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Postscript

August P. J. Kavanagh I n order to escape too many reflections on Tamils and Sinhalese killing each other in Paris, as well as in Sri Lanka, and Arme- nians blowing up French......

High Life

Under a cloud Taki Athens A fter three of the happiest weeks of mY . life I'm back in Melina Mercoun country, or, as A.J. Liebling wrote of Loui - siana, among a people whose......

Low Life

Cuts Jeffrey Bernard T here's something about Islam that stinks. To sentence a man to 600 strokes of the cane for attempting to smug- gle a trifling 4,000 bottles of whisky to......