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Washington-USA WHY POLITICIANS DON'T MATTER ON WALL STREET BY ANDREW J. GLASS Washington Our times enshrine myths and dismiss history. Witness the Democratic politicians who have sagely...
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TAXING THE LITTLE GUY Thatcher on Dangerous Ground BY NORMAN GELB London Politics is like warfare—at least it is in Britain, where the object is not merely to govern but to demolish the...
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Soviet Specimens When you sign up for a tour of the Soviet Union, as my wife and I did recently, you make some assumptions about the others in your group. At...
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GORBACHEV'S CHALLENGE The Ghost of Stalin By Kurt M. Campbell Mikhail S. Gorbachev's drive to open up Soviet society is stirring the Kremlin dead. TheSoviet leader'sedict that...
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The Dismal Science THE GOLDEN MEAN BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The Census Bureau has finally released its estimates of the 1986 median family income, the numbers of people living in poverty, and...
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Writers & Writing DILLARD AND PLATH GROWING UP BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL AN Nie Dillard's concern as a writer is to recreate experience as we feel it within ourselves—not as conventionally...
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A Lament from the Left The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe By Russell Jacoby Basic. 290 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history,...
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Casting a Strong Spell Beloved By Toni Morrison Knopf. 273 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "The Dark Way to the Plaza" To turn these pages is to long for a special...
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On Dance PAST MASTERS AND SCHLOCKMEISTERS BY LAURA A. JACOBS The premiere featured in Martha Graham's three-week engagement at the New York City Center this autumn was Persephone, a dance...
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Vol. 070 Issue 016 (November 2 1987)
Why Politicians Don't Matter on Wall Street
