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April 2003 Issue - 22 ArticlesDepartments
- Letters, pp. 2-3
Features
- Tilting at Windmills
Charles Peters
, pp. 4-7 Zip from Zacarias... Incurious Inspectors... 911 Unplugged District Dysfunction Wall St...
- Memo to Dick Gephardt
Steve Waldman
, pp. 8-9 Re: Becoming more Jewish.
- Homeland Security is for Girls
Garance Franke-Ruta
, pp. 10-12 When it comes to worrying about terrorism, men are from Mars and women are from Venus.
- Bragging Writes
Brent Kendall
, pp. 13-15 How presidential candidates try to impress reporters with their reading lists.
- The Health of Nations
Phillip J. Longman
, pp. 16-23 Instead of forcing seniors into HMOs, how about forcing them to exercise?
- Plane Threat
Soyoung Ho
, pp. 24-26 Terrorists have never shot down an American passenger jet with surface-to-air missiles....
Departments
- Who's Who?, p. 27
Cover Story
- Practice to Deceive, pp. 28-34
Features
- Castro's Casting Couch
Damien Cave
, pp. 35-38 In Hollywood's love affair with Fidel, who's using whom?
On Political Books
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Rebels With Applause (Review) Matthew Cooper
, pp. 39-40 How stand-up political comedy stopped being subversive.
- Seriously Funny by Gerald Nachman
Departments
- Monthly Journalism Award, p. 41
On Political Books
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Falls of Justice (Review) Charles Lane
, pp. 42-45 What happens when a biographer attacks his subject--and gets his facts wrong?
- Wild Bill by Bruce Allen Murphy
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Red Scare (Review) Bruce Clark
, pp. 46-49 Fifty years after his death, Stalin's crimes are still morally shocking--and politicall...
- Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
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Post-Ghetto Fabulous (Review) Debra J. Dickerson
, pp. 50-51 Coming to grips with black women's success.
- Having It All? by Veronica Chambers
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Remission of Gin (Review) Justin Peters
, pp. 52-53 What 18th-century London can teach us about fighting vice.
- Gin by Patrick Dillon
Departments
- Tidbits & Outrages, p. 54
Political Booknotes
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Pink Pander (Review) Jamie Malanowski
, p. 55 Useful Idiots, by Mona Charen
- Useful Idiots by Mona Charen
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Revolutionary War (Review) Phillip Carter
, pp. 56-57 The New Face of War, by Bruce D. Berkowitz
- The New Face of War by Bruce D. Berkowitz
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Rising Sons (Review) Wen Stephenson
, p. 58 Sons of Mississippi, by Paul Hendrickson
- Sons of Mississippi by Paul Hendrickson
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Rank Prejudice (Review) Robert Knisely
, pp. 59-62 Somebodies and Nobodies, by Robert W. Fuller
- Somebodies and Nobodies by Robert W. Fuller
- Cover Art
Peter Kuper