kerry, in Time: "I've made mistakes, and I've done things that I regret, sure.		Brief Article	140
Kofi Annan denounced the Iraq war as illegal, which we take to mean he didn't like it one bit.		Brief Article	208
Krakow survived the world war unscathed, a monument to the great days of Poland, with its historic castle and cathedral and its market dating back to the Renaissance.		Brief Article	137
Land of plenty.	Long, Rob	Book Review	1168
Left-wing gay activists have begun to "out" lawmakers, and others, who support the Federal Marriage Amendment, or who oppose it but take other positions that the activists consider "anti-gay.".		Brief Article	158
Marching Band.	Bramwell, Sarah	Poem	168
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan ... how it's going, three years after invasion/liberation.	Sikorski, Radek		2468
Men, not machines: the Internet and cable TV are important, but far from all-important.	Frum, David		1064
Modern industrialized processes, from factories to farms, have characteristic noxious byproducts, from smog to hog waste.		Brief Article	126
Mother tongue.	Nordlinger, Jay	Book Review	1184
Mustering the energy.	Campana, Stephen	Letter to the Editor	267
No-limit child care funding.	Jones, Jeffrey M.		492
Not Tiffany, but Tin: CBS is tarnished, along with other houses of liberalism.	Emery, Noemie		1509
Notes & asides.		Transcript	755
Off the cuff.	Frank, Barney	Letter to the Editor	156
Oh happy day! Ding dong, the witch is ...	Goldberg, Jonah		1435
One vet's valor: B. G. Burkett is a myth-buster, a truth-teller, and a hero.	O'Beirne, Kate	Interview	1544
Putin Goes Retrograde.	von Dreele, W.H.	Brief Article	42
Rather shoddy.			442
Rep. Artur Davis (D., Ala.), in Baltimore Sun: "The [Democratic] party falls short in using us beyond the constraints of race.".		Brief Article	91
Rep. Jim Nussle (R., Ia.) invites Gov. Bill Owens (R., Colo.) to Iowa: "Governor Owens is an emerging leader in our party.		Brief Article	106
Senate Democrats are holding up the North Korea Human Rights Act, which would provide humanitarian aid to North Koreans, give grants to private organizations that promote North Korean human rights, and give legal and other aid to North Korean defectors.		Brief Article	216
Social Security is hot on the hustings these days.		Brief Article	248
Sparing rods, spoiling children: the impossibility of school discipline.	Arum, Richard		1091
Taming the beast.	Hood, John	Book Review	987
The Department of Homeland Security's Asa Hutchinson, in charge of enforcing our immigration laws, told the Washington Times recently that it is simply "not realistic" to expect the number of illegal aliens in the country to be reduced.		Brief Article	202
The good and the bad (plus some ugly): moments on campus.	Friedman, Rachel Zabarkes		1309
The influence behind W.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		804
The inhumanities.	Aeschliman, M.D.	Book Review	1303
The Kerry comeback: how it could happen.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1433
The killing by Chechen Islamists of several hundred hostages, mainly children, in the southern Russian town of Beslan should be a defining moment in the War on Terror.		Brief Article	250
The limits of money: schools K-12 have plenty of dough, but what have they to show?	Hess, Frederick M.		1513
The long view.	Long, Rob		783
The pop singer Madonna has become an adherent of Kabbalah, a body of mystical Jewish lore going back to late antiquity.		Brief Article	175
The rich and taxes.	Moore, Stephen		588
The United States recently lifted Cold War restrictions on trading nuclear and space technology with India.			105
The Washington Post claims that Bush's plans on taxes and Social Security carry a "price tag" of $3 trillion.			203
They shall tally-ho no longer.		Brief Article	178
Tom Coburn, the Republican Senate candidate from Oklahoma, is a strong conservative.		Brief Article	156
U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan on U.S.-led invasion of Iraq: "It was illegal.".		Brief Article	58
What constitutes a sex crime in these enlightened times?		Brief Article	160
Whither Rather?	von Dreele, W.H.	Brief Article	53