Washington-USA GINGRICH FOR PRESIDENT? By Andrew J. Glass Washington Does A national politician who paid a $300,000 fine last year for unethical fund-raising lapses, plus another $900,000...
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Thinking Aloud THE DEMOCRATS AFTER CLINTON By Michael Lind One leitmotif has been completely neglected in the Wagnerian media chorus' nonstop recital of the events surrounding...
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EXAMINING A POLITICAL ERA Italy's Andreotti on Trial By Desmond O'grady Rome I in the past six years, the anticorruption campaign launched initially by Milan's magistracy has changed the...
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Perspectives THE UNIVERSITY AS FACTORY By Herbert J. Gans That American universities— and colleges—are becoming more like businesses has often been noted in recent years. But that they also...
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Writers & Writing HUGHES AMONG THE SUPERSTARS By Phoebe Pettingell England's Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, has not been regarded as one of Erato's superstars on this side of the Atlantic. He...
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The 'Newspapers Without Paper' War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasts in the Cold War By Michael Nelson Syracuse. 277 pp. $29.95. Radio Free Europe and the Pursuit of...
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A Heart Not Mended Jane Austen: A Life By Claire Tomalin Knopf. 346 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Honor Moore Author, "The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by her...
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On Music THANKS FOR THE 'MELODIE' By John Simon The French call an art song mélodie—not chanson, which would correspond to the English song and German Lied, but melodie. Does this...
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On Stage AMATEUR 'NOCHE' By Stefan Kanfer There is no such thing as a tragedy if no one cares. Remember our children. Seven victims will be murdered while you watch this play. THOSE ARE...
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