Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR On the Way to Victory Theke must surely be a more important way of demarcating history, but this column falls due with the start of the ground war in...
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AFTER THE STORM The View from Riyadh BY ANDREW J. GLASS Riyadh Despite the inevitable changes here resulting from the Persian Gulf war, Saudi Arabia remains a repressed society where...
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A CAUSE FOR CONCERN Reality Rears Its Head in Italy By Silvio R. Senigalllia Rome The first year of the 20th century's last decade has not dawned auspiciously for Italians. Two recent...
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TINKERING WITH TRADITION Tokyo's Sexual Revolution BY KARL TARO GREENFELD Tokyo Rika, the lead character in the television drama Tokyo Love Story, lives in a spacious, sunny studio...
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The Dismal Science DON'T BANK ON THE BANKS BY GEORGE ?. BROCKWAY I can't think of a single good reason why the rest of the financial sector, led by the commercial banks, should not...
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Writers & Writing THE JAPAN THAT COULD SAY MAYBE BY ROGER DRAPER FROM the 1630s until March31,1854, when Commodore Matthew C. Perry of theU.S. Navy signed a treaty of "firm, lasting, and...
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No Time for Hubris The End of Laissez-Faire: National Purpose and the Global Economy after the Cold War By Robert Kuttner Knopf. 290 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Gus Tyler Assistant...
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The Price of an Obsession Stalin's War Against the Jews By Louis Rapoport Free Press. 318 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Maurice Friedberg Professor of Russian Literature, University...
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On Stage LOOKING BACKWARD BY STEFAN KANFER Neil Simon's 26th stage play, Lost in Yonkers, at the Richard Rodgers Theater, could operate under many of his previous titles. The Odd...
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