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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr A MajorIssue for the New Congress In a Wall Street Journal-NBC poll last July, 53 per cent of the respondents said they want government to do more to...
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Some Lessons of History How to Avoid a New Cold War By Robert V. Daniels IS THE FUTURE of the West’s relationship with Russia as dire as many contend in the wake of the August war between...
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Culture Watching Wireless and/or Clueless By Stefan Kanfer Perhaps the most anthologized, and least insightful, utterance by a Canadian is Marshall McLuhan's "The new electronic...
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Writers & Writing The War That Backfired By Gavriel Rosenfeld THE DUST JACKET of Mark Mazower’s powerful new book, Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (Penguin, 726 pp., $39.95),...
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A History of Hysteria The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World By John Demos Viking. 318 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield Professor of American...
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On Fiction A Tragicomic Meditation on Old Age By Brooke Allen A new novel by David Lodge is one of life’s few reliable pleasures. Beginning with The Picturegoers (1960), Lodge’s 14 novels...
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The Austerity Artist To Siberia By Per Petterson Translated by Anne Born Graywolf. 245 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Christian Lorentzen Senior editor, "Harper's" A former librarian, printer and...
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On Poetry How Verse Influences Verse By Phoebe Pettingell FRIENDSHIPS AMONG POETS can ignite sparks that flame into innovation. Consider those evenings at London’s Mermaid Tavern with William...
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Vol. 091 Issue 005 (September 1 2008)
A Major Issue for the New Congress
