Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Traditional Healing Geneva—The Ministry of...
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GAMBLING ON THE STOMACH China's 'Noodle Communism' By Steven V. Roberts Beijing The official view of Eastern Europe here is clear: We don't want to talk about it. Party functionaries...
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MAYORGA'S RECOVERY PLAN Nicaragua Turns to Economics BY ANNA HUSARSKA Managua A few days after the presidential election last February 25, Nicaragua's newspapers carried yet another...
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WITH AN EYE ON THE ELYSEE Playing Politics in France BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL Paris France's political class has entered the 1990s in search of new leaders and new ideas. Among the...
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Perspectives THE NEXT STEP FOR SOUTH AFRICA BY RUSSELL WARREN HOWE South Africa is not Mississippi. The problems attending President Frederick W. de Klerk's recognition that apartheid's...
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States of the Union TRAGEDY IN A SMALL SPACE BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS Early-morning breakfast had become a pleasant ritual for Jeff Link and his older brother Tim. After finishing the third...
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Writers & Writing I? SEARCH OF NIXON BY WILLIAM L. O'NEILL No man alive has had as long, as important or as controversial a political career as Richard M. Nixon. Numerous books have been...
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Unraveling Red Tape Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It By James Q. Wilson Basic Books. 433 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Michael Barzelay Associate Professor of...
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Romantic Realist Baudelaire By Claude Pichois Translated by Graham Robb Hamish Hamilton/Viking. 430 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock A few years ago I reviewed in these pages...
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A Dubious Solution What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress By Daniel Callahan Simon and Schuster. 288 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Amitai Etzioni University Professor,...
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On Dance THE ABT AT FIFTY BY LAURA JACOBS It may seem only yesterday that the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) was celebrating its 40th anniversary, but this January it turned 50. For a...
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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. History Joseph E. Mick's review of the Bradley Commission-sponsored...
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