Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Question on Millions of Tongues The current Tea Party craze does not fit very easily into the history of American populism. Populist movements...
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Trouble on Three Fronts Israel’s 62nd Birthday By Abraham Rabinovich Jerusalem Heavy mist shrouded the naval sail-past off Israel’s coast on Independence Day. But it did not inhibit the...
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France’s President in Denial Doing the Sarkozy Shuffle By Janice Valls-Russell Paris Before France’s two-round regional elections on March 14 and 21, President Nicolas Sarkozy declared...
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‘No Illusions about the Chinese’ Tibet Inside and Out By Wanda Bliss Lhasa, Tibet “I don’t know how the commotion started,” my Tibetan friend said quietly as we were eating noodles at a...
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Culture Watching The New Prohibitionists By Stefan Kanfer IN 1751, the British artist William Hogarth issued two prints. Designed to be viewed side by side, they were entitled “Gin Lane”...
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Writers & Writing The Many Sides of Henry Luce Christopher Porterfield ONE EVENING in September 1963, the Washington bureau of Time magazine held a private dinner with Henry Luce. Since I...
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In Journalism’s Golden Age On the Front Lines of the Cold War: An American Correspondent’s Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam By Seymour Topping LSU...
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A Troubling Ambivalence The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time By Judith Shulevitz Random House. 246 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Irving M. Glazer...
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Assuming an Unimagined Role Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero By Abigail Green Harvard. 540 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Lawrence Grossman Coeditor, “American Jewish Year...
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On Fiction A Teenager’s Odyssey By Sarah Harrison Smith SINCE THE 1980S, when she published the first of her four earlier novels, Fernanda Eberstadt has had her pen dipped in a particularly...
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On Poetry Filling in the Blanks By Phoebe Pettingell In her Introduction to Nick Lantz' We Don't Know We Don't Know (Graywolf, 76 pp., paper, $15.00), Linda Gregerson reminds us that the fool...
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On Television Fox’s Palin Factor By Marvin Kitman A recent poll found that the most widely trusted name in television news today is the Fox News Channel, current home of onetime...
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