Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Fine-tuning the Presidency HIS APPROVAL ratings are up, the economy is up and America is at peace with the world, if not with itself. So Bill Clinton, in his...
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ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE Notes from the Hell That Is Haiti BY CAROLE CLEAVER "WHO IS SUFFERING most under the international embargo," Haitians keep asking each other, "the rich or the poor?"...
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AS NATO GROPES FOR AGREEMENT The French-U.S. Pas de Deux on Bosnia BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL WHILE MORTAR SHELLS killed children playing in the snow and people going to the market in Sarajevo,...
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UNDERMINED BY SCANDAL Basic Problems for Britain's Tories BY NORMAN GELB THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY, Great Britain's dominant political force throughout most of this century, is in a state of shock...
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The Dismal Science MAKING A MESS OF RUSSIA BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY THE NEWS from Russia these days reduces one very quickly to hysterical laughter or hysterical tears. We sometimes seem to be well...
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Writers & Writing IDYLLS OF TENNYSON BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL TWENTIETH-CENTURY critics have tended to see Alfred, Lord Tennyson as the quintessential Victorian poet: sonorously portentous, his glum...
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Lessons of the New Frontier President Kennedy: Profile of Power By Richard Reeves Simon & Schuster. 798 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Steven V. Roberts Senior writer, "U.S. News and World Report";...
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Literary Trials and Tribulations A Frolic of His Own By William Gaddis Poseidon. 586 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Short story writer, film production adviser; contributor, "The...
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On Television THE CBS FOOTBALL FUMBLE BY REUVEN FRANK TELEVISION'S end-of-an-era du jour for January 23 was the CBS broadcast of Dallas trouncing San Francisco and winning the right to play in...
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On Stage TWO QUARTETS BY STEFAN KANFER no' man's land'; n. 1. a piece of land, usually wasteland, to which no one has a recognized title. 2. the area on a battlefield separating the combatants....
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