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...buyers are women, and the average age of readers is 42. In the past year, sales by the seven biggest publishers of the genre have surpassed $43 million. Perhaps the surest sign that the field is a rich one is the big names it is attracting: televangelist Pat Robertson and Watergate felon turned Evangelical Charles Colson have jumped in with first novels this fall. Robertson's galvanizing The End of the Age (Word; 374 pages; $21.99) is about a meteor catastrophe worthy of the book of Revelation; Colson's Gideon's Torch (Word; 551 pages; $21.99) is a florid tirade...
...sure, the kind of moral contortionism on display in West's piece is hardly the exclusive province of the Left. In a recent article in Commentary, Norman Podhoretz argued that Pat Robertson's vocal support for the State of Israel more than compensates for the overt anti-semitism that is to be found in Robertson's books...
Podhoretz, a prominent Jewish neoconservative, claimed that Robertson's references to Jewish conspiracies were misguided and factually incorrect, but ultimately innocuous. This from a man who is not shy to expose Jew-hatred on just about any other occasion...
Well, almost every investor. Last year Steinhardt hit a speed bump, as did most other big hedge funds like George Soros' Quantum Group and Julian Robertson's Tiger Management. Neither however, suffered as badly as Steinhardt's funds, which lost 29% of their value during 1994, owing largely to the plummeting price of European bonds, in which Steinhardt had invested heavily. Says he: "I made a vast amount of money in 1993 on the same bet. Nevertheless, the pain in 1994 was far greater than the pleasure...
...imagine what their reaction would be to the following scenario. Tomorrow, David Duke calls a march of one million white men to reaffirm the spirit of American Democracy (i.e. his own particular vision of "American Democracy"). In response, all sorts of prominent white intellectuals, such as Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson and William F. Buckley Jr., come out of the woodwork and volunteer their oratorical services. When asked if they support Duke's agenda, they reply, "The march is only his if we look at it that way." Sure...