Washington-USA CLINTON FIGHTING TWO WARS By Andrew J. Glass Washington In an 1862 Thomas Nast cartoon with the White House and the Capitol looming in the background, Major General John...
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AS ?-DAY ARRIVES Britain Hedges on the Euro By Norman Gelb London The countdown has started on this side of the Atlantic. It is not of shopping days till Christmas, though here, as in...
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THE PRI AS PUPPETMASTER Exploiting Religion in Chiapas By Addison De Witt Guadalajara If Northern Ireland presents a case of religious fanaticism dominating politics, Mexico presents...
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The Dismal Science A FORTUNATE EXPERIMENT By George ? Brockway One of the mysteries of life in the United States today is why we are not in the midst of a raging inflation, a depressing...
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Writers & Writing VIERECK'S PUPPETS By Phoebe Pettingell For almost 60 years the indefatigable Peter Viereck has honed his wit and offered shrewd cultural judgments in spirited formal...
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Studies of a Yeltsin Folly Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus By Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal New York University. 416 pp. $26.95. Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power By Anatol...
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A Conception of Social Needs Cardozo By Andrew L. Kaufman Harvard. 731 pp. $55.00. Reviewed by Milton R. Konvitz Professor emeritus of law, and of industrial and labor...
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On Music THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF LOVING By John Simon In the field of opera, I can find no more universal tragedy than Béla Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle to a libretto by Béla Balázs. The...
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On Screen AN UNHAPPY ARTIFACT By Raphael Shargel In a burst of millennial enthusiasm, the American Film Institute (AFI) has released a list of the top 100 American movies of all time....
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On Stage BRANDY OF THE DAMNED By Stefan Kanfer Clifford Brown's biography is one of the shortest, saddest entries in the annals of American music. He was still a teenaged brass player when...
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Dear Editor China Policy Michael Lind seems to have forgotten ("Dollar Diplomacy in Asia," NL, June 1-15) that for over 40 years, until the dissolution of the Cold War, United States...
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