Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Government by Investigation The House Judiciary Committee's impeachment inquiry may have done some harm to President Bill Clinton's prestige, but it...
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A PRAGMATIST OF THE LEFT The Test for Italy's D'Alema By Desmond O'grady Rome During THE parliamentary discussion preceding Massimo D'Alema's installation last October 21 as Italy's...
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Thinking Aloud ROOSEVELTIAN LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY By Michael Lind "The CHARACTERISTIC danger of great nations, like the Romans, or the English," observed the 19th-century...
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ANTI-PARTY POLITICS Tapping Voter Anger in Venezuela By steve ellner Caracas The official six-month presidential campaign period now drawing to a close here demonstrated a widespread...
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Writers & Writing FACING THE STING OF ANTI-SEMITISM By Brooke Allen Now 66 years old, Aharon Appelfeld is a survivor of the Holocaust, and its harbingers, aftershocks and reverberations are...
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The Story of a Poisoning My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin By Peter Gay Yale. 208 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Professor of English and director of the Borens...
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A Seductively Simplistic Theory The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do By Judith Rich Harris Free Press. 350 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Leon Hoffman Co-director,...
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On Screen EPIC MICE By Raphael Shargel If films of genuine quality don't arrive soon to perk up the holiday season, 1998 may well be remembered as a year of missed opportunities. Many of...
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On Music MAGNARD MAGNIFIQUE By John Simon Uniust neglect is easy to come by in the arts. The starving genius in his garret was a not unfounded cliché now supplanted by a half-truth: Real...
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On Stage TRIO AND QUINTET By Stefan Kanfer Remittance men are dubious characters whose families pay them to live elsewhere. In the 1880s they could be found in the backwaters of...
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