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Chronicles Magazine June 2007

The Hundredth Meridian

A Close Encounter With the Enemy
Chilton Williamson Jr. - MAY 01, 2007
In the early hours of the following morning, well after closing time, the Taberna Aztlán exploded in flames and burned to its concrete foundation in ninety minutes.
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American Proscenium

Sense and Sensibility
Thomas Fleming - MAY 01, 2007
The shootings at Virginia Tech inaugurated a new round of debates not only over such obvious issues as campus security and gun control but of the more fundamental questions of who we think we are as American and who we would like to be.
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Cultural Revolutions

Wolfowitz in Love
Srdja Trifkovic - MAY 01, 2007
Two years ago, upon learning of President Bush’s nomination for president of the World Bank, I expressed relief (Cultural Revolutions, May 2005) that, “at his new post, [Paul] Wolfowitz will not be able to do nearly as much damage as he has done...
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Cultural Revolutions

Modern Chinese Secret
Ted Galen Carpenter - MAY 01, 2007
Beijing announced in early March that it plans to boost China’s defense budget by 17.8 percent in the coming year. That fairly hefty increase continues a pattern of double-digit hikes over the past decade.
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Cultural Revolutions

The Yuma Amnesty Files
Wayne Allensworth - MAY 01, 2007
President Bush was back in Yuma, Arizona, in early April, one year after making promises to secure the border in exchange for a “comprehensive” immigration-reform bill that would increase legal immigration, open the door for up to 20 million...
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Polemics & Exchanges

On Dead Monkeys
MAY 01, 2007
Readers respond to Dr. Fleming's article, "Dead Monkeys and the Living God" from the April issue.
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