Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The 'Ticker' Ticket Problem For a while, starting on May 4, the recession, Iraq, Air Sununu, and even the latest Kennedy scandal were put aside as the...
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COUNTING ON THE CENTER Jordan Inches Toward Democracy By Donald Kirk Amman Amid the continuing confusion from the West Bank to Kuwait, one might well miss the stirring of democracy here...
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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK-1 Preying on the Pagan Plain By Karen Swenson Pagan About the time that an AngloSaxon monk with chilled fingers was writing out Beowulf in England, Burmese masons,...
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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK-2 Eastern Berlin Revisited BY STEVEN KELMAN Berlin The plethora of recent articles in the American press on the looming economic catastrophe in what used to be East...
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ENTER GIULIO VII Playing Politics in Rome BY SILVIO F. SENIGALLIA Rome After an absurd government crisis that mercifully lasted less than three weeks, Giulio VI became Giulio VII. Giulio...
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Writers & Writing PYM AND HER POETS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Barbara Pym's novels have attracted many loyal readers since they began to appear in the early 1950s. Her bittersweet comedies of...
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What's Right with GATT The World Trading System at Risk By Jagdish Bhagwati Princeton. 156pp. $14.95. Aggressive Unilateralism: America's 301 Trade Policy and the World Trading...
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A Question of Intent Two Girls, Fat and Thin By Mary Gaitskill Poseidon. 304 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Short story writer; contributor, "The Quarterly," "Massachusetts Review,"...
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Where Memory Has Failed In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of Mauthausen By Gordon J. Horwitz Free Press. 288 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Contributor,...
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On Stage THE LAST ROUNDUP BY STEFAN KANFER True patriots all, for be it understood We left our country for our country's good... And none will doubt but that our emigration Has prov'd...
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