KHATAMI ON A TIGHTROPE Perils of an Iranian Moderate By Shaul Bakhash The August 3 inauguration in Iran brings to the President's office a cleric who reads Tocqueville. Mohammad...
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A TROJAN HORSE? Simmering Dissidence in Hong Kong By Donald Kirk Hong Kong One evening it was British Hong Kong, the colony I first set foot in during the early summer of 1963. The next...
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JOSPIN'S CHALLENGE Rising Expectations in France By Janice Valls-Russell Paris "There is something absurd and unfair about our society Globally it has never been so rich, yet thousands...
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ANOTHER COLD WAR? The Danger of NATO Expansion By Robert V. Daniels The Clinton Administration's determination to enlarge the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) by taking in three...
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LETTER FROM UMBRIA Italy's New 'In' Place By Ruth Ellen Gruber MORRUZZE In the opening sentence of Out of Africa, Karen Blixen famously proclaimed that she "had a farm in Africa, at...
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Writers & Writing A SPYCATCHING NOVEL By Brooke Allen Every country creates its own national mythology, and self-flagellation tends to be almost as consistent a theme as self-congratulation....
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Love and Death in Chicago The Actual By Saul Bellow Viking. 112 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Bill Christophersen Author. "The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown s American...
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A Sure and Sly Virtuoso The Bacon Fancier: Four Tales By Alan Isler Viking. 214 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Gabriel Brownstein English Department, Barnard College Allen Isler's collection...
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On Screen THE DOGS OF SUMMER By Raphael Shargel Face/Off is so full of smash and scream, fire and blood, anger and tumult that it frequently lapses into incomprehensibility. Its characters...
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Dear Editor In the Beginning... Allow me to add a historical note to Rachel Shteir's "Latke versus Hamantasch" (NL, June 30). She writes that at the University of Chicago "50 years ago, a rabbi...
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