Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Richard Nixon's Last Comeback I FIRST MET RICHARD M. NIXON in 1947, when he came to the Netherlands as a member of a House committee looking into European...
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THE NEXT TEST FOR BERLUSCONI Italy's Second Republic BY VINCENT R. TORTORA THE VOTE of confidence that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Right-wing government received in the Senate on May 18...
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FROM DREYFUS TO TOUVIER Remembering Anti-Semitism in France BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL THE first Frenchman ever charged with crimes against humanity, Paul Touvier, received a life sentence on April...
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Perspectives THE POLITICS OF PEACEKEEPING BY BENJAMIN WITTES ON MAY 5 President Bill Clinton took a step toward defining his foreign policy when he signed a directive on international...
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The Dismal Science UNEMPLOYMENT JAPANESE STYLE BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY I REPRODUCE above in its entirety a news article that appeared on page D4 of the Business Day section of the New York Times...
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Writers &.Writing THE EPISTOLARY BISHOP BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL WHEN ELIZABETH BISHOP died in 1979, admirers could turn to a mere five slim volumes of verse, her translation of a young Brazilian...
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Taking On the Policy Entrepreneurs Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations By Paul Krugman Norton. 303 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Leonard...
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Undermined from Within, Betrayed from Without Why Bosnia? Writings on the Balkan War Edited by Rabia Ali and Lawrence Lifschultz Pamphleteer's Press. 353 pp. $35.00. Ethnic Nationalism: The...
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On TElevision FOR NOW IT'S STILL THE OLD NETWORKS BY REUVEN FRANK THE HERALDED demise of the major networks has apparently been postponed again. First signs of new life could be discerned as...
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On Stage TWILIGHT TRAGEDIES BY STEFAN KANFER I AM NOT the only one put off by Medea; Aristotle felt aspects of Euripides' bitter tragedy were "revolting." So I am in good company. Then again, so...
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