WHO'S IN CHARGE? Russia's New Faces By Robert V Daniels Early reports on March 23 of President Boris N. Yeltsin's decision to dismiss Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin and his...
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EYES RIGHT AND LEFT Looking for an Alternative in Mexico By Addison De Witt Guadalajara For its longevity and resistance to change, Mexico's dominant Institutional Revolutionary...
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BUNGLING BUREAUCRATS Diplomacy for Profit in Japan By Bernard Krisher Tokyo For over a quarter of a century, while I was a correspondent for Newsweek, I covered the political career of...
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The Dismal Science MOYNIHAN'S SOCIAL SECURITY HOCUS-POCUS By George ? Brockway On March 16 Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan delivered a speech titled "Social Security Saved!" at Harvard's...
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Writers & Writing FOR RICHER OR FOR POORER By Roger Draper Why are some nations richer than others? The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (Norton, 650 pp., $30.00), a survey of the past 500 years...
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A Creative Dialogue Old Wine, New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition By Roald Hoffmann and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt Freeman. 362 pp. $28.95. Reviewed by Milton R....
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One Man's Consensus One Nation, After All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left and...
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On Music NOT SO FRAGILE FREDERIC By John Simon British Music has had a tendency to sound a bit provincial: re-creating subdued British landscapes, rehashing early English composers,...
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On Screen CONTRASTS IN CRIME By Raphael Shargel Los Angeles, 1990. Bunny Lebowski (Tara Reid), nymphomaniacal trophy wife of elderly philanthropist Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston),...
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On Stage BOURGEOIS DREAMERS AND SCHEMERS By Stefan Kanfer My father would not let me take up the piano; otherwise I should not doubt have turned into a formidable pianist in company with...
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