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 Vol. 048 Issue 002 (February 1 1984)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor The Other Side of the Hog Regarding Jim "Whole Hog" Hightower's attempt to ennoble the lowly hog (Memo from the Editor, December issue), there's another side to hogs that...
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Comment
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Peacekeepers, Come Home Even before a terrorist attack claimed the lives of 241 members of the American "peacekeeping force" in Beirut last October, high-ranking Pentagon officials had begun to...
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No Comment
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A Thinking Man's Way of Death Florida Governor Bob Graham, responding to opponents of the death penalty: "It disappoints me that the issue cannot be dealt with on an intellectual basis." Not to...
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Datelines
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Siegel, Linda Carleu-Jones, Rex B. Wingerter, David Luberoff, Barbara Yuill and Steve Askin, and Len
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Yellow Is the Color NEW YORK CITY At age thirty-eight, after suffering two miscarriages, Eleanor Sherman gave birth to her first child, a healthy, pink-cheeked baby boy. But when he was ten months...
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Reflections
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Lens, Sidney
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The Deterrence Myth Deterrence, the doctrine that has propelled the nuclear arms race since the 1950s, is suddenly back in high fashion as an all-purpose rationale for the incredibly dangerous...
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CENTRAL EMPLOYMENT AGENCY
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Central Employment Agency Students respond to the CIA rush BY MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD On Washington's Massachusetts Avenue, sandwiched between the flag-waving embassies of Chile and Canada, stands the...
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THE POLITICS OF GENDER
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Elshtaln, Jean Bethke
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OFGENDER Why women sound a different note BY JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Virginia Woolf was sure that women and men did not speak the same language. Women, she believed, saw the world in ways formed by...
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DUNKIN' DONUTS WONT FEED THE HUNGRY
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Burnham, Damian
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BRAZIL Dunkirk Donuts Won't Feed the Hungry BY DAM IAN BURNHAM razil has changed a lot in the fifteen years since my Peace Corps | stint ended. The rickety old airport in Rio de Janeiro has been...
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THE DUMBING OF AMERICA
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Hentoff, Nat
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The Dumbing of America BY NAT HENTOFF Among all the rising indictments of American public education—in books, reports, stump speeches by the President and Presidential candidates, television...
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SUNSET IN THE EAST
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Mayer, Milton
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BY MILTON MAYER On Karmelitska Street is Prague's first baroque building, the early Seventeenth Century Church of Our Lady Victorious, housing the gorgeously dressed doll known as the Holy Infant...
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SOLIDARITY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT
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Wiosna, Eva
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Solidarity: Down But Not Out On the walls of an underpass beneath a busy Warsaw street, the bright letters of an old Solidarity slogan still stand out against the pale brick. The words have been...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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The Most Joyful Trumpet It was a nasty argument. It had started, in the rehearsal hall, with the black drummer and the white baritone saxophonist clashing over which of the two would have one of...
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The Real Reagan
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Nossiter, Bernard D.
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BOOKS The Real Reagan ON REAGAN: 1 ^ THE MAN AND HIS PRESIDENCY by Ronnie Dugger McGraw-Hill. 616 pp. $19.95. by Bernard D. Nossiter t is now evident that Ronald Reagan is not, as he is often...
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Beacons
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Steinem, Gloria
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Beacons IN SEARCH OF OUR MOTHERS' GARDENS by Alice Walker Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. 393 pp. $14.95. OUTRAGEOUS ACTS AND EVERYDAY REBELLIONS by Gloria Steinem Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 363...
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Evolving Cuba
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Green, Gil
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Evolving Cuba CUBA AT 25: THE CONTINUING REVOLUTION by Gil Green International Publishers. 117 pp. $3.75 paperback. Cuban communism has a certain Caribbean flavor that sets it apart from the...
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Dread Year
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Howe, Irving
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Dread Year 1984 REVISITED edited by Irving Howe Harper & Row. 276 pp. $10.95. The battle over the meaning of George Orwell's 1984 goes on. The political ambiguity of this brilliant novel left...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly A Special Love MY OTHER LONELINESS; LETTERS OF THOMAS WOLFE AND ALINE BERNSTEIN edited by Suzanne Stutman University of North Carolina Press. 390 pp. $30 hardcover. $14.95...
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Report Card
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Peace, Land, and Books AND ALSO TEACH THEM TO READ by Sheryl Hirshon with Judy Butler Lawrence Hill & Company, 520 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880. $9.95. Shortly after coming to power,...
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Puzzle
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Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry
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T h e|p r 0 G r e S s i V u z z L e by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Letters to clue answers, when put in the appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation. The first letters of the...
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The Last Word
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Covino, Susan
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THE LAST WORD Susan Covino To Die in Peace When I first met her six years ago, she was walking her Schnauzer, Zacky. Dora was eighty-four years old, had been widowed about thirty years, and was...
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