Articles from National Review (October 5, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A wind ensemble at Henry M. Jackson High School in Everett, Wash., played Franz Biebl's "Ave Maria" at a winter concert.		Brief article	218
ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, and the organization has a long history with Barack Obama.		Brief article	201
At what cost to freedom? Obama's individual mandate is a bad idea.	Moffit, Robert	Brief article	1254
Beyond the B.A.: why fewer people should get one.	verbruggen, Robert		1363
Bill made a lot of noise for a day or two, but the whole thing soon blew over; and Fred kicked up a storm, but it also ended quickly.		Brief article	79
British prime minister Gordon Brown broke an ominously long silence on the release of the Lockerbie bomber by saying there had been "no conspiracy, no cover-up, no double dealing, no deal on oil.".		Brief article	163
Check that checkbook: a guide to smarter alumni giving.	Zywicki, Todd J.		1186
Civil war: impoliteness may help the GOP, but it's still wrong.	Ponnuru, Ramesh		1072
College lite: a look at the transformation the bachelor's degree has undergone, and the transformation it needs.	Leef, George		710
Conservative Panel: celebrating Mallard Fillmore's 15th birthday.	Miller, John J.		1609
Costly lessons: how traditional universities rip students off.	Vedder, Richard	Column	1121
Derek Jeter broke Lou Gehrig's record for hits as a Yankee (2,722 and counting), with a characteristic opposite-field single.		Brief article	81
Does the Constitution give the federal government the power to ban the distribution of Hillary: The Movie in the name of "campaign-finance reform"?		Brief article	146
Dutch city.	Brookhiser, Richard	Essay	990
Earlier this year, NATIONALREVIEW noted that a ridiculous toy-safety law--among other things, it essentially banned books printed before 1985 because the ink in them contains a trivial amount of lead--had gone into effect.		Brief article	164
Has anyone ever written under more pressure than Solzhenitsyn? "Look after your health, Aleksandr Isayevich," the letters used to say.		Brief article	147
He was a longtime NR friend, one of the merry gang who created the New York State Conservative party, partner at one of the nation's premier law firms, former assistant U.S. attorney, adviser on the selection of federal judges, confidant to Sen. James Buckley, former president of the Federal Bar Council and Brooklyn Law School, and much more.		Obituary	98
How big was the tea party in Washington on September 12? It was the biggest crowd in the city since Barack Obama's inauguration.		Brief article	131
In a bow to the United Steelworkers, Obama levied a 35 percent tariff on tires imported from China.		Brief article	143
In its latest article on that perennial subject, Paul Robeson, the New York Times said two noteworthy things.		Brief article	87
In the Internet Age, any country hosting a major international event had better make sure its telecom systems have enough bandwidth to support a surge of visitors.		Brief article	148
It stands to reason that the land that invented Mary Poppins would turn itself into a SuperNanny state.		Brief article	151
It's here. Criticism of President Obama, which is increasing, is said to be racist--said to be racist by the likes of Jimmy Carter and Maureen Dowd.		Brief article	192
John Stossel, the libertarian-minded television journalist, is leaving ABC News for the Fox Business Network.		Brief article	85
Just say no.	Duncan, Alfred J.	Letter to the editor	296
Jytte Klausen's book on the Mohammed cartoons is called The Cartoons That Shook the World.		Brief article	169
Keep bickering.			497
Krugman's scapegoats: rebutting the times columnist's attempt to pin the market meltdown on the Chicago School.	Epstein, Richard A.		1927
Liberal zeal on global warming has long seemed quasi-religious. Now a British court agrees.		Brief article	124
Media in exile.	Goldberg, Jonah	Viewpoint essay	654
Once prosperous, stable, and well governed, Zimbabwe has been reduced to beggary, disorder, and disease by the horrible dictatorship of Robert Mugabe.		Brief article	152
One of Iran's numerous weaknesses is its absence of refining capacity, and the need therefore to import as much as 40 percent of its domestically consumed gasoline.		Brief article	165
Power grabs.	McGinnis, John O.	Book review	1098
President Obama has agreed to talks with Iran on the understanding that the Iranian nuclear project is the real issue to be negotiated between the two countries.		Brief article	219
Professor J. B. Kelly was a rare academic who came to grips with the Arab world as it really is, sometimes in the pages of National Review.		Brief article	135
Rep. Joe Wilson will go down as the man who shouted "You lie!" at President Obama during his health-care speech to Congress.		Brief article	141
Riches of rags.	Douthat, Ross	Column	895
Robert McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, continues to lead in the polls, much to the consternation of the Washington Post.		Brief article	103
Safe-zone violation! Why sportswriters, and others, should be penalized.	Nordlinger, Jay	Column	1570
Sherpa conservatism: Sam Tanenhaus thinks the right is dying because he wants it to play dead.	Goldberg, Jonah		2318
Social studies project: Michelle Stevens, 8th Grade.	Long, Rob		898
Speaking to the nation's schoolchildren, President Obama was in that strange, nouveau-American, State of the Union mode, singling out by name a number of students who had overcome serious obstacles to their education.		Brief article	177
The Afghan election made Illinois in the good old days look like a paragon of good government.		Brief article	217
The Associated Press, over the objections of the Pentagon and of his family, published a photo of Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard, 21, after he was mortally wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan.		Brief article	110
The case of Wall Street v. Main Street was reopened on September 15, the anniversary of the catastrophic collapse of Lehman Brothers.		Brief article	247
The day Congress returned from its August recess, Sen. Arlen Specter posted this message on his Twitter account: "Your first day back in Washington and you're already skipping more votes, Congressman Sestak?" Rep. Joe Sestak, who will challenge Specter in next year's Democratic primary, did indeed miss House votes that day, but he was not "back in Washington"--because his father had died over the weekend.		Brief article	81
The deeper question.	Richards, LaVerie, D.	Letter to the editor	139
The epic of the durants.	Flynn, Daniel J.		2788
The future Is for-profit: education entrepreneurs are poised to upset the complacent higher-ed establishment.	Shaw, Jane S.		1319
The raw pit has been spruced up a bit: It looks like a building site, not a wound.		Brief article	129
The State Department has formally suspended non-humanitarian aid to Honduras.		Brief article	155
The swaps of Jersey: how the Garden State fell into decline.	Currie, Duncan		2421
Thomas L. Friedman, the New York Times columnist-about-the-globe, recently wrote a paean to China. "One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks.		Brief article	165
Truth without bullets.	Teachout, Terry		1599
Van Jones, whose reign as the nation's "green jobs" czar has ended abortively, is a radical beyond the usual Obama-administration parameters.		Brief article	223
We watched the videos.		Brief article	9
When Norman Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970, his wife drove into a Mexican wheat field to tell him.		Obituary	137
Who should care about the launch of National Affairs? Anyone who is interested in the social contract after our entitlements go bust, capitalism after the financial crisis, marriage after the divorce revolution, compassionate conservatism after Bush, California after its bankruptcy, or the universities after the triumph of science--just to pick some topics from its first issue.		Brief article	101