Articles from National Review (August 13, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Scott Thomas," a pseudonymous soldier who files occasional pieces on life at the front in Iraq for The New Republic, had some particularly raw vignettes recently.			168
'Peace through light': the latest case of missile defense and its enemies.	Miller, John J.		1483
A few charms.	Douthat, Ross		967
A twentysomething Muslim woman who served as a juror in a London murder trial is being charged with contempt of court because she listened to music on an iPod, hidden beneath her head-covering hijab, while the trial was in progress.			142
A vat of trouble.	Hassett, Kevin A.		421
Abortion and crime: one has an effect on the other, but it may not be the effect you think.	Lott, John R., Jr.		1390
Ad multos annos!	Anderson, Brian C.		1164
After passengers reported the suspicious behavior of six Muslim clerics on a US Airways flight last November, the clerics were questioned and cleared--and the passengers were slapped with a lawsuit.		Brief article	137
After the fall.	Suderman, Peter		1157
Al-Qaeda is thriving in Pakistan, thanks to an ill-advised ceasefire deal that Pervez Musharraf cut with tribal leaders in 2006.			186
American gothic.	O'Connell, Richard	Poem	71
Apologia Americana.	Levenick, Christopher		1497
Auld Kirk.	Potemra, Michael		1033
Better than genocide: ethnic cleansing in human affairs.	Peters, Ralph		2371
Beware fairness.	Farley, Christian G.	Letter to the editor	95
Bizarrely, the National Intelligence Estimate played in the press as a huge setback to the Bush administration.			101
Coming soon to Los Angeles: a new exhibit by NR's own Roman Genn.			125
Conrad Black, who is both a baron and a press baron, was convicted recently of four felonies in Chicago.			208
Correction.		Correction notice	45
Dick Gephardt started out pro-life but switched his position in time to run for president.			186
Dr. Deaths.	Lassiter, William J.	Letter to the editor	147
Elizabeth Edwards says that John Edwards is the most feminist candidate in the race.			21
Farmers on the dole: the crying need for ag reform.	Spruiell, Stephen		2528
Finally there is a voice of reason in the CIA-leak case.			174
Health of the State: doctors, patients, and Michael Moore.	Dalrymple, Theodore	Cover story	2939
House Democrats never have been known as tightwads, and the budget they just passed for the Department of Labor won't change their reputation.		Brief article	147
Hugh C. Newton, R.I.P.			283
If the results of the Turkish election had been designed by a committee consisting of Henry Kissinger, Bernard Lewis, and Dick Morris, it could scarcely have come up with a more calming outcome.			210
In the last two years of the Clinton administration, the Republican Senate confirmed 15 appeals-court nominees.			221
Inside Harry's Dorm.	Von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	37
July was supposed to be the new September. Instead of waiting for Gen. David Petraeus to report on the state of the surge in Iraq in the fall, panicked Republicans--egged on by the media--seemed set to mandate withdrawal right away.			149
Let's get physical.	Derbyshire, John		1060
Mugabe's Marvelous Foe: meet Zimbabwean archbishop Pius Ncube.	Kavulla, Travis		1502
Nothing to lose.	Brand, Jerry L.	Letter to the editor	71
NRA nation: the second amendment people are winning.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1452
Our pleasant blue Earth has a sister planet, Venus, of approximately the same size and internal composition.			172
Put 'em to the test: for a nation of minimally informed voters.	Goldberg, Jonah		1187
Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) compared 9/11 to the Reichstag fire in a talk early in July.			133
S-chipping away at free markets.			588
Sorry, wrong era.	Von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	40
Taiwan's two dozen: who will dare have relations with Free China?	Nordlinger, Jay		1618
The game of checkers has been completely solved.			82
The madness begins.	Moyar, Mark		1237
The Washington Post ran a front-page story on the administration's "bold new assertion of executive authority.".			233
The word "genocide" rolls trippingly off liberal tongues these days.			178
There are some curious nuggets of information to be unearthed from the Federal Election Commission's campaign-contribution database.			172
Transcript court-ordered mediation in the matter of.	Long, Rob		881
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez does not take criticism well, a fact illustrated by his shutdown of RCTV, Venezuela's second-largest TV channel, earlier this year.			129
Vets for Freedom, a group made up of people who served in Iraq or Afghanistan, took to Capitol Hill the afternoon before Harry Reid's all-nighter.			125
Yes, the shutdown of North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear reactor was good news.			192