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Articles in Jan-Feb 2003 issue of Washington Monthly

• Remote controlled
  by Ben Fritz
• Blue light special - Tidbits & Outrages - Brief Article
• Off target: the biggest challenge to the NRA may not come from trial lawyers, but from demographics - Book Review
  by Stephen Pomper
• War party? - Letters
  by Donald W. Zimmer
• Deep in the heart of darkness: under George W. Bush, the worse of two Texas traditions is shaping America
  by Michael Lind
• Chewing over trade policy - Tidbits & Outrages - Brief Article
• Long good buy - A Consumers' Republic The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America - Book Review
  by Nicholas Lemann
• Low grade - Letters
  by Alan B. Morrison
• Reagan's liberal legacy: what the new literature on the Gipper won't tell you
  by Joshua Green
• Saddam spammed - Tidbits & Outrages - Brief Article
• Appointment with destiny - The Politics of Presidential Appointment: A Memoir of the Culture War - Book Review
  by Todd Gitlin
• Cell mates - Letters - Letter to the Editor
  by Rick Weiss
• Cyber-agitator Matt Drudge set off a minor media frenzy when he reported, incorrectly, that presidential aspirant Sen. John Kerry regularly paid Christophe salon stylist Isabelle Goetz $150 to cut his hair - D-Mass - Who's Who - Brief Article
  by Susan Threadgill
• Fashion sweatshop - Tidbits & Outrages - Brief Article
• At home abroad - Book Review
  by Jacob Heilbrunn
• No good deed - Letters
  by Julian Friedland
• CNN "Inside Politics" host Judy Woodruff, whose reporting was among the snippiest , spends $80 on her golden locks at the Four Seasons Spa Salon on Pennsylvania Ave - "Kerry is already in denial mode" - Who's Who - Brief Article
  by Susan Threadgill
• Political poker - Tidbits & Outrages - Brief Article
• Grave concerns - Book Review
  by Shannon Brownlee
• Correction
• Most male reporters, it turns out, take a more frugal approach to hair care - Who's Who
  by Susan Threadgill
• Hot flash, cold cash: how a once-respected women's group went through the change—with the help of drug industry money
  by Alicia Mundy
• Hire education - The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites and the Ocean Hill-Brownville Crisis - Book Review
  by Richard D. Kahlenberg
• Tilting at windmills: Rummy's doomed reform Saddam the sissy Woodward the protector Broadway's bad review the Jameson's of toxic waste
  by Charles Peters
• Kerry is only one of the well-known salons famous customers—Goetz styles Hillary Clinton's stately mane for $150 - Who's Who
  by Susan Threadgill
• The Washington monthly's Monthly Journalism Award
• World wide wash - Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule - Book Review
  by Nicholas Thompson
• Vice grip: Dick Cheney is a man of principles. Disastrous principles
  by Joshua Micah Marshall
• As for the Texas tresses of President George W. Bush, he pays $30 a cut to Washington stylist Zahira Zahir, who also trimmed the locks of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan - Who's Who - Brief Article
  by Susan Threadgill
• All things considerate: how NPR makes Tavis Smiley sound like Linda Wertheimer
  by Brian Montopoli
• Empire state building - Book Review
  by Anatol Lieven
• License to kill: how the GOP helped John Allen Muhammad get a sniper rifle
  by Brent Kendall
• Few reporters have noted what is perhaps the most lasting legacy of Sen. Strom Thurmond , now retired: the unusually large number of family members, former aides, and even neighbors he's managed to appoint to federal judicial offices during the past two d
  by Susan Threadgill
• Tax and fend: Bush's assault on tax fairness is part of an old Republican tradition—but not the only one - Book Review
  by Robert S. McIntyre
• Geek tragedy - Starving to Death On $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of The Industry Standard - Book Review
  by Jamie Malanowski
• Hollywood and whine: why are democrats helping the entertainment industry stamp out new technologies that fuel economic growth?
  by Brendan I. Koerner
• Between being investigated for fraud by U.S. attorneys in New York, and being sued by shareholders seeking millions in lost investment dollars, it's been a bad couple of months for U.S. Technologies CEO Gregory Earls - Who's Who
  by Susan Threadgill
• Mensch at work: the dilemma of Joe Lieberman - An Amazing Adventure: Joe and Hadassah's Personal Notes on the 2000 Campaign - Book Review
  by Noam Scheiber