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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 Freedomfor 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