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The sweet smell of subsidies

The grass may be greener in Canada, but U.S. farm policy spreads the green around

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Our Next Race Question

The uneasiness between blacks and Latinos

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Perchance to dream

In the age of images, a reason to write novels

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Closing the books

A once devoted reader arrives at the end of the story

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Presidential shrimp

Bob Dole caters the political hors d'oeuvres

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Legends of the fall

The short way down an English cliff

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Fifty Years Under a Cloud

The uneasy search for our atomic history

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Taking the measure of Castro, ounce by ounce

A Cuban ration book shows a country short on resources but long on resourcefulness

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Déjà vu

The Hapsburg model of the new world order

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What remains

The lure of relics in a faithless age

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Out of the closet, and into Never-Never Land

The new gay magazines gloss over politics to penetrate a market

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Looking for Mr. Yaponchik

The rise and fall of a Russian mobster in America

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The heat is on

The warming of the world's climate sparks a blaze of denial

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Making the incest scene

In novel after novel, writers grope for dark secrets

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Off to see the wizard

With Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich, and Phil Gramm, at the feet of Ross Perot

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Winter work

Diary of a day laborer

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Leaving the folk

The journey out of a Cleveland childhood

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The bull market in fear

Stock speculation becomes the rule of prudence

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