Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Reminiscing About Royalty Saint of the Gutters and Saint of the Media: The death of Mother Teresa cast a new light on the Princess Diana frenzy that...
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POST-OSLO PASSIONS What Albright Learned in the Middle East By Yuval Elizur Jerusalem Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright's plane was still in the Middle East when trouble again broke...
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TAKING ON LABOR The Tories' Youngest Fogy By Norman Gelb London For Britain's Conservative Party politicians, now is the winter of their discontent. It is not easy for them to adjust to...
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Thinking Aloud OUR CEREMONIAL PRESIDENT By Michael Lind Of all the charges their enemies have made against President Clinton and his Vice President, the only ones that seem to stick...
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The Dismal Science WHY A ZERO DEFICIT MEANS FAILURE By George ? Brockway I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think it important for us to realize that the United States of America is about...
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Writers &.Writing THE POWER OF POSITIVE PROUST By Brooke Allen Marcel Proust as self-help maven? Alain de Botton's often amusing new book, How Proust Can Change Your Life (Pantheon, 197...
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Stalking the Elusive Zeitgeist Underworld By Don DeLillo Scribner. 832 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Ben Downing Managing editor, "Parnassus Verisimilitude has never been one of Don DeLillo's...
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A Question of Authorship American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence By Pauline Maier Knopf. 304 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Milton R. Konvitz Professor emeritus of law,...
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On Screen GENDER AND GENRE BENDING By Raphael Shargel Halfway Through G.I. Jane, Master Chief John Urgayle (Viggo Mortensen) interrogates Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil (Demi Moore) in a rather...
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On Stage MASTERS OF THE MINIATURE By Stefan Kanfer A one-act play is the theatrical equivalent of the short short story, a genre in which, as Irving Howe pointed out, "Writers need to be...
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