Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Other Clinton At his marathon year-end news conference, where the main concern was still his future policies rather than his alleged paramours,...
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THE PARTY IS OVER French Labor Pains By Janice Valls-Russell Paris In France, the offices paying out unemployment benefits do not go in for welcome mats. One that I visited was situated...
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DEVILISH DETAILS Blair Learns to Rule By Norman Gelb London Last May, shortly after Tony Blair became Prime Minister with the biggest parliamentary majority in modern British history, word...
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LETTER FROM NUREMBERG Standing on Hitler's Grandstand By Ruth Ellen Gruber Nuremberg "It's really incredible," said Eckart Dietzfelbinger, shakine his head in mock dismay. "The Nazis...
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The Dismal Science BEWARE OF YOUR CRONIES By George ? Brockway The papers say the East Asian Debacle (previously known as the East Asian Miracle) was caused by something new under the...
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Writers & Writing A BLACK CHAPTER IN HISTORY By Roger Draper It is no wonder that black people feel angry about their fate in the past half-millennium and ask themselves, accusingly, Who is...
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Reforming Welfare Reform Common Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America By Lisbeth B. Schorr Doubleday. 484 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Richard C....
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No End to the Turmoil Silencing the Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy By Irwin P. Stotzky Chicago. 294 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Carole Cleaver Author, "Spirits of the...
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On Screen TIMES OF CHAOS By Raphael Shargel Based on events that transpired in 1839-40, Steven Spielberg's Amistad concerns a group of African captives aboard a Spanish vessel who break...
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On Television AFTER SEINFELD By Reuven Frank Last year ended forebodingly for the National Broadcasting Company. Jerry Seinfeld, the standup comedian from Queens whose eponymous halfhour...
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On Stage A COLLISION OF STYLE AND SUBSTANCE By Stefan Kanfer Setting foot in the new Ford Center for the Arts is like entering Oz. Long before the curtain rises, management has made sure...
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