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ALFRED KAZIN CLUTCHES AT STRAUSS
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Alfred Kazin Clutches at Strauss Alfred Kazin, who sometimes passes for America's most venerable literary critic, casually perpetrated a drive-by infamy last week. In an essay honoring Murray...
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Id, Ego, Superego, Automobile
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Id, Ego, Superego, Automobile My car died last weekend. It was a quiet death, sudden though not unexpected—she had given me 149,941 glorious, palindromic miles; but I miss her just the same....
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Call Me Mad
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Call Me Mad Iwas not surprised that my longstanding feud with Michael Isikoff would end in the caviling abuse he wrote for your magazine ("The Secret Life of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard," Nov. 24). It...
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Wanna Bet?
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Wanna Bet? One morning this past April, Terri Lynn Revere parked in the sun outside Landry's Cafe in Bridge City, Louisiana, where she proceeded to play video poker virtually non-stop for more than...
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Reno ? Clinton
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LINDBERG, TOD
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Reno v Clinton by Tod Lindberg REPUBLICANS EAGERLY DECLARED that they weren't surprised by Attorney General Janet Reno's decision last week not to seek an independent counsel in the Democratic...
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The U.N. Rewards Saddam
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Bolton, John R.
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The U.N. Rewards Saddam by John R. Bolton YOU MIGHT THINK THE UNITED NATIONS would want to punish Saddam Hussein for disrupting and nearly killing the U.N.'s own efforts to eliminate Iraq's...
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The World's Poor Are Richer
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SINGER, MAX
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The World's Poor, Are Richer by Max Singer Afirst glance at the World Bank's 1997 World Development Report is very depressing. The latest numbers make it look as if the old claim is true, that...
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Erasing George Washington
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FELZENBERG, ALVIN S.
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Erasing George Washington by Alvin S. Felzenberg Change the name of the nation's capital and of the bridge that spans the Hudson? Remove the statues of our first president from Boston Common, Wall...
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America's True Child-care Crisis
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Frum, Danielle Crittenden and David
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America's True Child-care Crisis Kids Need Their Mothers, Not Government Daycare By Danielle Crittenden and David Frum Feminist bookstores sell T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan, "What part of...
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Meet Rev. Moon, Mass Marriage Maestro
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LABASH, MATT
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Meet Rev: Moon, Mass Marriage Maestro By Matt Labash For all of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's good qualities—his business acumen, his robust self-esteem as "Lord of the Second Advent," his dynamic...
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Wishful Thinking on War
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KAGAN, FREDERICK W.
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Wishful Thinking on War The National Defense Panel Gets It Wrong By Frederick W. Kagan The Pentagon cannot fully be trusted to plan its own future. With this sensible thought in mind, Congress...
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Shakespeare Etherized Upon a Table
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BOERNER, MARGARET
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Shakespeare Etherized Upon a Table Helen Vendler Vivisects the Bard By Margaret Boerner Helen Vendler is "a woman of power in the ivory tower," according to the New York Times—a "kingmaker" and...
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Six Welders and a Funeral
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WATTENBERG, DANIEL
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Six: Welders and a Funeral The Full Monty Hits the Fast Track By Daniel Wattenberg Remember when Pat Buchanan "discovered" unemployment in New Hampshire during the 1992 presidential campaign? And...
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Gospel of the Saucepan
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Nordlinger, Pia
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gospel of the saucepan Julia Child's Conversion of America By Pia Nordlinger Long before pesto came to America—even before penne and sun-dried tomatoes—an odd-looking woman with the body of a...
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Parmet's Last Gentleman
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BARNES, FRED
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Parmet's Last Gentleman Wrong on Reagan, Right on Bush By Fred Barnes This is the first comprehensive biography of President George Bush by a respected historian, and it's pretty good. Also,...
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Parody
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Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles set the new tone at a meeting in his office last month when he admonished presidential adviser Sidney Blumenthal and other aides for chatting during the planning...
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Vol. 003 Issue 015 (December 22 1997)
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Vol. 003 Issue 016 (December 29 1997)
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