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In Baghdad, things go from bad to worse
A proposal
A case study
The grass may be greener in Canada, but U.S. farm policy spreads the green around
The uneasiness between blacks and Latinos
In the age of images, a reason to write novels
A once devoted reader arrives at the end of the story
Bob Dole caters the political hors d'oeuvres
A not so fond farewell
The Christos' embrace of the Reichstag
A people still besieged, in a city not yet saved
The short way down an English cliff
The uneasy search for our atomic history
A Cuban ration book shows a country short on resources but long on resourcefulness
The Hapsburg model of the new world order
The lure of relics in a faithless age
The new gay magazines gloss over politics to penetrate a market
The rise and fall of a Russian mobster in America
The warming of the world's climate sparks a blaze of denial
In novel after novel, writers grope for dark secrets
With Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich, and Phil Gramm, at the feet of Ross Perot
Diary of a day laborer
The journey out of a Cleveland childhood
Stock speculation becomes the rule of prudence
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