Articles from National Review (April 6, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
'The war that has to be won': but will our soldiers be given the chance to win it?	West, Bing		3302
Adidas has been marketing a hat showing the hammer and sickle.		Brief article	63
As usual, Congress failed to pass its annual appropriations bills on time.		Brief article	100
At his March 10 speech on education, Obama was not so bold as to take credit for inventing the Internet.		Brief article	185
Back in 1985 the Hanshin Tigers, a Japanese baseball team, won their first Central League championship in 21 years.		Brief article	164
Black and white and dead all over: the decline of newspapers--and what it portends for conservatives.	Delong, James V.		1608
Bush's India triumph: an overlooked achievement.	Currie, Duncan		1491
Charles Freeman withdrew his name from consideration for the chairmanship of the National Intelligence Council after being criticized, mostly for his ties to the Saudis and his support for China's crackdown on democracy activists in Tiananmen Square.		Brief article	145
China has enjoyed a surge of growth comparable to the biblical seven fat years, fueled largely by exports to the United States.		Brief article	200
David Broder sounded the call, just before the spring peepers: "The Obama honeymoon is over.".		Brief article	192
Democrats and businessmen, sitting in a tree ... big corporations love free enterprise, as long as it isn't too free.	Goldberg, Jonah		3648
Did NR, Inc., ever have a more cheerful employee than Jerry Garvey?		Obituary	151
Diplomacy by bumper sticker: the Obama administration should reset its Russia policy.	Bolton, John R.		1202
During the campaign, then-Senator Obama ripped Bush's use of executive signing statements, issued upon the signing of legislation into law.		Brief article	95
Eastern exposure: the economic downturn will be much worse for China than for America.	Chang, Gordon G.		1612
For decades the Voting Rights Act has been read to forbid any changes to the borders of congressional districts that would "dilute" the political power of blacks and Hispanics.		Brief article	87
For years, people have feared that Pakistan is about to become a failed state.		Brief article	220
France is rejoining NATO, Pres. Nicolas Sarkozy has announced.		Brief article	223
From Sonnets from the Dark Lady.	Reeser, Jennifer	Poem	121
Girly from the start.	New, Michael J.	Letter to the editor	149
Golden idyll.	Gurdon, Meghan Cox	Critical essay	1746
Great hopes have been invested in President Obama, and those hopes can be a little creepy.		Brief article	61
In his first weeks on the job as chairman of the RNC, Michael Steele has been a gaffe-production factory.		Brief article	95
It's an age-old story: A law is passed; bureaucrats devise a blizzard of rules to enforce it.		Brief article	186
Media realism: how the GOP should handle increasingly biased journalists.	Gillespie, Edward W.		1934
Mexico threatened to impose new tariffs on American products in response to a move by Congress to block Mexican truckers at the border.		Brief article	188
Movies with messages.	Rossett, Sonja	Letter to the editor	159
Not many people get excited about "federal preemption," but what is at issue is how much of the national economy trial lawyers get to carve up.		Brief article	152
Obama has sent what the New York Times describes as a "secret letter" to Russian president Dmitri Medvedev.		Brief article	152
Obama's budget director, Peter Orszag, said the administration might be open to taxing employer-provided health benefits.		Brief article	119
Obama's new Math.	Goldberg, Jonah		530
Obama's wartime detention policy takes cynicism to new heights.		Brief article	200
On the matter of insurance giant AIG, President Obama has been milking two issues--employee bonuses and payments to foreign counterparties--but he is talking through his hat.		Brief article	264
Our bathroom correspondent alerts us to the growing popularity in East Asia of the Modern Toilet restaurant chain.		Brief article	127
Our great friends the Saudis have a way of setting the highest standards in cruelty.		Brief article	187
Out of the freezer: at last, some questions on in vitro fertilization.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1809
Perhaps somebody should advise the suave diplomats in the Obama administration.		Brief article	27
Ron Silver had a splendid career on screen (Reversal of Fortune, Enemies: A Love Story), on stage (Speed-the-Plow), and on TV (The West Wing).		Obituary	164
Ross Douthat, a former NR intern and our current film critic, was tapped to be an op-ed columnist for the New York Times.		Brief article	126
Schuyler Chapin was many things in life: Jascha Heifetz's tour manager, head of the Metropolitan Opera, dean of the Columbia School of the Arts, and so on.		Obituary	162
Shelf life.	Potemra, Michael	Book review	471
Shooting like a gentleman.	Derbyshire, John		1059
Signs of life.		Editorial	379
Take five.	Nordlinger, Jay	Concert review	1520
The first foreign-policy crisis of George W. Bush's presidency came in April 2001, when the Chinese forced down a U.S. surveillance plane.		Brief article	201
The long view.	Long, Rob		791
The Rush wars continue with a Newsweek cover story by David Frum ("Why Rush Is Wrong").		Brief article	200
The truth of Chile.	Falcoff, Mark	Biography	2111
There are few U.S. ambassadorships as important as the one in Iraq.		Brief article	198
Through her 50 years on toy-store shelves, Barbie, the ectomorphic doll who goes Hollywood starlets one better by being made entirely of plastic.		Brief article	200
Two British soldiers stationed in Northern Ireland were members of a unit on the eve of being posted to Afghanistan.		Brief article	205
University aid: it is education bureaucrats, not students, who will profit from the president's proposals.	Hood, John		1601
When British prime minister Gordon Brown called on Barack Obama.		Brief article	176
While rescinding President Bush's stem-cell-research funding policies, President Obama congratulated himself for keeping politics out of science.		Brief article	126
Who will watch them?	Douthat, Ross	Movie review	936
With at least 3 percent of the population infected with HIV, possibly twice that number, AIDS stands at epidemic rates in Washington, D.C.		Brief article	136
You know what the Obamites say about their predecessors, the George W. Bushies: They were a bunch of diplomatic blunderers, when they were deigning to try diplomacy at all.		Brief article	150