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 Vol. 088 Issue 001 (February 1 2005)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Bush's Very Different Tone
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Danlel Schorr Bush's Very Different Tone The February 2 State of the Union address had been billed as mainly domestic, focusing on Social Security reform. But its...
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Changing the Israeli-Palestinian Equation
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RABINOVICH, ABRAHAM
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The Return of Mahmoud Abbas Changing the Israeli-Palestinian Equation By Abraham Rabinovich Jerusalem That SOUND emanating from the near end of the Middle East is not the...
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Hungary's Polarized Politics
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KENEZ, PETER
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Voting on History and Health Hungary's Polarized Politics By Peter Kenez Budapest It is difficult for an outsider to understand the bitterness that pervades Hungarian politics. The...
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Britain's Muslim Question
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GELB, NORMAN
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Countering Islamophobia Britain's Muslim Question By Norman Gelb London Controversy has flared here in recent months over legislation, now making its way through Parliament, designed to...
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Freeways and Cowboys in California
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GRUBER, RUTH ELLEN
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Letter from Santa Monica Freeways and Cowboys in California By Ruth Ellen Gruber Santa Monica "I will say that I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finertobacco,truergunsand pistols,...
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The Gulag in Grim Detail
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DANIELS, ROBERT V.
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Writers & Writing The Gulag in Grim Detail By Robert V Daniels IN the lives of nations, as with individuals, unhappy memories often rapidly slip into the past, though this does not prevent...
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Diplomacy with a Beat
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CRITCHLOW, JAMES
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Diplomacy with a Beat Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War By Penny M. Von Eschen Harvard. 329 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by James Critchlow Author, "Radio...
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Pleasure Pushers
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KELLEHER, T. J.
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Pleasure Pushers American Mania: When More Is Not Enough By Peter C. Whybrow Viking. 338 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by T.J. Kelleher Senior editor, "Natural History" AT FIRST glance, American...
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A Master of Contrasts
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HOFFMANN, STANLEY
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A Master of Contrasts Malraux: A Life By Olivier Todd Translated by Joseph West Knopf. 560 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Stanley Hoffmann Buttenweiser University Professor, Harvard...
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Different Visions
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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On Fiction Different Visions By Brooke Allen American innocence is a well-worn theme of our literature. Henry James made it his great subject. Mark Twain mined it too, though in his...
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The Trials of Fantasy
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LORENTZEN, CHRISTIAN
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The Trials of Fantasy Kafka on the Shore By Haruki Murakami Knopf. 436 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Christian Lorentzen While working on the screenplay for the film version of...
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At Death's Edge
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SMITH, SARAH HARRISON
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At Death's Edge Grace By Linn Ullmann Translated by Barbara Haveland Knopf. 130 pp. $20.00. In the Flesh By Christa Wolf Translated by John S. Barrett Godine. 144 pp. $24.95. Reviewed...
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An Appetizing Absurd
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ADLER, TAMAR
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An Appetizing Absurd The Noodle Maker By Ma Jian Farrar Straus Giroux. 181 pp. $21.00. Reviewed by Tamar Adler Contributor, "Harper's," Bangkok "Post" Faced daily with the traumas of...
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Fantasies of Our Identity
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry Fantasies of Our Identity By Phoebe Pettingell A few years ago, I attended a provocative lecture in St. Louis by a visiting English historian. The audience consisted primarily of...
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Pulling Up Anchors
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television Pulling Up Anchors By Reuven Frank IN 1965, a consumer research survey found that Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, coanchors of NBC's nightly TV newscast, were, to quote the...
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Tests of Flesh
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SHARGEL, RAPHAEL
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On Screen Tests of Flesh By Raphael Shargel When asked to comment on the movies of 2004, I smile and say, "Best year of the millennium!" My tongue is only half in cheek. Over 12 months...
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A Ruined Life, a Salvaged Dinner
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SIMON, JOHN
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On Music A Ruined Life, a Salvaged Dinner By John Simon NOT SO LONG AGO, in 1971, Paul Henry Lang wrote in Tiie Experience of Opera, "Janâcek's Jenûfa, very popular all over Central Europe,...
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Surface Tensions
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KANFER, ETHAN
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On Stage Surface Tensions By Ethan Kanfer Two new dramas and a musical revival turn their attention to plumbing our prejudices. In different ways all three feature characters whose...
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