Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Lessons for the President The Congressional inquiry into the Iran-contra affair came to the end of its road (as far as public hearings were concerned)...
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POLITICAL NECROPHILIA Holding (Peron's) Hands in Argentina By Arthur M.Shapiro Magic is important in Argentina; the country is full of witches and magicians and thaumaturges and mediums....
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EXPLOITING THE THREE OBSTACLES' Beijing Plays Coy with Moscow By Mark Hopkins Beijing Chinese construction workers are crawling all over a lovely 19th-century Victorian mansion along...
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FEDERALISM VS. ACTIVISM The Dukakis Design By John Siegal When George Will, NBC News and the Nation say the same thing about a Presidential candidate, they must be missing the point. Each...
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Perspectives WHOSE DEBT CRISIS IS IT ANYWAY? BY PAUL DAVIDSON Two international debt problems hang over the world economy today. One has to do with the liabilities of certain Less...
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Writers & Writing PETER VIERECKS CROSS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Two decades ago, Peter Viereck began writing an epic cycle of poems about man's attempts to come to terms with a confusing world...
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Battle of the Airwaves Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese, and the VCR Wars By James Lardner Norton. 344 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Carl S. Kaplan Contributor, the "Nation, "...
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Portrait of a Bilious Tory Fortnight's Anger By Roger Scruton Carcami. 224 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by William James Earle Assodate professor of philosophy, Baruch College, CUNY;...
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On Dance STUMBLING AT THE BOLSHOI BY LAURA A. JACOBS Yuri Grigorovich, artistic director and chief choreographer of the Bolshoi Ballet, showed a sort of shrewdness in opening his...
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