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Vol. 086 Issue 006 (November 1 2003)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Next Stop for Saddam
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Next Stop for Saddam In hailing the end of a "dark and painful era" in Iraq, with the capture of Saddam Hussein on December 13, President George W. Bush...
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The Specter of Binationalism in Israel
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CARMEL, AMOS
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A Formula for Extinction The Specter of Binationalism in Israel By Amos Carmel Rehovot On may 9,1948, a unique meeting took place in Paris. Its participants were elder statesman Léon...
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Canada's New Man at the Top
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WALLER, HAROLD M.
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Girding for Spring Elections Canada's New Man at the Top By Harold M.Waller Montreal It was a long goodbye for Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who after a decade in office...
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The Year That Changed Its Mind
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CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER
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Second Thoughts The Year That Changed Its Mind By Christopher Clausen For many who were young then, it remains after all this time the best of years and the worst of years. It was a...
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Illusions of Equality
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GRAY, PAUL
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WINTER BOOKS Illusions of Equality By Paul Gray Imagine a world where the language renders generalizations impossible: no plurals, no collective nouns, no modifiers of anything but single...
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Blurred Vision
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WEBER, EUGEN
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Blurred Vision After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order By Emmanuel Todd Columbia. 233 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Eugen Weber Professor of history emeritus, UCLA; author, "The...
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A Crisis is Born
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GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
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A Crisis Is Born Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East By John Keay Norton. 506 pp. $28.95. Reviewed by Lawrence Grossman Co-editor, "American Jewish Yearbook";...
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The Spy Gap
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DOLMAN, JOSEPH
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The Spy Gap Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America By Ted Morgan Random. 685 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Joseph Dolman Editorial writer and columnist, "Newsday" Even now, nearly 50...
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All in the Family
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GLASS, ANDREW J.
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All in the Family American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush By Kevin Phillips Viking. 397 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Andrew J. Glass Managing...
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Telling Specifics
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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Telling Specifics Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom By Conrad Black Public Affairs. 1360 pp. $39.95. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor of history emeritus, Columbia;...
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Turning of the Tide
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O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
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Turning of the Tide The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War 1941-1943 By Alan Schom Norton. 540 pp. $28.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history,...
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'This Call May Be Recorded'
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ROGERS, JOEL
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'This Call May Be Recorded' The New Ruthless Economy: Work and Power in the Digital Age By Simon Head Oxford. 222 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by Joel Rogers Professor of law, political science,...
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Uneven Flow
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ZOLBERG, ARISTIDE R.
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Uneven Flow Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882 By Roger Daniels Hill and Wang. 344 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Aristide R. Zolberg Professor of...
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Novel Approaches to the Truth
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REICH, TOVA
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On Fiction Novel Approaches to the Truth By Tova Reich For its serious practitioners, fiction can seem trivial, almost unworthy, even embarrassing. That may account for the note to...
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Countering the Obscene
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BROWN, ROSELLEN
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Countering the Obscene Elizabeth Costello By J.M. Coetzee Viking. 230 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Author, "Half a Heart," "Street Games" It is apparent to anyone who has...
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Back to Eden
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HASKELL, MOLLY
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Back to Eden Old School By Tobias Wolff Knopf. 195 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Molly Haskell Film critic and author The prep school lovingly described by the unnamed narrator in...
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A Prankster's Peril
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GRAHAM, PHILIP
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A Prankster's Peril My Life as a Fake By Peter Carey Knopf. 265 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Philip Graham Author, "Howto Read an Unwritten Language" In the early decades of the 20th...
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In the Devil's House
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KENAN, RANDALL
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In the Devil's House The Darkest Child By Delores Phillips Soho. 387 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Randall Kenan Author, "Walking on Water" Portrayals ofblack matriarchs in African American...
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State of a Union
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SMITH, SARAH HARRISON
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State of a Union The Amateur Marriage By Anne Tyler Knopf. 320 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Sarah Harrison Smith Freelance writer and critic Anne Tyler's latest novel of marital discontent...
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Return of the Peasant Poet
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry Return of the Peasant Poet By Phoebe Pettingell Asked to name the greatest 19th-century English nature poet, most readers answer, "Wordsworth." In John Clare: A Biography...
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'I Have Here in My Hand a List'
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television 'I Have Here in My Hand a List...' By Reuven Frank One day in the early 1950s, I got word to see my boss, the head of NBC News. When I arrived at his office he was on the...
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The Composer as Clown
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SIMON, JOHN
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On Music The Composer as Clown By John Simon With most composers the artist is more important than the man; with Erik Satie it is rather the reverse. "In order to understand Satie's...
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Women at the Edge
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KANFER, STEFAN
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On Stage Women at the Edge By Stefan Kanfer Her biography is as unlikely as the saga of her adopted country. A family of Ukrainian Jews immigrates to Milwaukee in 1906. The youngest...
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INDEX FOR 2003
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INDEX FOR 2003 This index of New Leader articles for 2003 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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