Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Long Transition What an oddity the American Presidential transition is! George Bush, in his passive-aggressive period following his defeat,...
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Countdown '92 DEAR MR. PRESIDENT-ELECT BY GUS TYLER Dear Mr. President-elect, As a Rhodes scholar, you do not have to be reminded of George Santayana's admonition that those who do not learn...
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ACCUSATIONS AT THE TOP France's Spreading Blood Scandal BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL Paris A formal apology by President Francois Mitterrand several weeks ago could not quiet what has become a...
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NOTES OF A NATIVE SON Traveling in the New China BY TIMOTHY TUNG Beijing When I asked a young Dutch assistant banquet manager in training at the new China World Hotel why he had come all...
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EXPLOITING THE SYSTEM Market Manipulation Comes to India BY DARRYL D'MONTE Bombay To most Americans, turmoilridden India probably does not conjure up an image of a country with a...
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Writers & Writing A BROKEN WINDOW'S HEART BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL "Ififeel feel personally as if the top of my head were taken off," Emily Dickinson wrote, "I know that is poetry." Gjertrud...
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Japan's Yen for Debt The Bubble Economy: Japan's Extraordinary Speculative Boom of the '80s and the Dramatic Bust of the '90s BY CHRISTOPHER WOOD Atlantic Monthly Press. 224 pp....
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A Cannibal Who Consumed Her Own Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal and Survival in Hitler's Germany BY PETER WYDEN Simon and Schuster. 382 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Susan...
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On Television PLAYING THE SWEEPS BY REUVEN FRANK November 12,1992, the back page of the first section of the New York Times was filled by an advertisement asking, in screaming type: "IF A...
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On Stage CAPTIVES AND CLOWNS BY STEFAN KANFER Irecently addressed a conference of the Elie Wiesel Foundation, convened to examine the sources of hate. Among the other speakers was former...
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