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Articles in Feb, 1987 issue of Washington Monthly

• What did Noah do with the manure? And other burning questions of creation science
  by Jack Hitt
• Power of attorney. - book reviews
  by Paul Barrett
• Warning: the Surgeon General may be good for your health - C. Everett Koop reports on AIDS
  by Paul Glastris
• Tales from the top; inside the White House with eight former presidential aides - excerpts from Samuel Kernell's book, Chief of Staff: 25 Years of Managing the Presidency
  by Samuel Kernell
• The U.S. Senate: paralysis or a search for consensus? - book reviews
  by Timothy Noah
• The Burger years: rights and wrongs in the Supreme Court, 1969-1986. - book reviews
  by Dan Farber
• Showdown at Gucci Gulch. - book reviews
  by Paul Glastris
• The hospital without patients; a triumph of her majesty's civil service
  by Antony Jay
• Federalism: the founders' design. - book reviews
  by Dan Farber
• Man of the house: the life and political memoirs of speaker Tip O'Neill. - book reviews
  by Norman J. Ornstein
• The story that still nags at me - Edward S. Muskie
  by David Broder
• The door SDI won't shut - the history of defensive weapons shows why Star Wars won't save us
  by Charles Hammer
• The reckoning. - book reviews
  by James Fallows
• Fast forward: Hollywood, the Japanese, and the onslaught of the VCR. - book reviews
  by Timothy Noah
• National geographic: behind America's lens on the world. - book reviews
  by Tony Simonelli
• How the government cooks the books; the budget deficit is bigger than you think
  by Phillip Longman
• Steering the elephant: how Washington works. - book reviews
  by Peter Mooney
• The third generation: young conservative leaders look to the future. - book reviews
  by Malcolm Gladwell
• Catastrophic insurance for all - health insurance for poor
  by Janet Hook
• Futures shock - includes related article about stock index futures market
  by Steven Waldman
• Secrecy and power: the life of J. Edgar Hoover. - book reviews
  by Taylor Branch
• The turtles of Mona Island - A Regina's accident and salvage problems
  by Russell Wild
• Work, health, and income among the elderly. - book reviews
  by Matthew Cooper
• The NRA is right; but we still need to ban handguns - National Rifle Association
  by Josh Sugarmann
• Submarine warfare today and tomorrow. - book reviews
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• George Marshall: statesman, 1945-1959. - book reviews
  by Evan Thomas
• Green thumbs: the PiK and Roll and other scams from the farm belt; the ingenious ways farmers milk government subsidy programs
  by Jeffrey L. Pasley
• Democracy is in the streets: from Port Huron to the siege of Chicago. - book reviews
  by Nicholas Lemann
• The stock analysts; the Wall Streeters who tell you when and what to buy and sell
  by John Rothchild
• First ladies. - book reviews
  by Suzanne Fields
• Tommy the Cork; the secret world of Washington's first modern lobbyist - Thomas G. Corcoran
  by Allan J. Lichtman
• Would you believe … Iranian moderates? - when will the CIA get smart?
  by Marci McDonald
• Challenger: a major malfunction. - book reviews
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• Mission to Tehran. - book reviews
  by L. Bruce Laingen
• Whip me, beat me and while you're at it cancel my N.O.W. membership - feminists war against each other over pornography
  by Kathleen Currie
• The world and Richard Nixon. - book reviews
  by Michael A. Fernandez
• The personal vote: constituency service and electoral independence. - book reviews
  by David R. Mayhew
• Hot chain nixes wingo, buscapades - nabs Pulitzers, big bucks; Knight-Ridder show that newspaper chains can be profitable - and good
  by Matthew Cooper
• George Shultz, wimp
  by Robert Goolrick
• Exile within: the schooling of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945. - book reviews
  by Jonathan Zimmerman
• Ben Cohen: one who took a different path
  by John Eisendrath
• The personnel problem - Central Intelligence Agency employee corruption
  by Charles Peters
• Prescription for disaster. - book reviews
  by Gregg Easterbrook
• The sinking of a supercarrier - excerpt from Shinano!
  by James Ryan
• Making public policy: a hopeful view of American government. - book reviews
  by Norman J. Ornstein
• The Kissinger covenant and other reasons Israel is in trouble - Henry Kissinger, excerpt from Sands of Sorrow: Israel's Journey From Independence
  by Milton Viorst
• G.I.-the American soldier in World War II. - book reviews
  by Paul L Savage
• Real rape. - book reviews
  by Paul M. Barrett
• AFL-CIO is Spanish for union busting; how the U.S. and big labor fight communism by opposing popular unions and setting up unpopular ones
  by Frank Smyth
• Moonie journalism; at the Washington Times, it's better than you might think
  by Tom McNichol
• The freest enterprise - unbeholden to Wall Street, privately held companies can behave more responsibly
  by Paul Glastris
• Tales of new America
  by Thomas J. Peters
• Alchemists of revolution: terrorism in the modern world. - book reviews
  by David Ignatius
• Elliott Abrams: the teflon assistant secretary
  by Eric Alterman
• From the people who brought you the twinkie defense; the rise of the expert witness industry
  by Blake Fleetwood
• Mortal splendor, the American empire in transition. - book reviews
  by Michael D. Mosettig
• Beyond national borders: reflections on Japan and the world. - book reviews
  by David Graulich
• Charming her way to the White House; air travel stinks, auto safety is a joke - and Washington still loves Liddy Dole - Elizabeth Dole
  by Philip Weiss
• Wharton by the sea; the federal government spends millions to train shipping executives at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
  by Susan Feinberg
• Hold on, Mr. President! - book reviews
  by Jody Powell
• Let's put America back to work. - book reviews
  by Mickey Kaus
• Impact: how the press affects federal policy making. - book reviews
  by Jonathan Alter
• The dark secret of the black budget - Pentagon's defense budget
  by Tim Weiner
• Eyes on the lies; how black leaders and cigarette companies have turned indoor smoking into a civil rights issue - includes related article on cigarette promotion
  by Susan Milligan
• Rayburn: a biography. - book reviews
  by Timothy Noah
• How the homeless bought a Rolls for Cornelius Pitts - getting rich by housing the needy
  by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
• Keeper of the rules: Howard W. Smith of Virginia. - book reviews
  by Timothy Noah
• Empire. - book reviews
  by Steven Waldman
• Chalk one up for the permanent government; the bureaucracy took on Reagan and big oil - and won - Exxon Corp
  by Rich Jaroslovsky
• Escape of the guilty: a trial judge speaks out against crime. - book reviews
  by Tom Bethell
• Reagan's America: innocents at home. - book reviews
  by Nicholas Lemann
• Battered justice - includes relate article on wife-beating and the rights of men
  by Joan Meier
• Harry Hopkins, ally of the poor and defender of democracy. - book reviews
  by John Kenneth Galbraith
• The case against the Air Force - weapons procurement
  by Robert Coram
• The closing of the American mind. - book reviews
  by Jacob Weisberg
• The powers that shouldn't be; five Washington insiders the next Democratic president shouldn't hire
  by Paul Glastris
• Beware of Republicans bearing voting rights suits - how the GOP is using the Voting Rights Act to carve out Republican election districts
  by Matthew Cooper
• Thunder in America: the improbable campaign of Jesse Jackson. - book reviews
  by Taylor Branch
• One bugle, no drums: the marines at Chosin Reservoir. - book reviews
  by James R. Dickenson
• You think the NSC is screwed up? Take a look at Washington's worst run program - National Security Council; government royalties collection
  by John Eisendrath

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