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Jan/Feb 1999- Volume 31 Issues 1&2

Features

4 Tilting at Windmills -- Consensual Monitoring . . .Impecunious Victors . . . A Teacher Who Taught . . . Detroit's Nazis . . . The FBI's Psychic.
by Charles Peters

8 Jesse's Victory -- It was no fluke.
by Steven Schier

15 Exhaustion That Kills -- Why residents are still overworked, and what we can do about it.
by Robert Worth

22 Just the Facts -- A special Monthly Symposium on objectivity and the obligations of journalists to their readers, featuring:

Jonathan Alter, Gregg Easterbrook, James Fallows, David Ignatius, Michael Kinsley, Suzannah Lessard, Art Levine, Matthew Miller, Timothy Noah, Joseph Nocera, Walter Shapiro, and Scott Shuger.

On Political Books

37 The Outcast -- Norman Podhoretz never forgave the New York intellectuals for rejecting him.
by Nicholas Lemann

40 The Truth That Heals -- How does a nation recover from crimes against humanity?
by Alexandra Starr

42 Dusty Death -- The mining industry still refuses to face the reality of black lung.
by Robert Weissman

46 political booknotes -- Reviews by Mark Wiedman, Wayne Biddle, and Suzannah Lessard.

Departments

2 Letters
11 Monthly Journalism Award
12 Who's Who
52 Tidbits & Outrages