Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr An American Way of Strife In barring emotional testimony of the sort that might have turned the Timothy McVeighpenalty hearings into "some kind of...
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BEYOND BALKAN APARTHEID A Message from Kosovo By Anna Husarska Pristina It was in Kosovo Polje, site of a famous Serb defeat over 600 years ago, that Serbian President Slobodan...
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LOOKING PAST NATO A Plea for a New Global Strategy By Mchaeil Lind I often wonder how many American foreign policy makers were confused for life by those elementary school maps—the ones...
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Second Thoughts COME ON, BABY STIR MY SPAM By Christopher Clausen A century ago this month, Queen Victoria celebrated her six decades on the British throne with a Diamond Jubilee....
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Culture Watching LATKE VERSUS HAMANTASCH By Rachel Shteir One night a few weeks ago in the cavernous ballroom of the American Jewish League on East 59th Street, Ted Cohen, a philosophy...
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Writers & Writing A WOOLF FOR ALL SEASONS By Phoebe Pettingell There have been a number of Virginia Woolfs presented to the public over the last three decades. Back in the 1960s, she was...
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The South's Lost Gentleman Walker Percy: A Life By Patrick H. Samway, S. J. Farrar Straus Giroux. 506 pp. S35.00. Reviewed by Bertram Wyatt-Brown Professor of history, University...
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Plumbing the Nation's Capital Echo House By Ward Just Houghton Mifflin. 328 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by William Herrick Author "¡Hermanos!" Ward Just is an old Washington hand, having worked...
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On Screen UNEXPECTED LUMET By Raphael Shargel With Night Falls on Manhattan, Sidney Lumet begins his fifth decade as a director of feature films. His body of work includes Twelve Angry Men,...
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On Stage LI'L BIT O' INCEST By Stefan Kanfer The subject of childhood sexual abuse has gone from tabu to prime time. It has been explored on television shows like NYPD Blue and Law and Order,...
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Dear Editor Astonished I was astonished to find that The New Leader shared and approved of the now overwhelming American contempt for politicians ("Between Issues," March 24). Are politicians...
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