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Vol. 091 Issue 006 (November 1 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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An Age of Anxiety
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr An Age of Anxiety In 1996, near the end of the 20th century, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cautioned us against “irrational exuberance.”...
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How Canada Sees Obama
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WALLER, HAROLDM.
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Counting on a Convergence of Interests How Sees Obama By Harold M. Waller Montreal Canadians welcomed Barack Obama's election, despite being somewhat apprehensive about campaign...
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Mumbai After the Mayhem
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D'MONTE, DARRYL
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Guarding Against a Knee-Jerk Reaction Mumbai Afterthe Mayhem By Darryl D’Monte Mumbai When terrorists attacked my city on November 26, I was in a walled medieval Italian...
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France's Socialists in Disarray
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VALLS-RUSSELL, JANICE
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Ségolène Royal vs. Martine Aubry France's Socialists in Disarray By Janice Valls-Russell Paris A recent cartoon in the Center-Left weekly Le Nouvel Observateur showed President Nicolas...
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The Expatriate Vote
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GRUBER, RUTH ELLEN
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Letter from Rome The Expatriate Vote By Ruth Ellen Gruber Rome In early September I had lunch with Mr. and Mrs. X, American acquaintances who live year-round in Italy. They are a...
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Authors on the Road
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KANFER, STEFAN
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Culture Watching Authors on the Road By Stefan Kanfer “A boy has to peddle his papers," explained Truman Capote to an interviewer in 1966. He had just finished a crosscountry tour,...
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In the Corridors of Power
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HEILBRUNN, JACOB
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Winter Books In the Corridors of Power By Jacob Heilbrunn FEW DECISIONS of an incoming President are more fateful than the Cabinet he selects. George W. Bush’s Presidency was crippled from...
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A Team of Rebels
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EISENBACH, DAVID
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A Team of Rebels Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America By Adam Cohen Penguin. 372 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by David Eisenbach Professor of...
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At the Brink of Barbarism
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O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
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At the Brink of Barbarism With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain By Michael Korda HarperCollins. 310 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by William L. O’Neill Professor emeritus of...
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Panic, Fraud and Misadventure
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WATSON, WILLIAM
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Panic, Fraud and Misadventure The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World By Niall Ferguson Penguin. 442 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by William Watson Chair of Economics,...
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The Copyright Fog
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CREWS, KENNETH D.
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The Copyright Fog The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind By James Boyle Yale. 315 pp. $28.50. Reviewed by Kenneth D. Crews Director, Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia...
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Dancing to a Different Discipline
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SISMAN, ELAINE
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Dancing to a Different Discipline The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians, and Their Art By Tim Blanning Harvard. 416 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Elaine Sisman Anne Parsons...
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Where the Protagonist Is Time
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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On Fiction Where the Protagonist Is Time By Brooke Allen Philip Hensher, the 43-year-old British novelist who has won a Somerset Maugham Award and been a Man Booker Prize runner-up, is an...
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A Chorus of the Motherless
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BROWN, ROSELLEN
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A Chorus of the Motherless A Mercy By Toni Morrison Knopf. 167 pp. $23.95. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Professor of English, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; author, “Half a...
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Return of the Con Man
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GRAHAM, PHILIP
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Return of the Con Man Esther's Inheritance By Sândor Mârai Translated by George Szirtes Knopf. 148 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Philip Graham Author, "Interior Design: Stories"; forthcoming,...
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Lives Made of Myths
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ORANGE, MICHELLE
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Lives Made of Myths The Sky Below By Stacey D'Erasmo Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 271pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Michelle Orange Author, "The Sicily Papers"; editor, "From the...
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Naughty Games and Imperial Imagism
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry Naughty Games and Imperial Imagism By Phoebe Pettingell THE EPIGRAM WAS once considered a kind of poetry useful for clever commentary on the culture. Marcus Valerius Martialis...
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On Television
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KITMAN, MARVIN
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On Television Godzilla vs. King Kong By Marvin Kitman DECEMBER was media mogul month in publishing.Two major Christmas gifts were put out for media mogul fans like myself—and one of...
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Index for 2008
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INDEX FOR 2008 This index of New Leader articles for 2008 is divided into three sections: Section 1, Index of Authors, lists the names of all New Leader contributors, whether writers of articles,...
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