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Articles in April 24, 2006, issue of National Review

• What does the world need?
• An impossible deal
  by K. Christopher Hudak
• An Unprintable Reaction
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Was there anything Caspar Weinberger did not do?
• Reagan's Cap, and ours: the late, great Caspar W. Weinberger
  by Peter Schweizer
• Night
  by Michael Creagan
• Abdul Rahman, the Afghan convert to Christianity who was not a poster child for interfaith dialogue in his native country, has been granted asylum in Italy
• Political commentator/actress Sharon Stone: "I think Hillary Clinton is fantastic
• Gripped by principle, four Christian peace activists traveled to Iraq to protest the war, up close and personal
• Long ago, during a tirade against the Senate Steering Committee, Sen. Robert C. Byrd thundered, "Who is Margo Carlisle?"
• The Great Uninsured: a meditation on the covereds and the uncovereds, and other things
  by Florence King
• Quest for community
  by James E. Person, Jr.
• Nutty while black
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Congress is losing a man of principle
• Jimmy Carter has charged President Bush with many shortcomings and crimes, but he recently came up with a new one—new to us, at least
• Just five Jews escaped from Auschwitz and lived to tell the tale
• The bishops' borders: a question of principles and practicalities
  by John O'Sullivan
• Catalogue aria
  by Richard Brookhiser
• In other news from the region, Mr. Ibragim Ismatullayev, a farmer in the republic of Kyrgyzstan, was about to dispatch a rooster so he could put it in the pot for his dinner when the rooster suddenly crowed "Allah! Allah!"
• For weeks, President Bush's congressional allies have grumbled that the White House is too insular, arrogant, and worn out to remedy what ails the GOP
• The European Union may be hesitant over such issues as tyranny in Africa or China, and distracted about Iraq, Hamas, or Iran's nuclear program, but it is decidedly firm on the question of the pipes in church organs: These must be banned forthwith
• A reckless bill
• Kos world: the power, glory, and weakness of the bloggy left
  by Byron York
• The bishops and the laws
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The 2004 presidential campaign brought to light one of John Kerry's less attractive character traits, his habit of asking lesser mortals: "Do you know who I am?"
• Sometime around 1950, the clock stopped in the corner of the former Soviet Union known as Belarus
• Political mythology
• A tax reform to run with: $5,000 per child, and other winning ideas
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Funding democracy
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Scientists have been able to take cells from the testes of mice and transform them into "pluripotent" stem cells—the same kind of stem cells that can be derived from embryos
• We're old enough to recall a time when the GOP mainstream was against restricting campaign finance
• Among the darkest pits of cruelty and horror in today's world are the labor camps of North Korea
• Lyn Nofziger, R.I.P
  by Lou Cannon
• Hillary gets religion
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Islamic purity
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• When it comes to global warming, the mainstream media have never met a hysterical prediction of doom they didn't like
• The Senate has voted 90 to 8 to approve a lobbying-reform bill
• Invited to deliver the opening address at a summit meeting of European business leaders, French steel tycoon Ernest-Antoine Seilliere stood up and began speaking in English
• A two-step for America: addressing our immigration problems
  by Kate O'Beirne
• The long view
  by Rob Long
• The U.N. Security Council has approved a resolution demanding that Iran suspend uranium enrichment within 30 days or else … or else … what?
• A lot of companies have not set aside enough money to pay for promised pensions, and the federal government is on the hook for a lot of the gap
• Following the Midwinter Holiday comes the Spring Holiday; and wouldn't you know it, those darn Christians are trying to make something religious out of this one, too
• Glamour-girl Gov, gone? An interesting election in Michigan
  by John J. Miller
• Writing the war
  by Richard Lowry
• Last fall French cities blazed with the light of burning cars
• Tailor-made justice
  by Austen Givens
• Mike Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, says that America needs illegal immigrants
• To win the Distinguished Texas Scientist award, you might think you'd need to research some obscure topic, of interest only to Texas scientists—the mating patterns of the nine-banded armadillo, or industrial applications of Mexican-free-tailed-bat gu
• The fear in France: what rioting and the rest of it means
  by David Pryce-Jones
• The ex-Neo
  by John Fonte
• Columbia University held a two-day conference to discuss democracy with Libyan academics, culminating in a lecture by Moammar Qaddafi himself
• Like father like son
  by Floyd H. Shadwick
• An old statute in Massachusetts keeps couples from coming to the commonwealth to get married in violation of their home states' laws
• The New Yorker has run a profile of lefty actor Sean Penn, son of the late Leo Penn
• Prisoner of The PRC: the experience of a Falun Gong practitioner
  by Jay Nordlinger
• Permanent revolution
  by M.D. Aeschliman