Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR White House Fumbling At the end of the great budget deficit debate, President George Bush and Congress collapsed into each other's arms like...
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A PLACE FOR OPPONENTS King Hassan's Secret Garden By Janice Valls-Russell Paris He calls King Juan Carlos of Spain "brother" but has been known to arrive late at official receptions during...
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Euro Vista By RAY ALAN Dubious Allies in the Gulf Many Western officials and commentators have exaggerated the significance of the "alliance" between the United States, the European...
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TO ARM OR NOT TO ARM Crossing Swords in Japan BY MICHAEL BERGER Tokyo Pressure from the Bush Administration for increased Japanese participation in the attempt to liberate Kuwait has...
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Thinking Aloud THE DIFFERENCE WILLY BRANDT HAS MADE BY ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR. The last years have been so crowded with unexpected events that we have become almost blasé in the face of...
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States of the Union READ MY BLIPS BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS It's a delicate subject but let's face it: In my eagerness to go on living, I may have become a millstone around the American...
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Writers & Writing THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LEFT BY ROGER DRAPER Denis Healey has suffered the fate of being perhaps less popular in his own British Labor Party than in all of its rivals. The...
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The Danger of Uncertain Identities Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition By Daniel Pipes Oxford. 240 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Laurie Mylroie Fellow, Harvard Center for Middle East...
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A New World Like Our Own The Star Cafe and Other Stories By Mary Caponegro Scribner's. 180 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Short story writer; contributor, "The Quarterly,...
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On Dance OF ANGELS AND WITCHES BY LAURA JACOBS At the beginning of this century, ballerina Anna Pavlova inflamed the hearts of women and girls everywhere. Embodying dance's strange...
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