Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Middle East Calculations IN MID-OCTOBER, with President Bill Clinton going to the Middle East, it seemed that the closer the region came to peace, the...
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AMID THE SUSPICION Peace Prospects Ulster BY NORMAN GELB LONDON THE CEASE-FIRE now being ob?served by terrorist organiza?tions on both sides of Northern Ireland's sectarian divide has totally...
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Euro Vista BY RAY ALAN Hate Thy Neighbor? WE SHOULD be grateful to the ex-Yugo?slavs for reminding us that the most per?nicious plague afflicting humanity is still nationalism (with its...
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NURTURING DEMOCRACY Taiwan Goes to Polls BY ROSS A.SNEL AND PIERO TOZZI TAIPEI FOR MORE THAN a half decade, as attention focused on the bloody repression of democracy demon?strators in Tiananmen...
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Second Thoughts RAISING THE FAMILY BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN ARTHUR W. CALHOUN is a for?gotten name among social sci?entists, but 75 years ago he pub?lished a three-volume Social Histoiy of the...
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Writers & Writing POETIC JEKYLLS AND HYDES BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL FAR AND AWAY the most affecting chapter in Lives of the English Poets is Samuel Johnson's account of his doomed friend Richard...
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A Hapless Hybrid Ingmar Bergman: Film and Stage By Robert Emmet Long Abrams. 208 pp. $45.00. Reviewed by John Simon ROBERT EMMET LONG has attempted the impossible: to produce something that...
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Blinded by the Glare Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political Systems By James Fallows Pantheon. 517pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Douglas A. Irwin Associate Professor...
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On Screen KUBRICK'S NUCLEAR LANTERN BY DAVID BROMWICH SATIRE takes no hostages. When Stanley Kubrick bought the motion pic?ture rights to a thriller called RedAlertby Peter George, he meant to...
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On Stage THE BOAT THAT CHANGED BROADWAY BY STEFAN KANFER OA WINTER EVENING in 1925 Jerome Kern decided to lull himself to sleep with a new bestseller. Instead, Edna Ferber's novel kept him awake:...
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