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Vol. 088 Issue 004 (July 1 2005)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Changing Course in Iraq
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Changing Course in Iraq It feels a little like the summer of 2002, when White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card responded to rumors of a coming invasion of...
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Calling the Shots in Korea
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KIRK, DONALD
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Kim's Nuclear Gambit Calling the Shots in Korea By Donald Kirk Seoul Even before the six-nation talks in Beijing broke for a "recess" on August 7, it was apparent that nothing...
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Waiting for Immigration Reform
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GLASS, ANDREW J.
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A Cruel Lottery Waiting for Immigration Reform By Andrew J. Glass Washington The last time George W. Bush had anything to say about illegal aliens, back in March, he argued that the time...
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China's Unthinkable Evolution
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Elegant, Robert
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Growing into a Global Power China's Unthinkable Evolution By Robert Elegant Beijing Little more than a decade after the late Deng Xiaoping's imperative to forge "Socialism with Chinese...
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Blair's European Moment
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GELB, NORMAN
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London Calling Brussels Blair's European Moment By Norman Gelb London "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." That mournful sentiment from L.P. Hartley's...
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Divided We Stand
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WEBER, EUGEN
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Writers & Writing Divided We Stand By Eugen Weber ETYMOLOGICALLY, religion is what holds us together. Religio is the bond that links members of a church or some other assembly, like a...
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Mao's Nemesis in New York
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CHU, VALENTIN
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Mao's Nemesis in New York Henry R. Luce, Time and the American Crusade in Asia By Robert E. Herzstein Cambridge. 346 pp. $32.00. Reviewed by Valentin Chu Author, "Ta Ta, Tan Tan (Fight...
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Why Alternate History Matters
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BERENBAUM, MICHAEL
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Why Alternate History Matters The World Hitler Never Made By Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Cambridge. 524 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Michael Berenbaum Professor of theology, University of Judaism;...
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The Advantage of Living on the Edge
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GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
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The Advantage of Living on the Edge A History of the Jews in the Modern World By Howard M. Sachar Knopf. 848 pp. $40.00. Reviewed by Lawrence Grossman Co-editor, "American Jewish Year...
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Transatlantic Quests
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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On Fiction Transatlantic Quests By Brooke Allen Setting out to write a really long book nowadays— 700 pages or up—takes a certain amount of nerve as well as ego. The doorstopper novel was...
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Shadows of God's Dreams
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HARTMAN, GEOFFREY
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Shadows of God's Dreams The Time of the Uprooted By Elie Wiesel Translated by David Hapgood Knopf. 300 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Geoffrey Hartman Professor of English and comparative...
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Into Thin Air and Back
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LORENTZEN, CHRLSTLAN
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Into Thin Air and Back The Loss of Leon Meed By Josh Emmons Scribner. 338 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Christian Lorentzen Naked in his bathtub, Archimedes of Syracuse famously exclaimed,...
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A Prophet of Gore
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STRONG, BENJAMIN
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A Prophet of Gore No Country for Old Men ByCormac McCarthy Knopf. 309 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Benjamin Strong Contributor, the "Village Voice,' the "Believer" CORMAC McCarthy's ninth...
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Passion from the Praine
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry Passion from the Prairie By Phoebe Pettingell Before Minnesota could boast of Garrison Keillor, it had already produced an engagingly folksy teacher: Robert Bly. Just as Keillor...
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Studies in Restraint
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SHARGEL, RAPHAEL
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On Screen Studies in Restraint and Excess By Raphael Shargel INGMAR Bergman's Saraband had its American debut last October at the New York Film Festival, and opened quietly in early July at...
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Vaudeville with Newsreels
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television Vaudeville with Newsreels By Reuven Frank ? ? April 20, 1939, David Sarnoff proclaimed television by opening the RCA pavilion at the New York World's Fair with the words,...
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More than an Anthill
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SIMON, JOHN
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On Music More than an Anthill By John Simon IN his autobiography. Bygones, the poet-anthologist Louis Untermeyer reports that Ezra Pound "groaned when I relayed the quip about piling up...
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Varieties of Shame
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KANFER, ETHAN
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On Stage Varieties of Shame By Ethan Kanfer Known today chiefly for his novels, W. Somerset Maugham once enjoyed a considerable reputation as a playwright. A lively revival of his 1926...
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