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Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Bush's Uphill Campaign At this writing the Presidential election contest seems to be simmering down to, essentially, a dispirited choice between an incumbent...
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LOOKING BACKWARD Nationalism on the Rise in Hungary BY PETER KENEZ Budapest If you want to appreciate this city, runs an old cliche, approach it from the East, not the West. Indeed, Russians...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN Foreign Games The overseas news coverage of most London tabloids is governed by the principle "Abroad is unutterably bloody." Normally they give it little space, but in...
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BLAMING SALINAS Anger at El Tajin by FORREST D. COLBURN Papantla El Tajin, located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Veracruz, is the most spectacular pre-Hispanic center on the Gulf...
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The Dismal Science THE MALIGNITY OF CAPITAL GAINS BT GEORGE P. BROCKWAY The recurring wrangle over the fairness or unfairness of capital gains taxation, while certainly not irrelevant, has...
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Writers & Writing PUTTING WELFARE TO WORK BY ROGER DRAPER Apart from giving money to foreigners and exploring outer space, the provision of welfare is the least popular government undertaking. By...
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Two Views from Inside China in Our Time: The Epic Saga of the People's Republic, from the Communist Victory to Tiananmen Square and Beyond By Ross Terrill Simon & Schuster. 366 pp. $25.00. Evening...
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Credit Shenanigans Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken By James Grant. Farrar Straus Giroux. 513 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Harvey H....
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On Stage THEATRICS OF THE ABSURD by stefan kanfer For more than 20 years, Tom Stop-pard has been praised as an absurdist of major stature, a playwright who belongs in the company of Luigi...
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On Television ANOTHER SEASON By REUVEN FRANK From the New York Times, July 15, 1992: "The stew of news-magazine programs, so-called reality programs that mix actual events with 're-creations,'...
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Vol. 075 Issue 011 (September 7 1992)
Bush's Uphill Campaign
