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On the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring, comes news of a Russian celebration, in occupied South Ossetia, of the rape of Georgia. Valery Gergiev, who is the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and who has conducted in...

In late July 1968, against the beautiful backdrop of Skipper’s Cottage at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk, Long Island, Richard M. Nixon worked on the acceptance speech he would soon be delivering to the Republican National Convention in Miami. Working on yellow legal pads,...

Hua Guofeng, the Second Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, is dead at the age of 87. Born in Shanxi province, he joined the Red Army when he was fifteen. He became a full Party member in 1938 and was assigned to Hunan province after the Communists took it over....

This weekend, while being interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN's Q&A, former Nixon White House speechwriter Ben Stein announced that he planned to vote for Ralph Nader; his main reason for doing so, from what I could gather, is that he disapproves of Sen. John...

Michael Barone looks at today's headlines ---an Olympics in Beijing, an invasion in Georgia, a speech in Berlin---and is reminded of 1936 and 1948 and 1963 and 1989. His excellent column  ---"Echoes of Berlin"--- draws parallels between the Russians and Tbilisi and...

In addition to raising some goosebumps, Kobe Bryant's interview with Chris Collinsworth during Friday night's Olympics coverage has also raised some hackles. Collinsworth: Where does the patriotism come from inside of you? Historically, what is it? Kobe: Well, you...

In yesterday's Jerusalem Post, Yehuda Avnner recalled some vivid observation of a testy conversation duringthe fall of 1970 between his boss, Prime Minister Golda Meir, and opposition leader Menachem Begin. After making a heated speech on the floor of the Knesset...

There's an interesting article by Adrian Higgins in today's Washington Post about the plans to restore the house and grounds of Steepletop --- Edna St. Vincent Millay's home in upstate New York.At least part of the first step toward raising the necessary millions will...

Nixonland  (p. 521) notes that men on a movie crew were hostile to Jane Fonda "not merely for her anti-war stand but for her defiance of feminine convention:  she had stopped wearing makeup.  Wrote William F. Buckley: "She must never even look into the mirror...

As a rule of thumb, and making allowances for certain exceptions, having the National Enquirer on their case isn't something you would wish on even your worst enemy. Which means that the always well-informed and often right Cindy Adams has some very bad news for John...