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 Vol. 084 Issue 003 (May 1 2001)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 The Politics of Principle
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washingtot Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Politics of Principle Placing principle above party is a fairly infrequent event in American political life. For some of the more famous Senate...
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Mexico's Other Rebels
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WITT, ADDISON DE
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Widening the Fray Mexico's Other Rebels By Addison De Witt THE SUMMER of 1996 was, in its own way, Mexico's Summer of Sam. On August 29, a well-armed guerrilla group that calls itself the...
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Building Bridges in the Balkans
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GRUBER, RUTH ELLEN
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Letter from Sarajevo Building Bridges in the Balkans By Ruth Ellen Gruber Sarajevo The suavely suited functionary of Sarajevo's Union Bank beckoned us to follow, and we did— through...
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A Life in History
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DRAPER, ROGER
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A Life in History By Roger Draper Some people are criticized as much for their virtues as their faults. The great English historian AJ.P. Taylor was such a man. Many of his colleagues...
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Facing New Global Realities
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KUPCHAN, CHARLES A.
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Facing New Global Realities Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century By Henry Kissinger Simon & Schuster. 320 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Charles A....
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Russia's Woes Remembered
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SHUB, ANATOLE
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Russia's Woes Remembered Night of Stone: Death and Memory in 20th Century Russia By Catherine Merridale Viking. 402 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "The New Russian...
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A City of Many Contrasts
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SOSIN, GENE
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A City of Many Contrasts Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia By W. Bruce Lincoln Basic Books. 419 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, "Sparks of...
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Harnessing Brains for Freedom
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GOLDMANN, ROBERT
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Harnessing Brains for Freedom America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe By Volker R. Berghahn Princeton. 373 pp. $39.50. Reviewed by Robert Goldmann Freelance journalist; former...
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The Cruelty and Kindness of Strangers
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ROSENFELD, ALVIN H.
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The Cruelty and Kindness of Strangers Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland By Jan T. Gross Princeton. 261pp. $19.95. The Fragility of Goodness: Why...
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An Exaggerated Romance
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GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
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An Exaggerated Romance Irreconcilable Differences? The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel By Steven T. Rosenthal Brandeis/New England. 231 pp. $24.95. Reviewed...
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The Liberal Dilemma
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CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER
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Second Thoughts The Liberal Dilemma By Christopher Clausen Most heated arguments about the past are really about the present. The talking heads who populated Ken Burns' documentaries...
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Beyond the Melting Pot
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DOLMAN, JOSEPH
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Beyond the Melting Pot American Crucible: Race and Nation in the 20th Century By Gary Gerstle Princeton. 325 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Joseph Dolman Editorial writer and columnist,...
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Defeat Turned into Victory
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O'NEILL, WILLLAM L.
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Defeat Turned into Victory Grant By Jean Edward Smith Simon & Schuster. 781 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, "A Democracy at...
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Raised to a New Stature
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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Raised to a New Stature John Adams By David McCullough Simon and Schuster. 752 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor emeritus of history, Columbia; editor, "The Presidents: A...
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Managing to Stay Whole
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ROBERTS, STEVEN V.
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Managing to Stay Whole Washington By Meg Greenfield Public Affairs. 256 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Steven V. Roberts Syndicated columnist; media and public affairs professor, George...
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Corporate Sinners and Crossover Saints
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SCHWARTZ, LYNNE SHARON
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On Fiction Corporate Sinners and Crossover Saints By Lynne Sharon Schwartz IN A 1989 interview in Salmagundi, the Chilean writer and political activist Ariel Dorfman described one of his...
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Roth as Picasso
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HASKELL, MOLLY
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Roth As Picasso The Dying Animal By Philip Roth Houghton Mifflin. 156 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Molly Haskell Film critic and author As preoccupied as it is with the frailties of the...
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A Puzzle that Becomes an Obsession
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GOODMAN, WALTER
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A Puzzle that Becomes an Obsession Little America By Henry Bromell Knopf. 416 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Walter Goodman A few months at the end of the 1950s proved drastically significant...
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An Innocent's Journey
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BROWN, ROSELLEN
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An Innocent's Journey All the Finest Girls By Alexandra Styron Little, Brown. 259 pp. $23.95. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Author, "Haifa Heart," "Street Games" It has been said—many times,...
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The Menace of Memory
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REICH, TOVA
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The Menace of Memory Ambassador of the Dead By Askold Melnyczuk Counterpoint. 265 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Tova Reich Author, "Mara," "The Jewish War" One of the rare qualities of...
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Fishing for Milton's Meaning
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry Fishing for Milton's Meaning By Phoebe Pettingell Back in 1978 Stanley Fish wrote an intriguing little book, The Living Temple: GeorgeHerbert and Catechizing, which confronted a...
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Once a Prince of Broadway
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YAGODA, BEN
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Once a Prince of Broadway Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart By Steven Bach Knopf. 462 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Ben Yagoda Author, "Will Rogers: A Biography," "About Town: The 'New...
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Losing the Smash! Blamm! Bang!
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JACOBSON, SID
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Losing the Smash! Blamm! Bang! Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America By Bradford W. Wright Johns Hopkins. 336 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Sid Jacobson Former...
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On Music JOHN SIMON
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MUSIC
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On Music Questioning the Wunderkind By John Simon Today's most controversial opera director is almost certainly Germany's 27-year-old Tobias Maria Blauschuh. He lives in Munich and...
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On Television
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television Death as Entertainment By Reuven Frank On March 2 Warden Harley G. Lappin of the Federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, warned the 60,000 residents of that small,...
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On Stage
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KANFER, STEFAN
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On Stage Sound and Unsound Judgments By Stefan Kanfer WHEN THE FILM Judgment at Nuremberg opened in 1961,14 years had passed since the highly publicized trial of Nazi war criminals. By...
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