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Articles in Feb, 1986 issue of Washington Monthly

• An American hero - Dr. David Boyd and emergency health care - Life and Death in the Emergency Room, part 2
  by Paul Glastris
• Regulations that work - ten rules that have made our lives better
  by Joan Claybrook
• Covering the winnetka schools in August - journalism school memories
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• Origins: a skeptic's guide to the creation of life on earth. - book reviews
  by Timothy Appenzeller
• For immediate release: four ways to sell your senator
  by Steven Waldman
• The agency: the rise and decline of the CIA. - book reviews
  by David Wise
• Have you driven a Ford Lately? Thanks to Donald Peterson you may want to
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• The Type E woman. - book reviews
  by Suzanne Fields
• Down the toilet; where did Venezuela's loan money go?
  by Tyler Bridges
• The real Coke, the real story. - book reviews
  by Joseph Nocera
• Enterprise and double cross; at the heart of America's industrial decline is a culture of mistrust
  by Robert Reich
• Reel power: the struggle for influence and success in the New Hollywood. - book reviews
  by Timothy Noah
• The stupidity of "intelligence." - the real story behind that Soviet combat brigade in Cuba
  by Stansfield Turner
• Executions aren't news - why they should be
  by Jason DeParle
• Why Anne Burford got the lead out
  by Robert A. Leone
• "Pssst, wanna read some hot narrative?" - journalism-school memories
  by Art Levine
• Live from Capitol Hill it's…picking committees in the blow-dried age
  by Stephen Hess
• The complete guide to public employment. - book reviews
  by Ronald L. Krannich
• The Hiroshima hustle; yet another way to fleece campaign contributors - misuse of nuclear freeze campaign contributions
  by Steven Waldman
• The search for government efficiency; from hubris to helplessness. - book reviews
  by Leonard Reed
• Latin America on $10 billion a day - foreign loans
  by Charles Lane
• Fidel Castro: a critical portrait. - book reviews
  by Georgia Anne Geyer
• Nice PAC you've got here … a pity if anything should happen to it - political action committee
  by Amy Dockser
• Scenes from an invasion - how the U.S. military stumbled to victory in Grenada
  by Richard Gabriel
• Who's afraid of the F.E.C.? - Federal Election Commission
  by Colleen O'Connor
• Conflicts and contradictions. - book reviews
  by Trudy Rubin
• If we must have j-schools… - journalism school memories
  by Steven Waldman
• Cutting costs, not care; Rochester hospitals try cooperation instead of competition
  by Erik Gunn
• NORML's bad trip; in this case, pot led to harder drugs - National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
  by Amy Cunningham
• Thinking back: the perils of writing history. - book reviews
  by Alan Brinkley
• The best governor in America - and you've never heard of him - Richard W Riley
  by Jack Hitt
• The bad barrel - insider trading in securities
  by Ken Auletta
• The United States of America vs. sex. - book reviews
  by Linda Catling
• Faith, hope, and chicanery; want to do some good? Ask your favorite charity where it spends its money
  by Gary Marx
• 1985 Ad
  by Nicholas Lemann
• The man who would be speaker - Jim Wright
  by Steven Waldman
• Home front. - book reviews
  by Sam Donaldson
• But I'd really rather you didn't go at all - journalism school memories
  by Charles Peters
• Did Carter fail on human rights? - Jimmy Carter
  by Tamar Jacoby
• Watching the watchdogs; are they barking up the wrong tree? - frauds in the Interior Department's inspector general investigations
  by John Eisendrath
• Double indignity; you can't see your medical records - but everyone else can
  by Esther Schrader
• The Rogers Commission failed; questions it never asked, answers it didn't listen to - Challenger accident
  by Richard Cook
• The King of Quotes; why the press is addicted to Norman Ornstein
  by Steven Waldman
• Why the ERA failed: politics, women's rights, and the amending process of the constitution. - book reviews
  by Kathleen Currie
• Sack Weinberger, bankrupt General Dynamics, and other procurement reforms - Caspar Weinberger, Packard Commission investigation
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• Heavy losses; the dangerous decline of American defense. - book reviews
  by Barton Gellman
• Selling out with a smirk - lessons from David Letterman, Susan Sontag and David Byrne
  by William G. McGowan
• Chicago divided: the making of a black mayor. - book reviews
  by Matthew Cooper
• Brothers in arms: a journey from war to peace. - book reviews
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• Marketing in an electronic age. - book reviews
  by Thomas J. Peters
• A dream deferred; a black mayor betrays the faith - Philadelphia mayor - W. Wilson Goode
  by Chuck Stone
• Trade war. - book reviews
  by Thomas J. Peters
• How the courts protect contractors whose weapons kill G.I.s; Bell Helicopter's lawyers are indemnifying the defense industry
  by Mark Thompson
• The rise of the counter-establishment; from conservative ideology to political power. - book reviews
  by Jonathan Rowe
• Bureaucratic responsibility. - book reviews
  by Leonard Reed
• The case for the $435 hammer - investigation of Pentagon's procurement
  by James Fairhall
• Politics. - book reviews
  by Jeffrey Toobin
• Tunnels to nowhere - how New York's subway system dug itself into a billion-dollar hole
  by Harrison Rainie
• The mortgaged generation: why the young can't afford a house
  by Phillip Longman
• The handmaid's tale. - book reviews
  by Amy E. Schwartz
• Better Red than Steinbrenner; why fans should own their teams - George Steinbrenner
  by Jonathan Rowe
• Innovation: the attacker's advantage. - book reviews
  by Thomas J. Peters
• People's Army of Vietnam. - book reviews
  by William Broyles, Jr.
• Goode: bad and indifferent - W. Wilson Goode
  by Chuck Stone
• Dark victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA and the Mob. - book reviews
  by Sam Donaldson
• We need you: national service, an idea whose time has come
  by Timothy Noah
• A machine that would go of itself, the constitution in American culture. - book reviews
  by Lloyd N. Cutler
• Sometimes a shining moment: the foxfire experience. - book reviews
  by Susan Ohanian
• Nuts, bolts, & death - U.S. Department of Defense spending policy
  by Harry Summers
• Some American men. - book reviews
  by Amy E. Schwartz
• Greed and glory on Wall Street: the fall of the house of Lehman. - book reviews
  by Joseph Nocera
• Hammers and nails in Mt. Winans
  by Kitry Krause
• The wrong way to court ethnics
  by Thomas Massey
• Paradise lost: the Vietnamese gulag
  by Jeff Stein
• Jesse Jackson and the politics of race. - book reviews
  by Jacob Weisberg
• Americans can build good cars; they're doing it in Marysville, Ohio
  by Kitry Krause
• The media elite. - book reviews
  by Jonathan Alter
• The longest shot; measuring Al Gore Jr. for the White House - Albert Gore Jr
  by John Eisendrath
• Hookers, jaguars, and lots of stupid loans - Third World's bank loans
  by Charles Lane
• Village journey: the report of the Alaska Native Review Commission. - book reviews
  by Kitry Krause

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