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Vol. 026 Issue 006 (June 1 1993)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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• April was a truly cruel month for our. boyish president. When the month began his political acumen was marveled upon by all the wizards and oracles of the Washington press corps. He was...
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Correspondence
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Peewee Marquette Victor Gold erroneously refers to "Shorty, Birdland's midget m.c." ("Cool Diz and Me," TAS, March 1993). The Jazz Corner of the World's dyspeptic host, Peewee Marquette, upon...
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Editorials / Public Radio's Anti-Semites / La Boheme
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Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
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Ghetto uprising against the Nazis, A s we contemplate the fiftieth anniversary of the Warsaw and the 400,000 Polish Jews who over a two-and-a-half-year period were shipped from Warsaw to hideous...
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Capitol Ideas/Rethinking HIV
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Bethell, Tom
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nowledge is never more askew K than when it has been silently politicized. This is true of a good deal of government-funded science, which can serve political interests in ways that the public,...
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Clinton's Echo Chamber
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Wattenberg, Daniel
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A lready under heavy attack from its erstwhile allies in the Republican Party for abandoning bedrock free-market principles, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently flaunted its budding romance...
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America's Oldest (and Newest) Christians
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Norden, Edward
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Brooklyn t was standing room / only at St. George's on a bitterly raw Palm Sunday back in April. But this Coptic church is also packed on less important Sundays. There are worshippers and faithful...
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Universal City
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Caldwell, Christopher
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1 t's hard to conduct a mayoral election while you're waiting for a riot, but that's what Los Angeles residents did in the days leading up to the April 20 primary. Those who expected rioting in the...
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Eminentoes/ Clinton' s Expats
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Reid, Stuart
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London There is nothing the English like more than to beat the Americans at their own game, especially now that we can't beat anyone at our own game, cricket. You (and I) may not be greatly excited...
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American Document/ The Topic of Cancer
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Ames, Sierra Magazine vs. Bruce
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B ruce N. Ames, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, is a world-famous authority on cancer and carcinogens. In the fall of 1991, he was asked by...
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Ben Stein's Diary / Studious City
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Stein, Benjamin J.
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Sunday in Braino-Land 1 t's Brunch Time at the Cosmos Club at the Corner of Florida Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. This club is in a huge, ancient mansion that once belonged to...
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The Nation's Pulse / Infernal Machines
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Conlon, Edward
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L ike most New Yorkers, James J. Falihee watched the reports of the explosion at the World Trade Center with mixed feelings of pity, anxiety, and dismay, but when Channel 2 News announced that it...
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Politics / The Twelve Commandments
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Norquist, Grover G.
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H aley Barbour, the recently elected Republican National Committee chairman, would like to add a twelfth commandment to Moses' ten and Ronald Reagan's eleventh ("Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow...
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The Moscow Spectator / A Land of Individualists
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Bernstein, Jonas
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stood in front of the Intourist Hotel near Red Square, waiting for Olga. She was down from St. Petersburg for the day to pick up her visa for Britain, which she visits once a year. With her hard...
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Presswatch / In Contempt
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Eastland, Terry
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/ n reporting the story of Justice Byron White's decision to retire, the press again indulged its penchant for simpleminded coverage of the Supreme Court. The Los Angeles Times advised that White's...
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The Gay American Saloon Series / Club El Malaria
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Forman, Ian
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/ was watching the six o'clock news last night when the president came on. He said he was going to issue an order lifting the ban on homosexuals in the military. Then a lot of generals came on...
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The Talkies / Innocents and Broads
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Bowman, James
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W hen he was, for a week or so in March, the owner of the New York Post, Abraham Hirschfeld was represented by his enemies (i.e., the entire staff of the Post) as unfit to own a newspaper partly on...
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C. Northcote Parkinson: An Appreciation
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Train, John
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F ew management philosophers have combined so much wit and wisdom, and none was as charming, as Professor C. Northcote Parkinson, who died last March. His friends called him Cyril. He was...
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The Dream and the Nightmare
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Magnet, Myron
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M yron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare is an impassioned and useful encapsulation of what has gone wrong in American urban society over the past thirty years. This slender volume traces the...
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For the Sake of Argument
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Hitchens, Christopher
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W hat to make of someone who describes Mother Teresa as the "Ghoul of Calcutta"? This woman "calling herself 'Mother' Teresa," writes Christopher Hitchens in one of his Nation columns collected...
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Shylock
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Gross, John
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L ike Oedipus, Shylock is a character who has leaped out of the play that gave him birth to symbolize a disorder in the human heart. So it amounts to much more than an academic survey when John...
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Hunting the Devil / The Killer Department
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Lourie, Richard; Cullen, Robert
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T he wisdom of your parents no longer obtains: Crime pays. Commit a crime, survive a crime, observe a crime with your handycamand the riches of the kingdom shall be yours. There are lurid books to...
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Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin
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Ligachev, Yegor
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M ost Americans recall Yegor Ligachev as the sinister leader of the anti-reform camp during the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev. He was usually depicted as the High Priest of conservatism and party...
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Current Wisdom
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Jackasses, Assorted
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Body Mind & Spirit After psychic copulation with Miss Jean Loomis, a contemporary. of ours here on the planet Earth, "Seth," a ghost from God knows where or when, finally gets his marvelous message...
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Letter From Paris / The Silent Bang
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Oppenheimer, Franz M.
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L ate on the Tuesday afternoon when the returns of the first round of France's legislative elections were known, I came downstairs to the bar of our little hotel in the French Alps for a pre-dinner...
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