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 Vol. 088 Issue 006 (November 1 2005)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Bush in Decline
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bush in Decline As George W. Bush approached the end of his fifth year in office, his standing with Americans seemed to be steadily eroding. In...
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Capitol Hill's Collapse
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GLASS, ANDREW J.
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A Formula for Corruption Capitol Hill's Collapse By Andrew J. Glass Washington I came to Washington as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune in 1962, a few months after the death of...
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The Sharon Gamble
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RABINOVICH, ABRAHAM
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Reshaping Israel's Political Map The Sharon Gamble By Abraham Rabinovich Jerusalem In 1973, General Ariel Sharon led his division across the Suez Canal to break the Egyptian line and...
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France s Identity Crisis
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VALLS-RUSSELL, JANICE
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Lessons of the Riots Frances Identity Crisis By Janice Valls-Russell Paris From October 27 through mid-November, young men rampaged through urban areas around Paris and on the fringes of...
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Beyond Tony Blair
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GELB, NORMAN
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Gordon Brown's Waiting Game Beyond Tony Blair By Norman Gelb London The two public figures with the highest profiles in Britain today. Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Tony Blair, share...
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Burma Snapshots
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SWENSON, KAREN
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Writers Under Siege Burma Snapshots By Karen Swenson Rangoon Like monks in the monasteries at Ladakh, writers in Rangoon are always a climb away. So not until I reach the fifth floor at the...
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When Virtue Wed Terror
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WEBER, EUGEN
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Winter & Books When Virtue Wed Terror By Eugen Weber IF you want t? learn where the paranoid element in French politics comes from, read David Andress' The Terror: The Merciless War for...
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Vision of a New Utopia
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RORTY, RICHARD
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Vision of a New Utopia Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers By Kwame Anthony Appiah Norton. 256 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Richard Rorty Author, "Philosophy and the Mirror of...
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Hostages to Deterrence
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FRANKEL, MAX
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Hostages to Deterrence The Cold War: A New History By John Lewis Gaddis Penguin. 333 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Max Frankel Former Executive Editor, the New York "Times"; author, "High Noon...
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Three Egos
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DANIELS, ROBERT V.
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Three Egos One Christmas in Washington: The Secret Meeting Between Roosevelt and Churchill That Changed the World By David J. Bercuson and HolgerH. Herwig Overlook. 320 pp. $29.95. My...
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At Home with the F??hrer
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HOTTELET, RICHARD C.
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At Home with the Führer The Hitler Book: The Secret Dossier Prepared for Stalin from the Interrogation of Hitler's Personal Aides Edited by Henrik Eberle and Matthias Uhi Translated by Giles...
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Wilson's Blunders
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O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
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Wilson's Blunders Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920 By David Traxel Knopf. 432 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history,...
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Blaming the West
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GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
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Blaming the West The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East By Robert Fisk Knopf. 1107 pp. $40.00. Reviewed by Lawrence Grossman Co-editor, "American Jewish Year...
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Well-Greased Machines
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DOLMAN, JOSEPH
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Well-Greased Machines Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition—1742-2004 By Tracy Campbell Carrol & Graf. 452 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Joseph...
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California Dreamer
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PARMET, HERBERT S.
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California Dreamer President Reagan: The Triumph of the Imagination By Richard Reeves Simon & Schuster. 571pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Herbert S. Parmet Distinguished professor emeritus, the...
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An Unhealthy System
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LAKOFF, SANFORD
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An Unhealthy System Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care By Christine K. Cassel California. 254 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Sanford Lakoff Professor...
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The Bearded Maestro
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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The Bearded Maestro Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin Simon & Schuster. 916 pp. $35.00. Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power By Richard...
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Burdens of Longevity
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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On Fiction Burdens of Longevity By Brooke Allen Certain authors are indelibly associated with particular subjects. John Le Carré, for instance, made the inbred world of Cold War espionage...
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Sublime Folly
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GRAY, PAUL
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Sublime Folly Memories of My Melancholy Whores By Gabriel Garcia Marquez Knopf. 115 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Paul Gray Former senior writer, "Time"; contributor, New York "Times Book...
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An Unlikely Convergence
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SCHWARTZ, LYNNE SHARON
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An Unlikely Convergence Arthur and George By Julian Barnes Knopf. 400 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Author, "The Writing on the Wall, "Referred Pain" IT is unlikely that...
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Imagining the Nazis
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ROSENFELD, ALVIN H.
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Imagining the Nazis Götz and Meyer By David Albahari Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac Harcourt. 168 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by AI vin H. Rosenfeld Professor of English; director, Institute...
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Preoccupied with Celluloid
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REICH, TOVA
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Preoccupied with Celluloid The Accidental By Ali Smith Pantheon. 320 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Tova Reich Author, "Mara," "Master of the Return," "The Jewish War" The year is 2003. The place...
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'I Am Not Bad Boy'
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BROWN, ROSELLEN
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'I Am Not Bad Boy' Beasts of No Nation By Uzodinma Iweala HarperCollins. 142 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Professor of English, the School of the Art Institute of...
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Sentimental Journey
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KAMINE, MARK
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Sentimental Journey The Sea By John Banville Knopf. 195 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Contributor, "TLS,' New York "Times Book Review," the "Believer" Last May John Banville gave...
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The Importance of Being Humorous
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry The Importance of Being Humorous By Phoebe Pettingell Kenneth Koch, who died in 2002, was the major American comic poet of recent times. Always fresh, sometimes cheeky, he was an...
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Trailing Clouds of Glory
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SANDY, STEPHEN
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Trailing Cloudsof Glory Wordsworth: A Life By Juliet Barker Ecco. 548 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Stephen Sandy Author, "Weathers Permitting,' "The Way of Things, a Poem" Today an...
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Left Behind in the USSR
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KRASIKOV, SANA
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Left Behind in the USSR White on Black By Ruben Gallego Translated by Marian Schwartz Harcourt. 176 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Sana Krasikov Contributor, "New Yorker," "Forward" BORN with...
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On Television
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television Cogs in the News Machine By Reuven Frank WHEN A TELEVISION network changes its news anchor, newspapers invariably declare that an era has ended. The person who delivers...
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On Screen
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SHARGEL, RAPHAEL
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On Screen Professions of Love By Raphael Shargel The movie musical is making a comeback, albeit gropingly. Convinced today's audiences will not line up for the sort of confections...
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ON MUSIC
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SIMON, JOHN
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On Music Henze's Dance of Death By John Simon Over the years, my attitude toward Hans Werner Henze's music has fluctuated wildly. Henze and I were more or less coevals, which may have...
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On Stage
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KANFER, ETHAN
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On Stage Creepy Friends By Ethan Kanfer IN search of public domain material for his regional theater company, British actor Christopher Bond stumbled upon Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber...
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INDEX FOR 2005
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INDEX FOR 2005 This index of New Leader articles for 2005 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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