Articles from National Review (December 15, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"It's a lot easier to get into these situations than it is to get out of them," says Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit about his ailing bank's real-estate portfolio.		Brief article	166
'Iceberg, right ahead!'.	King, Florence	Column	1003
As dreams are made on.	Brookhiser, Richard	Essay	990
Australia's navy has chronic trouble with recruitment, so it's been forced to come up with some creative incentives for enlistees.		Brief article	127
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, greeted Barack Obama's election by calling him a "house negro.".		Brief article	132
Barack Obama's reported selection of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state shows a few things about him.			177
By naming Greg Craig as White House counsel, Obama has gotten himself a skillful lawyer--Craig led Bill Clinton's impeachment defense.		Brief article	145
Clive Barnes was one of the most famous critics in the English-speaking world, and deserved to be.		Obituary	120
Every once in a while, it pays to check in on what Middle Eastern elites are telling Middle Eastern audiences.		Brief article	178
Explanation and apology.		Correction notice	24
For more than a decade, Daniel Ortega was dictator of Nicaragua.		Brief article	170
For more than six decades, the college-football teams of Illinois and Northwestern have battled over a trophy called the Sweet Sioux Tomahawk.		Brief article	155
Given that it's the first original Guns N' Roses album since 1991--not to mention that all the original band members save singer Axl Rose are gone--we'd expect some in the music press to attack Chinese Democracy.		Brief article	155
Go forward to gold: how to lift the reserve-currency curse.	Lehrman, Lewis E.; Mueller, John D.	Cover story	3021
Help!!!!		Cartoon	27
In her role as governor of Alaska, Palin pardoned a turkey at a farm outside Wasilla before Thanksgiving.		Brief article	135
In search of the Afghan Maliki: the U.S. should focus on its own interests.	Taheri, Amir	Essay	3582
James Atlas, of Atlas & Co., decided to publish a book called How They See Us: Writers from Around the Globe Reflect on America.		Brief article	186
Left behind.	Berlinski, Claire	Book review	1526
Litigious man seeks same; freedom a turn-off.		Brief article	100
Maj. Gen. Amir Faisal Alvi commanded the Special Services Group, the SSG, Pakistan's elite commandos.		Brief article	150
Mark Halperin, journalistic bigfoot at Time, comes clean on the media love that dare not speak its name: "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq War.		Brief article	213
No one agrees about God.	Novak, Michael	Letter to the editor	1255
No person or institution should enter into a public controversy expecting to escape criticism--even unfair and dishonest criticism.			220
NSA surveillance transcript mobile-phone transmission.	Long, Rob		745
One bridge to nowhere is an embarrassment.		Brief article	16
Oogedy-boogedy in pinstripes: feel like blaming someone for the market crash?	Williamson, Kevin D.	Cover story	1578
Our deflated future? Probably not.	Gordon, John Steele	Cover story	1429
Politics in the round.		Book review	1241
Pro-choicers respect the sanctity of individual conscience--except, that is, when the conscience in question belongs to a medical worker who wishes not to participate in abortion.		Brief article	85
Put a cap in your plan.	Tucker, William; Manzi, Jim	Letter to the editor	383
Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, has engaged six students as conversation police.		Brief article	115
Republicans made few changes to their leadership in Congress.		Brief article	108
Richard Brookhiser first wrote for National Review when he was 14--his piece appeared on the cover.		Brief article	123
Russian president Dmitri Medvedev enjoys conducting a one-man permanent demonstration against the United States.		Brief article	183
Saint Jean-Baptiste a Gregorian chant.	Welm, Alexandra	Poem	76
Sarko's bite: The French president turns out to be French.	Stuttaford, Andrew	Cover story	1514
Scapegoating the social right: a fact-free distraction.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1788
Senate Democrats voted, by a wide margin, to strip erring brother Joe Lieberman of his seat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, a wrist slap, but left him chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.		Brief article	124
Steady as she sinks.			402
Successive American presidents have tried for almost 20 years to give Somalia a government.		Brief article	259
The Big Three's Big Three: severance, pensions, and health benefits.	Spruiell, Stephen	Cover story	1654
The epic of finance.	Meltzer, Allan H.	Book review	1358
The Obamas announced that they will send their daughters, Malia and Sasha, to Sidwell Friends, the 125-year-old Quakerrun school.		Brief article	113
The old new deal.	Black, Conrad	Book review	1851
The race between John Dingell and Henry Waxman for the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee was a proxy war between congressional Democrats who want to protect manufacturing jobs from the onslaught of environmental regulations and those who wish to go green without regard to the economic implications.		Brief article	140
The regulators'rough ride.	Hassett, Kevin, A.		374
The times, they are a-changin': peace & love & hope hope hope, etc.		Brief article	200
The world cares very little about Falun Gong, the spiritual movement persecuted to a barely imaginable degree by the Chinese government.		Brief article	196
There is talk of a new New Deal in the air, and even a new Works Progress Administration, with President-elect Obama promising to "put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, modernizing schools that are failing our children, and building wind farms and solar panels.".		Brief article	112
This is change we can believe in, or at least respect: Barack Obama wants to keep Bob Gates as secretary of defense.		Brief article	100
Under done.	Douthat, Ross		838
Washington, P.C.: the new Capitol Visitor Center has a shaky grasp of history.	Miller, John J.		1667
We predicted Obama's election would harken a return to September 10 counterterrorism, and his naming of Eric Holder to be attorney general does not dispel that fear.		Brief article	163
We struck a security pact with the Iraqis.		Brief article	204
Weep not for Alaska senator Ted Stevens, who lost his reelection race after being convicted of making false statements about accepting gifts from an oilfield-services company.		Brief article	183
What does it take to get fired from the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services?		Brief article	220
Wrong road: on transportation, some folks don't stop thinking about yesterday.	Staley, Sam; Moore, Adrian	Cover story	1586