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 Vol. 083 Issue 005 (November 1 2000)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 One Nation... Divided
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr One Nation... Divided It seems clear that the country's strident postelection battle, hinging on a few hundred of the over 100 million votes cast, will...
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Israel in Limbo
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GREEN, DAVID B.
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The Irony of the Intifada Israel in Limbo By David B. Green Jerusalem Prime Minister Ehud Barak's decision to mount a make-or-break peace effort at Camp David last July marked the...
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French Anti-Semitism's New Look
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VALLS-RUSSELL, JANICE
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Reverberations of the Mideast Conflict French Anti-Semitism's New Look By Janice Valls-Russell Paris Peace is as brittle as glass, more precious than any diamond. That is no doubt...
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The Left in Guatemala
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COLBURN, TORREST D.
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A Talk with Alvaro Colom The Left in Guatemala By Forrest D. Colburn Guatemala City Guatemala is the largest, most ethnically diverse nation in Central America. It is also one of the...
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A Historian's Own History
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OSHINSKY, DAVID M.
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WINTER BOOKS A Historian's Own History By David M. Oshinsky If the United States were to create the position of national historian, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. would be the people's choice....
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Yeltsin and Family Return
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MCFAUL, MICHAEL
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Yeltsin and Family Return Midnight Diaries By Boris Yeltsin PublicAffairs. 398 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Michael McFaul Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;...
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While the KGB Watched
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SOSIN, GENE
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While the KGB Watched Making Waves: Stories from My Life By Yakov Alpert Yale. 260 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, "Sparks of Liberty: An Insider's Memoir of Radio...
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Looking Back on a Calamity
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HOTTELET, RICHARD C.
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Looking Back on a Calamity The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s By Piers Brendon Norton. 795 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Richard C. Hottelet Former CBS News correspondent The title of...
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Through Dangerous Waters
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O'NEILL, WILLLAM L.
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Through Dangerous Waters FDR: The War President: 1940-1943 By Kenneth S. Davis Random. 928 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, "A Democracy...
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The Century's Corpse
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CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER
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Second Thoughts The Century's Corpse By Christopher Clausen "Twentieth century's TRIUMPHANT ENTRY!" proclaimed the lead headline in the New York Times for January 1, 1901. (In those days...
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Bookends to the 20th Century
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HABERMAN, CLYDE
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Bookends to the 20th Century From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration By Nancy Foner Yale/Russell Sage. 334 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Clyde Haberman New York...
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A Distorted Picture of the U.S.
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DOLMAN, JOSEPH
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A Distorted Picture of the U.S. Restless Nation: Starting Over in America By James M.Jasper Chicago. 295 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Joseph Dolman Editorial writer, "Newsday" Many years ago,...
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Focusing on the Personal
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HELMREICH, WILLIAM B.
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Focusing on the Personal The Jew Within: Self, Family, and Community in America By Steven M. Cohen and Arnold M. Eisen Indiana. 255 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by William B. Helmreich Professor...
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Rooted in Apocalyptic Imperatives
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GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
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Rooted in Apocalyptic Imperatives The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount By Gershom Gorenberg Free Press. 288 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Lawrence...
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No Magic Bullet
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BHAGWATI, JAGDISH
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No Magic Bullet The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Succeeds in the West and Fails Everywhere Else By Hernando de Soto Basic. 320 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Jagdish Bhagwati Arthur...
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Playing with Realism
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SCHWARTZ, LYNNE SHARON
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On Fiction Playing with Realism By Lynne Sharon Schwartz "THE MAIN DEFECT of this book is you, reader," declares the narrator of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, by the prodigious...
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Le Carr? Seduced
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GOODMAN, WALTER
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Le Carré Seduced The Constant Gardener By John Le Carré Scribner. 484 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman It has been more than a decade since John Le Carre's fans stopped...
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Consensus Satire
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REICH, TOVA
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Consensus Satire Inspired Sleep By Robert Cohen Scribner. 400 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Tova Reich Author, "Mara," "Master of the Return,' and "The Jewish War" Robert Cohen's third novel, a...
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Entering Eliot's Mind
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry Entering Eliot's Mind By Phoebe Pettingell Throughout the many years of modernist domination in academia, several generations of literature majors grew up on a rigorous diet...
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Tackling the Problems of Her Century
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DAVIS, HOPE HALE
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Tackling the Problems of Her Century Fanny Kemble's Journals Edited by Catherine Clinton Harvard. 210 pp. $39.95. Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars By Catherine Clinton Simon & Schuster. 304 pp....
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The Great Emetic Novel
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SHECHNER, MARK
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The Great Emetic Novel The Elementary Particles By Michel Houellebecq Knopf. 272 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Mark Shechner Professor of English, State University of New York, Buffalo Two...
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On Television
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television Future Unclear By Reuven Frank A funny thing happened on the way to the future. It slowed down. Before last summer's national political conventions, newspapers were replete...
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On Screen
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SHARGEL, RAPHAEL
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On Screen From Bad to Better By Raphael Shargel Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, Robert Altaian's Dr. ? and the Women, and Spike Lee's Bamboozled were all released in the United...
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On Music
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SIMON, JOHN
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On Music The Cosmopolitan American By John Simon America has had its share of fine composers, but when you start looking for great ones, two very different, indeed antithetical,...
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On Stage
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KANFER, STEFAN
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On Stage French Dressing By Stefan Kanfer FOR more than three decades Neil Simon has been America's most imitated playwright. From Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple in the 1960s to...
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Index for 2000
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INDEX FOR 2000 This index of New Leader articles for 2000 is divided into three sections: Section 1, Index of Authors, lists the names of all New Leader contributors, whether writers of articles,...
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