Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Personal Problem Compartment On Saturday evening, January 17, after his six-hour deposition in the Paula Jones case, President Clinton canceled plans to...
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THE IRAQ CRISIS-1 How Saddam Helped Chirac By Janice Valls-Russell Paris From the perspective of Gaullist President Jacques Chirac and Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, Iraqi...
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THE IRAQ CRISIS-2 How Blair Helped Clinton By Norman Gelb London At a tense moment, as United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan sought to arrange a diplomatic agreement that would...
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LETTER FROM TODI The Busy Italian Demimonde By Ruth Ellen Gruber Todi Just as the Monica S. Lewinsky story has focused public interest on sex at the top in the United States— or at least...
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Second Thoughts NEW DEMOCRATS R.I.P By Christopher Clausen Let's suppose the Clinton Administration survives the Great Bimbo Eruption of '98. Nothing short of absolute proof that its...
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Writers & Writing A NOVEL AS RICH AS LONDON By Brooke Allen The question of how much or how little "real life" influences the construction of an author's characters has long been debated by...
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A Corrupt Culture Sotheby's: The Inside Story By Peter Watson Random. 368 pp. S25.00. Reviewed by Richard McGill Murphy Contributor, "New Republic," New York "Times Magazine " In 1979...
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The Odds for Change China's Transition By Andrew J. Nathan Columbia. 320 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Mark Hopkins Former Beijing news bureau chief, Voice of America Implicit in American policy...
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On Television OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEB By Reuven Frank In time for last year's holiday season, Henry Holt and Company published a volume the size and format of a coffeetable book but quite...
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On Screen HOLLYWOOD LOOKS AT ITSELF By Raphael Shargel Before each Academy Awards ceremony, with its television audience of a billion viewers, stars scheduled to participate fuss over...
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On Stage REAL ARTISTS AND CON ARTISTS By Stefan Kanfer A successful French dermatologist. Serge (Victor Garber), radiates a newfound pride and self-confidence. And why not? He has just...
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