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May 11, 1992

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DEFICIT

Lawrence Weschler

A REPORTER AT LARGE about Poland's economic problems. Writer visits a market at Warsaw's Stadium of the Tenth Anniversary. Describes the wide …

Weschler on deficits: not just the numbers but the absences they represent, the mounting debt that one generation passes to the next.

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Salman Rushdie on about his “very first literary influence,” the 1939 M-G-M film “The Wizard of Oz,” starring Judy Garland.

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