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 Vol. 085 Issue 003 (May 1 2002)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Selective Security
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Selective Security It has been revealed that the Bush Administration had greater awareness of a terrorist threat before last September 11 than it let on....
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France Sighs 'Ouf!'
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VALLS-RUSSELL, JANICE
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Ringing Down the Curtain on '68 France Sighs 'Ouf!' By Janice Valls-Russell Paris FRENCH GARDENERS and politicians dread May: The weather and people's moods are apt to swing abruptly from...
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Mexico in a Changing World
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WITT, ADDISON DE
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Challenge and Response Mexico in a Changing World By Addison De Witt Guadalajara I? the not-so-remote bad old days of Presidents Luis Echeverría Alvarez and José López Portillo, it was...
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A Coney Island of the Soul
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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BOOKS A Coney Island of the Soul By Phoebe Pettingell Growing up in the Midwest, I told anyone who would listen that my ambition was to live in New York and write. My high school...
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Where the Buck Stops
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O'NEILL, WILLLAM L.
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Where the Buck Stops Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime By Eliot A. Cohen Free Press. 320 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history,...
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Leaving Nothing to Chance
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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Leaving Nothing to Chance Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson By Robert A. Caro Knopf. 1,167 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor emeritus of history, Columbia;...
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When Philosophy is Irrelevant
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RORTY, RICHARD
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When Philosophy is Irrelevant Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution By Francis Fukuyama Farrar Straus Giroux. 256 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Richard...
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Setting the Record Straight
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WALLER, HAROLD M.
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Setting the Record Straight Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East By Michael B. Oren Oxford. 446 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Harold M. Waller Professor of...
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In the Belly of the Beast
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GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
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In the Belly of the Beast Defying Hitler By Sebastian Haffner Translated from the German by Oliver Pretzel Farrar Straus Giroux. 262 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Lawrence Grossman Co-editor,...
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A Problem of Humankind?
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ROSENFELD, GAVRIEL
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A Problem of Humankind? Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust By Richard Rhodes Knopf. 335 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Gavriel Rosenfeld Assistant...
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Why Stalin Rushed In
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HOTTELET, RICHARD C.
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Why Stalin Rushed In The Fall of Berlin 1945 By Antony Beevor Viking. 490 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Richard C. Hottelet Former CBS News correspondent The Battle of Berlin in the winter and...
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Portrait of a Polymath
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SOSIN, GENE
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Portrait of a Polymath The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World By Nicholas Dawidoff Pantheon. 353 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, "Sparks of Liberty:...
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Bill and Boris
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SHUB, ANATOLE
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Bill and Boris The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy By Strobe Talbott Random. 478 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Former Russian opinion analyst, U.S. Information...
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Running Out of Luck
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SCHWARTZ, LYNNE SHARON
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On Fiction Running Out of Luck By Lynne Sharon Schwartz American and British reviewers of Gert Hofmann's novels tend to remark that this prolific German writer should be more familiar...
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The Case for Assimilation
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REICH, TOVA
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The Case for Assimilation Sunday Jews By Hortense Calisher Harcourt. 694 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by Tova Reich Author, "Mara,' "Master of the Return," "The Jewish War" In an era when laurels...
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A Search for Manhood
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HEILBRUN, CAROLYN G.
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A Search for Manhood Living at the Edge: A Biography of D.H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen By Michael Squires and Lynn K. Talbot Wisconsin. 518 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Carolyn G....
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Low Slapstick with High Ambitions
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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Low Slapstick with High Ambitions Sin Killer By Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster. 300 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Brooke Allen Contributor, New York "Times Book Review," "New...
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Taking Shakespeare to a New Stage
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BERMEL, ALBERT
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Taking Shakespeare to a New Stage Hamlet's Dresser By Bob Smith Scribner. 287 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Author, "Shakespeare at the Moment: Playing the Comedies" Bob Smith...
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The Climate Abroad
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KAMINE, MARK
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The Climate Abroad The Weather in Berlin By Ward Just Houghton Mifflin. 305 pp. $24.00. Prague By Arthur Phillips Random. 384 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Short story writer;...
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Crime as a Vehicle for Culture
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ERASE, BRIGITTE
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Crime as a Vehicle for Culture The Emperor of Ocean Park By Stephen L. Carter Knopf. 657 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Brigitte Frase Critic at large, "Ruminator Review"; contributor, New York...
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On Television
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television Eliminating the Elderly By Reuven Frank I'm a realist and I know that if you had aprogram on Nightline and the series on the eastern Congo, for example, up against West Wing or...
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On Music
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SIMON, JOHN
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On Music The Sorrows of Shostakovich By John Simon Few things, if any, are harder to determine than the meaning of a piece of music. Absolute music, that is—not the setting of a text or,...
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On Stage
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KANFER, STEFAN
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On Stage Antiques Roadshow By Stefan Kanfer As the season winds down, Broadway has come to resemble the PBS program Antiques Roadshow, with its wild mix of baubles, treasures and fakes...
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