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Articles in July-August 2003 issue of Washington Monthly

• Science friction: the growing—and dangerous—divide between scientists and the GOP - Republican Party, George W. Bush and scientific policy
  by Nicholas Thompson
• Lady in waiting: what Hillary really reveals in her new memoir - Book Review: Living History - Book Review
  by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
• Relations between Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army Chief of Staff, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld were never that friendly—and got worse last spring, when Shinseki testified before Congress that occupying Iraq would require "several hundred tho
  by Susan Threadgill
• Counterintelligent: how the GOP keeps the FBI stupid - need for reform at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cases of espionage, implications for the Republican Party
  by Joshua Micah Marshall
• Remembrance of things passed: how my friend Stephen Glass got away with it - Book Review: THE FABULIST: A Novel - Book Review
  by Jonathan Chait
• George W. Bush's reelection campaign set up its headquarters and opened for business in mid-June - Who's Who - Brief Article
  by Susan Threadgill
• Coffee snobs unite! How Americans' bad taste in coffee is putting Juan Valdez out of business
  by Joshua Kurlantzick
• Pooh-poohing the grand poohba: progressive social change ended when liberals gave up on the Moose Lodge - Book Review: DIMINISHED DEMOCRACY: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life - Book Review
  by Gordon Silverstein
• New memoirs by former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and former presidential aide Sidney Blumenthal have revived our memory of the "vast right-wing conspiracy." - Who's Who - Brief Article
  by Susan Threadgill
• Home sick: the addictive allure of Home and Garden Television
  by Joshua Green
• Maid to order: the Third World women who leave their children to take care of ours - Book Review: GLOBAL WOMAN: Nannies, Maids; and Sex workers in the New Economy - Book Review
  by Jonathan Rowe
• MoveOn.org, the progressive grassroots organization founded by screen-saver magnates Wes Boyd and Joan Blades, is planning to launch a virtual Democratic presidential primary - Who's Who
  by Susan Threadgill
• Student body transplant - Letters - Letter to the Editor
  by Herbert Greenhut
• Sweet home Alabama - Tidbits & Outrages - advertising campaign to promote tourism - Brief Article
• Profit of doom: how violent video games drove the new economy - Book Review: MASTERS OF DOOM: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture - Book Review
  by Justin Peters
• The Recording Industry Association of America has long been among K Street's liberal strongholds - Who's Who - Brief Article
  by Susan Threadgill
• Threat management - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Bush-o-nomics behind bars - Tidbits & Outrages - prisoner' pay cut by the Colorado Department of Corrections - Brief Article
• The Washington Monthly's Monthly Journalism Award - to OLIVER PRICHARD AND APARNA SURENDRAN on "Tainted Meat," in The Philadelphia inquirer
• The road to revival - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• He also determined the earth is round - Tidbits & Outrages - Brief Article
• Flights of fancy - Book Review: AIR FORCE ONE: A History of Presidents and Their Planes - Book Review
  by Jamie Malanowski
• Feeding frenzy - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Pulling strings - Tidbits & Outrages - puppet show which mocked Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez at a reception by ambassador Charles Shapiro - Brief Article
• The cool Zionist - Book Review: SUPPORT ANY FRIEND: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance - Book Review
  by Jacob Heilbrunn
• Tilting at Windmills - Editorial
  by Charles Peters
• Street beat - Tidbits & Outrages - Police department in Kissimmee, Fla - Brief Article
• Intrigue of nations - Book Review: THE ILLUSION OF VICTORY: Americans in World War I - Book Review
  by Matthew Dallek
• The green-eyed monster: envy is nothing to be jealous of
  by Joseph Epstein
• Welcome to the machine: how the GOP disciplined K Street and made Bush supreme - Cover Story
  by Nicholas Confessore
• The widow Orwell - Book Review: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell - Book Review
  by Kukula Glastris