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Articles in April, 1998 issue of Nation, The

• Hate is a cash crop.(prison writing)
  by Chevigny, Bell Gale
• Willey and the hand jive.(Ed Bradley left numerous unanswered questions in his interview of Kathleen Willey during a '60 Minutes' program)(Beat the Devil)(Brief Article)(Column)
  by Cockburn, Alexander
• New minefields for N.G.O.s: after the war on landmines, these organizations started new campaigns.(nongovernmental organizations)
  by Roth, Kenneth
• Under the volcano: neoliberalism finds Nicaragua.
  by Baxter, Kevin
• Netanyahu's iron wall.(the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu allows annexation and colonization to continue in the occupied territories, despite the peace accord)(Minority Report)(Brief Article)(Column)
  by Hitchens, Christopher
• Dismissing Paula Jones.(the Paula Jones cases offered no evidence, yet it tied up both the court and political system, possibly because of its media exposure)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
  by Alterman, Eric
• Technorealism: get real! A manifesto from a new generation of cultural critics.(includes related technorealism principles)
  by Bennahum, David S.; Biggs, Brooke Shelby; Borsook, Paulina; Bowe, Marisa; Garfinkel, Simson; Johnson, Steven; Rushkoff, Douglas; Shapiro, Andrew L.; Shenk, David; Silberman, Steve; Stahlman, Mark; Syman, Stefanie
• Notes from Hamstead: The Writer's Notes, 1954-1971. (book reviews)
  by Brenkman, John
• Barely minimum.(Congress argues over President Clinton's proposed increase of the minimum wage, even though it would still leave some workers below the poverty level)(Brief Article)
  by Pollin, Robert
• The Biotech Century: human life as intellectual property.(includes related article on the acquisition of biotechnology firms by global conglomerates)(Cover Story)
  by Rifkin, Jeremy
• Getting the news.(poem)
  by Trillin, Calvin
• Into Africa.(President Clinton's trip to Africa was largely a public relations exercise that reflects the growing interest in that continent's markets and energy reserves)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• To sleep, perchance....(the ongoing investigations of Kenneth Starr and the increasingly lurid media coverage of sexual harassment charges against President Clinton are depressing and disregard due process as well as standards of decorum)(Diary of a Mad L
  by Williams, Patricia J.
• The myth of student apathy.
  by Dreier, Peter
• Dawson's Creek. (television program reviews)
  by Katz, Alyssa
• Birthday Letters. (book reviews)
  by Bedient, Calvin
• Primary obsessions.(the media coverage of the various allegations against President Clinton were typified by the '60 Minutes' television coverage of the story by Kathleen Willey)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• Martha Gellhorn, journalist.(Martha Gellhorn, who died in February 1998 at the age of 89, leaves the legacy of partisan and passionate journalism)(Obituary)
  by Linfield, Susie
• Tobacco's newest leaf.(an admirably tough tobacco control bill is approved by Senator John McCain and the Senate Commerce Committee)(Brief Article)
  by Pertschuk, Michael
• A dilly.(poem)
  by Trillin, Calvin
• Did someone say 'Hypocrites'?(there is disagreement among women as to the validity of the various sexual abuse charges against President Clinton, but one obvious women's issue remains the welfare reform law)(Subject to Debate)(Brief Article)(Column)
  by Pollitt, Katha
• The real dirt.(the media seems obsessed by possible White House sex scandals and ignores scandals such as a CIA link with drug dealers, and special interests groups spending $1.2 billion annually in Congressional lobbying efforts)(Brief Article)(Editorial
• Veggie libel, wilted press: how food-disparagement laws gag reporting on issues of public health and safety.
  by Silverstein, Ken
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (television program reviews)
  by Katz, Alyssa
• Primary Colors. (movie reviews)
  by Klawans, Stuart
• Why not tax reform?(the 1997 Taxpayer Relief Act resulted in tax relief primarily for those at the top of the income scale, leaving a pressing need for tax fairness)(Brief Article)
• Trafficking tobacco.(legislation being considered by Congress would extend control of tobacco industry marketing practices to foreign as well as domestic markets)(Brief Article)
  by Weissman, Robert
• Saddam's (non-C.I.A.) opposition.(Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, and many others, hope and work for and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein)( Minority Report)(Brief Article)(Column)
  by Hitchens, Christopher
• The Spanish Prisoner. (movie reviews)
  by Klawans, Stuart
• Old and on Their Own.
  by Hess, John L.
• Why tax work? A close look at the payroll tax turns conservative rhetoric on its head.
  by Halstead, Ted
• Underground railroad.(exhibition of memorabilia from the rescue of Jews from France during World War II, Jewish Museum, New York, New York)
  by Cook, Blanche Wiesen
• Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century. (book reviews)
  by Woods, Susanne
• Fernand Leger.(Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)
  by Danto, Arthur C.
• African trade-offs.(President Clinton will travel to Africa to promote trade, while Congress considers a bill that would promote trade with Africa but would offer no human rights, environmental, or worker protection)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• The indecent standard.(the Clinton Administration apparently will support the grant standards of National Endowment for the Arts, which contain a 'decency' clause, in a Supreme Court case)(Brief Article)
  by Garbus, Martin
• Solidarity without pay in Russia.
  by Bacon, David
• English lesson in California: in the face of a ballot challenge, support for bilingual education is wavering.
  by Rodriguez, Gregory
• After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany. (book reviews)
  by Zuccotti, Susan
• Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America. (book reviews)
  by Reinhardt, Mark
• The Ceiling of America: An Inside Look at the U.S. Prison Industry. (book reviews)
  by Parenti, Chrisian
• Labor days of outrage.(the addition of some 400,000 union members in 1997 has led to determined anti-labor efforts in California and in Congress)(Brief Article)
  by Cooper, Marc
• Generation wired: caffeine is the new drug of choice for kids.(Cover Story)
  by Cordes, Helen
• Bad history.(worst history book)(Cover Story)
• The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis. (book reviews)
  by Zuccotti, Susan
• Dreamer. (book reviews)
  by Seymour, Gene
• Supping with the French devil: the temptation to accept the National Front as a partner has split the right.
  by Singer, Daniel
• Random violence.(the attempted acquisition of Random House Inc. by Bertelsmann AG has been blocked by a Department of Justice lawsuit)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
  by Alterman, Eric
• The post-Monica era.(The public may lose its appetite for scandal if the Paula Jones case remains dismissed and the Monica Lewinsky scandal fades, and attention may be directed toward other issues such as nuclear arms control and the survival of humanity.
  by Schell, Jonathan
• The secrets of ABFICUS.(code name for a Swiss bank account reportedly involved in an alleged International Business Machines Corp. bribe of Banco Nacion in Argentina)(Beat the Devil)(Brief Article)(Column)
• Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. (book reviews)
  by Mitgang, Herbert
• The Hitler of History. (book reviews)
  by Zuccotti, Susan
• Beyond the Bay of Pigs: the military no longer considers Cuba a threat. Isn't it time we acted accordingly?
  by Kornbluh, Peter
• Honey, I shrunk the classroom.(efforts to change New York, New York, colleges by increasing tuitions, doing away with open admissions, and imposing time limits for degrees)(Diary of a Mad Law Professor)(Brief Article)(Column)
  by Williams, Patricia J.
• Off with their heads!(Russian president Boris Yeltsin has disbanded the government, in an apparent effort to place the blame for failures elsewhere)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• Banking's big bang.(the proposed merger between Citicorp and the Travelers Group not only would be the largest merger ever, but it also would be illegal under present law)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
  by Henwood, Doug
• Bella Abzug, 1920-1998.(attorney, Congresswoman, and women's rights activist)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
• The politics of devotion.
  by Kazin, Michael
• Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story. (book reviews)
  by Shapiro, Bruce
• Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews. (book reviews)
  by Zuccotti, Susan
• Free speech & campaign myth: how was campaign-finance reform killed? By twisting what the high court said.
  by Miller, Ellen S.; Rosenkranz, E. Joshua
• Silence kills blacks.(African Americans accounted for 52.1% of new cases of HIV infection in 1997, but African American leaders have been slow in responding to the crisis)(Brief Article)
  by Ireland, Doug
• Taste of Cherry. (movie reviews)
  by Klawans, Stuart
• Freak. (theater reviews)
  by Stone, Laurie
• Truth on El Salvador.(former El Salvadoran soldiers admit that a 1980 killing of American churchwomen was carried out under orders from their superiors)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
• The prosecution and persecution of Ron Carey.(International Brotherhood of Teamsters president)(Cover Story)
  by Corn, David
• Unrepentant Leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir. (book reviews)
  by Shapiro, Bruce
• Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess. (book reviews)
  by Gornick, Vivian
• Madchen in uniform.(the New York, New York, Board of Education votes 7-0 to initiate a citywide policy of elementary students wearing uniforms)(Subject to Debate)(Brief Article)(Column)
  by Pollitt, Katha
• Sex and the Times.(the New York Times and other media often present patronizing editorials for sex-in-the workplace issues, while what is needed is that women be treated as working adults)
  by Faludi, Susan
• Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America. (book reviews)
  by Beilke, Dustin