November 30, 1998 Issue, THE NEW REPUBLIC

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- Correspondence, pp. 4-5
  Human intelligence, human rights, etc.
- TRB: Cosmic Clunker
  Gregg Easterbrook
  , p. 6
  John Glenn's flight was inspirational. NASA's next endeavor isn't
- Getting Serious
  The Editors
  , p. 7
  The United States is threatening Iraq once again
- Notebook, p. 8
  A farewell to Pat, etc.
- Historical Error
  John B. Judis
  , pp. 8-11
  Newt Gingrich misread America's political past. Now he's history
- On the Hill: Misconceptions
  Garance Franke-Ruta
  , pp. 12-13
  The latest pro-life crusade is a movement to relabel contraception as a form of abortion
- Hemings Hawing
  Sean Wilentz
  , pp. 14-15
  Conservative pundits harrumph at DNA rests proviing Thomas Jefferson and his slave mist...
- Uniform Complaint
  Martha Raddatz
  , pp. 16-17
  The president's lies about adultery might have landed an ordinary military man in the b...
- San Francisco Postcard: Smoked Out
  Nurith C. Aizenman
  , pp. 18-19
  The feds crack down on California's once-florishing medical marijuana clubs
- Shameless
  Jeffrey Rosen
  , pp. 20-23
  Done properly, congressional censure of Bill Clinton could be perfectly constitutional....
- The Permanent Insurrection
  David Grann
  , pp. 24-26
  Speaker Livingston, welcome to the ungovernment House of Representatives
- Time Bomb
  Robert A. Manning
  , pp. 27-31
  The Clinton administration has trumpheted its deal to freeze North Korea's nuclear-weap...
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  On Films: Irish Interiors (Review)
  Stanley Kauffmann
  , pp. 32-33
  Dancing at Lughnasa (1998 Film), by Pat O'Connor
  1. Dancing at Lughnasa (1998 Film) by Pat O'Connor
- On Theater: McNally on the Cross
  Robert Brustein
  , pp. 34-35
  Corpus Christi is a self-important take on the greatest story ever told
- On Dance: Swan Dive
  Mindy Aloff
  , pp. 36-40
  Matthew Bourne's new production is unfair to Swan Lake---and to swans
- On Art: Pollock Fever
  Jed Perl
  , pp. 41-43
  Fifty years later, what do we see in Jackson Pollock?
- Now After Many Years
  Yehuda Amichai
  , pp. 44-45
- And In Those Days
  Yehuda Amichai
  , pp. 46-47
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  The Seeing I (Review)
  James Wood
  , pp. 48-51
  Blindness, by Jose Saramago
  1. Blindness by Jose Saramago
- Jerusalem Is A Merry-Go-Round
  Yehuda Amichai
  , pp. 52-53
- Balaam Balaam
  Yehuda Amichai
  , pp. 54-55
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  The Virtuoso (Review)
  Adam Kirsch
  , pp. 56-61
  Hay, by Paul Muldoon
  1. Hay by Paul Muldoon
- Cambridge Diarist: Siege Mentality
  Martin Peretz
  , pp. 62-64
- Cover
  Jonathan Houston