Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Clinton Takes a Vow MAY 17 will be remembered as the day President Bill Clinton personally promised his first veto. His target was the bill rescinding $ 16.4...
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NO MORE CLASS WAR The Blair Effect in Britain BY NORMAN GELB LONDON A POLITICAL REVOLUTION is sweeping Britain. Characteristically, it is less histrionic than the upheaval that has excited...
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UNEASE IN ISRAEL Rabin on Five Fronts BY ELIAHU SALPETER TEL AVIV THE UGLY FACE of American Jewish Right-wing extremism briefly filled TV screens in this country on May 21, when Leftist Minister...
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AROUSING EXPECTATIONS Chirac's Perilous Promises BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL PARIS FRANCE'S NEW Center-Right President, Jacques Chirac, is eager?in theory—to break with 14 years of Socialism. Yet he...
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Second Thoughts BEYOND LITERACY BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN WHEN MICHAEL KINSLEY announced he was going to stop writing his syndicated column in favor of a full-time television career, I realized that...
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Writers &Writing A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD BY ROGER DRAPER IN The Old Regime and the French Revolution Tocqueville denounces "Revolutionaries of a hitherto unknown breed," who in the 1790s...
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A Marriage on the Rocks What Went Wrong?: The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance By Murray Friedman Free Press. 423pp. $24.95. Blacks and Jews: Alliances and Arguments Edited...
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Land of Lost Opportunity Russia/USSR/Russia: The Drive and Drift of a Superstate By Moshe Lewin The New Press. 368pp. $30.00. Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian...
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On Television CONNIE CHUNG AT THE CIRCUS BY REUVEN FRANK ON THE SAME recent weekend, fate dealt unkindly with Patrick Ewing and Connie Chung. Ewing, an authentic sports hero, tried in the...
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On Stage STRONG PERFORMERS BY STEFAN KANFER ELDERLY PEOPLE often complain that they remember their childhood precisely, but can't for the life of them tell you what they had for dinner yesterday....
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