Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Philosophies of Government AT A WHITE HOUSE DINNER to raise funds for a planned memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the protagonist of Federal...
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UNHAPPY CHOICES Russia's Democratic Dilemma BY ROBERT V. DANIELS ANY COUNTRY trying to wrap up a revolutionary period inevitably experiences a time of un-settling pendulum swings. Historians will...
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AN UPHILL STRUGGLE Defending Human Rights in Russia BY CHARLES DIGGES ST. PETERSBURG WITH THE COMMUNIST landslide in Russia's parliamentary election last December, rights activists here began to...
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MAJOR TROUBLES Old Tory vs. New Labor BY NORMAN GELB LONDON IN THIS COUNTRY where the guardians of the Tower of London are called Beefeaters, a popular gin label bears their name and likeness,...
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Second Thoughts WOES OF A FUN-LOVING ORGAN BY CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN LATELY PROSTATES have been in the news a lot. Some of them have been political organs—we learn that Bob Dole had his removed, and...
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Writers & Writing A 'NEW IDEA' THAT FAILED BY ROGER DRAPER WRITERS OF BOOKS on Communism have always had their subject matter defined for them by the Comintern, the international Communist...
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Understanding Islamism God Has Ninety-nine Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East By Judith Miller Simon & Schuster. 574pp. S30.00. Reviewed by Hanan Cohen JUDITH MILLER'S intriguing title...
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A Complex Genius Einstein: A Life By Denis Brian John Wiley. 509pp. S30.00. Reviewed by Sophia Yancopoulos Visiting professor of astronomy. Vassar College ALBERT EINSTEIN reshaped our cosmos by...
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On Stage PLAUTUS REDIVIVUS BY STEFAN KANFER "OUR REASON for putting it on was an affectionate one. Low comedy and farce in America are rarely done." The speaker was the late Burt Shevelove....
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