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September 1999 - Volume 31 Issue 8

Features

4 Tilting at Windmills
Marxist Medicine ... Bankrupt in Bushland ... Permanent Temps ... Two Sleepy Pilots ... Litigious Jurists...
by Charles Peters

8 What Lou Gerstner Could Teach Bill Clinton
Exploring the ethical swamp of travel writing.
by Robert Worth

16 What's Hot At APSA
The latest research on voting, popular opinion, and welfare reform.
by Abigail Krauser

18 The Stiff Man Has A Spine
Gore's record shows he's got what it takes to be president.
by Alexandra Starr

26 Shooting the Whistleblower
How Congress is sabotaging an effort to stop oil companies from cheating taxpayers.
by Eric Umansky

32 Bitter Pill
Rezulin may cause acute liver failure, but the FDA still won't take it off the market.
by David Willman

39 The Broken Wall
How newspapers are selling their credibility to advertisers.
by Blake Fleetwood

On Political Books

47 The First Lady of the New Deal
How Eleanor Roosevelt discovered herself through politics.
by Suzannah Lessard

52 political booknotes -- Reviews by Emily Yoffe, Joseph Nocera, Walter Pincus, Steve Lohr, and Charles Lewis.

Departments

2 Letters
14 Who's Who
31 Memo of the Month
49 Monthly Journalism Award
50 Tidbits & Outrages