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March 15, 1999 Issue
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Editorial
Flying the Iraqi Skies
Having hit Saddam Hussein where it hurts--in the Republican Guard barracks, military intelligence headquarters and other strategic components of his regime's power base--d...
And Now–Social Security
Social Security's future is the first, and gargantuan, legislative issue of the post-Monica era.
Column
Ocalan, the Kurds and History
The best day's work that Lenin ever did was to publish the secret treaties that the Bolsheviks found in the archives of the czarist regime.
Tilting at Rumor Mills
Now that the Constitution has been rescued and sexual McCarthyism discredited, perhaps the most durable legacy of the Lewinsky mess is the central location of the right-wing...
Letters
Feature
Books & the Arts
Remember the Alamo, Part II
On the fourth of August last year in San Antonio, the Alamo rumbled.
Spice Grrrl
On a trip to Russia in 1995 I was told by the young writers I met there that when a certain famed Soviet novelist returned to his native land, he was an offensive anachronism to...
Oscar Who?
Although the producers of the Academy Awards ceremony like to boast that a billion people watch their broadcast, I take comfort in knowing that another 5 billion do not.
Albright’s State Deportment
Flirtatious and ferocious at the same time, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stamps the world stage over Kosovo, threatening fire from heaven if Serbian strongman Slobod...
