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December 1998- Volume 30 Issue 12

Features

4 Tilting at Windmills -- A King's Compliment . . . Hinckley's Holiday . . . Tripp's Step . . . Ground Truth . . . The Case of the Vigilant Taxpayer...
by Charles Peters

8 What Doctor's Don't Know -- HMO's aren't the only thing wrong with American Medicine.
by Michael L. Millenson.

13 The Clinton-Lewinsky Obsession -- How the press made a scandal of itself.
by Todd Gitlin

20 Making Criminals Pay -- How the courts can cut crime and save money.
by Robert Worth

30 The Speaker -- What you need to know about Bob Livingston.
by Alexandra Starr

On Political Books

36 Beyond Satire -- Tom Wolfe shows he can write with depth and sympathy.
by Matthew Cooper

40 Death of a Peacemaker -- Yitzhak Rabin's murder revealed a lethal rift in Israeli society.
by Joshua A. Brook

49 political booknotes -- Reviews by Gregg Easterbrook, David Ayer, Peter Overby, and Brett D. Fromson.

Departments

2 Letters
26 Who's Who
25 Monthly Journalism Award
29 Memo of the Month
44 Tidbits & Outrages