Articles from National Review (December 31, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'Electable,' they say: the myth of Giuliani as Hillary-Slayer.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		2086
A Christmas carol: a Heath family Christmas-carol program always seems like a good idea ...	Heath, Aloise Buckley		2380
A national disgrace: the recent National Intelligence Estimate is outrageously--possibly dangerously--misleading.	Steorts, Jason Lee		1511
Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt hit back at Internet harpies who mocked photos of her on a Hawaiian beach that allegedly showed her to be fat.			91
Allentown, Pa., in the heart of the old steel country, boasts a minor-league baseball team, the Lehigh V alley IronPigs.			192
Among evangelicals, a transformation: they're not 'cracking up,' as some contend, or hope; they are, however, changing.	Wehner, Peter		2597
As our colleague The Straggler notes elsewhere in this issue, some products of human ingenuity--slide rules, suspender belts--have been made utterly obsolete by new technology.			158
Asked about his lack of foreign-policy experience on the revived Don Imus radio show, Mike Huckabee compared himself to Ronald Reagan.			193
At Annapolis, Mahmoud Abbas "agreed" to reach a final settlement with the Israeli government and create a Palestinian state by the end of 2008.		Brief article	115
Beautiful collecting.	Nordlinger, Jay		1842
D'Souza and the divine.	Klinghoffer, David	Book review	1594
Four and a half months after being hit with allegations that one of its contributors, a soldier serving in Iraq, had been serving up fiction disguised as fact, The New Republic finally published a 7,000-word nostra culpa in which editor Franklin Foer concluded, "We cannot stand by these stories.".			138
Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher in a Sudanese school, let her students name a class teddy bear.			176
Green death?	Hayward, Steven F.		1716
Help!!!!		Cartoon	137
Henry Hyde, R.I.P.			365
His didactic materials.	Douthat, Ross		1055
Huckabee released a sensible plan to fight illegal immigration--largely borrowed from our pages, as his campaign generously acknowledges--but it's his record in Arkansas that has been getting attention, little of it flattering.			228
Hugo Chavez expected, and was expected by others, to win handily the Venezuelan referendum that inter alia would have installed him in power permanently.			153
Imus came back on the radio, after penance for his racial offenses.			155
In coming days the British are to hand over their responsibilities in southern Iraq to the local army and police.			215
Joe Biden on the hustings in New Hampshire said that if President Bush bombed Iran without congressional approval, he should be impeached.			135
Last verse.	Buckley, Priscilla		681
Lights! action!	Buckley, William F., Jr.		623
Maps and chaps.	Derbyshire, John		1062
Mark Steyn, ornament of our pages and many others, may be muzzled by an authoritarian state: Canada.			165
Merry Holidays!	Goldberg, Jonah		610
Old words.	Creagan, Michael	Poem	34
On Nov. 20, scientists announced that they had discovered a way to create stem cells with the same potential as embryonic stem cells--but instead of destroying embryos, they had done it by "reprogramming" adult cells.			101
One of NR's editors says he first learned the words evel knievel as a common noun: He didn't know who Evel Knievel was, but to be an evel (or, as he heard it, "evil") knievel was to win praise for doing what was dangerous, probably forbidden, and cool.			185
Oprah Winfrey stumped for Barack Obama in Iowa and South Carolina. Miss Winfrey is, without question, the most important woman in America; overall, she is a force for good, a black female Benjamin Franklin, offering uplift and useful advice.			155
Parallel lives and legacies.	Herman, Arthur W.		1103
President Bush announced an agreement with the big mortgage banks that would purportedly stem the tide of falling home prices and rising foreclosure rates.			128
Questions of life and death.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		632
Romney for president.			1133
The Alternative Minimum Tax was designed to hit the rich.			136
The anti-war outfit VoteVets.org has lost a major star.			162
The book on McCarthy.	Evans, M. Stanton; Radosh, Ronald		3077
The gospel truth? Questions about that Judas manuscript.	Miller, John J.		1530
The horror of Huck: we have seen this act in the Republican party before--recently.	Goldberg, Jonah		1547
The problem of my country: a dissident looks homeward.	Bukovsky, Vladimir; Stroilov, Pavel		2776
The U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk planned to dock in Hong Kong November 21 to give the crew four days of Thanksgiving shore leave.			170
Transcript from the al-Jazeera political talk show The al-Irshad Group: December 11, 2007.	Long, Rob		823
Up next on Oprah.			16
Vladimir Putin is giving a master class in modern dictatorship.			236
W. Thomas Smith Jr., a former contributor to National Review Online, did not make his stories up.			72
You live with it.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		683