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Vol. 012 Issue 007 (July 1 1979)
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The Continuing Crisis
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THE CONTINUING CRISIS . Is Mr. Leonid I. Brezhnev,* 72, sliding through dotage and about to give himself up to the worms? Is this loveable bear of a man, who not long ago took the diabolical Nixon...
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Editorial / A Parable
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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EDITORIAL A PARABLE X now have secured in my safe-deposit box a most important document of our time, the May-June 1979 issue of Harvard'Magazine, the magazine of the Harvard alumni association. It...
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Capitol Ideas / Electric Windmills / D.O.E. Ad Lib / Troopers (Storm Variety)
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Bethell, Tom
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CAPIT0L IDEAS ELECTRIC WINDMILLS/D.O.E. AD LIB/TROOPERS (STORM VARIETY) by Tom Bethell X stopped my car beside the Mall, because I was curious about the overflight appearance of some quaint little...
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The Tom Wolfe Interview
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Bethell, Tom
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Tom Bethell THE TOM WOLFE INTERVIEW Astronauts, test pilots, the uncritical willingness to face danger, the Right Stuff, reporting, essay-writing, the ''new journalism," and more from America's...
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Marx's Lust
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Starr, Roger
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Roger Starr MARX'S LUST He coveted power and his housekeeper. Many years ago a boarding school headmaster prepared me for Saul Pa-dover's "intimate" book about the life of Karl Marx.* My...
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Illegal Aliens: Visitors from the Third World
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Abrams, Elliott
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Elliott Abrams ILLEGAL ALIENS VISITORS FROM THE THIRD WORLD The non-one hundred percent Americans. Nothing has received so much comment with so little thought as the Illegal Alien Crisis. John...
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Criminals & Liberals
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Bishop, Joseph W. Jr.
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Joseph W. Bishop, Jr. CRIMINALS & LIBERALS Are liberals by nature infatuated with criminals or has society made them that way ? It is probable that the first crime followed the first law by not...
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Carter's Dog-Keeper
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TheoLippman Jr.
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Theo Lippman,Jr. CARTER'S DOG-KEEPER James Fallows'' The Passionless Presidency' '-a joke that everyone missed. My favorite reporting on the White House is Dog Days at the White House: The...
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Wheelchairs and Bedpans: Canada onthe Move
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Manor, F.S.
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F.S. Manor WHEELCHAIRS AND BEDPANS CANADA ON THE MOVE Where medical care is ' 'free,'' life is cheap. It can safely be assumed that most Canadians support some system of publicly financed medical...
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Call Me Ahab
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Nollson, John
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John Nollson CALL ME AHAB Captain Ahab stood expressionless on the quarterdeck of the Pequod as the crew brought her smartly about. Since entering the mouth of,the Potomac River, about 110 miles...
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The Talkies /Alien and Winter Kills
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Yagoda, Ben
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ALIEN AND WINTER KILLS Alien does to animals what Invasion of the Body Snatchers did to plants. The title character, which manages to elbow its way aboard the spaceship Nostromo on its return to...
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South Africa: War, Revolution or Peace? / U.S. Foreign Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gann, L.H.; Duignan, Peter; Price, Robert M.
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BOOK REVIEWS These two monographs go well together. They agree on nothing of substance yet share a modesty of purpose. Professors Gann and Duignan write "not... to offer a set of alternative...
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The Human Factor
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Greene, Graham
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THE HUMAN FACTOR Graham Greene Avon Books / $2.50 Karl O 'Lessker Fiscal prudence dictates that the purchase of some books we want to read be delayed till they appear in mass-market paperback...
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Bakke, Defunis, and Minority Admissions: The Quest for Equal Opportunity
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Sindler, Allan P.
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BAKKE, DEFUNIS, AND MINORITY ADMISSIONS: THE QUEST FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Allan P. Sindler / Longman / $12.50 Jeremy Rabkin Is there anything left to say about the Bakke case? Even before the...
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The Secret Betrayal: 1944-1947
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Tolstoy, Nikolai
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BAKKE, DEFUNIS, AND MINORITY ADMISSIONS: THE QUEST FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Allan P. Sindler / Longman / $12.50 Jeremy Rabkin Is there anything left to say about the Bakke case? Even before the...
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Before the Sabbath
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Hoffer, Eric
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BEFORE THE SABBATH Eric Hoffer Harper & Row / $7.95 William Gavin Eric Hoffer has been overpraised and undervalued, ignored and lionized for the wrong reasons, admired for intellectual virtues he...
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Can Government Go Bankrupt?
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Rose, Richard; Peters, Guy
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CAN GOVERNMENT GO BANKRUPT? Richard Rose & Guy Peters / Basic Books / $12.50 Alan Reynolds National governments can't literally go bankrupt, but they can bankrupt a lot of their citizens. When...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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CURRENT WISDOM Mother Jones Mr. Adam Hochschild practicing personal therapy on page five of the very latest issue of Mother Jones, the bed-wetters' Bible: Aside from the new-parent leaves, we try...
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