Washington-USA GETTING CLINTON'S SHOW ON THE ROAD BY ANDREW J. GLASS Washington ^ ^ "J^^ ^ ature abhors a vaCI^WI uum," Baruch Spinoza X ^( told us some 300 years before a young, bright Bill...
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FEAR OF FRICTION Japan Ponders the Clinton Enigma *michael **** Tokyo The unknown frightens Japanese more than anything else, and to most of them President Bill Clinton is a complete enigma....
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BAZIN, ARISTIDE AND THE GENERALS Haiti In Limbo BY CAROLE CLEAVER Port-au-Prince When I visited Prime Minister Marc L. Bazin in the National Palace on January 15, rumors were flying that his...
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HOW DEEP IS INDIA'S SECULARISM? The Lessons of Ayodhyzt by darryl d'monte Bombay Indian Muslims will be forgiven for receiving a single message from the national mayhem triggered by the razing...
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Thinking Aloud RUSSIA: 1993vs.l917 BY PETER KENEZ In the course of the 20th century the Russians time and again have found themselves in situations lacking any precedent. After the astounding...
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Perspectives LIBERALS AND THE ACADEMIC LEFI BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN WHAT DOES IT MEAN tO be a liberal at the beginning of the Clinton Administration? The term has been caricatured for so long by...
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Writers & Writing AMUSE WRITES TO HER POET BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL A JL JL OTRFjo>r«OFWiUiamButlerYeatsknowsthatMaud Gonne was the Irish poet's lifelong Muse, and unattainable beloved. Until age...
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A Life of Unendurable Irony_ Latinos: A Biography of the People By Earl Shorris Norton. 520 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by James LeMoyne Former correspondent, New York "Times"; now completing a honk...
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Mixing Prudence with Principle The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke By Conor Cruise O'Brien University of Chicago. 640 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Yehudah Mirsky Publications...
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On Stage TWO SIDES OF JEWISH CHARACTER BY STEFAN KANFER T n he jester—badkhn in Yiddish— first appears in the Middle Ages, amusing the guests and annoying the leaders with his impudent...
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