The New York Review of Books |
November 18, 1993
| ESSAY (PART II)
On a sunny Columbus Day afternoon, Father Jean-Bertrand
Aristide, president of the Republic of Haiti, walked slowly down the steps
of the Georgetown house in which he has made his home for much of the
last two years, and faced a restless crowd of reporters and photographers.
Tags: Aristide | Haiti
The New York Review of Books |
November 04, 1993
| ESSAY (PART I)
On a sweltering morning in Port-au-Prince, in July of
1915, a party of gentlemen attired in black morning coats, striped pants,
and bowler hats strolled past the wrought-iron gates and around the courtyard
of the elegant mansion that housed the French legation and pushed through
a side door.
Tags: Aristide | Haiti
The Council on Foreign Relations |
1993
| ESSAY
It strikes me that "The Future of
the Transatlantic Relationship" has quite a considerable past.
Tags: Foreign Affairs
The New Yorker |
October 25, 1993
| NOTES AND COMMENT
Americans are so devoted to democracy and
so respectful of its central ritual that we tend to confuse the one with
the other. Call it the Election Day Myth.
Tags: Haiti
The New York Times Magazine |
March 07, 1993
| ESSAY
For a half-dozen years,
Iran-contra has haunted American political life. The ghost arose anew on
Christmas Eve, thanks to President Bush's pardons, and it is fated to reappear
one day soon when Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel, releases his
final report.
Tags: Foreign Affairs
The New Yorker |
August 17, 1992
| NOTES AND COMMENT
During the nineteen-eighties,while Iraqis
and Iranians killed one another by the hundreds of thousands in a struggle
for supremacy in the Persian Gulf, the United States maintained a vigilant
neutrality-or so Americans were assured by the governments they elected.
Tags: Iraq
The New Yorker |
May 25, 1992
| NOTES AND COMMENT
Less than a year after Americans paraded
in the streets to celebrate victory in the Gulf War, the entire conflict,
which appeared so cataclysmic at the time, is rapidly receding from view.
Tags: Iraq
Aperture |
WINTER 1992
| ESSAY
Rarely has the portal, the moment of passage
from ordinary to revolutionary time, been so well captured in a single
image: At the wheel of the gray BMW sits the young dictator, well-dressed,
prosperous, slightly overweight, his face impassive, his shoulders thrown
back; he has spent all but five of his thirty-four years in the Palace,
fifteen of them as President-for-Life, having been inaugurated, at his
dying father's insistence, as a mountainously obese, glassy-eyed teenager.
Tags: Haiti
The New Yorker |
December 31, 1991
| NOTES AND COMMENT
With the publication of Oliver North's memoirs
and the start of the Colonel's nineteen-city tour to promote it, the Iran-Contra
affair completed a five-year journey from tragedy to farce and began
its inevitable transformation into "product."
Tags: Iran-Contra
The New Yorker |
October 21, 1991
| NOTES AND COMMENT
Two weeks ago, when Haitian soldiers deposed
their country's President, jean-Bertrand Aristide, the United States reacted
quickly and forcefully, cutting off foreign aid and freezing Haiti's assets
in this country.
Tags: Haiti
The New York Times |
August 11, 1991
| BOOK REVIEW
Driving south in Haiti
one day in the spring of 1986, I passed a great 18-wheeled tractor-trailer
speeding north, heard a volley of automatic weapons fire, and, craning my
neck to look back, witnessed an absurd and amazing tableau...
Tags: Haiti
The New Yorker |
July 29, 1991
| NOTES AND COMMENT
Though the Cold War no longer
casts its shadow over us, our government has shown little eagerness to
surrender the powers it claimed under cover of that shadow.
Tags: CIA | Foreign Affairs
The New Yorker |
June 17, 1991
| NOTES AND COMMENT
Like an untreated infection within the political
system, the Iran-Contra affair continues to grow, spreading corruption
not only into the future but, oddly, back into the past as well.
Tags: Iran-Contra
The New Yorker |
June 03, 1991
| NOTES AND COMMENT
Three months after United States Marines
liberated Kuwait City, the victors of Operation Desert Storm are still
being honored across the country.
Tags: middle east | Iraq
The New Yorker |
January 21, 1991
| NOTES AND COMMENT
In November, a year after the Berlin Wall
was breached, American troops and airmen by the thousand began leaving
the German bases they had occupied for four decades and heading for the
Persian Gulf.
Tags: Foreign Affairs | Cold War
The New Yorker |
December 10, 1990
| NOTES AND COMMENT
For almost four months, the United States
has been sleepwalking toward war. Though there are the trappings of a
debate -- hearings in Congress, argument and speculation on the editorial
pages, discussion on the public-affairs programs -- thus far they have seemed
insubstantial when set against the reality of President Bush's military
buildup
Tags: middle east | Iraq
The New Yorker |
November 19, 1990
| NOTES AND COMMENT
A year after the Berlin Wall was breached
and the "post Cold War era" proclaimed, Americans face the prospect
of a "hot war" fought against an enemy that a few months ago
they didn't know they had.
Tags: Foreign Affairs | Cold War
The New Yorker |
October 01, 1990
| NOTES AND COMMENT
Though the rhetoric surrounding the Middle
East crisis has softened somewhat since the threats of mid-August, the
United States and Iraq remain caught in what President Mitterrand has
called the "logic of war."
Tags: Foreign Affairs
The New Yorker |
September 24, 1990
| NOTES AND COMMENT
The last great public scandals of the decade
are remarkable, above all, for their inconclusiveness, their strange resistance
to closure.
Tags: Iran-Contra
The New Yorker |
September 10, 1990
| NOTES AND COMMENT
Americans tend to examine distant regimes,
and the commitments our government has made to them, only during times
of crisis.
Tags: middle east | Iraq
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