Articles from National Review (September 15, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'The most gut-wrenching decision': how John McCain became a hero.	Miller, John J.		1485
A cautionary tale of justice at work comes from the mean streets of Grafton, Wisc., where Heidi Dalibor was recently arrested for not returning a pair of library books.		Brief article	182
A group of college presidents calling themselves the Amethyst Initiative wants to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18.		Brief article	115
Adultery through green eyeshades.	King, Florence	Column	1039
Another indicator for Bernanke to watch: Organized-crime groups are increasingly conducting their business in the euro, a Canadian report found.			31
Before Barack Obama announced his vice-presidential pick via text message, more than one pundit joked that he should do so at 3:00 A.M., just as a slap at Hillary Clinton.		Brief article	83
Before the Olympics, many observers--including members of the International Olympic Committee--speculated that the Games could spur China toward transparency and respect for human rights.		Brief article	203
Behind every great man ...	Browne, Lee	Letter to the editor	299
Bill Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist responsible for various bombings.		Brief article	222
Built to last.	Brookhiser, Richard		996
California's supreme court has ruled that the government may compel two doctors who declined to artificially inseminate an unmarried woman to do so, in contravention of their religious principles, which the court characterized as "incidental.".		Brief article	144
Candidate of caution.			449
Caucasus diary: 'a shiver of instability runs through ...'.	O'Sullivan, John	Travel narrative	2315
Change you can believe in.		Brief article	23
Citing the recent drop in commodity prices, Ben Bernanke said that the Fed was not going to hike interest rates anytime soon.		Brief article	94
Cold War II: it isn't just Georgia that's in danger.	Pryce-Jones, David		1607
Construal.	Krisak, Len	Poem	141
Dueling batmen.	Medlin, Rick	Letter to the editor	199
During his days in the Illinois state legislature, Barack Obama opposed bills to provide legal protection to infants who survive botched abortions.		Brief article	204
For the press, intra-Democratic disputes have all the intrinsic interest, and all the unpleasantness, of a fight within one's social circle.		Brief article	168
HELP!!!!		Cartoon	115
Hit and miss.	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	1037
In its latest rankings, U.S. News & World Report lists George Mason University first in the new category of Up-and-Coming National Universities.		Brief article	84
In systems that lack settled procedures for leadership succession, it sometimes happens that while the alpha males wrestle grimly among themselves for supremacy, a complete mediocrity rises to brief prominence: a Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, a Richard Cromwell, a Georgy Malenkov.		Brief article	187
In victory's direction: where we're headed in Iraq, and why we must arrive.	West, Bing		3527
Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki is saying that a new security agreement with the U.S. must contain an unconditional deadline of 2011 for the pullout of all our troops.		Brief article	194
It's not just the executive.	Uhlmann, Michael M.		1511
Jacob Weisberg of Slate is an either/or guy.		Brief article	168
John McCain committed a whopper when he ducked a Politico question about how many houses he has.		Brief article	84
Just in from our stinky cove desk.	Buckley, Christopher	Column	854
Kerri Walsh, American gold medalist in beach volleyball, had a post-victory message for George W. Bush.		Brief article	62
Madonna, intuiting that the display of her cadaverous gams in fishnet stockings is no longer sufficient to rustle up media attention and the illusion of cultural relevance that attends it, has set upon John McCain.		Brief article	137
Not many government operations function well, so it's worth noting the recent performance of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the low-key agency that insures most bank accounts up to $100,000.		Brief article	192
Obama and other Democrats who have pushed relentlessly for a pullout from Iraq, insisting on arbitrary timelines and heedless of the need to consolidate battlefield victories, should look hard at Somalia.		Brief article	196
Official transcript: Larry King Live: October 10, 2008.	Long, Rob	Broadcast transcript	840
Olbermann Broadcast Corporation: one very loud mouth a network doth tarnish.	Spruiell, Stephen	Cover story	3599
Pakistan is close to becoming an unwelcome novelty, a failed state with somewhere between 50 and 100 nuclear bombs.			194
Russia's invasion of Georgia was preceded by computerized attacks on Georgian Internet sites.		Brief article	154
Russia's new cold war.			564
Tales of two conductors.	Nordlinger, Jay		1568
Thank you.	Blystone, Kelly	Brief article	159
The actor Jon Voight wrote an op-ed criticizing Obama.		Brief article	155
The case for McCain: the Republican nominee offers what voters have demanded.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		2929
The Denver Democrats.		Brief article	335
The glories of our blood and state / Are shadows, not substantial things; / There is no armour against fate; / Death lays his icy hand on kings.".		Poem	88
The rich, soaked.	Hassett, Kevin A.		445
The way to win.	Owens, Mackubin Thomas		1700
Thrifty, brave, clean, and persecuted: across the country, the Boy Scouts are under attack.	Tucker, William		1438
Ticking away in the red-brick row houses of Britain's old industrial cities are thousands of young Islamists.		Brief article	142
To avoid a reprise of 9/11, the Justice Department has worked to shift the FBI from traditional policing, in which crimes are investigated after the fact, to an intelligence orientation, aimed at preventing attacks by breaking up cells and plots at an early stage.		Brief article	201
Warrior for the surge: ahead of almost everyone, John McCain knew how to win in Iraq.	Lowry, Richard		1229
Watergate story.	Currie, Duncan	Book review	1294
When Ali Kordan was nominated to run Iran's interior ministry, he capped off his list of qualifications by producing an honorary doctorate of laws from Oxford University.		Brief article	130
When it comes to oil and energy, now is an excellent time for Congress to do nothing.		Brief article	122
William Shanahan, debate coach at Fort Hays State University (Kansas), got into an argument at a debate tournament in Wichita last spring, during which he shouted and dropped his pants.		Brief article	99