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Articles in August 23, 2004, issue of National Review

• Live from Boston
  by W.H. von Dreele
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Brice Lalonde, mayor of French town of Saint-Briac and first cousin of Kerry, in Wall Street Journal: "We do have some JFK stickers on our cars."
• In her convention speech, Teresa Heinz Kerry said that "one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer."
• The U.N. Security Council finally passed a resolution demanding that Sudan act within 30 days to disarm the Arab militias whose campaign of murder, arson, and rape has driven a million Africans in the Darfur region from their homes
• Guess who's back? Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, whom the Democratic voters of Georgia's Fourth District have made their nominee for November
• Notes & asides
  by George W. Rutler
• Help!!!
• A breakthrough in global trade talks promises economic benefits for rich and poor countries alike
• Andy Hiller is the semi-famous political reporter from Boston, the one who tripped up Candidate George W. Bush in that foreign-policy pop quiz
• Jay Leno: "Edwards's speech was so good
• The politics of silence: Democrats don't want to talk about certain things; neither do Republicans
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Two Socialists
  by W.H. von Dreele
• To WFB
  by Ian R. Fisher
• "Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?" asked the headline over a piece by public editor Daniel Okrent
• "We value an America that controls its own destiny because it's finally and forever independent of Mideast oil," said Kerry
• Consolation
  by Sarah M. Bramwell
• Keep talkin', Teresa
• This past month marked the 25th anniversary of the accession to power of Nicaragua's Sandinistas
• Did you know that Fidel Castro really, really likes Michael Moore?
• Gunning for Goliath
  by Peter Flaherty
• Their true selves: where could the Democrats let it all hang out? Not in the convention center
  by Byron York
• Building for people
  by M.D. Aeschliman
• More process than peace
  by David Pryce-Jones
• How foreign aid can help the poor—and why it doesn't
  by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
• They were an interesting group, those delegates in Boston
• When photographs appeared of John Kerry hopping around the shuttle Discovery in a baby blue "bunny suit," his campaign falsely claimed they had been rabbit-punched by NASA
• Mujaheddin memories
  by Radek Sikorski
• Justice for all?
• Bill Barrette, a New York artist, has a hobby: collecting knick-knacks and objets d'art made by Japanese prisoners in Sugamo Prison in Tokyo after World War II
• You deserve a factual look at … Egypt: is it a factor for peace in the Middle East?
• There he goes again—again: Jimmy in Beantown
  by Jay Nordlinger
• The Magus of MIT
  by Michael Potemra
• No Irish need apply
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In The Hotline's survey of state polls, President Bush leads in 23 states worth 195 electoral votes and John Kerry leads in 22 states worth 261 electoral votes
• 2000 Ad
• The president talked up tax cuts, tort reform, the war on terrorism, school choice, his faith-based initiative, and his other policies
• 2004 Caribbean Post-Election Cruise
• Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington
  by Jeffrey Hart
• Great cheer in Boston
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Unnamed Kerry aide explains senator's vote against troop-funding bill, in The New Yorker: "Off the record he did it because of Howard Dean
• You've heard of pitting Americans against Americans, right?
• The House made a symbolic strike against the federal courts on same-sex marriage
• "Now I'm going to have to move to Staten Island
• Orthodox Catholics shall never surrender
• Harvard's Divinity School just announced that it would not be keeping a $2.5 million gift from United Arab Emirates president Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan
• Sharks a-circling: trial lawyers are hungry for yet more billions; a vilified Bush-adminstration lawyer stands in their way
  by David Frum
• Sweet sorrow
  by John Derbyshire
• Washington Post/Univision/TRPI poll of Hispanics: Kerry 60 percent, Bush 30 percent
• Barack Obama gave a wonderful keynote address at the Democratic convention, and not just because he trumped John Edwards's hardscrabble background—I'll see your mill-worker father and raise you a goat-herding Kenyan father
• Most liberals embrace illegal immigrants; they are not, by and large, great friends of the unborn
• Lance Armstrong won his sixth Tour de France, that love/hate letter to human stamina and Gallic geography
• The one they love: or do they? The liberals' David Brooks problem
  by Ross Douthat
• Drunk in Boston
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• John Kerry asked, "What if we have a president who believes in science, so we can unleash the wonders of discovery like stem-cell research to treat illness and save millions of lives?"
• Something remarkable occurred in Minnesota
• Rep. Johnny Isakson and former congressman Tom Coburn win GOP Senate primaries without needing runoffs
• Duties shirked
• Lawyer of JIHAD: meet Lynne Stewart, the radical attorney who happens to be on trial herself
  by Rachel Zabarkes Friedman
• In 1946, the great economist Henry Hazlitt observed, "You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less."
• Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, on NBC: "I think the idea of two Americas—that's the way they ran against Ronald Reagan 20 years ago
• In an interview with Peter Jennings, Kerry attempted to square his belief that life begins at conception with his support for abortion by suggesting that the fetus is not a "person" before viability
• The commission reports
• Buffetted: the Sage of Omaha loves the estate tax—as well he might
  by John Berlau
• New York Times ombudsman Daniel Okrent on his paper's coverage of gay marriage: "On a topic that has produced one of the defining debates of our time, Times editors have failed to provide the three-dimensional perspective balanced journalism requires
• Sen. Joe Lieberman is a mensch
• What are the lessons of the Abdurahman Alamoudi case?