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June 1999 - Volume 31 Issue 6

Features

4 Tilting at Windmills
A Possible President... Celebrity Journalism... Credit Card Companies Crow... The Toilet Paper War... The Case of the Missing Plutonium...
by Charles Peters

10 Rough Trade
How currency traders profited from the Asian meltdown.
by Nick Thompson

16 The Wrong Answer to Littleton
A few teen criminals belong in prison, but most do not.
by Megan Twohey

20 Inside the Globe
A tabloid reporter who taped his bosses tells all.
by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

25 The Man Behind Ventura
Electing an improbable candidate without money or mudslinging.
by Alexandra Starr

30 Big Brother
How HMO's stole our right to medical privacy.
by Kip Sullivan

34 The Scandal of Special Ed
It wastes money and hurts the poor.
by Robert Worth

On Political Books

39 History vs. Loyalty
Stephanopoulos' important but untimely memoir. .
by James Fallows

42 Chicago Conscience
Mike Royko was the voice of the common man for half a century.
by Jack C. Doppelt

44 Madam Secretary
How Madeleine Albright's past shapes American foreign policy.
by Michael Hirsh

46 The Peacemaker
How George Mitchell helped the Irish put "the troubles" behind them.
by Michael Hirsh

45 political booknotes -- Reviews by Paul Krugman, Gregg Easterbrook, Matthew Cooper, Robert Weissman, Charles William Maynes, and Harry C. McPherson, Jr.

Departments

2 Letters
14 Who's Who
24 Monthly Journalism Award
29 Memo of the Month
56 Tidbits & Outrages