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November 1998- Volume 30 Issue 11

Rundown of Print Version

Features

4 Tilting at Windmills
Clinton's Candor. . . Surplus Scientists. . . Libertarian Lunacy. . . Push Polling. . . Star's disingenuous "explicitly."...

by Charles Peters

8 Lipstick Feminists
Sexual power is a pistol loaded with only one bullet.

by Elizabeth Austin

12 At Home Abroad
Why it's time to reform the Foreign service.

by Alexandra Starr

17 Neglected Evidence
Why doesn't anyone pay attention to educational research.

by Richard Whitmire

22 The Other Side of Henry Hyde - Cover Story
Will he do to Clinton what he did to Peter Galbraith.

by Robert Worth

29 Reinventing Retirement
Fixing Social Security is just the beginning.

by Eric B Schnurer

 

On Political Books

36 Why Parents Still Matter
Children learn a lot from their peers - but not everything.

by Marjorie Williams

39 It Takes a Nation
Is the income gap a symptom or cause of our social ills?

by Michael Lind

42 The Symbolic Justice
Thurgood Marshall was a great litigator, but not a great litigator.

by David J. Garrow

45 Style, not Substance
Affirmative Action is not as liberal as you think.

by Richard Kahlenberg

49 Political Booknotes
Reviews by Jeffrey D. Simon, Joshua Hammer, and Gideon Rose.

Departments

2 Letters

26 Who's Who

20 Monthly Journalism Award

28 Memo of the Month

14 Tidbits & Outrages


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