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 Vol. 087 Issue 006 (November 1 2004)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Fashioning a New Legacy
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Fashioning a New Legacy "The first order of business is to build multilateral institutions." "America always prefers to work with allies at our...
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Pushing the Bush Revolution
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GLASS, ANDREW J.
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On the Home Front Pushing the Bush Revolution By Andrew J. Glass Washington At his November 4 postelection press conference President George W Bush, buoyed up by increased majorities in...
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Degrees of Democracy
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WELLS, DAVID I.
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Rethinking the Electoral College Degrees of Democracy By David I. Wells OFTHE 51 Presidential elections since 1804, when the present system went into effect, in four...
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Masquerade Politics in Paris
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VALLS-RUSSELL, JANICE
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France's EU Jitters Masquerade Politics in Paris By Janice Valls-Russell Paris The pro-European Union (EU) consensus of France's mainstream politicians tends to make for predictable...
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Germany Looks East
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SHANOR, DONALD R.
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A Partner in Poland Germany Looks East By Donald R. Shanor Görlitz In the 15 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy and capitalism have brought as many dilemmas as benefits...
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The Other United States
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WEBER, EUGEN
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WINTER BOOKS The Other United States By Eugen Weber IN 1693, William Perm sketched out a dream: a united Europe. Through the 18th and 19th centuries a trickle of other visionaries—like...
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Wishful Thinking
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HOTTELET, RICHARD C.
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Wishful Thinking Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis and the Road to War By Ian Kershaw Penguin. 488 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Richard C. Hottelet Former CBS News...
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Human Resources
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LOURIE, RICHARD
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Human Resources Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him By Donald Rayfield Random. 541 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Richard Lourie Author, "The Autobiography of Joseph...
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Jihad 101
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GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
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Jihad 101 The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey into the World of the Suicide Bomber By Anne Marie Oliver and Paul F. Steinberg Oxford. 336 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by Lawrence...
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Soft Talk
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DORAN, MICHAEL
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Soft Talk The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America By Kenneth M. Pollack Random. 539 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Michael Doran Assistant Professor, Department of Near...
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Divisive Dynamics
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DOLMAN, JOSEPH
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Divisive Dynamics The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice, from the Civil Rights Movement to Today By Charles Marsh Basic. 292 pp. $26.00. The Passion of My Times: An...
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Father Superior
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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Father Superior His Excellency: George Washington By Joseph J. Ellis Knopf. 320 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor of history emeritus, Columbia; editor, "The Presidents: A...
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Mistaken Identities
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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On Fiction Mistaken Identities By Brooke Allen ALL HUMAN BEINGS seek a transcendent meaning for their lives: a personal myth, as it has been called, or simply a significant pattern. Many,...
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The Auschwitz Disease
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ROSENFELD, ALVIN H.
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The Auschwitz Disease Liquidation By Imre Kertész Translated by Tim Wilkinson Knopf. 130 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Professor of English; director, Institute for Jewish...
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Rural and Restless
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BROWN, ROSELLEN
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Rural and Restless Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 By Annie Proulx Scribner. 219 pp. $25.00. Runaway: Stories By Alice Munro Knopf. 335 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Professor of...
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A Comfortable Martyrdom
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REICH, TOVA
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A Comfortable Martyrdom Pearl By Mary Gordon Pantheon. 368 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Tova Reich Author, "The Jewish War" Virtually all of Mary Gordon's work, fiction and nonfiction, is...
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Mementos of Southern Ambiguity
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GOREAU, ANGELINE
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Mementos of Southern Ambiguity Tattoo for a Slave By Hortense Calisher Harcourt. 324 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Angeline Goreau Author, "Reconstructing Aphra"; contributor, New York "Times...
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Rebels with a Cause
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry Rebels with a Cause By Phoebe Pettingell On May 30,1593—a year before the Spanish Armada attacked England—the brilliant 29-yearold poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe met...
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Singing in Secret
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SANDY, STEPHEN
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Singing in Secret The Word That Causes Death's Defeat By Anna Akhmatova Translated, with an introductory biography, critical essays and commentary, by Nancy K. Anderson Yale. 326 pp....
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The Tireless Author
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BERMEL, ALBERT
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The Tireless Author V.S. Pritchett: A Working Life By Jeremy Treglown Random. 352 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Playwright, critic; author, "Shakespeare at the Moment: Playing...
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Town Without Pity
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CROUSE, TIM MARTIN
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Town Without Pity The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood By David Thomson Knopf. 402 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Tim Martin Crouse Writer, producer, director, "The Orchard"; head writer,...
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Evolution of a 'Great Idea'
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television Evolution of a 'Great Idea' By Reuven Frank Early IN 1960, an advertising agency guy I knew casually breezed into my office at NBC News, where I was then a producer, and...
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Mixed Morals
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SHARGEL, RAPHAEL
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On Screen Mixed Morals By Raphael Shargel Toward the end of Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express, three weary children board a locomotive on their way home from the North Pole. It has been...
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Shostakovich and the Politics of Survival
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SIMON, JOHN
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On Music Shostakovich and the Politics of Survival By John Simon IT is fruitful to speculate about why we want our artists to be "good" persons. This is more or less understandable—which is...
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Daring ventures
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KANFER, ETHAN
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On Stage Daring Ventures By Ethan Kanfer After A surfeit of predictable adaptations and glossy extravaganzas culled from old pop radio hits, theater for grownups is making a comeback....
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INDEX FOR 2004
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INDEX FOR 2004 This index of New Leader articles for 2004 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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