Correspondents' Corresponaence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Italy in the Gulf Rome—Amid assurances ad...
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Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR On the Bork Front It was a most un-Washington thing that Judge Robert H. Bork did when he refused to leave the stage after he could see the curtain was...
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THE TWO FACES OF DENG XIAOPING China's Last Emperor BY MARK HOPKINS Beijing The rich, the powerful and the famous stream into China these days, hoping against hope for an audience with a...
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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD The Soviet Union at Seventy BY ROBERT V. DANIELS On November 7, citizens of the Soviet Union will have two revolutions to contemplate: the one that brought the...
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States of the Union WISCONSIN'S CHILD-SUPPORT EXPERIMENT BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS The state of Wisconsin, marveled Theodore Roosevelt in a 1912 essay, leads all others as "a laboratory for...
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Writers & Writing TAKING ART PUBLIC BY BARRY GEWEN A trip to a museum these days, when it's possible to mistake a high-priced and much-acclaimed sculpture for something the maintenance crew...
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Leaving the Black Ghetto Behind The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy By William Julius Wilson Chicago. 246 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Steven...
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Swindled by Oxbridge Nobs Spy catcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer By Peter Wright Viking. 392 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by John P. Roche It seems a bit bizarre...
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Great Families of the Raj The Golden Oriole By Raleigh Trevelyan Viking. 576pp. $24.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock Empires, in their own perverted way, resemble huge extended families....
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