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Articles in May, 1997 issue of Washington Monthly

• Government can work: the Santa Monica story - federal government sponsored post-Northridge quake Santa Monica Freeway Project: includes a related article on the timely action of the FDA on tobacco ads targeting teens
  by Michelle Cottle
• The Coming Conflict with China. - book reviews
  by Charles William Maynes
• Saving Medicare: a cure that will work
• Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government. - book reviews
  by Alasdair Roberts
• HMO ripoff - health maintenance organizations
  by Elizabeth Austin
• Translating History. - book reviews
  by Martin Walker
• The truth about fraud - medicare and medicaid controls
  by Chris Farnsworth
• My Years with Gorbachev. - book reviews
  by Martin Walker
• Stop the madness: outlaw those phony campaign commercials - includes a related comment on soft-money donations
  by Curtis Gans
• Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy. - book reviews
  by Suzannah Lessard
• Stop dissing the Washington Times! It's not just 'that Moonie paper' anymore - Sun Myung Moon's newspaper is not influenced by the Universal Church very much today - Cover Story
  by Nurith C. Aizenman
• Mirage: Why Neither Democrats nor Republicans can Balance the Budget, End the Deficit and Satisfy the Public. - book reviews
  by Lewis Wolfson
• Stately living: how to lose money in real estate Uncle Sam's way - foreign property
  by Amanda Ripley
• Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets. - book reviews
  by David Reich
• The Heat is on: The High-Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate. - book reviews
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• Defense Addiction: Can America Kick the Habit? - book reviews
  by Lawrence J. Korb
• Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa. - book reviews
  by Kenneth Noble
• The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of David K.E. Bruce. - book reviews
  by Kai Bird