Washington Monthly

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Articles in June 2002 issue of Washington Monthly

• Nobody special - Letter to the Editor
• The tow-away tax break: why car donation programs benefit everyone but the charities they're intended to help
  by Tyler Cabot
• Fabulous fabulist. . - Political Booknotes - book review
  by Joshua Green
• Nuts to Torrey - Letter to the Editor
• What were they smoking? How the anti-tobacco movement blew the opportunity of a lifetime. - 'Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars' - book review
  by John Schwartz
• The hate debate. . - Political Booknotes - book review
  by Peter Savodnik
• Tilting at windmills - cell phones and other irritants
  by Charles Peters
• The Washington monthly's Monthly Journalism Award - to 'Broken Homes,' a New York Times article by Clifford J. Levy - Brief Article
• Spinning history. . - Political Booknotes - book review
  by Michael Waldman
• Pope hopefuls: everyone assumes that John Paul II's successor will be a conservative. Don't bet on it
  by John L. Jr. Allen
• Cramer vs. Cramer: critics say Wall Street's favorite talking head is obnoxious, abusive, and crooked. Jim Cramer takes issue with "crooked.". - 'Confessions of a Street Addict' and 'Trading with the Enemy: Seduction and Betrayal on Jim Cramer's Wall Str
  by Jamie Malanowski
• Who's who - politics
  by Susan Threadgill
• Low roads lead to Rome: the most exalted of all Roman politicians was a master of dirty politics. - 'Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician' - book review
  by Jeff Greenfield
• In a snob-free zone: is there a place where one is outside all snobbish concerns—neither wanting to get in anywhere, nor needing to keep anyone else out?
  by Joseph Epstein
• Embarrassment of riches. - 'Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich' - book review
  by Bruce Reed
• Quack science - Letter to the Editor
  by Wallace Sampson
• Bomb Saddam? How the obsession of a few neocon hawks became the central goal of U.S. foreign policy - Saddam Hussein
  by Joshua Micah Marshall
• Collect and serve. . - Political Booknotes - book review
  by George Glastris
• Good guys in the saddle - Letter to the Editor
  by Maxwell Edison
• The trouble with Frida Kahlo: uncomfortable truths about this season's hottest female artist
  by Stephanie Mencimer
• Betting on Boris. . - Political Booknotes - book review
  by Bruce Clark
• Poll positions - Letter to the Editor
• Zone defense: drug-free school zones were supposed to keep dealers away from kids. But what happens when the zones engulf whole cities?
  by John Gould
• Iron women. . - Political Booknotes - book review
  by Stephanie Mencimer
• Horny clerics - Letter to the Editor
  by James M. Shields
• Tidbits & outrages - politics - Brief Article
• Generally wrong. . - Political Booknotes - book review
  by Jacob Heilbrunn