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Articles in May, 1991 issue of Washington Monthly

• Class inaction; how 3,000 overpaid administrators stymie D.C. school reform
  by Michael Willrich
• The Truth About Chernobyl. - book reviews
  by William Booth
• Pretty worthless; whatever happened to making movies that make a difference?
  by Beth Austin
• The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office. - book reviews
  by Timothy Noah
• Club Med; how the medical fraternity keeps the government from exposing the skeletons in doctors' closets
  by David Greenberg
• Slumlord; Pat Moynihan has done some great things - but betraying the poverty warriors isn't one of them
  by Nicholas Lemann
• Unequal Protection: Women, Children, and the Elderly in Court. - book reviews
  by Lois Schiffer
• With friends like these, who needs loan officers? With a little greed and a lot of logrolling, D.C. powerbrokers like Brent Scowcroft and Thomas Boggs destroyed the National Bank of Washington
  by Lynda Edwards
• The toughest row to hoe; Nicholas Lemann takes us to the ghettos like no one else has. Now, how the hell do we get out? - 'The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America'
  by Matthew Cooper
• Virus Hunting: AIDS, Cancer, and the Human Retrovirus: A Story of Scientific Discovery. - book reviews
  by Gina Kolata
• Lord of the gadflies; the Nation is pushy and obnoxious. That's why it's so great - periodical
  by Eric Alterman
• Charles Darwin: A New Life. - book reviews
  by Tom Bethell