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JAMES STEINBERG is deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs - that is, the top deputy to National Security adviser Sandy Berger. HAROLD MEYERSON spoke with him on Friday, February 13.
Harold Meyerson: Does the level of Russia...
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MICHAEL WALZER is a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, co-editor of Dissent and author of Just and Unjust Wars, Revolution of the Saints and other works. He spoke with HAROLD MEYERSON about the morality o...
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If there were any doubt that the current opposition to U.S. military action against Iraq doesn't amount to very much, consider this: There isn't even any factionalism besetting the movement this time around. There's opposition to the prospect of bomb...
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DAVID McREYNOLDS is a member of the War Resisters League, a secular international organization formed in 1923 by conscientious objectors who were jailed for their opposition to World War I. He spoke with JUDITH LEWIS about the pacifist viewpoint on t...
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JUDITH YAPHE is an Iraq expert at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. She spoke with CHARLES RAPPLEYE about Saddam Hussein's history and the nature of the Iraqi opposition.
Military action in and of itself is highly unlikely to achi...
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GREG TREVERTON is director of the Rand Corporation's International Security and Defense Policy Center. BEN EHRENREICH spoke to him about the nature of weaponry in present-day Iraq and our probable expectations in the current conflict.
What we real...
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MAURICE EISENSTEIN is a former senior staff member and currently a senior consultant on national security matters for the Rand Corporation. He was interviewed by BEN EHRENREICH on what we know about the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons programs....
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Iraqi dissident KANAN MAKIYA, a fellow at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a visiting professor at Brandeis, is author of four books on Iraq, among them Republic of Fear, which is widely considered the authoritative account of Saddam H...
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"No nation in human history ever undertook to deal with such masses of alien population," declared the Atlantic Monthly, blaming immigration for the debased standard of living of many Americans, and warning that further admittance of the "vast hordes...
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It's 5 a.m. in Los Angeles and I've decided to go in search of the perfect donut. I'm not sure what the perfect donut will be - I have my ideas - but I don't want to prejudice myself. I want to be open to the possibilities - a tabula rasa of donut de...
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In the years following its 1988 debut, the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City struggled to survive, and its founder, a deceptively straight-faced fellow named David Wilson, was known to occasionally solicit business by serenading passing pe...
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on February 26, 1998
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The rush - the heart-stopping terror - of robbing a bank was like nothing else on the planet for Keith. Better than a game-winning buzzer-beater, better than the Magic Mountain Viper, better even than a "master-blaster" - a simultaneous mega-hit of b...
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Internal investigators have cleared a Huntington Park middle school of allegations that staff members falsified special-education documents for as many as 120 students last May in the face of a state audit of the Los Angeles Unified School District. ...
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Department of Justice officials took a first step last month toward finally closing out the cases of an estimated 240,000 Central Americans who have been living in legal limbo since they fled their war-torn countries to seek asylum in this country.
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For the past two years, George Priest has done part-time work for the finance division of the county Department of Public and Social Services, researching welfare-fraud cases on microfiche. It's the kind of desk job that would be the envy of many a w...
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Think Hard Rock Cafe. Think Disney theme park, Web pages on the Internet, and think bus tour as cute and cartoonish as the Yellow Submarine, and you have an idea of some of the various ways radical politics of the '60s and early '70s are being market...
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It was just another Saturday night at the Hollywood Hills home of Dr. Susan Block and her husband/producer, Max Lobkowicz. Dr. Block, the lingerie-clad sex therapist, was taking phone calls and entertaining guests in the bedroom/studio set of her Int...
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on February 19, 1998
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Dick Riordan did the right thing by California last week - counter to the urgings of rich business friends and certain ranking egos at the Los Angeles Times, he declined to run for governor.
You could follow his reasoning. Competing against Jane Ha...
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Here's a question for you: How could Richard Riordan neglect Los Angeles even more than he already does? The answer: become governor.
For that matter, could anything do more to revive the Northern California secession movement? Or at least leave the...
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Last fall, I got on a plane in Paris and took off for Algeria, one of the most terrible places on Earth. Algeria today is defined by senseless violence; grotesquely cruel acts are commonplace. That's why I was going. If, by the logic of contemporary ...
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