Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Cold Hotlines South Asia's nuclear crisis is beginning to look like a parody of the four decades long Soviet-American nuclear standoff. One hears...
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DANGEROUS CHANGES India's Nuclear Mistake By Darryl D'monte Bombay India's chattering classes collectively appeared to take leave of their senses after learning of the new Hindu-led...
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Thinking Aloud DOLLAR DIPLOMACY IN ASIA By Michael Lind A series of spectacular events— the Asian financial crisis, the Indonesian riots that led to the ouster of dictator Suharto, and the...
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A PAGE IS TURNED Democratizing Spain's Socialists By Janice Valls-Russell Barcelona At a time when many voters throughout Europe feel their political leaders are often out of touch,...
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LETTER FROM BUDAPEST Fast Food and Fine Architecture By Ruth Ellen Gruber Budapest A friend of mine lives at one of the Hungarian capital's most famous intersections—where elegant Andrassy...
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Writers & Writing JESUS LIVES By Brooke Allen One hundred and thirty years after T. H. Huxley coined the term "agnosticism" in an attempt to reconcile religious feeling with Charles Darwin's...
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A Thoroughly Modern Freudian Lawrence Durrell: A Biography By Ian MacNiven Faber. 801 pp. $36.95. Reviewed by Marc Carnegie Contributor, Washington "Post," "Financial Times" Lawrence...
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Obsessive Compulsive Theorizing The Picasso Papers By Rosalind E. Krauss Farrar Straus Giroux. 272 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Richard Lamb An old chestnut has it that the talented borrow...
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On Television THE NETWORKSFIGHT FOR SURVIVAL By Reuven Frank It is hard to remember when the springtime ritual of the television networks announcing their upcoming entertainment...
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On Stage WASPS AND FISHES By Stefan Kanfer "Our children are not WASPS. They're the children of WASPS." In those sentences, Ellen (Joyce Van Patten) neatly encapsulates the theme and...
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