CONTROL BY EXAMPLE How China Manages the Press By Mark Hopkins When Chinese journalists took their struggle for a free press to the streets last month they mounted a remarkable and daring...
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REVOLT OF THE YOUNG TURKS Trouble On the Right in France By Patricia H. Painton Paris In just one year the conservative parties of France have been brought up short by a string of four...
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BEYOND THE PYRENEES Spain Tightens Its European Ties By Janice Valls-Russell Madrid On March 8, King Juan Carlos paid his first official visit to the European Community (EC) institutions in...
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ECHOES OF RAMADAN Turkey's Identity Problem By Norman Gelb Istanbul My first night here was disturbed by a strange dream —or at least so I thought. It was four in the morning. What...
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States of the Union THIS IS MEXICO? BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS COZUMEL Diane and I arrived on this battered Caribbean island yesterday, 470 springs after Hemán Cortés dropped by on his way...
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Perspectives WELFARE FOR THE RICH BY AMITAI ETZIONI IF you think that practically everybody favors getting people off the dole, breaking their dependence on the government and making...
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Winters & Writing TAXING VISIONARIES BY BARRY GEWEN Herbert Stein begins Tax Policy in the Twenty-First Century (Wiley, 324 pp., $24.95), the collection of papers and speeches he edited from a...
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No Refuge for the Wanderer Baumgartner's Bombay By Anita Desai Knopf. 230 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Betty Falkenberg Contributor, "Partisan Review, " New York "Times Book Review" Anita...
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Master of a Venerable Form Against Joie de Vivre By Philip Lopate Poseidon Press. 335 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Eli Gottlieb Freelance critic; contributor, "Elle" The personal essay has...
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On Screen BRITISH MORES BY JOHN MORRONE Aprovocative thought suggested itself as I watched Scandal, Michael Caton-Jones' film about Britain's 1963 Profumo fuss. Wouldn't it be...
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On Art BLACK SATIRE AND BLEEDING HEARTS BY BRADLEY W BLOCH A good DEAX of the art created during the last 10 years has had a decidedly cool temperature. The rephotography of Sherrie...
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