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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Constructive Engagement Maybe Americans were too distracted by stock market gyrations to pay attention to the man from China with the funny...
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FREEDOM FIGHTERS OR TERRORISTS? The Problem of Iranian Resistance By Norman Gelb London On October 29, the Associated Press reported from Teheran that government security forces had...
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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Returning to Tibet By Wanda Bliss Lhasa A gray dawn greets me when I get off the train at the station outside Golmud, a small town in northwestern China that is the...
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POWER POLITICS Doing the Cha-Cha in the Philippines By Donald Kirk Manila The Filipinos have just done their own version of the chacha, but it was a political, not a ballroom, dance. The...
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The Dismal Science A QUESTION OF HUMANITY By George P. Brockway As we move from welfare-aswe-knew-it to welfare-as-wehave-never-known-it, an often acrimonious debate is continuing...
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Writers & Writing BURGESS BYRNING By Phoebe Pettingell Anthony Burgess' posthumously issued final work turns out to be an epic poem called Byrne (Carroll & Graf, 150 pp., $20.00). This comes...
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A Natural Seducer Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma By Michael Peppiatt Farrar Straus Giroux. 368 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Daniel Kunitz Managing editor, "Paris Review" Like the poems of...
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A Japanese Cinderella Memoirs of a Geisha By Arthur Golden Knopf. 442 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Gabriel Brownstein English Department, Barnard College There is a suggestion of voyeurism in...
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On Television DOCUMENTING THE DOCUMENTARY By Reuven Frank On Thursday, September 25, the ABC News magazine 20/20 included a 10-minute report by Peter Jennings, an occasional contributor,...
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On Stage THE VAGARIES OF AFFECTION By Stefan Kanfer Robert Ripley, creator of the widely syndicated feature "Believe It Or Not," liked certain subjects more than others. Men with many wives...
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Vol. 080 Issue 017 (November 3 1997)
Constructive Engagement
