Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR The Presidents Dilemma ROUGHLY 40 times in his record-long State of the Union address on January 24, President Clinton used the word "new" He spoke of "the...
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AFTER THE LIBERATION Haiti Against the Odds BY CAROLE CLEAVER WILLIAM L SWING PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI IS A CHANGED PLACE Since the American troops arrived During the worst days of the embargo,...
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GETTING OFF HOLD Israel's Peace Problem BY ELIAHU SALPETER YASIR ARAFAT TEL AVIV SINCE THE early weeks of the new year the Israeli-Palestinian peace process has pretty much ground to a halt,...
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MAJOR'S ACE IN THE HOLE? Playing to Patriotism Britain BY NORMAN GELB JOHN MAJOR LONDON POLITICAL whims and fashions that capture the American imagination frequently surface in Britain soon...
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The Dismal Science THE PHANTOM TAX CUT BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY TWO YEARS AGO, reporting on the Little Rock economic summit" (remember that'), 1 wrote sadly "It was a dismal performance For it was...
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Writers & Writing THINGS GO BETTER WITH KOCH BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL EIGHT YEARS ago Kenneth Koch, then 61, looked back with amusement at that long-gone era when he first began to establish himself...
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Double-edged Diversity Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe By Anne Applebaum Pantheon 314 pp $24 00 Reviewed by Gene Sosin Former Director of Program Planning Radio Free...
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Sitting in Judgment The Sacred Chain: The History of the Jews BNonnan F Cantor Hai pei Collins 472pp $35 00 Reviewed b) Robert M. Seltzer Professpr of Jewish history Hunter College author...
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OnTelevision CELEBRITY JOURNALISM BY REUVEN FRANK NEWT GINGRICH'S mother telling Connie Chung about her son using the same word to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton that, more than a decade...
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On Stage EGOTISM IN BLACK AND WHITE BY STEFAN KANFER THE JURY is still out on filmmak-er-turned-playwnght Kenneth Branagh In 1989 he chose to adapt, direct and star in Hemy V, a work previously...
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