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Articles in Oct 24, 2005, issue of National Review

• Crime and punishment
  by Charles R. Keadle
• The House of Representatives has removed us yet another step from the quaint idea that people are to be treated equally before the law
• Since Zimbabwe's president-for-life Robert Mugabe began to implement "fast-track land redistribution" in 2000
• Slowing the Spending
• Hold the self-congratulation: the media weren't as hot during Katrina as they think
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Getting DeLay
• Church/State at Dartmouth
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Land of dreams
  by Phil Monte
• If you were president, and were under attack for appointing as head of FEMA a man with no experience in emergency management, wouldn't you shield yourself from such criticisms in the future?
• A coalition of center-right parties triumphed in the Polish elections, ousting a Communist-led left-wing coalition
• A political prosecution
• The meaning of beheading: all too sad to explain
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• The U.N. problem
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Escaping catastrophe
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Just try it
  by G. Rollo Begley
• For the first time in U.S. history, the number of illegal immigrants coming into this country now exceeds the number of legal ones
• Imam Intikab Habib was hired by the Fire Department of New York in August to be its Muslim chaplain
• Chief Justice Roberts
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Spendaholics: how we have reached this curious pass
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Boiling the frog
  by Edward Whelan
• Failing high schools
  by Paul E. Peterson
• Everybody loves Charlie Rangel, the raspy-voiced congressman from Harlem
• "To More Inmates, Life Term Means Dying Behind Bars / With Tougher Laws and Political Pressure, Growing Number Will Never Get Out."
• The fantasy continues
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Katrina: the untold story: people rescued tens of thousands of their fellow citizens
  by Lou Dolinar
• No one should write about things like this
  by Michael Creagan
• Perhaps Mrs. O'Connor would consider
• The school board in Dover, Pa., added "intelligent design" to the 9th-grade biology curriculum
• Ten years ago, The Weekly Standard debuted, a conservative journal of opinion emanating from Washington, D.C., edited by William Kristol
• Notes & asides
• Pariahs, martyrs—and fighters back: conservative professors in America
  by John J. Miller
• Boots on the ground
  by Mackubin Thomas Owens
• On Oct. 15 Iraqis go to the polls to vote on the new constitution
• Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes made what was billed as a "listening tour" of the Middle East, as part of her assignment to pursue public diplomacy in the region
• Three members of Bucknell College's Conservative Club were dressed down for their use of "offensive" language
• 'Personnel Is Policy': sadly, true
  by David Frum
• What I have seen: wisdom from a higher-ed career
  by Victor Davis Hanson
• Big cheeses
  by John Derbyshire
• On their way to the big antiwar protest held in Washington on September 24, a group of college students began to chant
• Terror bombs exploded in three Balinese restaurants, killing 22 and wounding 104
• An interesting example of cultural cross-fertilization showed up on our TV screens the other day when Martha Stewart, our national icon of middle-class domesticity, played hostess on her talk show to rapper and pop-music entrepreneur
• Not measuring up: dismal grades on three tests
  by John O' Sullivan
• Five Myths … crying out for debunking
  by Jay P. Greene
• Grand alliance
  by David Pryce-Jones
• A caller to Bill Bennett's radio show was making an economic argument for banning abortion, and Bennett replied that it was perilous to rely on social science to resolve the moral question
• Tired of watching blow-dried male models and botox-faced ladies reading the TV news?
• On October 3, 1995, O. J. Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman
• Ronnie vs. Tom: the real fight behind the DeLay case
  by Byron York
• Gassane men's wear
  by Rob Long
• Distant echoes
  by Michael Potemra
• The Democratic National Committee said that Bill Frist was involved in a "growing ethical scandal that has engulfed his office."
• Capt. Ian Fishback is the latest hero of critics of the U.S. treatment of prisoners in the Terror War
• Eugenia Charles, former prime minister of the Caribbean island of Dominica, died last month, age 86
• Career criminalizer: What the Earle of Austin has done
  by Stephen Spruiell
• "The Brook House" Judge's lane
  by Rob Long
• The hunt is on
  by Richard Brookhiser
• A diploma isn't everything
  by Stan Lakey
• Bush has floated the idea of making the military into "first responders" in the event of another calamity like Katrina
• Once again, for the third or even the fourth time, the IRA has decommissioned its arms, all of them
• The Miers pick
• How not to be poor: when will this country face the facts about marriage and families?
  by Robert Rector
• Block 9A-387 Texas minimum security men's facility
  by Rob Long
• The Roberts disruption
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.