NO MAGIC ANSWERS The Reality After Wye By Eliahu Salpeter Tel Aviv Three WEEKS and two Arab terrorist suicide bombings after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian...
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THE '98 ELECTION Rescrambling Political Loyalties By Gus Tyler Anticipating a broad victory, Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted the Republicans would gain 30 to 40 seats in the House on...
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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Singapore Remains Upbeat By Jim Tuck Singapore Most citizens of this eponymous capital will respond with a weary groan if you parrot that old bromide, "Singapore...
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LETTER FROM BASCHI The Beats in Translation By Ruth Ellen Gruber Baschi A few years ago, I stood at midnight on the corner of Broadway and 110th Street in Manhattan with a musician...
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The Dismal Science LEARNING FROM RUSSIA By George ? Brockway This is our learning year. At least it is a year of learning opportunities. Whether we're capable of actually learning...
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Writers & Writing CRITICISM AS AN ART By Phoebe Pettingell The Finest criticism is an art form in itself, not merely moonlight from the sun of a primary work. Charles Rosen's Romantic Poets,...
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A Fine, Clear Vitriol I Married a Communist By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin. 323 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Mark Shechner Professor of English, State University of New York,...
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From Anarchy to Repression The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan By Peter Marsden Zed. 162 pp. $55.00. Reviewed by Masood Farivar Contributor, "Wall Street...
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On Television BEYOND THE CRINGE By Reuven Frank The President squirmed as he answered. Over 20 million Americans watched and cringed. Again, television was making history. Monday,...
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On Stage STEP BY STEP By Stefan Kanfer Traditionalists regard Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake as the greatest interspecies love story since Leda's. In essence, a young sovereign, played by...
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Dear Editor Judgment Call Daniel Schorr ("Congress in Confusion," NL, September 7-21) is right to remind us that the U.S. once boasted a pure strain of heroes, and that we often excused...
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