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Articles in Dec 17, 2007, issue of National Review

• Doubletake
  by Christopher Butler
• Talleyrand, the archetypal diplomat, was said to be able to keep an expressionless face while being kicked in the backside
• Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, gave an interview to a British Muslim magazine
• Denial
• 2008 Ad
  by Jonathan H. Adler
• Dark victory
  by Ross Douthat
• Smooth operator
  by Joseph Schroeder
• The first line of an AP report tells the story: "The United Nations has expressed regret that undercover Cuban officials attended a U.N. news conference on human rights, where they sought information on a French journalist asking critical questions a
• Pope Benedict XVI has called for "continuity with tradition" in church music, referring specifically to St. Gregory the Great, the patron of Gregorian chant
• Stem-cell success
• 2008 Ad
  by Kane Webb
• Rats!
  by Richard Brookhiser
• 2008 Ad
• Last year, a 19-year-old Saudi woman met a former boyfriend in a car to ask him to return pictures, since she was about to marry someone else
• On a recent evening of the New York Philharmonic, Glazunov's Violin Concerto was on the program
• Reagan and race, again
• 2008 Ad
  by Florence King
• Easy on Musharraf
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• 2008 Ad
• Bernard Lewis and Fouad Ajami are two of the most distinguished Orientalists not just in this country but in the world
• If it's strict immigration policies you're looking for, try New Zealand
• 2008 Ad
  by John J. Miller
• Help!!!!
• Crime? Punishment?
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Sen. Trent Lott's retirement announcement brings a close to a 35-year Capitol Hill career that saw the Mississippi legislator rise from a backbencher in the House to Senate majority leader
• The American president has many perks, including the handing out of Medals of Freedom—for an article on that subject, see page 24
• Burned bones unearthed in July in a field near Yekaterinburg, Russia, have been identified by forensics experts as the remains of Alexei and Maria, children of Czar Nicholas II
• 2008 Ad
  by Jonah Goldberg
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• Get the time right
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• In our last issue, we commented that Fred Thompson had released the most detailed and conservative set of policy prescriptions on Social Security and immigration
• Tribbulations
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Toni Vernelli of Somerset, England, had herself sterilized at age 27 to reduce her carbon footprint
• Saving Colombia: President Uribe has done much, and needs more help
  by Richard Lowry
• Here's at you, world
  by Priscilla L. Buckley
• There was scant reason to think the Annapolis conference would help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute
• Benjamin Hooks, former executive director of the NAACP, received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush
• Speech codes for Santa Claus? Down in Sydney, Australia, a firm that trains and supplies department-store Santas has instructed trainees that the traditional "Ho! Ho! Ho!" could be "derogatory to women."
• A tasty presidential perk: medals of freedom
  by Jay Nordlinger
• It's a Wamworld
  by R. James Woolsey
• The Aussies wanted a change, and out went John Howard
• The Earl of Kent in Lear was famously ill-disposed toward the letter "z": "Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter …"
• The universe, said J. B. S. Haldane, is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose
• 2008 Ad
  by David Frum
• My Father on the Nile
  by Lawrence Dugan
• Garry Kasparov heads Other Russia, a party contesting parliamentary elections on December 2
• Since the remotest Paleolithic Era, human beings have huddled for warmth around the family hearth
• Ian Smith, who died, age 88, was suited by birth and temperament to maintain the British Empire in Africa
• 2008 Ad
  by Dean Barnett
• The enemy within
  by Ron Radosh
• Strikes of trains, the subway, and air-traffic control brought France to a standstill for almost two weeks
• In 1995, a questioner said to Carole Simpson, then an anchor at ABC News, "The liberal bias of your network is obvious."
• Five years ago, the W. H. Brady Foundation decided to spend down its endowment and issue a handful of major grants in order to have a large impact on our time rather than a watered-down influence on the future
• 2008 Ad
  by Frank Cannon
• Rise and rise of the west
  by Andrew Roberts