Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Clinton's Politics of Ingratiation In his 1995 State of the Union address President Bill Clinton came out foursquare against a balanced budget constitutional...
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Second Thoughts THE MEANING OF MODERATION BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN The more things stay the same, the more they change. A few days after the 1996 election, the conventional wisdom was that both...
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A DUBIOUS STRATEGY Chirac's Mideast 'Diplomacy' BY JANICE VALLS-RUSSELL Paris That the Arab world enthusiastically hailed President Jacques Chirac's October 22 shoving match with Israeli...
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THREAT OR PROMISE? The Looming Euro BY NORMAN GELB London Aspecter is haunting Europe. It is the euro—the new monetary unit that is supposed to begin replacing the pound, mark, franc, lira, and...
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The Dismal Science DECEPTIVELY OBVIOUS ECONOMICS BY GEORGE R BROCKWAY I want to tell you about a new book you probably will not quickly hear about elsewhere. It is not the sort of book most...
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Writers & Writing LENIN'S CHOSEN CAPITALIST BY ROGER DRAPER FROM His young manhood a cloud of suspicion hung over Dr. Armand Hammer. The distrust was well-founded: Documents recently discovered...
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A Balkan Tragedy Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its Destroyers By Warren Zimmermann Times Books. 255pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Batic Bacevic Senior writer, columnist, "NIN" "Yes, our...
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More than Apple Pie James Stewart: A Biography By Donald Dewey Turner. 512pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Brian Edgar Filmmaker Donald Dewey sets out to discover what made a quiet man from Indiana,...
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On Television LET'S END POLITICAL ADS ON TV BY REUVEN FRANK In theory, the United States elects a President every four years. In fact, the United States is always electing a President. Soon after...
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On Stage FLESHED-OUT AND WORN-OUT BY STEFAN KANFER The Schwann Catalogue lists more than 50 recordings made under the baton of Wilhelm Furtwangler. Unquestionably, he was the premier conductor...
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