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 Vol. 088 Issue 003 (May 1 2005)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 After D-Day in D.C.
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr After D-Day in D.C. D-Day-Deep Throat Day-has come and gone; slowly the capital is adjusting itself to life without its longest-running mystery. President...
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Uncertain Equanimity in Israel
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RABINOVICH, ABRAHAM
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The Strategics of Demography Uncertain Equanimity in Israel By Abraham Rabinovich Jerusalem In May Israel Military Industries, whose sophisticated weaponry has played a role on numerous...
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Canada's Flawed Federalism
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WALLER, HAROLD M.
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A Crisis Delayed? Canada's Flawed Federalism By Harold M. Waller Montreal It would be excessive to suggest that Canada's confederation is crumbling. But the recent circus in Ottawa that...
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England Revisited
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GRUBER, RUTH ELLEN
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Letter from London England Revisited By Ruth Ellen Gruber London I have lived in London at various times and under various circumstances during my life, but I had not been to England for...
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The Indifferent Planet
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WEBER, EUGEN
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Summer Books The Indifferent Planet By Eugen Weber Globalization is shrinking the world, leveling the universal playing field, flattening our planet by abolishing hitherto unavoidable...
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At a Safe Distance
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MERKIN, DAPHNE
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At a Safe Distance Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop By Joseph Lelyveld Farrar Straus Giroux. 226 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Essayist and critic; author, "Enchantment," "Dreaming of...
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Life on the Left
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JR, ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER
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Life on the Left A Matter of Opinion By Victors. Navasky Farrar Straus Giroux. 458 pp. $27.00. Reviewed by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities...
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Lessons of Rage
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DOLMAN, JOSEPH
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Lessons of Rage Son of the Rough South: An Uncivil Memoir By Karl Fleming Public Affairs. 432 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Joseph Dolman Editorial writer and columnist, "Newsday" Karl Fleming...
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A Poisonous Perspective
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ROSENFELD, ALVIN H.
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A Poisonous Perspective The Question of Zion By Jacqueline Rose Princeton. 208 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Professor of English; director, Institute for Jewish Culture...
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Tragic Comics
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GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
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Tragic Comics The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion By Will Eisner Norton. 148 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Lawrence Grossman Co-editor, "American Jewish Year...
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Subhuman Conditions
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HOTTELET, RICHARD C.
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Subhuman Conditions Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web By Lynn H. Nicholas Knopf. 632 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Richard C. Hottetet Former CBS News Correspondent This BOOK...
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Blunders and Bluffs
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O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
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Blunders and Bluffs Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of WWII on the Eastern Front By Constantine Pleshakov Houghton Mifflin. 326 pp. $26.00. What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of...
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The Limits of Democracy
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DIGGINS, JOHN PATRICK
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The Limits of Democracy The Promise of Politics By Hannah Arendt Schocken. 240 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by John Patrick Diggins Professor of history, Graduate Center of the City University of...
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Wrong About Rights
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SALAM, REIHAN
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Wrong About Rights The Democracy Makers: Human Rights and the Politics of Global Order By Nicolas Guilhot Columbia. 274 pp. $45.00. Reviewed by Reihan Salam Contributor, "Washington...
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Rebel in Chief
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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Rebel in Chief 1776 By David McCullough Simon & Schuster. 386 pp. $32.00. General George Washington: A Military Life By Edward G. Lengel Random. 450 pp. $29.95. The Unknown...
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Living with Snakes
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MARTIN, JAY
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Living with Snakes Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism By Timothy Naftali Basic. 399 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Jay Martin Professor of government, Claremont McKenna...
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Adventures in Pop Culture
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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On Fiction Adventures in Pop Culture By Brooke Allen Although Umberto Eco has certainly proved himself as a novelist-The Name of the Rose'was one of the major bestsellers of the 1980s-he has...
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New York Nightmares
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GOREAU, ANGELINE
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New York Nightmares Specimen Days By Michael Cunningham Farrar Straus Giroux. 308 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Angeline Goreau Author, "Reconstructing Aphra"; contributor, New York "Times Book...
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A Master of Tradecraft
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REICH, TOVA
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A Master of Tradecraft Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation By Robert Littell Overlook. 395 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Tova Reich Author, "Mara," "Master of the Return," "The Jewish War" Almost...
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Race-Blind Angst
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BROWN, ROSELLEN
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Race-Blind Angst 72 Hour Hold By Bebe Moore Campbell Knopf. 336 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Professor of English, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; author, "Haif a...
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The Leap Not Taken
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KAMINE, MARK
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The Leap Not Taken A Long Way Down By Nick Hornby Riverhead. 333 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Mark Kamine Contributor, "TLS, New York "Times Book Review," the "Believer" Nick Hornby's previous...
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Taming Unruly Islands
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GRAHAM, PHILIP
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Taming Unruly Islands The Hungry Tide By Amitav Ghosh Houghton Mifflin. 333 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Philip Graham Author, "Interior Design, "How to Read an Unwritten Language" AMITAV...
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Traces of a Prophet
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SWENSON, KAREN
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Traces of a Prophet Finding George Orwell in Burma By Emma Larkin Penguin. 294 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Karen Swenson Author, "A Daughter's Latitude, "The Landlady in Bangkok," "A Sense of...
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Village Voices
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GUTMAN, ROBERT
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Village Voices Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and the Language of the Novel By Robert Alter Yale. 208 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Robert Gutman Lecturer in Architecture, Princeton...
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The Private Voice of Robert Lowell
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry The Private Voice of Robert Lowell By Phoebe Pettingell Throughout his turbulent career, Robert Lowell kept critics and readers off balance. Just when the latest phase of his poetry...
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Trouble in the House of Murrow
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television Trouble in the House of Murrow By Reuven Frank WITH ANY LUCK, this could be your last exposure to the saga of Dan Rather, the mythic broadcasting hero brought down by a...
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conflicting Concepts of Evil
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SHARGEL, RAPHAEL
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On Screen Conflicting Concepts of Evil By Raphael Shargel THIS SUMMER I am in the embarrassing position of finding my tastes corresponding with the box office numbers. George Lucas'...
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Thirteen to Remember
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SIMON, JOHN
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On Music Thirteen to Remember By John Simon Call IT damage control or catching up or an omniumgatherum, but it is intermittently necessary to direct attention to some...
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On Stage
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KANFER, ETHAN
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On Stage Traumatic Disclosures By Ethan Kanfer At Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater The Light in the Piazza, adapted from a novel by Elizabeth Spencer, offers a bittersweet...
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