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Articles in March 13, 2006, issue of National Review

• If you want to get ahead, get a hat
• Crying wolf: is America a dangerous place for its Muslim citizens?
  by Daniel Mandel
• Ten pianists, briefly
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Enlighten us
  by B.E. Fuller
• Democrats lost one of their most interesting Senate candidates when Paul Hackett announced that he would not challenge Republican senator Mike DeWine of Ohio
• It would be nice if there were tapes of Saddam Hussein saying, "I've got weapons of mass destruction
• Marine flier Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington was in real life a WW2 hero, awarded the Medal of Honor and Navy Cross for shooting down 22 Japanese planes
• Former actor Tom Malin is hoping to be a Democratic candidate for the Texas house of representatives
• Wrong man, wrong war: a case of mistaken identity in the war on drugs, and not an isolated case, either
  by Anthony Dick
• A room of one's own
  by John Derbyshire
• Major-league problems
  by Harold Goodell
• It was perhaps no accident that modern liberalism—increasingly secularist and feeling increasingly ill used—turned the 2002 funeral of Sen. Paul Wellstone into a political rally
• Israel announced that it would withhold the $50 million it gives every month to the Palestinian Authority in tax and customs receipts
• Harvest Ground
  by Daniel Mark Epstein
• If you're going to tell a joke … try to get it right
  by Rob Long
• The ongoing Reagan
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Law of diminishing returns
  by David Haley
• In pursuit
  by Kevin A. Hassett
• Kofi Annan has asked President Bush for a little favor
• There never was an icon of American manhood to compare with the cowboy
• We are the world
  by Edward Feser
• We like Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair
• A law school with a twist: at George Mason University, the Left doesn't reign, believe it or not
  by John J. Miller
• Counterintuitive, perhaps
  by Gene Thiele
• A sensible compromise has ended the Senate logjam over renewal of Patriot Act provisions
• Annan has, in fact, called for the closure of the terrorist-detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, in response to a report by a group of U.N. "human-rights investigators."
• Gray eminence
  by Sarah Bramwell
• We like Edward Cave, editor of Gentleman's Magazine
• The prosecutor's brief: what does Patrick Fitzgerald know? When did he learn it? And other questions
  by Byron York
• There was a time—e.g., the first decade of the 19th century
• Okay
• "People are counting the minutes for this regime to be over and gone," a prominent Iranian dissident recently told National Review Online
• What it says
  by Edward Whelan
• A case of rabies
• Tolerance, if not respect: living with the beliefs of others—even Danish cartoonists
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• Former FEMA director Michael Brown, now leveling accusations of inattention and incompetence at the White House, is earning praise from the president's harshest critics
• Amid the brouhaha over the vice president's hunting accident, you might have missed some real news in Cheney's interview with Brit Hume
• Cheney Carries On
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Restraining democracy
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The agony of assimilation
• Hillary's Progress
  by W.H. Von Dreele
• A federal panel approved the sale of a private British firm to a state-owned United Arab Emirates shipping company
• Congress set expiration dates for President Bush's tax cuts in order to reduce their impact on the budget
• Box-office records are being broken in Turkey by a home-produced movie, Valley of the Wolves, which deals with the war in Iraq
• Killer Cheney
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The greatest story ever told:
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Help!!!!
  by W.H. Von Dreele
• Speaking before an audience in Saudi Arabia, Albert Gore Jr., who used to be vice president before he went mad, said that the United States had committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after September 11
• Adios to asbestos?
• It is somewhat surprising to learn that Danish pastries are very popular in Iran
• Off track: both parties bet on the other's flaws
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• National Review travel experience exclusive! book now!: a farewell to Europe! October 11th-October 23rd, 2010
  by Rob Long
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• Sen. Jim Talent of Missouri has cosponsored Sam Brownback's bill to ban human cloning for three years
• Britain's Labour party gave itself a makeover in the 1990s, shedding the old socialist rhetoric to present itself to the electorate as a modern social-democratic party, tolerant of private enterprise and able to join compassion to efficiency in the manage
• The USS Iowa, America's first 45,000-ton battleship, was commissioned in February 1943
• In the matter of demonstrating respect for the law and intolerance of willful law-breaking, you might think that the American Bar Association would be way out in front of the rest of us
• Judging Saddam: no easy thing, to try a mass-murderer
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Granola on the right
  by Brian C. Anderson
• At the start of the year, Republican strategists were nearly unanimous in thinking that the party needed to get behind a strong set of lobbying and ethics reforms
• South Dakota is on the verge of enacting a law to ban abortion
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