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Vol. 088 Issue 002 (March 1 2005)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Dismembering Social Security
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Danlel Schorr Dismembering Social Security On his 60-day, 60-stop Social Security blitz, President George W. Bush has tended to emphasize solvency. But in the more...
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Reviving the Democrats
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GLASS, ANDREW J.
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A Party in Turmoil Reviving the Democrats By Andrew J. Glass Washington Can the Democratic Party as we have known it be resuscitated? Variations of that question have become something...
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The CEO of Thailand
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GROSSMAN, NICHOLAS
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Thaksin's New Mandate The CEO of Thailand By Nicholas Grossman Bangkok Soon after Thaksin Shinawatra's election in 2001 as prime minister of Thailand, international journalists, local...
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Seoul Divided
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KIRK, DONALD
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Protest and Revisionism Seoul Divided By Donald Kirk Seoul In the chill of early winter I witnessed two demonstrations espousing causes that seemed undeniably just. At the first, in...
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Lessons of the Silk Road
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Elegant, Robert
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China's Rocky Path to Prosperity Lessons of the Silk Road By Robert Elegant DUNHUANG For ages the plodding camels' flexible hoofs rose and fell in a leisurely random tempo. Their perversely...
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Reinventing Stalin
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REICH, REBECCA
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Writers & Writing Reinventing Stalin By Rebecca Reich When it comes to buying souvenirs from the former Soviet Union, Russians like to say that Vologda is the home of fine lace while Tula is...
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Making Aid Work
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BANERJEE, ABHIJIT VINAYAK
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Making Aid Work The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time By Jeffrey D.Sachs Penguin. 396 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee Professor of economics and...
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Politics of an Epidemic
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ROGERS, NAOMI
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Politics of an Epidemic Polio: An American Story By David M. Oshinsky Oxford. 342 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Naomi Rogers Associate professor of the history of medicine and of gender...
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Captured. Detained, Enslaved
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REMY, STEVEN P.
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Captured, Detained, Enslaved Given Up for Dead: America's POWs in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga By Flint Whitlock Westview. 283 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Steven P. Remy Associate...
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The Damned and the Beautiful
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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On Fiction The Damned and the Beautiful By Brooke Allen Kazuo Ishiguro, now 50 years old, is a much celebrated and decorated writer. He received the 1989 Booker Prize, he is an Officer of...
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Whimsy in the Face of Terror
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BISSELL, TOM
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Whimsy in the Face of Terror Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close By Jonathan Safran Foer Houghton Mifflin. 326 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Tom Bissell Author, "God Lives in St. Petersburg,'...
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The Taming of a Skinhead
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SCHWARTZ, LYNNE SHARON
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The Taming of a Skinhead A Changed Man By Francine Prose HarperCollins. 421 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Author of the forthcoming 9/11 novel "The Writing on the Wall...
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A Daredevil Ponders Mortality
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STRONG, BENJAMIN
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A Daredevil Ponders Mortality Last Night By James Salter Knopf. 144 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Benjamin Strong Contributor, the "Believer," the "Village Voice" One spring evening a month shy...
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Contrarian Women
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry Contrarian Women By Phoebe Pettingell The aggressive, eye-catching title of Camille Paglia's fifth critical study, Break, Blow, Burn (Pantheon, 272 pp., $20.00), makes you...
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News Without Controversy
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television News Without Controversy By Reuven Frank WHAT LINGERS from last December's Indian Ocean tsunami is the memory of survivors' eyes as they stared into television cameras....
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Why Oscar Got It Right
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SHARGEL, RAPHAEL
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On Screen Why Oscar Got It Right By Raphael Shargel Finally, the Academy Awards got most things right. For the first time since Best Picture wentto Annie Hallin 1977, the winner in that...
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Blowing Gabriel's Horn
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SIMON, JOHN
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On Music Blowing Gabriel's Horn By John Simon IN 19501 was a Fulbright scholar ostensibly studying at the Sorbonne, but actually learning from the City of Paris, which, as Rabelais...
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Buried Childhoods
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KANFER, ETHAN
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On Stage Buried Childhoods By Ethan Kanfer The papers of Sabina Spielrein, published40 years after her murder in 1942, shed light on the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung. Spielrein, his...
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