Articles from National Review (October 8, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Who, or why, or which, or what, is the Akond of Swat?" wondered the poet Edward Lear.		Brief article	209
'Real' battles.	Nathan, Blair	Letter to the editor	175
A matter of pride: anthropological discernment in our current conflict.	Lowry, Richard		2353
Amateur Hour? Fred Thompson, an old pro, has had lots of campaign growing pains.	Freddoso, David		1301
Choice for Me, but Not for thee: democratic presidential candidates and their kids' education.	Long, Rob		1024
Comes the fair tax: the latest in the push for saner, more effective taxation in the United States.	Hemingway, Mark		1448
Deaths can be mysterious in China, not least because Chinese officialdom has a way of forgetting that anyone has died.			129
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich appeared on Syrian television to condemn the United States for its "illegal occupation" of Iraq, and he went on to praise Bashar Assad, the Syrian president, for his human-rights record.			127
Do they know anything about Islam? Rights and wrongs of multicultural ed.	Kavulla, Travis		1382
Et Tu, Alan?	von Dreele, W.H.	Poem	98
Everyone sees the world through his own prism.			191
For humanity.	Anderson, Ryan T.	Book review	1467
For years, scientists studying everything from weather patterns to volcanic activity have been allowed limited access to images taken by spy satellites as they fly over the United States.			152
Former Rhode Island senator Lincoln Chafee left the party of Lincoln, changing his affiliation to independent.			36
Gathering storm.	Pryce-Jones, David		1398
German authorities arrested three Islamist terrorists, and are looking for at least ten others, in connection with a plot to strike multiple targets: most prominently, Ramstein Air Base and Frankfurt International Airport, critical hubs for American military operations and civilian travel.			176
Getting immigration right: a headache and a half for the GOP.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1643
Having lost the battle for "comprehensive" immigration reform, Sen. Dick Durbin and like-minded colleagues are now trying for amnesty on the installment plan.			125
Hollywood at War.	Keber, Eric	Letter to the editor	162
How to fix the Universities: not easy, if you don't have tanks.	Kimball, Roger		1719
In his first State of the Nation address, Mexico's president Felipe Calderon condemned the treatment of Mexicans living illegally in the U.S.			122
Iraq: one more time.			661
Is epiphany running for office?	Buckley, William F., Jr.		712
Israel has just struck out at Syria--that's a fact--and Syria is complaining to the United Nations--that's another fact.			227
Jobs, trade, and the democrats.	Buckley, William F., Jr.		603
Leader of the Chinese: Jian-li Yang, democracy activist, after five years in prison.	Nordlinger, Jay		2678
Lover.	Baer, William	Poem	127
Low Life.	Douthat, Ross		826
Luciano Pavarotti has been called many things: "The King of the High C's"; "The Voice of the Century"; the most popular opera singer in history.			248
Mad hatters.	Copeland, Ralph D.	Letter to the editor	175
Me conservative, me stupid: or at least rigid and habit-bound, says 'the science'.	Goldberg, Jonah		1449
Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee to be attorney general, is a well-respected former trial judge with sound views on national-security issues.			179
Mild, mild life.	Lopez, Kathryn Jean		992
Monaco on the Potomac.	Goldberg, Jonah		568
Nepal Airlines, the national carrier for the Himalayan kingdom, had a problem with one of the two Boeing 757s that are the pride of its tiny fleet.			115
Norman Hsu, the Hong Kong-born businessman who fled a prosecution for a Ponzi scheme 15 years ago, fled another prosecution for fleeing, before he was found, ill, on a train in Colorado.			141
NSA Surveillance Transcript (Patriot Act-authorized).	Long, Rob		850
October 4, 2007, marks precisely 50 years since the launch of Sputnik, the first man-made object to achieve earth orbit.		Brief article	194
On September 18, 57 senators voted for a bill that would grant the District of Columbia a permanent seat in the House of Representatives--a privilege that the Constitution limits to "the several states.".			132
Once they had Potemkin villages in Russia, fake facades made to look from a distance like the real thing, and now they have Potemkin democracy.			239
Only two groups of Americans need to worry about Hillary Clinton's new health plan: people who are healthy, and people who are sick. The healthy would pay higher insurance premiums, because Clinton would prohibit insurers from giving them a discount.			129
Pennsylvania governor Robert Casey was among the last of the fighting pro-life Democrats.			106
Preschool for All! Hillary and others drive for 'universal preschool'.	Miller, John J.		2019
Progress report.			827
Prompted by a tempting rhyme, and their own antimilitary reflexes (which require no temptation to activate), MoveOn.org bought a full-page ad in the New York Times blasting Gen. David Petraeus on the eve of his testimony to Congress: "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?/Cooking the books for the White House," the headline and subhead cried.			199
Republicans keep saying that the Democrats are running a "do-nothing Congress.".			147
Return of the sheik: one man, and one tribe, in Iraq.	Loyola, Mario	Cover story	2774
Scoops of a half-century.	Cannon, Lou		2011
The fair state of Washington seems to be a center of academic "diversity" busyness.			165
The Fed blinked, easing monetary policy to reassure markets that are jittery about a housing slump and weak jobs growth.			136
The Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007, brainchild of Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy, seeks to return to federal district courts the cases of alien enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay.			162
The Jewish New Year was brightened by Madonna, who toasted it in Jerusalem with Israeli president Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism.".			69
The origin of species, and Everything Else: coping with evolution and religion.	Manzi, Jim		2834
The story of O. J. Simpson's arrest on a charge of armed robbery is a bit hard to follow.			150
The Vatican has announced that it will be the first carbon-neutral state.			24
The virtual attic.	Derbyshire, John		1066
This Might Hurt.	von Dreele, W. H.	Poem	39
While conservatives hold a range of views on the details of antitrust policy, they think that most mergers should be allowed to go forward.			134
Who is a poster boy for the new Louis Vuitton ad campaign, along with Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi, and Catherine Deneuve? Who but Mikhail Gorbachev, former general secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union.			90
You know the refrain: America is in Iraq "to achieve the interests of the major corporations.".			160
You know you have a dim view of Larry Summers when even his Harvard-based persecutors think you've gone too far.		Brief article	187