Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Tests for Bush The soul of a Presidency is sometimes revealed in its response to an unanticipated emergency. For George Bush, one-time Texas oil man...
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AFTER THE ROUND TABLE-I Poland Turns to the Polls BY ERNEST SKALSKI Warsaw Early this year there were places in Warsaw, Gdansk and Cracow where I began encountering people I used to meet...
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AFTER THE ROUND TABLE-II ATalk with Adam Michnik By Nana Husarska Warsaw "AMONG the voices that speak to us from Poland today, the most important may be that of Adam Michnik," writes...
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LA RUTA MAYA' Treasures of the Guatemala Rain Forest By Alan Wade Guatemala City Guatemala has been trying to keep a low profile of late, in contrast with some of its unsettled neighbors....
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The Dismal Science MINIMUM WAGE VS. MAXIMUM CONFUSION BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The fight in Congress over a minimum-wage bill was recognized by both sides to be largely symbolic. It was...
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Writers & Writing EVANGELIST OF ROMANTICISM BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL THROUGHOUT the last two decades Harold Bloom has infuriated the literary establishment by attacking its pet theories, from...
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A Message of Hope The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730.1840s By Immanuel Wallerstein Academic Press. 372pp....
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Too Close to the U.S. So Far From God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 1846-48 By John S. D. Eisenhower Random House. 436pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Seiden Rodman Author, "Mexican Journal," "A...
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On Screen TELLING TALES BY JOHN MORRONE What you might forget after seeing Michel Deville's La Lectrice (literally, "The Reader") is that it is acomedy. For despite a fleet, feathery...
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On Dance MATURE TALENTS BY LAURA JACOBS Jerome Robbins' Broadway, now running at New York's Imperial Theater, had one of the longest rehearsal and preview periods (26 weeks) in the...
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