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THE
WRONG ANSWER TO LITTLETON
Megan Twohey
Over the past several years, the national media have
sensationalized a series of unusual juvenile crime cases,
feeding them to a public hungry for post-O.J. Simpson crime
dramas. These high-profile cases have led politicians to
push for more and younger juveniles to face trial and
punishment as adults. Whatever its value to prosecutors and
politicians,research suggests that this move will lead to
more crime, not less.
THE
SCANDAL OF SPECIAL ED
Robert Worth
Plagued by inequalities, overwhelmed by bureaucracy and
manipulated by parents with wealth or power, special
education has strayed considerably from its orignal goal: to
provide specially designed education for handicapped kids in
the least restrictive environment. Monthly editor
Robert Worth examines how this nobly-intentioned program has
become both a waste of money and a impediment to education.
TILTING
AT WINDMILLS
Charles Peters muses on: A Possible President...
Celebrity Journalism... Credit Card Companies Crow... The
Toilet Paper War... The Case of the Missing Plutonium...
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HISTORY
vs LOYALTY
James Fallows
The theme of the book is not much more or less than
his revealing whatever his privileged position allowed him
to see, writes reviewer James Fallows, who wrote his own
White House memoir two decades ago. Stephanopoulos’ lack of
discretion and poor sense of timing releasing the book while
Clinton is still in office undermine a book that would
otherwise have lasting historical value. A review of All Too
Human by George Stephanopoulos.
MADAM
SECRETARY
Michael Hirsh
Michael Dobbs’ book chronicles Madeleine Albright’s journey
from refugee to Secretary of State. Reviewer Michael Hirsh
writes that Albright's past has shaped American foreign
policy, particularly in Kosovo: The disastrous disconnect
occurred when Clinton tried to conduct a timid, post-Vietnam
war to enforce his secretary of state’s World War
II-engendered hard-line diplomacy. A review of Madeleine
Albright: A 20th Century Odyssey by Michael Dobbs.
UNDERSTANDING
GLOBALIZATION
Paul Krugman
The latest book to express the conventional wisdom of the
hour, Thomas Friedman's The Lexus & The Olive Tree tells
the story of the new global economy, and of a United States
triumphant because it is the nation best suited to
capitalize on that global economy. The book is chock full of
personal anecdotes, but, according to Krugman, noticably
devoid of new insight.
WHO'S
WHO?
The Monthly's own Susan Threadgill lays the the
lowdown on the movers, the shakers, and just plain bad
dancers in the Washington political world.
MONTHLY
JOURNALISM AWARDS
The Washington Monthly salutes the best of the best.
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