Articles from National Review (April 7, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Protest--[the] peaceful way [to] express their deep resentment--is a right," said the Dalai Lama, after protests in his native Tibet left 80 dead (China put the death toll at 16).		Brief article	170
'Govern me!' he cried.	Goldberg, Jonah		511
'He's no Jeb Bush': Charlie Crist--ambiguous conservative, potential vice president.	Miller, John J.	Biography	2277
A gaffe, Michael Kinsley taught us, is not saying something false, but saying something true that no one wishes to acknowledge.		Brief article	175
A mighty leap.			551
A rumor of angels.	Derbyshire, John		1049
A trip down south: in which our heroes visit Antarctica.	Buckley, William F., Jr.	Travel narrative	1571
Adm. William Fallon resigned as head of U.S. Central Command, having served less than a year in the post with responsibility for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.		Brief article	174
Al-Qaeda trains its terrorists to resist known interrogation tactics, so the United States has a national-security interest in keeping such tactics secret.		Brief article	129
An eighth-grader in New Haven, Conn., was suspended when one of his classmates sold him a pack of Skittles, the bright-colored, fruit-flavored, endlessly delicious candy.		Brief article	139
Antoine de Saint-Exupery was the French answer to Charles Lindbergh, a pilot whose feats became so legendary that he was known familiarly as Saint-Ex.		Brief biography	198
Averting a crisis.			554
Charles Taylor, president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003, is on trial for war crimes before a U.N.		Brief article	147
Cherish the name of Wafa Sultan, follow what this lady says and does: She's a true fighter for freedom.		Brief article	174
China's "liberalized" economy allows some market mechanisms to operate, but it is still dominated by the corrupt leadership of the People's Liberation Army and various tentacles of the Communist Party.		Brief article	63
Clever marketers have long understood that the more something costs, the better people assume it must be.		Brief article	152
Corrections.		Correction notice	49
Dead end: the heartbreaking realities of today's Israel.	Pryce-Jones, David		1561
Democrats are facing a party litmus test on immigration.		Brief article	132
Enough about "equality".	Trosset, Jonas	Brief article	200
Fall of the graceless.			373
Five years later.			875
Florian's world: on the writer and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, maker of The Lives of Others.	Nordlinger, Jay	Biography	2658
For all their happy talk about improving diplomatic relations with America's traditional allies, Democrats didn't hesitate to go ballistic after the Pentagon awarded a big contract for Air Force refueling tankers to Northrop Grumman and a European partner rather than to Boeing.		Brief article	260
Former House speaker Denny Hastert stepped down from his seat in the middle of his term, and picked a weak candidate, dairy magnate Jim Oberweis, to run for it.		Brief article	90
Heavenly diction.	Dennison, James T., Jr.	Letter to the editor	62
Help!!!!		Cartoon	24
In 1957, Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story in which an astronaut on an orbiting space station happens to glimpse the dead wreckage of an alien spacecraft pass by.		Brief article	194
Is Prospect Bend, Fla., ready for democracy?		Brief article	95
John McCain won the Republican presidential primaries by running as a pro-life Reagan Republican, committed to low taxes and a strong defense.		Brief article	185
Let us now praise No. 4: the greatness of Brett Favre.	Hayes, Stephen F.		1218
March mischief.	Douthat, Ross		915
Of governors and call girls: some thoughts upon Eliot Spitzer's downfall.	Dalrymple, Theodore		1546
Oh no you can't: amateur propagandists in the YouTube age.	Long, Rob		1049
On the bright side.		Brief article	13
One of the more amusing features of campaign-finance transparency is that it reveals the political biases of our nation's higher-education institutions.		Brief article	65
Playwright David Mamet wrote an election-season piece for the Village Voice, provocatively titled "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal.'".		Brief article	156
President Bush and our intelligence agencies want to go after terrorists abroad.		Brief article	228
Put paid to said.	Daniels, Anthony		1203
Replace a hymen, save a life.	Ensign, Danielle	Brief article	160
Shelf life.	Potemra, Michael		352
Snowflake.	Baer, William	Poem	95
States of the mindless.	Steyn, Mark		926
The big empty and a silver voice.	Aeschliman, M.D.		2571
The buckeye stops here: it's not foreigners who are hurting Ohio's economy.	Spruiell, Stephen		2021
The Cuban government sent a soccer team to Florida.			103
The Democrats' difficulty in choosing a presidential nominee is the product of two characteristic decisions.		Brief article	138
The full history.	Person, James E., Jr.		1515
The Limits of hope: Obama is selling heaven, but his product isn't new.	Goldberg, Jonah	Cover story	2925
The long view.	Long, Rob		771
The power of 41: senator McConnell fights for the filibuster.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1638
This year's budget battles will look similar to last year's.		Brief article	200
Two years ago, Alaska's Sarah Palin came out of nowhere to swipe the GOP nomination from Frank Murkowski, the unpopular incumbent Republican governor.		Brief article	167
Unknown quantity: are the Democrats gambling a mystery man?	Levin, Yuval		1140
When the city council of Berkeley, Calif., declared Marine Corps recruiters unwelcome, the resolution attracted much criticism, and rightly so.		Brief article	115
When the United Methodist Church kicks off its general assembly this month, one of the notable items on its agenda will be a vote on economic sanctions against Israel.		Brief article	177