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September 1998- Volume 30 Issue 9

REINVENTION LITE -- Washington Monthly's Robert Worth takes a concentrated look at Vice President Al Gore's pet project of streamlining government beurocracy. Has Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) been yet another case of all wind and no sails?

From the IRS to FEMA to the VBA, and even within the NPR itself, the quest of making governmental agencies more efficient and user friendly has met with some seriously adverse results. Why has this much heralded project become the White Elephant of the Vice President's national agenda? If the NPR is any indication of Al Gore's readiness to become this country's next president, the vote is in: He still has a long way to go.

SORRY, WRONG NUMBER -- Has Al Gore's 5 year effort to reinvent government met with any positive results? The Monthly's Seth Grossman put's it all to the litmus test...He attempts a simple call to his government.

TOO WELL ENDOWED? -- In this era of rising education costs, how are the nation's top universities spending their money? The results may surprise you. TWM editor Michelle Cottle takes a good hard look at how our deflating academic dollars are being spent, and why more money does not neccesarily mean a better education.

TILTING AT WINDMILLS -- Charles Peters muses upon: Clever Polluters... Forgotten Films ... Stone Wall Fever... Movers and Shakedowners... Unmedicated Murders...

D.C.'s DEMAGOGUE-IN-CHIEF -- Michael Powell...How a Potentially great black leader betrayed his promise, his city, and his people.

PARTY'S OVER -- Michael J. Ybarra...A review of THE SOVIET WORLD OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM by Harvey Klebr, John Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson

SECRETS AND LIES -- John J. Fialka...A review of SECRECY: The American Experience by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

WHO'S WHO -- Your Monthly dose of inner beltway gossip, courtesy of Susan Threadgill

MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARDS -- The Washington Monthly salutes the best of the best in political journalism.