Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Kohls Leveraged Buyout It used to be dollar diplomacy that swayed Europe. Now it is D-mark diplomacy, andit works wonders. Hereis a capsule summary of...
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PUT THE TRUTH IN BUDGETING WALLACE C. PETERSON It is lime for a Truth in Budgeting Act. We already have a Truth in Lending Act designed to keep lenders honest by requiring them to tell the...
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AFTER 40 YEARS OF COMMUNISM Calculating the Costs of German Unity By Do?ald R. Shanor A used car lot selling markeddown East German cars and a few expensive Western ones now occupies part...
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HOW NOT TO GOVERN Canada's Meech Lake Mistake By Harold M. Waller Montreal Poltical scientists with a sense of history are fond of recalling the liberum veto of the 18thcentury Polish...
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FROM SKINHEADS TO THE NATIONAL FRONT Facets of French Anti-Semitism By Janice Valls-Russell Touiouse Things seemed to be going well in France this spring. One heard the usual grumbling about...
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The Dismal Science THE EVILS OF ECONOMIC MAN BY GEORGE P. BROCK WAY Nineteen ninety bids fair to go in the books as the year of ironies. Everywhere economists are being asked the way out...
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Writers & Writing A TESTAMENT FOR THE TIMES BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL POETS and novelists interpreting Scripture? If the idea strikes you as incongruous, this simply proves how far we have moved...
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Turmoil, War and Broken Dreams The Search for Modern China By Jonathan D. Spence Norton. 876pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Timothy Tung Former research professor, China specialist, the City...
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A Critic to the Core The Trick of It By Michael Frayn Viking. 172 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Short story writer; contributor, "Massachusetts Review, " "Newsday" The "trick"...
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On Art FROM RUSSIA WITH SPLENDOR BY BRADLEY W. BLOCH Leningrad's Hermitage Museum is one of the world's great art treasuries. Until recently those unable to make the trip to the Soviet...
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On Dance BAD DAYS FOR BALLERINAS BY LAURA JACOBS The current fashion in the ballet world is naysaying. The mood is one of gloom. This isn't such an abnormal state of affairs, really. From...
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