BEFORE A REFERENDUM Israel Courts Its Neighbors By David B. Green Jerusalem It is indicative of the way the winds are blowing in Israel that the Likud Party's new chairman was in...
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FIGHTING FAKE FOOD A New Hero in France By Janice Valls-Russell Paris For several months now the French farming world has been bubbling with unrest like a vat of fermenting apples. Summer...
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PRIMARY PREVIEW Oddities of Mexican Politics By Addison De Witt Guadalajara In mid-August there were few happier Mexican politicians then a man with the somewhat less-than-Hispanic name...
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Perspectives EVOLUTION OF A MILLENNIUM By Gus Tyler "What's past is prologue," Shakespeare tells us in The Tempest. On the cusp of the third millennium, it therefore seems...
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Writers & Writing JESUS OF ARABIA By Roger Draper In December 1914, a month after the Ottoman Empire declared war on the United Kingdom, 26-year-old T. E. Lawrence took up his duties as a...
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Documenting the Depression Walker Evans By James R. Mellow Basic. 600 pp. $40.00. Reviewed by Marcus Klein Professor emeritus of English. SUNY/Buffalo; associate editor, "American National...
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The Law of the Battlefield Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know Edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff Norton. 399 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Richard McGill Murphy Editorial director;...
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On Television A SLIGHT CASE OF MERGER By Reuven Frank Many Reasons were given for the $37.3 billion merger of CBS with Viacom in early September. Improving television was not one of...
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On Stage BIG BUDGETS, SMALL TALENTS By Stefan Kanfer "O.K. Cue the Red Sea!" Cecil B. De Mille reportedly shouted while filming The Ten Commandments. The director with the oversized...
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