Articles from National Review (December 17, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A hero for president: for McCain.	Cannon, Frank		1590
A problem-solver whose time is now: for Giuliani.	Frum, David		1819
A tasty presidential perk: medals of freedom.	Nordlinger, Jay		1648
Benjamin Hooks, former executive director of the NAACP, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush.			146
Bernard Lewis and Fouad Ajami are two of the most distinguished Orientalists not just in this country but in the world.			214
Burned bones unearthed in July in a field near Yekaterinburg, Russia, have been identified by forensics experts as the remains of Alexei and Maria, children of Czar Nicholas II.			175
Crime? Punishment?	Buckley, William F., Jr.		659
Dark victory.	Douthat, Ross		960
Decent, gifted, accomplished ...: for Romney.	Barnett, Dean		1779
Denial.			650
Doubletake.	Butler, Christopher	Letter to the editor	344
Easy on Musharraf.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		633
Five years ago, the W. H. Brady Foundation decided to spend down its endowment and issue a handful of major grants in order to have a large impact on our time rather than a watered-down influence on the future.			159
Garry Kasparov heads Other Russia, a party contesting parliamentary elections on December 2.		Brief article	141
Get the time right.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		623
Help!!!!		Cartoon	67
Here's at you, world.	Buckley, Priscilla L.		1202
How about Huck? For Huckabee.	Webb, Kane		1537
Ian Smith, who died, age 88, was suited by birth and temperament to maintain the British Empire in Africa.			150
If it's strict immigration policies you're looking for, try New Zealand.			175
In 1995, a questioner said to Carole Simpson, then an anchor at ABC News, "The liberal bias of your network is obvious.".			101
In our last issue, we commented that Fred Thompson had released the most detailed and conservative set of policy prescriptions on Social Security and immigration.			221
It's a Wamworld.	Woolsey, R. James		2518
Last year, a 19-year-old Saudi woman met a former boyfriend in a car to ask him to return pictures, since she was about to marry someone else.			170
My Father on the Nile.	Dugan, Lawrence	Poem	146
On a recent evening of the New York Philharmonic, Glazunov's Violin Concerto was on the program.			157
Pope Benedict XVI has called for "continuity with tradition" in church music, referring specifically to St. Gregory the Great, the patron of Gregorian chant.			126
Rats!	Brookhiser, Richard		1002
Reagan and race, again.			446
Rise and rise of the west.	Roberts, Andrew		1501
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, gave an interview to a British Muslim magazine.			96
Rudy-Huck '08?			14
Saving Colombia: President Uribe has done much, and needs more help.	Lowry, Richard		1390
Sen. Trent Lott's retirement announcement brings a close to a 35-year Capitol Hill career that saw the Mississippi legislator rise from a backbencher in the House to Senate majority leader.			170
Since the remotest Paleolithic Era, human beings have huddled for warmth around the family hearth.			117
Sizing 'em up.	King, Florence		960
Smooth operator.	Schroeder, Joseph	Letter to the editor	153
Solid as a rock: for Thompson.	Adler, Jonathan H.		1782
Speech codes for Santa Claus? Down in Sydney, Australia, a firm that trains and supplies department-store Santas has instructed trainees that the traditional "Ho! Ho! Ho!" could be "derogatory to women.".			112
Stem-cell success.			637
Strikes of trains, the subway, and air-traffic control brought France to a standstill for almost two weeks.			196
Talleyrand, the archetypal diplomat, was said to be able to keep an expressionless face while being kicked in the backside.			125
Team Rudy: a brainy and ready brain trust.	Miller, John J.		1464
The American president has many perks, including the handing out of Medals of Freedom--for an article on that subject, see page 24 ("A Tasty Presidential Perk," by Jay Nordlinger).			153
The Aussies wanted a change, and out went John Howard.		Brief article	156
The Earl of Kent in Lear was famously ill-disposed toward the letter "z": "Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter ...".			156
The enemy within.	Radosh, Ron	Book review	2479
The first line of an AP report tells the story: "The United Nations has expressed regret that undercover Cuban officials attended a U.N. news conference on human rights, where they sought information on a French journalist asking critical questions about Fidel Castro's regime.".			201
The long view.	Long, Rob		766
The phone in the Iowa or New Hampshire kitchen rings.			179
The tradition of Ron Paul: defeated in the Cold War, it is back in this current war.	Goldberg, Jonah		1522
The universe, said J. B. S. Haldane, is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.			196
There was scant reason to think the Annapolis conference would help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.			191
Toni Vernelli of Somerset, England, had herself sterilized at age 27 to reduce her carbon footprint.			158
Tribbulations.	Hassett, Kevin A.		497