Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Price of Freedom in East Timor Burning, looting, killing, kidnapping, and raping as they withdrew, the Indonesian military left a devastated...
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KIM JONG IL'S LIFE SUPPORT Pacifying Pyongyang By Donald Kirk Seoul North Korea has triumphed again. On September 12, it concluded six days of haggling in Berlin with a vague...
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Perspectives WHY MILOSEVIC CAPITULATED IN KOSOVO By Zbigniew Brzezinski The unresolved mystery of the Kosovo crisis is why Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic capitulated. To be sure, a...
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Thinking Aloud LESSONS OF WORLD WAR I By Michael Lind Twentieth century world politics began with a world war triggered by a Balkan conflict and concluded with a Balkan war that had...
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Writers & Writing THE FURIES OF TED HUGHES By Phoebe Pettingell For ages, European (and later, American) literature modeled itself on the forms of ancient Greece and Rome. Throughout the...
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The Man Who Trusted Hitler Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia By Gabriel Gorodetsky Yale. 408 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Robert V. Daniels Professor emeritus of...
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Humanities in Isolation Literature: An Embattled Profession By Carl Woodring Columbia. 220 pp. $29.50. Reviewed by Marcus Klein Professor emeritus of English, SUNY/Buffalo; associate...
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On Screen CONFUSING SUCCESS WITH PROFIT By Raphael Shargel Multiplying faster than the evil hordes in the Alien movies, possessing theaters longer than the devil did Linda Blair in The...
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On Stage NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES By Stefan Kanfer Of ALL the weapons deployed in the Pacific Theater during World War II, none was more scarifying or incomprehensible than Japanese kamikaze...
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