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Articles in July-August, 1990 issue of Washington Monthly

• The 100 grand illusion; the problem with the banks and thrifts that they still haven't fixed
  by Matthew Miller
• Poor Richard's Legacy. - book reviews
  by John Schwartz
• Congressional Chronicles. - book reviews
  by Ross K. Baker
• No ifs, ands, or butts, Canada showed how to beat the tobacco lobby. American antismoking groups, take note
  by Morton Mintz
• Advice and dissent; what LBJ could have learned from Ike - Lyndon B. Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower
  by Bob Schieffer
• Feeding the Beast: How Wedtech Became the Most Corrupt Little Company in America. - book reviews
  by Michael M. Thomas
• Running Mates: the Image and Reality of the First Lady Role. - book reviews
  by Maureen Dowd
• Clean up or pay up; here's the solution to the college sports mess
  by Louis Barbash
• Perestroika for America. - book reviews
  by Lester C. Thurow
• Working for the Japanese: Inside Mazda's American Auto Plant. - book reviews
  by David Graulich
• Mars Beckons: The Mysteries, the Challenges and the Expectations of Our Next Great Adventure in Space. - book reviews
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• Seeing Through Movies. - book reviews
  by Michael Cornfield
• Controlling the Sword: the Democratic Governance of National Security. - book reviews
  by Paul C. Warnke
• Power failure; rural electric and telephone programs show that good government programs never die - they just get more expensive
  by James Bennet
• Out to launch; sending men to Mars may sound like fun, but it doesn't make much sense
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• The Wars of Watergate. - book reviews
  by Carl Stern
• War, Peace, and Victory: Strategy and Statecraft for the Next Century. - book reviews
  by Adam Yarmolinsky