Articles from National Review (May 28, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A Chinese judge accused of corruption has died in jail of "adult sudden death syndrome," according to Chinese authorities.			69
A goddess for victims: the Victims of Communism Memorial comes to fruition.	Miller, John J.		1562
Abandoning the troops.			677
Against the porkbusters: conservatives should find another crusade.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1826
America's best friend in Latin America is Colombian president Alvaro Uribe.			150
As the saying goes, predictions are hard to get right, especially when they're about the future.			171
At least if Hillary wins in 2008.			14
At the altar of a Virginia church, a Nigerian canon lawyer clad in a white-powdered wig stood and read an edict relating the election of the Rev. Martyn Minns.			218
Because Cuban dissidents and truth-tellers are so seldom honored by the world at large, it is especially gratifying when they are.			88
Because the first Republican debate was held at the Reagan Library, with Nancy Reagan prominent in the audience, it was only natural that Reagan received respectful attention from the candidates.			250
Bitter (and unfiltered) ender.	Mathias, Kenneth L.	Letter to the editor	167
British prime ministers don't leave office unless there's a war that's going badly, or they are ill.			217
Brutal math.	Larsen, Clark	Letter to the editor	233
Calls for gun control after the Virginia Tech massacre were muted.			174
Canon fodder.	Torrance, Kelly Jane		1543
Chavez, Fidel Castro's clone, chose May 1 as the day to announce the nationalization of the major international oil companies operating in Venezuela.			176
Cracked.	Goldberg, Jonah		515
Department of Homeland Security: cellular-communication wiretap extract.	Long, Rob		815
Father of the year?	King, Florence		960
Four hecklers interrupted a speech by FBI director Robert Mueller at Harvard.			164
George Tenet's memoir, At the Center of the Storm, has been slammed left and right, often for the wrong reasons.		Brief article	201
Give McCain a Sedative.	von Dreele, W.H.		55
Go, Sarko! If the new French president does not succeed, things will get horribly worse.	Dalrymple, Theodore		1527
Grandest of them all.	Brookhiser, Richard		995
Herodotus may have been on to this story, when he reported "a goat-footed race" of men, though he located them in modern-day Russia.			147
Islamists as run-of-the-mill socialists: or, what I learned at my Oxford Union debate.	Goldberg, Jonah		1193
Liberalism's little women.	Powers, Elizabeth		1381
Many Americans have been cross at France of late, and we hope Nicolas Sarkozy puts an end to it.			195
Mike Penner, a sportswriter at the Los Angeles Times, announced that he is a transitioning transsexual who is becoming Christine Daniels.			38
Nowhere has Chinese Communism exacted a more savage toll than in Tibet.			189
One cheer for the hot new memoir: the uses of George Tenet's book.	Lowry, Richard	Book review	1861
One of those moments.	Mesey, Robert		61
Our foreign policy may be defined by September 11, but our defense policy remains stuck on September 10.			90
Pop romanizing.	Hanson, Victor Davis		1573
President Bush sent Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi a letter explaining that he would "veto any legislation that weakens current Federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage.".			118
Queen Elizabeth II and Vice President Cheney visited Jamestown, Va., to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Britain's first permanent settlement in North America.			126
Reforming Kemal: the nation's reasonable compromise on religion and politics.	O'Sullivan, John		1465
Romania recently agreed to let the United States use four Romanian military bases.			102
Ronald Reagan's White House diaries, to be published by Harper-Collins and excerpted in Vanity Fair.			159
Six years ago, Jian-li Yang swung by our offices, to talk about China.			252
Slingin' it.	Douthat, Ross		989
Start of the surge: a report from Iraq.	West, Bing		2652
Superstitions of democracy.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		615
Talk about Democratic unity! When Washington Post columnist David Broder chastised Senate majority leader Harry Reid for declaring that the war in Iraq "is lost," all 50 of Reid's Democratic colleagues in the Senate dashed off a letter to the Post attacking Broder.			115
Ten Republican presidential candidates appeared onstage at the Reagan Library so that they could be hectored, bullied, and asked inane questions by Chris Matthews and John Harris.			152
The arrest of six alleged jihadists for plotting to attack the U.S. military installation at Fort Dix, N.J., provided several useful lessons.			160
The House voted to make "hate crimes" a federal offense.			111
The inside story.	Nash, George H.		1832
The little students in a kindergarten in Calabasas, Calif., have complained about a "weird man" who comes to school to sing them "scary" songs.			63
The talent of Mstislav Rostropovich is hard to fathom. He was probably the greatest cellist who ever lived; he was also one of the greatest instrumentalists who ever lived.			169
The waning of the GOP.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		617
Torture on 60 minutes.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		733
Up to now, the biggest opponents of the Bush administration's initiative to build a limited missile-defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland have been Russia and anti-American Europeans.			153
Violence at the May Day rallies for legalizing illegal immigrants made the headlines--with, amazingly, the police getting more criticism for responding to it than the protesters got for starting it--but the real news is how few people showed up.			123
Vive Sarkozy!	von Dreele, W.H.		44
WFB & PTB.	Stevens, Loretto	Letter to the editor	57
When Rudolph Giuliani announced his presidential run, we hoped that he could find common ground with pro-lifers.			272
When Turkey's foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, was nominated to the post of Turkish president, the army dropped heavy hints that it might mount a coup if he were elected.			231
Wild about Harry: the 'netroots' love him, but will the Senate majority leader hurt his party?	York, Byron	Cover story	2473
Will there always be a Britain? What Blair's devolution' hath wrought.	Pryce-Jones, David		1514