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May 12, 1997 Issue - 18 Articles- Correspondence, pp. 4-5
Murkowski and Moseley-Braun v. Grann and Niedowski on the dirty Hill, Nellie Fong v. St...
- TRB: What, Me Worry?
Michael Kelly
, p. 6 Ken Starr says he has evidence of obstruction of justice and Jim McDougal is singing li...
- Human Wrongs
The Editors
, p. 7 The White House builds a moral argument for sanctions against Myanmar, then tears it ap...
- Ralph Reed crusades for Mammon, Tommy Hilfiger gets snared in the Net, etc.
Notebook
, p. 8 - Mauritania Dispatch: Virtual Slavery
David Hecht
, p. 9 In the southwest corner of the Sahara Desert, slavery lives. Or does it?
- Falklands Postcard: Cry for Me
Joshua Hammer
, pp. 10-11 Argentina dreams of re-conquest, while the Falklanders build the New Kuwait
- Jerusalem Dispatch: The Outsiders
Gershom Gorenberg
, pp. 12-13 Netanyahu tries to save himself by exploiting the bitterness of the religious fringe
- Hollywood Shufflers
Romesh Ratnesar
, pp. 14-16 Right-wing senators and left-wing movie moguls are making their own boy-meets-girl movie
- Raising Caen
William Powers
, pp. 17-24 The glory days of the old media, when newspapers evoked the sense of the community in w...
- The Hard Questions: Homegrown
Nathan Glazer
, p. 25 Why charter schools can save public education
Books and the Arts
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On Films: Disneyland and Elsewhere (3 Reviews) Stanley Kauffmann
, p. 26 Grosse Pointe Blank (1997 Film), by George Armitage
- Grosse Pointe Blank (1997 Film) by George Armitage
- Ulysses' Gaze (1995 Film) by Theodoros Angelopoulos
- Pereira Declares (1996 Film) by Roberto Faenza
- On Theater: The Descent of Man
Robert Brustein
, pp. 27-29 The Wooster Group's The Hairy Ape revivifies Eugene O'Neill
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He is Finished (Review) James Wood
, pp. 30-34 The Gospel According to the Son, by Norman Mailer
- The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer
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Keeping Us In Hysterics (Review) Frederick Crews
, pp. 35-41 Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture, by Elaine Showalter
- Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture by Elaine Showalter
- Success
Beth Gylys
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A Brief Shining Moment (Review) Christine Stansell
, pp. 43-49 Gender and Jim Crow, by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
- Gender and Jim Crow by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
- Washington Diarist: Housebound
Margaret Talbot
, pp. 50-52 - Cover
Eric Baker
