A MATTER OF PRINCIPLES Yeltsin's Chechnya Problem --and Ours BY ABRAHAM BRUMBERG FOR TWO MONTHS a bloody war was under way in the tiny Caucasian state of Chechnya: Its capital, Grozny, was being...
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A DANGEROUS RESPECTABILITY Germany's Communists in New Clothes BY PAUL OPPENHEIMER BERLIN EASTERN GERMANY'S retooled Communists -members of the old Socialist Unity Party (SED), now called the...
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CRACKS IN THE COALITION Politics and Public TV in Chile BY ARTHUR M. SHAPIRO SANTIAGO ONE OF THE BUZZWORDS in post-Pinochet Chilean politics is transparencia—the condition of being open and...
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IN THE NAME OF 'DIVERSITY' Political Correctness at Rutgers BY WILLIAM L. O'NEILL IN 1944 WHEN GUNNAR MYRDAL published his monumental study of U.S. race relations, he named it An American...
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Second Thoughts 2005: A PRESIDENTIAL ODYSSEY BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN DURING THE MORE ruminative moments of his new Speakerhood, Newt Gingrich enjoys describing himself as a "conservative...
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Writers & Writing LIBERALISM'S ROAD TO DISASTER BY ROGER DRAPER OVER the last three decades some of the most fundamental and long-standing assumptions of American politics have largely been...
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A Chance for Recovery On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency By Elizabeth Drew Simon & Schuster. 462 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Steven V. Roberts Senior writer. "U.S. News and World Report ".former...
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Unconventional Wisdom_ Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage By David Card and Alan B. Knteger Princeton. 422pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Gus Tyler Assistant president,...
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On Stage LAUGHTER IN THE DARK BY STEFAN KANFER "Je prends mon bien ouje le trouve." declared Moliere, "I take what belongs tome where I find it." What he took included portions of Plautus' moral...
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