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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Battle of Wills in Myanmar BY KAREN SWENSON YANGON I TOLD THE agent sitting behind a thick plastic partition at the airport currency booth that I would only be in her...
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The Dismal Science WHAT DOES IT COST YOU TO LIVE? BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY THE ENTRY in this space for April 5,1982, was titled "Let's Put Indexing on the Index." The occasion was a Reagan...
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Spirals of Suspicion Revolution and War By Stephen M. Walt Cornell. 365pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Forrest D. Colburn Visiting Associate Professor. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and...
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On Stage TRAGEDY AND ART BY STEFAN KANFER PLOT A: An earnest polymath— playwright, composer and lyricist— struggles for recognition. He writes a musical and takes it to producer after producer,...
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Vol. 079 Issue 003 (June 3 1996)
The Other Vegas
