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Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Summer Spy Scoops The big bailout of the savings and loan institutions is on and the investigation into the garage sale of the assets of the...
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A RESTLESS PRESENCE Islam in England and France BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL Paris "A GREAT CELEBRATION of freedom." The words could be Salman Rushdie's, perhaps rejoicing somewhere in hiding...
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CAN THE SOVIET CENTER HOLD? The Perils of Perestroika BY BORIS RUMER AND GABRIEL SCHOENFELD The labor strikes and ethnic violence gripping the Soviet Union have understandably captured the...
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States of the Union A CERTAIN SPECIES OF HELPLESSNESS BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS In 1985 I began work on a book about the elderly poor, little suspecting that theventure would bring...
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The Dismal Science EXXON AND SQUATTER ECONOMICS BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Dean Acheson once remarked wearily that if anyone, at any time, found him agreeing with any Indian on any subject...
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Writers & Writing MANNA FROM THE WEST BY BARRY GEWEN ALMOSTHALF A CENTURY after the end of World War II Germany still makes people nervous. Although the Bonn government is the cement of the...
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Revisiting a Vanished World From That Place and Time: A Memoir 1938-1947 By Lucy S. Dawidowicz Norton. 333 pp. $21.95 Reviewed by Lawrence Grossman Director of Publications, American...
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The Kis of Death The Encyclopedia of the Dead By Danilo Kis Farrar Straus Giroux. 199 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Alan Wade Fiction writer; free-lance critic The fable is an unpopular genre...
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On Screen OFF THE BLOCKBUSTER PATH BY JOHN MORRONE SUMMER is the season of the escapist movie, and of frustration for the film reviewer. What more can (or should) be written about the...
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On Dance THE KIROV'S TIMELESS VIRTUES BY LAURA JACOBS It was Mikhail Baryshnikov's desire to have his company perform the world's most difficult (because most sublimely formal) ballet that...
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Vol. 072 Issue 012 (August 7 1989)
Summer Spy Scoops
