The New Yorker |
December 11, 1989
| A REPORTER AT LARGE
On February 7,1986, the day the dictator
Jean-Claude Duvalier and his wife, Michèle Bennett, flew off to exile
in France, a crowd of jubilant Haitians invaded the National Cemetery,
a vast expanse of concrete crammed with bright-colored tombs — ivory
and turquoise and rose -- bearing the names of Haiti's great families.
Tags: Haiti
The New Yorker |
December 04, 1989
| A REPORTER AT LARGE
A few weeks after the fall of Jean-Claude
Duvalier, in February, 1986, the statue of Christopher Columbus presiding
over the harbor of Port-au-Prince was seized and thrown into the sea by
persons unknown, who left fastened on the empty pedestal a sheet of paper
with a simple scrawled message: " Pa de blans en Hayti!"
Tags: Haiti
The New Yorker |
November 27, 1989
| A REPORTER AT LARGE
Mornings in Port au-Prince, just before dawn,
as the last, scattered gunshots faded in the distance and the outlines
of the city began to take shape in the dirty air—tiny houses, painted
aqua and salmon; the huge and ghostly National Palace, gleaming white;
gray and rust-colored slums, canopied in smoke—my colleagues and I
would go off in search of bodies.
Tags: Haiti
The New York Times |
January 08, 1989
| BOOK REVIEW
Having ferreted out the ''sophisticated
rebels'' of Europe from Cardiff to Cracow, H. Stuart Hughes found
himself rather nonplussed when asked to suggest their counterparts in
the United States.
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The New York Times |
July 17, 1988
| BOOK REVIEW
History, it's said, is written
by the winners; but perhaps it's truer to say it belongs to the least
reticent. Dean Rusk, on becoming Secretary of State, vowed never to write
his memoirs.
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The New York Times |
October 25, 1987
| BOOK REVIEW
On West Germany's ''Day
of National Unity'' this summer, a dapper, white-haired, German-born American
stood in the Bundestag, facing the President, Prime Minister and other
high officials of the West German Government, and spoke about German history.
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The New York Times |
July 19, 1987
| BOOK REVIEW
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The New York Times Magazine |
June 24, 1987
| ESSAY
Three hours out of New
York, I start awake to find myself floating over a grotesque landscape -
the sickly, reddish-brown hills of Haiti, wave upon wave of blood-dark corrugations,
thickly marbled with white sand.
Tags: Haiti
The New York Times |
June 07, 1987
| BOOK REVIEW
"I
don't recognize myself as a satirist,'' said Vladimir Voinovich. ''No,
I'm just trying to depict reality.''
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The New York Times Magazine |
June 1987
| ESSAY
This is the first draft of Mark Danner's first feature article about Haiti, written in 1987 for The New York Times Magazine.
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The New York Times |
April 05, 1987
| ESSAY
It
is likely the question was first asked as soon as it could be - that the
hope of abolition followed shortly after the task of creation.
Tags: Foreign Affairs
The New York Times |
January 25, 1987
| BOOK REVIEW
Wolfgang Leonhard would
seem well qualified to deliver what he promises here -- a ''new policy
toward [the] USSR.''
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The New York Times |
May 09, 1986
| OP-ED ESSAY
In Haiti, as in many deeply troubled places, it was comforting to identify
the national demons with one man, and to assume that his destruction would
bring theirs.
Tags: Haiti
Harper's |
April 1986
| INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
An American's distrust of welfare should come as no surprise. Public
assistance threatens what is after all the central doctrine of
capitalism: that the incentive to work is born of the burning desire to
have, and then to have more.
Tags: american politics | welfare | Harper's Forums
Harper's |
February 1986
| INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
The public schools
of America long ago sank to a level of decrepitude guaranteeing them the
sort of dogged scrutiny by blue ribbon commissions reserved for a "crisis"
both intolerable and permanent.
Tags: american politics | schools | education | Harper's Forums
Harper's |
January 1986
| INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
The immortal power of gossip was already
well understood in ancient Greece - "lt too," said Hesiod, "is a kind
of divinity" - but it required the particular talents of the present
age to make money off it.
Tags: gossip | Media | Foreign Affairs
Harper's |
December 1985
| INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Last year Americans spent $30 billion on
illegal drugs, while their government spent $1.5 billion trying to shut
down their sources of supply.
Tags: Drugs | Foreign Affairs | Harper's Forums
Harper's |
October 1985
| INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
When a mysterious contagion known as
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome began to kill large numbers of
people a few years ago, various moral authorities took solace in the
observation that its victims, most of whom were homosexuals or drug
addicts, seemed well chosen for divine retribution.
Tags: Harper's Forums | AIDS
Harper's |
September 1985
| INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
In an age when the peccadilloes of all the traditional idols, from
presidents to Miss Americas, are gleefully exposed, athletes totter on
their pedestals as the last American heroes.
Tags: Harper's Forums | sports
Harper's |
August 1985
| INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
The book, never a staple American product,
seems destined to become a rare and precious object intended only for
the cognoscenti who still know how to read.
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