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September  1992  Issue
 
 
 
The Welfare Challenge

 
WELFARE: RETHINKING THE CONTRACT
Introduction
Editor
The Presidential Politics of Welfare Reform
Neil Patel
Theories of the Welfare Contract
Michael D. Weiss
The Key to Success Is the Neighborhood
An Interview With Robert L. Woodson
Alms Without End?: A History of Welfare in America
Hugh Heclo
We Must Strengthen the Family
An Interview With Michigan Gov. John Engler and His Aides
Breaking the Chains of Dependency
Noel R. Card

 

ANALYSIS
One Canada--Or Two?
James W. Ceaser
The Many Troubles of Northern Ireland
Kathleen O''neill
Curitiba: A Model City
Kris Herbst

COMMENTARY
Why Our Children Are at Risk
Wade F. Horn
The Abortion War: Pro-Life Majority Keeps Issue Alive
Nancy Myers
The Abortion War: Zealots Fail to Stop Clinics
Kim Gandy
Walsh's Vendetta: Criminalizing Political Disputes
Bruce Fein

ELECTION '92
Bush: Can He Come from Behind Again?
Ralph Z. Hallow
Clinton: The Wizard of Arkansas
Gerald M. Pomper
Perot's Bay of Pigs
Gary Bullert

 

 
FOOD
Mediterranean Olives
Kay Shaw Nelson

GARDENS
Biblical Gardens
Varda Avinisan

PASTIMES
The Royal Game
Gregory McNamee

PROFILE
The Roman Villa in America
Marcia Forsberg

TRAVEL
Aboard a Turkish Ketch
Russell Warren Howe

YOUTH
Telling the Truth About Aids
Robert Stewart

 

 
BOOKS FROM ABROAD
The Price of Piety
Ji Moon Suh

FEATURED BOOK: Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses
Introduction
Editor

Horses and Men
Bruce Allen

Borders of Destiny
Tom Pilkington

REVIEWS
The Consumer-Friendly State
Mark Blitz
REINVENTING GOVERNMENT
David Obsorne and Ted Gaebler
SHADOW GOVERNMENT
Donald Axelrod

An East-West Master
Scarlet Cheng
NOGUCHI EAST AND WEST
Dore Ashton

Nearer My God, to Me
Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.
THE AMERICAN RELIGION
Harold Bloom

The Children Are Watching
James Thompson
THE PAST LEADS A LIFE OF ITS OWN
Wayne Fields
AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES
Alice McDermott

Anglican Potboiler
Bruce Bawer
MYSTICAL PATHS
Susan Howatch

Another Time, Another Place
Linda Simon
YOUNG, WHITE, AND MISERABLE
Wini Brenies
NEW YORK IN THE FIFTIES
Dan Wakefield

The Face That Launched a Thousand Quips
Edward S. Shaprio
FANNY BRICE: THE ORIGINAL FUNNY GIRL
Herbert G. Goldman

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
San Francisco's Spirited Modernism
Diana Ketcham

ART
The Art of Islamic Spain
Jason Edward Kaufman
Resurrecting Sisley
Jane Addams Allen

DANCE
Marketing Brilliance: The ABT Under Hermann
Camille Hardy
A Sprightly Gambol: Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
Bruce Merrill

DESIGN
Interweaving Art and Craft
Mavis Guinard

FILM
The Titanic Film Legend
Frank Thompson

MUSIC
Steinway's Remedy for Music
Susan Fegley Osmond

PHOTOGRAPHY
Britain's Prime Observer
Herb Greer

THEATER
Much Ado About Shakespeare
Scarlet Cheng

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Clean Connections
Ronald L. Iman And Larry R. Lichtenberg
Cooling With Sound
Mike Holcomb
Upgrading Plant Proteins
Jesse M. Jaynes

CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE
Science Under a Stadium
Jan McCoy

NATURE WALK
The American Beaver
Dwight G. Smith

SCIENCE ESSAY
The Space Tomato Project
Ken Selee

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Eldridge Adams: Fire Ant Warrior
Michael McClelland

 

   
CROSSROADS
No Roads Lead to Bella Rica: A Frontier Gold Mining Town in Ecuador
Teun Voeten
Derry Today: Northern Ireland's City of Possibilities
Malcolm McDowell Woods

FOLK WISDOM
For a Little Luck: Making Sense Out of Goose Day
Mary Margaret Pecht

HERITAGE
Faithful to the Commandments: Ukrainian Americans Preserve a Way of Life
Thomas E. Graves

PEOPLES
Remember Me? An American-Educated Engineer Rediscovers His Berber Roots
Rabah Seffal
El Cante: Flamenco: A Guide for the Perplexed
Paul Shalmy

 

   
POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Race and Crime
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

POSTCOMMUNIST RUSSIA
The Appeal of Autocracy and Empire: A Threat to Russian Democracy
Rolf H.W. Theen

THE HOLOCAUST
Dealing With Eichmann
Dennis Eisenberg

WHY THE STATE BUDGETS ARE IN A MESS
Introduction
Editor
Red Ink Rising: The Fiscal Crisis in State Government
Stephen Moore
Taxes and the Wealth of States
Richard Vedder
Of the People, by the Politicians, for the Special Interest Groups
Barbara Anderson

 
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