Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Art of Getting Confirmed It is awesome to contemplate the events that compressed years of change into the weeks since I wrote my prevacation...
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COOL WINDS FROM THE U.S. Why Israel Is Uneasy About Madrid BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel ?viv Smart men can extricate themselves from situations wise men would not get into, an old saying...
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EIGHT MONTHS AFTER SADDAM Regressive Recovery in Kuwait By Donald Kirk Kuwait City As the ruling elite haggle over democratic reform and seal the fate of Kuwait's "traitorous" Palestinian...
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THE TORY REMEDY Doctoring the British Health Service BY NORMAN GELB London When the British National Health Service (NHS) was established after World War II, it was touted as a major...
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CHALLENGING 'BIG BRODER' Sweden's Temperate Revolution BY MICHAEL MORAN Stockholm For almost two centuries Sweden has been quite content to stand apart from the power struggles and...
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The Dismal Science THE LONG AND SHORT OF INTEREST RATES BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY People are beginning to growl that recovery from the recession is being delayed by the slow growth of the...
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Writers & Writing A POET OF THE MASSES BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Fmends called him Charlie or Sandy. He was the shy yet ambitious teenage son of hard-working, dirt poor Swedish immigrants, and...
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Portrait of a Soviet Seaport How Things Were Done in Odessa: Cultural and Intellectual Pursuits in a Soviet City By Maurice Friedberg Westview Press. 192 pp. S35.00. Reviewed by Gene...
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Respectability Is Not Enough Brief Lives By Anita Brookner Random House. 260 pp. $19.00. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "The Dark Way to the Plaza" It is odd that Anita Brookner,...
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On Dance DYING SWANS BY LAURA JACOBS "I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; it is my spirit that addresses your spirit;...
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