Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Baghdad Scenario For President Clinton's initial use of offensive force, a strike at Baghdad represented a well-nigh best-case scenario: It could...
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THE VIEW FROM THE STREET Japan's New(?) Politics BY MICHAEL BERGER Tokyo "Good morning! Good morning! This is Nobuo Imai—Nobuo Imai —thank you for taking timeout of your busy schedule...
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THE TASK FOR GONZALEZ Spain's Voters Take a Middle Road BY JANCE VALLS-RUSSELL Madrid Unlike their French neighbors, who ousted the governing Socialists last April, Spaniards on June 6...
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BITTERSWEET MEMORIES Finding My Roots in Rostov BY LUDMILLA THORNE "Odessa is the mother and Rostov is the father, hold on to your pockets!" warns a popular Russian saying. Actually the...
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The Dismal Science IN PURSUIT OF A FISCAL FANTASY BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY President Clinton's $31 billion "stimulus package" was defeated by a filibuster that was organized, not on the...
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Writers & Writing A HISTORIAN AS PROPHET BY ROGER DRAPER In 1798, as Europe was preparing to enter the 19th century, Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population. The...
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The Other Bank Scandal The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI By Jonathan Beaty and S. C. Gwynne Random House. 399 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Harvey H. Segal Author,...
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Portraits of Europe's Powder Keg Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History By Robert D. Kaplan St. Martin's. 307 pp. $22.95. The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War By...
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On Screen OF PREDATORS AND PRETENDERS BY DAVID BROMWICH "Oh, it's a genre-breaking Western and it's pretty wonderful." I took the advice and went to see Unforgiven, now playing a second...
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On Stage THE LOVE THAT WILL NOT LOWER ITS VOICE BY STEFAN KANFER wV Then Angels in America received the Pulitzer Prize before its New York debut, the results were inevitable. Ever since...
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