TONY BLAIR'S STRATEGY Mining the Middle in Britain BY NORMAN GELB LONDON IT IS HARD to believe that Anthony Charles Lynton Blair could be Britain's next Prime Minister. A comparative political...
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Euro Vista BY RAY ALAN Letter from the Midi YOU PROBABLY saw pictures of those intrepid American septuagenarians parachuting into Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day. Ten weeks later, more...
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A HESITANT OPTIMIST'S VIEW Russia's Bumpy Road BY PETER KENEZ MOSCOW IN THE United States there is little disagreement today about Russia. The consensus goes something like this: Most Russians...
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TRIALS OF AN ASIAN TIGER The Price of Progress in South Korea BY DARRYL D'MONTE SEOUL THE VISITOR to South Korea's capital is immediately struck by how "Japanized" it is. Sleek cars travel...
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Second Thoughts TAKING LIBERTIES WITH THE ACLU BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN WHEN THE WORLD and I were somewhat younger, I decided one day to fork over a thousand dollars (roughly a year's savings) and...
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Writers & Writing JANE MADE PLAIN BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL IN 1796, shortly after checking into a London hotel, a young Jane Austen happily wrote to her sister Cassandra: "Here I am once more in...
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A Painful Washington Baptism The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House By Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster. 352 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Steven V. Roberts Senior writer, "U.S. News and World...
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The Riddle Behind the Mask_ The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg By Nicholas Dawidoff Pantheon. 453 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Richard F. Shepard Former cultural reporter,...
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On Television LAUGHTER AT THE LOWER DEPTHS BY REUVEN FRANK WHEN I AGREED to occupy this space, it was with the proviso that I wouldn't review programs. It is one thing to spend all your waking...
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On Stage CHATTER AND SONG BY STEFAN KANFER ERIC BOGOSIAN has one major distinction: He was in Oliver Stone's worst film, Talk Radio. Anyone who has seen JFK knows just how extraordinary that...
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Dear Editor No Benchmark I have no desire to quarrel with the stress George P. Brockway places on full employment in his "Dismal Science" column entitled "Unemployment Japanese Style" (NL, May...
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