Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Bush: Conned or Con Man? During His Spring Break, President George W. Bush may have reflected on Elisabetta Burba and her version of what helped to propel...
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Flouting Democratic Norms How P ut i n Sees the Wo rld By Robert V. Daniels WHY CAN’T the Russians be like us? That has been the fond dream of Americans since the heady days of the...
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An Unwilling Coalition Partner Why Ko r e a C ares About Iraq By Donald Kirk SEOUL IT IS WIDELY presumed that because South Koreans have enough trouble wor rying about events in...
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______Letter from Berlin_______ Sauerkraut Cowboys By Ruth Ellen Gruber Berlin On My First Day back in Europe after a week and a half in the United States this winter, I attended a dinner...
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On Fiction An Impassioned Wa r ni ng By Brooke Allen ONE OF THE CHARACTERS in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt, 192 pp., $22.00) has just finished writing a piece of...
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Dissecting Vietnam Myths The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam By Tom Bissell Pantheon. 407 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Craig R. Whitney Assistant managing...
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An Apposite Portrait John Donne: The Reformed Soul By John Stubbs W. W. Norton. 565 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Giles Harvey Contributor, the “Village Voice,” the “American Book Review,” the...
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A Clash of Ideologies The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy By Walid Phares Palgrave-MacMillan. 266 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Yehudit Barsky Director, Division on Middle East and...
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On Poetr y Pastoral Impulses By Phoebe Pettingell HIGHLY ADVANCED societies are often gripped by nostalgia for a less complicated era. In Alexandria during the third century B.C.E....
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OnScreen In Praise of American Re ctitude By Raphael Shargel BOWING TO the unwritten rule that every red-blooded American male must subject himself to repeated viewings of the father...
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On Television The Fa k e News Wars By Marvin Kitman PLAYING WITH my remote the other Sunday night, I stumbled upon the Fox News Channel. The President was speaking to us from the...
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