Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Battered Bush Principles During his first three days in office President George Bush enunciated three themes: ethics in government, bipartisanship...
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Perspectives THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS REVISITED BY JOHN ?. ROCHE I don't want to sound churlish, but the rehash of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis by the fraternity brothers on both sides is...
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ISRAEL'S NEXT TEST Shamir Gets Set for Washington By Eliahu Salpeter Tel Aviv Some time ago, the Knesset passed legislation separating the country's local and Parliamentary elections....
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POLITICAL SHUFFLING Italy's DC Recycles Forlani BY SILVIO F. SENIGALLIA Rome After several weeks of intrigue and prevarication, Italy's Christian Democratic Party (DC), nicknamed "The...
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States of the Union CARING WHILE CURING BY RICHARD J. MARGOlis IT happened one August night without warning, while our family was vacationing on an island off the coast of Maine. One moment...
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The Dismal Science HOW WE CAN CONTROL THE INTEREST RATE BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY IN three recent contributions to this space I have argued that the conventional theories of inflation are...
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Writers & Writing TALES OF EROS IN VERSE BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Verse novels are suddenly back in fashion. How our ancestors loved this peculiarly Victorian genre. Many of you will no doubt...
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A Necessary Myth Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution By Leonard W. Levy Macmillan. 525pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Gus Tyler Assistant president, ILGWU To figure out the "original...
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Life Without Joy Cat's Eye By Margaret Atwood Doubleday. 446 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Carole Cleaver Former editor, "Mademoiselle" Canada is a cold country and Cat's Eye, the latest...
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On Screen TAKES OF TWO CITIES BY JOHN MORRONE NEW York Stories is a highpowered revival of a narrative format that has been largely passé since the mid-'60s: the sequence film, with one or...
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On Dance TAPPING ON BROADWAY BY LAURA A. JACOBS It is ethnic dance that tends to fare best on Broadway, the Moiseyevs and the Georgians. And then, in a class by itself, there is the work of...
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