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See also: Easter 2002 And The Resurrection Of The West, by Chilton Williamson By a happy coincidence, Easter Sunday falls this year on the thirty-fifth anniversary of Enoch Powell's great speech on immigration – given in Birmingham on April 20, 1968. This neatly intertwines the themes of spiritual and
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 National Review, Nov 30, 1992 v44 n23 p46(2). Undue Process: A Story of How Political Differences Are Turned into Crimes, by Elliott Abrams (Free Press, 250 pp., $22.95) DROP! Someone had thrown a ball at my chest . . . I sat up,
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 (Biography of Harold Macmillan) Wall Street Journal Bookshelf, New York March 16, 1989 We live and learn. Anyone who remembers the hyping of President Kennedy and his attractive family must have wondered, on subsequently discovering the peculiar reality, whatever happened to Camelot&
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 (C. Northcote Parkinson, the father of Parkinson's Law) Forbes, August 7, 1989 v144 n3 p42(3) LIKE A SWARM of locusts in the desert sky, myriads of management books are on the move, all heading remorselessly for your free time.
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 National Review, August 6, 1990 CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS is perhaps the most notable contemporary specimen of what has been called the Bollinger Bolshevik. An English leftist now immigrated to Washington, D.C., he nevertheless has his work published in the most fashionable American
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 Wall Street Journal, New York Apr 24, 1987 Contemporary U.S. headlines are irritatingly familiar to those of us who grew up in post-World War II Britain. Balance-of-payments problems. Allegedly short-sighted management. Lack of international competitiveness. Decay of basic industries. And, much-advocated
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 National Review, March 10, 1989 OSCAR WILDE in a famous phrase described fox-hunting as the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Something similar might be said about the spectacle of the media establishment in full cry on behalf of former New
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Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 Wall Street Journal, New York Mar 27, 1986 By one of those curious coincidences so common in life in general and publishing in particular, two biographies of J. Paul Getty have just appeared, 10 years after the eccentric oil billionaire's
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Review of Bernard Baruch: the adventures of a Wall Street legend, by James Grant Republished on VDARE.COM on March 28, 2003 National Review, Sept 7, 1984 According to Jim Grant, Dorothy Parker once said that two things confused her: the theory of the zipper and the exact function of
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The Richmond Times-Dispatch The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education The Weekly Standard; Washington; Mar 24, 2003; Jonathan Leaf; The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education by Peter Brimelow (HarperCollins, 320 pp., $24.95). Education these days, someone
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Reviewed Jay Mathews Washington Post March 23, 2003; Page T13 [See also A Closer—if One-Sided—Look at Teacher Unions, March 05, 2003 by Jay Mathews] Young, Gifted, And Black Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students By Theresa Perry, Claude Steele And Asa G. Hilliard III Beacon. 183 pp. $25
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