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Articles in Oct, 1999 issue of Washington Monthly

• Memo of the Month - a government agency prepares for the gender change undertaken by one of its employees - Brief Article
• Tidbits & Outrages - humorous news items include a man shooting his personal computer, and three women smearing their bodies with mustard and hijacking a UPS truck - Brief Article
• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - representing the tobacco industry in Washington, D.C
  by Amanda Ripley
• BIOHAZARD. - Review - book reviews
  by Serge Schmemann
• SHADOW. - Review - book reviews
  by Art Levine
• THE BRIDGE OVER THE RACIAL DIVIDE: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics. - Review - book reviews
  by David J. Garrow
• Letters
• The Final Days of the Third Reich - parody
  by Art Levine
• UNCOMMON GROUNDS: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed our World. - Review - book reviews
  by Heather Bourbeau
• Tilting at Windmills - health care in the United States, and other topics
  by Charles Peters
• REPUBLIC OF DENIAL: Press, Politics and Public Life. - Review - book reviews
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• THE RACE: The Uncensored Story of How America Beat Russia to the Moon. - Review - book reviews
  by Charles Petit
• You've Got a Long Way to Go, Baby - women's magazines
  by Alexandra Starr
• RICH MEDIA, POOR DEMOCRACY: Communications Politics in Dubious Times. - Review - book reviews
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• 1960s AD - Decade
  by Joseph A. Califano
• ASSUMING THE RISK: The Mavericks, the Lawyers, and the Whistle-Blowers Who Beat Big Tobacco. - Review - book reviews
  by Michael Massing
• 2000 Ad
  by Susan Threadgill
• SOLOMON'S SWORD: Two Families and the Children the State Took Away. - Review - book reviews
  by Dale Russakoff
• The Washington Monthly Journalism Award - awards to William Fulton, Paul Shigley, David Plotz, Peter S. Goodman, and Jason De Parle - Brief Article
• No Way To Pick A President. - Review - book reviews
  by Paul Taylor
• Deadly Surprise - possible chemical disasters
  by Karen Charman
• A NECESSARY EVIL: A History of American Distrust of Government. - Review - book reviews
  by Nicholas Lemann