Anne Roiphe

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At Heart, I'm A Provincial New Yorker

by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 20th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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My friend, myreader. Slippery streets. Gray skies, mufflers pulled tight, boots stained by  read more »

Has Everything Really Changed?

by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 6th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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The world has changed since Sept. 11-or so thecommentators keep telling us.  read more »

The Menorah Minority

by Anne Roiphe
Dec. 16th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Hanukkah was once a minor holiday, a playful reminder of miracles that cast a warming light against  read more »

Bloomie, The Way I Want Him

by Anne Roiphe
Dec. 2nd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Tis the gift to be simple." As a lifetime New Yorker, that's one I have no use for.  read more »

Rebuilding New York, Bush's Way

by Anne Roiphe
Nov. 18th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Faxed to me-perhaps by mistake-was a plan by the Bush administration to rebuild New York after the t  read more »

A Nice, Normal Murder For a Change

by Anne Roiphe
Nov. 4th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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I greedily read with a lump in my throat (not to mention a certain frisson of fascination) about the  read more »

Let's Not Give Peace A Chance-Yet

by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 21st, 2001, 8:00 pm
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The right wing in this country would die for their guns, while some of the rest of us do just that.  read more »

America's Bravest Seek Courage In the Mundane

by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 7th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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The days of man are as grassHe flourishes as a flower in the field  read more »

Cry for Vengeance Gets Us Unholy War

by Anne Roiphe
Sep. 23rd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Osama bin Laden (or some other Osama bin Laden) has piercedthe borders, entered our city and proved  read more »

French Women Are Sexier? Quelle Merde !

by Anne Roiphe
Sep. 9th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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I'm at a dinner party in Sag Harbor.The puckish, balding man with an electric grin-slightly wild, sl  read more »

Waging War on Drugs-The Wrong Ones

by Anne Roiphe
Aug. 19th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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It isn't at all clear to me why Officer Joseph Gray, who wasdrinking in a topless bar for hours befo  read more »

Sexy at Last: Why Bill & Gary Chose Those Girls

by Anne Roiphe
Aug. 5th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Once upon a time, on my first trip to France, when I wasliving in a dormitory for American girls and  read more »

Poland Offers a Sorry Apology 60 Years Late

by Anne Roiphe
Jul. 22nd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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What a strange and uncomfortable business it is, thissix-decades-late apology by the president of Po  read more »

'Living With AIDS' Is Not as Simple as It Sounds

by Anne Roiphe
Jul. 1st, 2001, 8:00 pm
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As most of the reading world knows by now, I have a daughterwho is living with AIDS.  read more »

The Hamlet of the Himalayas: A Holy Mess

by Anne Roiphe
Jun. 17th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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It happens in the best of families: Someone gets mad and,before you know it, heads are blown off and  read more »

Summer Forecast: A Human Tragedy Heading West

by Anne Roiphe
Jun. 3rd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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We now know what to name the thing in the closet that goes bump all night long, disturbing our sleep  read more »

Summer Forecast:A Human TragedyHeading West

by Anne Roiphe
Jun. 3rd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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We now know what to name thething in the closet that goes bump all night long, disturbing our sleep.  read more »

This Mansion Ain't Big Enough for Three of Us

by Anne Roiphe
May. 20th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Can Judith Nathan, First Girlfriend, hang around the Mayor's mansion with his family, or is she de t  read more »

Out of the Know and Suffering From Adulthood

by Anne Roiphe
May. 6th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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No one ever thought ofGerard Manley Hopkins as being a with-it kind of guy.  read more »

Isn't It Tragic? A Greek Lesson for Middle East

by Anne Roiphe
Apr. 22nd, 2001, 8:00 pm
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I saw a performance of Troilus and Cressida the other evening, a Shakespeare play I had never seen b  read more »

I Want More Than Just the Facts, Ma'am

by Anne Roiphe
Apr. 8th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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People complain that journalists are getting too personal.What right do they have to poke around in  read more »

Britney Spears Is Good for the Jews

by Anne Roiphe
Mar. 25th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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The other night I was on a panel at the 92nd Street Y,biting my tongue as fellow panelist Dennis Pra  read more »

Please Excuse My Dear Bill's Pardons

by Anne Roiphe
Mar. 11th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Who among us has not used connections to receive anadvantage, to win a job, admission to a school, a  read more »

Rejection: A Very Private (School) Matter

by Anne Roiphe
Feb. 25th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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This is the week that parents, fingers fluttering, open the acceptance and rejection letters from nu  read more »

Be Bold, or Be Bowled Over

by Anne Roiphe
Feb. 11th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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What should the Democrats do in the next four years?  read more »

The Bitter Taste of Vengeance

by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 21st, 2001, 8:00 pm
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Maurice Papon, the French bureaucrat supreme whose signatureis on transportation orders that sent 1,  read more »

The New Yorker 's Psychiatric Evaluation

by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 14th, 2001, 8:00 pm
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In the Jan. 8 issue of TheNew Yorker, Daphne Merkin describes her multiple stays on the psychiatric  read more »

A Bitter Awakening From Dreams of Peace

by Anne Roiphe
Nov. 12th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Disappointed, yes; surprised, no. Grieving, yes; angry, yes. Defeated, no.  read more »

No Rest for the Brooding

by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 29th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Some nights, a person can't sleep.  read more »

Watch Out, Conservatives, Here I Come

by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 15th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Here's the fellow I'd like to meet in a dark alley-me all armed to the teeth and him woozy from drin  read more »

Poetic Justice for My New Lawyer

by Anne Roiphe
Jun. 25th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Uneasily I write this column: In the fear-heavy shtetls , where superstition was as common as the co  read more »

Don't Step on the Toes of Peace

by Anne Roiphe
Jun. 11th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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When you have been dancing with the same partner for many years, you can anticipate his moves, your  read more »

At the iPost , Vicky Ward's Coattails are Off-Limits

by Anne Roiphe
May. 21st, 2000, 8:00 pm
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There are jellyfish in my strip of the ocean. They are small as daisies and clear white.  read more »

Copenhagen Echoes With Roaring Silence

by Anne Roiphe
May. 14th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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No doubt the play Copenhagen , by Michael Frayn, is brilliant. The subject is fascinating.  read more »

Feeling Tired? Blue? Cranky? Just Sue!

by Anne Roiphe
Apr. 30th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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I'm thinking of suing a few people.First my orthodontist or perhaps, by now, his heirs.  read more »

To Voucher or Not, I Cannot Say

by Anne Roiphe
Apr. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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I've always been opinionated. Opinions are my bread and butter after all.  read more »

John Paul Begs Your Pardon, Masterfully

by Anne Roiphe
Apr. 2nd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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"Say you're sorry," we tell a child who has pinched another or swiped a favorite toy.  read more »

To Age Alone Gracefully, or Die Mercifully?

by Anne Roiphe
Mar. 19th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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On my block at 101st Street on the Upper West Side there is a low iron fence, a series of uneven ups  read more »

Go, McCain! Win, You Big Galumph!

by Anne Roiphe
Mar. 5th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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I thought I was so sophisticated that I would never fall for a candidate just because his image on t  read more »

Hacking Away Just For … the Hell of It?

by Anne Roiphe
Feb. 20th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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It's a little hard for this preflood lady to understand the kick.  read more »

Little Elián's Still Not Safe From the Sharks

by Anne Roiphe
Feb. 6th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Some winter days are so bleak I feel as if I am the groundhog's shadow willing itself to be visible.  read more »

In Rigid Rules, No Heart and No Justice

by Anne Roiphe
Jan. 23rd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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It seems as if some self-righteous, law-and-order legal eagle without a heart in Delaware is actuall  read more »

Yoo-hoo, Millennium, We're Here!

by Anne Roiphe
Dec. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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I had wanted a bonfire on the Amagansett beach for the millennium.  read more »

Crazy Laws Keep Crazies on the Loose

by Anne Roiphe
Dec. 5th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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You, too, could be pushed under the subway train if your number is up, or bashed into unconsciousnes  read more »

Mr. Safire's Nixon Problem

by Anne Roiphe
Oct. 24th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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William Safire of The New York Times , like a very small, yappy dog, has been biting, snapping, tear  read more »
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