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Articles in April 7, 2008, issue of National Review

• A gaffe, Michael Kinsley taught us, is not saying something false, but saying something true that no one wishes to acknowledge
• "Protest—[the] peaceful way [to] express their deep resentment—is a right," said the Dalai Lama, after protests in his native Tibet left 80 dead
• One of the more amusing features of campaign-finance transparency is that it reveals the political biases of our nation's higher-education institutions
• Fall of the graceless
• Put paid to said
  by Anthony Daniels
• States of the mindless
  by Mark Steyn
• The Democrats' difficulty in choosing a presidential nominee is the product of two characteristic decisions
• China's "liberalized" economy allows some market mechanisms to operate, but it is still dominated by the corrupt leadership of the People's Liberation Army and various tentacles of the Communist Party
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery was the French answer to Charles Lindbergh, a pilot whose feats became so legendary that he was known familiarly as Saint-Ex
• A trip down south: in which our heroes visit Antarctica
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The full history
  by James E. Person, Jr.
• Former House speaker Denny Hastert stepped down from his seat in the middle of his term, and picked a weak candidate, dairy magnate Jim Oberweis, to run for it
• 'Govern me!' he cried
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Playwright David Mamet wrote an election-season piece for the Village Voice, provocatively titled "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal.'"
• Unknown quantity: are the Democrats gambling a mystery man?
  by Yuval Levin
• Dead end: the heartbreaking realities of today's Israel
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Two years ago, Alaska's Sarah Palin came out of nowhere to swipe the GOP nomination from Frank Murkowski, the unpopular incumbent Republican governor
• The Cuban government sent a soccer team to Florida
• Is Prospect Bend, Fla., ready for democracy?
• Enough about "equality"
  by Jonas Trosset
• Oh no you can't: amateur propagandists in the YouTube age
  by Rob Long
• Help!!!!
• Of governors and call girls: some thoughts upon Eliot Spitzer's downfall
  by Theodore Dalrymple
• Al-Qaeda trains its terrorists to resist known interrogation tactics, so the United States has a national-security interest in keeping such tactics secret
• Charles Taylor, president of Liberia from 1997 to 2003, is on trial for war crimes before a U.N
• Let us now praise No. 4: the greatness of Brett Favre
  by Stephen F. Hayes
• Corrections
• The power of 41: senator McConnell fights for the filibuster
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• The Limits of hope: Obama is selling heaven, but his product isn't new
  by Jonah Goldberg
• President Bush and our intelligence agencies want to go after terrorists abroad
• Cherish the name of Wafa Sultan, follow what this lady says and does: She's a true fighter for freedom
• 'He's no Jeb Bush': Charlie Crist—ambiguous conservative, potential vice president
  by John J. Miller
• On the bright side
• The big empty and a silver voice
  by M.D. Aeschliman
• The buckeye stops here: it's not foreigners who are hurting Ohio's economy
  by Stephen Spruiell
• Adm. William Fallon resigned as head of U.S. Central Command, having served less than a year in the post with responsibility for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
• When the city council of Berkeley, Calif., declared Marine Corps recruiters unwelcome, the resolution attracted much criticism, and rightly so
• Florian's world: on the writer and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, maker of The Lives of Others
  by Jay Nordlinger
• In 1957, Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story in which an astronaut on an orbiting space station happens to glimpse the dead wreckage of an alien spacecraft pass by
• Snowflake
  by William Baer
• Heavenly diction
  by James T. Dennison, Jr.
• For all their happy talk about improving diplomatic relations with America's traditional allies, Democrats didn't hesitate to go ballistic after the Pentagon awarded a big contract for Air Force refueling tankers to Northrop Grumman and a European partner
• When the United Methodist Church kicks off its general assembly this month, one of the notable items on its agenda will be a vote on economic sanctions against Israel
• Averting a crisis
• Shelf life
  by Michael Potemra
• Replace a hymen, save a life
  by Danielle Ensign
• This year's budget battles will look similar to last year's
• Clever marketers have long understood that the more something costs, the better people assume it must be
• Five years later
• March mischief
  by Ross Douthat
• John McCain won the Republican presidential primaries by running as a pro-life Reagan Republican, committed to low taxes and a strong defense
• Democrats are facing a party litmus test on immigration
• An eighth-grader in New Haven, Conn., was suspended when one of his classmates sold him a pack of Skittles, the bright-colored, fruit-flavored, endlessly delicious candy
• A mighty leap
• A rumor of angels
  by John Derbyshire