Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Insuring the Health Insurers In 1991 Democrat Harris Wofford won an upset victory in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race, in large part by emphasizing the...
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FROM TOP SOLDIER TO TOP POLITICIAN The Different Faces of Ehud Barak By David B. Green Jerusalem In the early morning of May 18, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conceded...
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A CRISIS OF IDENTITY The UK. in Disarray By Norman Gelb London The British Broadcasting Corporation recently issued a curious instruction to its editors, news anchors and stable of...
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Thinking Aloud THE DANGERS OF BARDOLATRY By Michael Lind Is the end of the 20th century the Age of Shakespeare? Evidence for this proposition is not hard to provide. Hollywood now...
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Writers & Writing IN PSYCHOLOGY'S SHADOW By Phoebe Pettingell The last few years have witnessed a rich spate of prominent poets' biographies. Critical methods suggesting that who he or she is...
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China's Intellectuals After Tiananmen In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture By Geremie R. Barmé Columbia. 512 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Timothy Tung Former research professor...
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The Trials of Low-Wage Earners No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City By Katherine S. Newman Knopf. 394 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Thomas J. Cottle Professor of education,...
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On Screen REALMS OF FANTASY By Raphael Shargel Anyone looking for evidence that film is in essence a visual medium need only consult recent cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare'splays. Baz...
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On Television THE PARADOX OF PROFITS VS. VIEWERS By Reuven Frank Every Spring, newspapers break out in stories about a paradox facing the television industry. It is one that has...
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On Stage VERSE IS BETTER By Stefan Kanfer "Extraordinary, how potent cheap music is," said the leading lady in Noël Coward's Private Lives. The playwright was more accurate than he knew....
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