IN MEMORIAM Sidney Hook 1902-1989 BY DANIEL BELL "PHILOSOPHY," John Dewey once wrote, "recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and...
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RETURN OF THE OLD GUARD The New Truth in China BY MARK HOPKINS Beding Like the close, slow heat of the summer, oppression is smothering this city. After dark, the secret police come...
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NEW HOPE FOR LABOR Thatcherism Isn't Working BY NORMAN GELB London ? ? one, ayear ago, could have foreseen the current state of British politics. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher may not...
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AS THE ARMY WATCHES Carlos Menem in the Driver's Seat By Arthur M. Shapiro "We cannot go any lower. They are telling us—Argentines!—to live like Chinese. Do you believe it?" The...
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UPGRADING HUMAN RIGHTS Helsinki in Paris BY WILLIAM KOREY Never in the nearly 15-year-old Helsinki process had a meeting on human rights violations been held where the Soviet Union was not...
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Writers & Writing PASSING THROUGH PORLOCK BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Coleridge must be the patron saint of literary procrastinators, given how much ingenuity he devoted to coming up with...
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Madison Then and Now The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy By Drew A. McCoy Cambridge. 384 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Gus Tyler Assistant...
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Coming to Grips with Failure Lyndon Johnson's War By Larry Berman Norton. 254 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Willam L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, "A Better World: The Great...
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On Art MIXED MOVEMENT AT THE WHITNEY BY BRADLEY W BLOCH Mass-produced objects are the common coin of contemporary society. That this isso has changed the way we consume everything from...
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Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Strange Ball Game In his review of Anthony Lake's "Somoza...
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