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The Rock Star’s Arrival

Written by Russ Smith on November 9, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The Rock Star’s Arrival It’s never easy to schedule a birthday party for kids–it seems one or two pop up every week–so Junior’s bash fell nine days after he actually turned seven, a fact that was completely irrelevant to the 20 or so attendees at his bowling bonanza last Friday afternoon at Chelsea Piers. I
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Democrats in Desperation Tom Daschle Hones His Demagoguery

Written by Russ Smith on November 2, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Tom Daschle Hones His Demagoguery I took a cab to work last Friday morning, after dropping Junior off at school. Nothing extraordinary about that; after kissing him goodbye, I doubled back to a westbound street and flagged a driver who ignored my instructions to take 5th down to 29th. So what, I figured, there was
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Bosox in 2000 Duquette: Buy a Slugger

Written by Russ Smith on October 26, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Duquette: Buy a Slugger Last Saturday morning the family had a splendid weekend change of pace: Instead of soccer, DigiMon, a trip to 333 (which still hadn’t turned on the heat, even though Oct. 15 has come and gone), a stop-in at Toys R Not Us for their slithery 50-cent rubber worms and snakes that
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The Red Sox Drive Me Nuts

Written by Russ Smith on October 19, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

It was a foggy week for me, a homebound shut-in laid low by the worst case of bronchitis I’ve endured since the wild days of 1975. That was quite an autumn down in Baltimore: My coughing was so severe I had to leave classes for the ruckus it caused. John Barth was sympathetic about my
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Lunatics Take the Spotlight While Bush Cruises Along

Written by Russ Smith on October 12, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The New York Post ran a Buchanan-like editorial on Oct. 4 slamming Bush’s rebuke of Congress and questioning whether he has the conservative credentials to earn the GOP nomination. One more reason new Post publisher Ken Chandler should immediately fire associate editor John Podhoretz. Claiming that Bush’s remarks made him a de facto Democrat, the
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It’s Painful to Admit, But Giuliani’s Right Again

Written by Russ Smith on October 5, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Gore Still Slip-Slidin’ Away It was another tumultuous political week, contradicting once again all the left-wing, and left-behind, pundits and elected officials who claim the 2000 presidential race is "boring." Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, a steadfast supporter of Al Gore (now that’s an unholy marriage of convenience) pooh-poohed the sudden rise of Bill Bradley, saying
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Pat, Jesse & Other Inconsequentials

Written by Russ Smith on September 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

While Jesse Ventura Melts Down It was a curious week. Last Sunday, for example, the boys and I were talking early in the morning about various brands of cereal. “Dad,” Junior asked, “was peanut butter Cap’n Crunch your favorite breakfast when you were a kid?” This gave me license to reminisce about the “olden days,”
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What More Can Bush Do?

Written by Russ Smith on September 21, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Before the Flood of Invective And Sweet, Sweet Valentines My thanks to the many readers who e-mailed last week wondering why MUGGER was aced out of the issue. A plausible explanation would be that production manager Jeff Koyen, in a typical tantrum of totalitarianism, a moment when he imagined he was still a blue-collar hillbilly
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Get Your Red Hots!

Written by Russ Smith on September 7, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Skip the Library, Max I like Max Boot, the editorial features editor of The Wall Street Journal. He has impeccable taste in choosing writers for his page and is an accomplished author, with Out of Order, a scathing study of the judicial system, published last year. But Boot, like many serious journalists–Michael Kelly and James
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Bush Weathers his First Stumble

Written by Russ Smith on September 1, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Bush Weathers his First Stumble As I’ve written for the past year, unless Gov. George W. Bush is eaten by a bear in the next 15 months–polar, black or brown, Mr. Mfume–he will be the next president of the United States. There will be no coronation, most likely no electoral landslide, as the most naive
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