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Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Skirmish in Canada Montreal—Canadians seem to...
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Second Thoughts WASHINGTON ADRIFT By Christopher Clausen Call it a leadership vacuum, paralysis, gridlock, or whatever you like, but the United States government is drifting as it hasn't...
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Thinking Aloud A HORDE OF LILLIPUTIAN GOVERNMENTS By Michael Lind "The era of big government is over," President Clinton announced after the 1994 Congressional elections. Whether that...
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HINTS OF MENACE A Visit to Vitrolles By Marco Roth Vitrolles As recently as 35 years ago, this French town was a small village with a castle perched high on a cliff, its cathedral cupola...
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THE NEW GROWTH INDUSTRY Jailing for Dollars By Vince Beiser Want A hot stock tip? Get into prisons. Privately operated, for-profit prisons are multiplying like mushrooms all across the...
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Perspectives CLASSROOM BOOKSPLOITATION By Gabriel Brownstein It was 7 o'clock in the evening in a room with fluorescent lights at Long Island University. Seated casually on a big aluminum...
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The Dismal Science WHY I WANT TO SHAKE ALAN GREENSPAN By George P. Brockway In Congressional testimony, Chairman Alan P. Greenspan of the Federal Reserve Board has talked, in his gnomic...
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Writers & Writing ENJOYING THE GOD-ROLE By Brooke Allen In Muriel Spark's novels the most memorable and villainous characters have tended to be those who dominate and mold others, who impose...
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A Delightful Muldoodle Kerry Slides By Paul Muldoon Gallety Books/Dufour Editions. 64 pp. $28.95. Reviewed by Stephen Burt Contributor, "Times Literary Supplement," "Boston...
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The Inglorious Puritan Milton in America By Peter Ackroyd Doubleday. 307 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Bill Christophersen Author, "The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown's...
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On Stage BARNUM MEETS VOLTAIRE By Stefan Kanfer With typical irony, François Marie Arouet gave his lean novella Candide the subtitle "Optimism." Actually it was a grinning critique of the...
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Dear Editor Lenga Predicament The cautious environmentalism expressed by Arthur Shapiro in his article on Chile's lenga predicament ("Harvesting Chile's Lenga Forests," NL, March 10) is...
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Vol. 080 Issue 008 (May 5 1997)
Correspondents' Correspondence
