Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Clinton's Virtuoso Performance AT THE START of Year II, the Republican Thermidorians found their revolution suddenly stalled and President Bill Clinton, the...
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DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS Repossessing the House BY ROBERT V. DANIELS CONVENTIONAL WISDOM holds that the GOP's 1994 electoral success was an epochal annihilation of decades of Democratic dominance in...
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JACMEL JOURNAL An Eye in Haiti's Storm BY CAROLE CLEAVER JACMEL "HOW HAS Jacmel changed in the last 20 years?" an . eager young United Nations monitor asked. "Are things better or...
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UNDER CHINA'S LONG ARM Life in Lhasa BY WANDA BLISS LHASA ON MY WAY here I had a long lay-over in Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan Province. For five days I never saw the sun, or more...
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The Dismal Science THE ASSUMED EMPLOYMENT VIRUS BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY I SEE BY THE PAPERS that big corporations are downsizing their economics departments. IBM and GE have eliminated theirs...
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Writers & Writing HEINE'S DEVILISH HEROISM BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL HENRICH HEINE (1795-1856) does not quite qualify for the peak of Parnassus, where Western literature's all-stars —the likes of...
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More than Smoke and Mirrors United Nations: The First Fifty Years By Stanley Meisler Atlantic. 386pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Michael Collins_ IN THE PAST eight years, the United Nations has gone...
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Portents and Parallels The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s ByH. W. Brands St. Martin s. 400 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Melissa Knox Assistant professor of English, St. Peter s College;...
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OnTelevision MISSING THE STORY BY REUVEN FRANK TELEVISION is fame. Fame is fleeting. When this year's record snows finally melted in the Northeast, they washed away hours of video images of Phil...
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On Stage FROM STOCKHOLM TO DOGPATCH BY STEFAN KANFER ON THE OCCASION of his 70th birthday, Freud paused to give credit to his predecessors. "The poets and philosophers before me discovered the...
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