Articles from National Review (August 8, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A force for good.	Owens, MacKubin Thomas	Book Review	1578
A perfect world.	Wilson, John	Book Review	1451
A Rose and Milton.	Mezey, Robert	Poem	115
Albania votes: an emerging democracy, emerges.	Nordlinger, Jay		1519
Artificial sweeteners.	Mantyla, Paul	Letter to the Editor	152
Ask not: our crazy rules for judicial nominees.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1992
At an interview given on Bastille Day--the celebrated anniversary of a riot that precipitated decades of anarchy, mass murder, despotism, and war--Jacques Chirac, the president of France, unburdened himself of some opinions about the superiority of his nation to the uncouth and perfidious Anglo-Saxons.		Interview	186
Brits surrounded.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		569
Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, the Catholic archbishop of Vienna, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times arguing that while the Church has no objection to "evolution," that does not mean it accepts everything that travels under that name.		Brief Article	267
Clearing the air.	Mehan, G. Tracy, III	Book Review	1025
Competitive instincts.	Derbyshire, John		952
Conservatives--along with some liberals, such as those at the NAACP--have reacted ferociously to the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. New London.		Brief Article	208
Corn row: was it Joe Wilson who outed his wife?	May, Clifford D.		1810
Expensive talk: the gracelessness of the rock-and-roll left.	Daniels, Anthony		1451
Gen. William C. Westmoreland, who commanded American forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968, died aged 91.		Obituary	145
Giving them the business.	Rose, Alexander	Book Review	1214
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth and penultimate installment of the Harry Potter series, went on sale one minute after midnight, July 16.		Brief Article	133
Help!!!!	Dreel, W.H.	Cartoon	23
Humane alternatives.			582
Iranian journalist and political prisoner Akbar Ganji was on hunger strike for nearly 40 days before being transferred, shortly before this magazine went to print, from the infirmary of Iran's Evin prison to a Tehran hospital, apparently for emergency treatment.		Brief Article	206
Iraqi doubts.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		759
John Hillen, an NR contributing editor, has been nominated by President Bush to be assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs.		Brief Article	89
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's jurisprudence, all too often, has been neither based on the Constitution as understood by its ratifiers nor mindful of the requirements of the rule of law.		Brief Article	317
Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, spoke to the NAACP about the relationship between blacks and the Republican party.		Brief Article	224
Michael Chertoff, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, prompted howls with his entirely commonsensical suggestion that the federal government should focus most of its energy on trying to prevent truly catastrophic terror attacks using commercial aviation or weapons of mass destruction.		Brief Article	159
Newspaper and wire-service sub-editors--the people who write the headlines and photo captions--live a dull and thankless existence for the most part.		Brief Article	178
No strings attached.	Drabik, Stephen F.	Letter to the Editor	41
Notes & asides.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		846
NSA document extracts: telephone transcripts.	Long, Rob	Transcript	977
Operation get Rove: a misguided--and bungling--lynch mob.	York, Byron		1331
Plame out.			796
Political connoisseurs want to know, what's the matter with New York these days?		Brief Article	149
President George W. Bush and Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh met at the White House in a historic indication of common interest--and the U.S. government announced that it would allow nuclear-power technology sales to India.		Brief Article	135
Property and privilege.	Epstein, Richard A.		515
Proportional failure.	Beck, Stefan	Letter to the Editor	240
Sir Edward Heath, the former British prime minister who has died aged 89, was at once an exemplar of our democratic age and a dirigiste anachronism.		Obituary	207
Sounds like a deal.	Dunworth, J.R.	Letter to the Editor	128
Speaking of which, Chertoff recently lifted restrictions that have confined airline passengers to their seats for a half hour after taking off and before landing at Reagan National Airport.		Brief Article	81
That was close.		Brief Article	202
The battle for Britain.			491
The economy is growing, federal revenue is therefore up (14 percent), and the deficit is going down (by $100 billion).		Brief Article	152
The Guardian, Britain's leading left-wing newspaper, has--naturally!--a policy of "diversity" in hiring newsroom staff.		Brief Article	194
The inquisitor: Charles Schumer, leader of the anti-Bush crusade.	Miller, John J.		1676
The lion challenged: why England mustn't sleep.	O'Sullivan, John		2844
The regime of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe is approaching North Korean levels of whimsical ferocity.		Brief Article	85
The Rove affair.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	44
The Terror, Explained.	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	50
The Washington Post editorialized that John Roberts is "a man of substance and seriousness" and that President Bush "deserves credit" for nominating him.		Brief Article	42
There are three inanimate objects in this story.		Brief Article	201
Tony Blair, speaking of the London bombings four days after they happened, blamed them on "Islamist extremist terrorists" who, in recent years, have struck "Madrid, Bali, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Kenya, Tanzania, Pakistan, Yemen, Turkey, Egypt, and Morocco, of course in New York on September 11, but in many other countries too.".		Brief Article	107
Too flip.	Gurdon, Meghan Cox		583
Trading up.			450
Tribal loyalties: the BIA: a Washington disgrace.	Steorts, Jason Lee		2485
Wild about Harry.	George, Robert P.	Book Review	1506
Yesterday's battles.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		714