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On the campaign trail in Nicaragua
What doctors have forgotten, poets have always known
To burn for flames
An anxious gloss of a lab report
Saying good-bye to Pinochet
The greater challenge of Salman Rushdie
At the Academy Awards: voices, vanity, vertigo
The war on drugs is a folly and a menace
Travels in the land of BIX
Paying the price of my father’s booze
Summit on First Avenue
A literary manifesto for the new social novel
Still haunted by the Khmer Rouge
A response to the elegists
Taking the measure of Bush’s ambassadors
U.S. v. Morison: A victory for secret government
My first flight in a fighter jet
A visit with the Marcos family
The long summer of '88
Cultivating a planet--and ourselves
Kerouac, re-read and regretted
Fighting last summer’s fires
Junk mail and the search for self
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