Euro vista By Ray alan Ethnic Thuggery The Most Cynical catch phrases of the 1990s were probably "ethnic cleansing," "ethnic purging" and "ethnic purification"—terms used to describe the...
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AS INDIA WATCHES Political Regression in Pakistan By Darryl D'monte Bombay The temptation is strong for Indians to view the October 12 Army coup in Pakistan with undisguised glee....
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TOO LITTLE CONTROL? Rain, Mud and Questions in France By Janice Valls-Russell Paris After A fall that saw flooding and mudslides in Mexico, tidal waves in India, and a doubledecker deluge...
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AT THE END OF THE CENTURY Canada Takes Stock By Harold M. Waller Montreal As the 20th century draws to a close, many Canadians recall the bold vision of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Launer,...
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Thinking Aloud REINVENTING THE LABOR UNION By Michael Lind At the end of the 20th century many, if not most, people in the United States believe prolabor politics is moribund. It is true...
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Writers & Writing A PAGEANT OF POETRY By Phoebe Pettingell Perhaps you caught up on sleep during your college "From Beowulf to Thomas Hardy" survey course. Or maybe, like some of us, your...
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America's Lifeguard President Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan By Edmund Morris Random. 874 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor emeritus of histoiy. Columbia University;...
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Apologizing for Esthetics On Beauty and Being Just By Elaine Scarry Princeton. 134 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Daniel Kunitz Managing editor, "The Paris Review" It is a truism among comedians...
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On Television PERCEPTIONS OF REALITY By Reuven Frank From Plato to Wittgenstein, Western philosophy has unremittingly wrestled with the concept of reality. It has struggled to resolve the...
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On Stage SENDING IN THE CLOWNS By Stefan Kanfer In addition to Broadway's other conundrums, a new one was added over the last decade or so: The Sondheim Puzzle. There are Stephen Sondheim...
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Dear Editor Marx Mixup Gus Tyler's "Evolution of a Millennium" (NL, October 18) is yet another tour de force by The New Leader's resident polymath. His historical analysis is cogent and fully...
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