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October  1994  Issue
 
 
Education Is Everybody's Business

 
SPECIAL REPORT
Introduction
Editor
A Revolution at the Grass Roots
Jeanne Allen
The Dismal State of Public Education
Allyson Tucker
Inner-City Schools Are Everyone's Problem
John J. Miller

ANALYSIS
The Real Face of the Christian Right
Larry Witham
The World According to the Group of 77
Michael Collins

COMMENTARY
America and Its Backyard
Roger Fontaine
The Civil Rights Issue of the '90s
Nancie G. Marzulla
The World Trade Organization: No Threat to U.S. Sovereignty
Joe Cobb
The World Trade Organization: A Giant Step Toward Managed Trade
James M. Sheehan

ECONOMIC WATCH
The Many Measures of Income
Rita McDermott Mayer

MEDIA IN REVIEW
The O.J. Media Circus
Jeremy Bloom

WORLD VIEWS
The Tragedy of Rwanda

 

 
FOOD
The Food of Emilia-Romagna
Judy Erkanat

INTERVIEW
The Renaissance Athlete
Armstrong Willlams

PROFILE
Madam Ambassador
Dorrine Turecamo

TRAVEL
The Great Fair of Ballinasloe
Steenie Harvey

 

 
BOOKS FROM ABROAD
Lives of Russian Women
Dragan Milivojevic

FEATURED BOOK: Napoleon Baccino Ponce de Leon's Five Black Ships
A Ship of Dreams
Barbara Mujica

A Coastal Sailor in Search of Freedom
Marie-Lise Gazarian-Gautier

Introduction
Editor

REVIEWS
A Family of Consequence
Allan Reid
GENERATIONS OF WINTER
Vassily Aksyonov

No Victims Here
Edward S. Shapiro
A NEW WORLD
Arthur Quinn

Birds Are Not Enough
Bruce Allen
THE BIRD ARTIST
Howard Norman

Death Stalks a Gentlemen's Club
Robert F. Geary
A LONG LINE OF DEAD MEN
Lawrence Block

Baldwin's Legacy
Herb Greer
JAMES BALDWIN
David Leeming

 

 
 
   

 
ART
Impressionism's Beginnings
Michael Gibson

CRAFT & DESIGN
Machete as Medium: The Art of Linda Stein
Stephen Henkin

DANCE
Broadway's Hottest Tickets
Camille Hardy

FILM
Ang Lee's Angle on Film: The Family as Social Barometer
Scarlet Cheng

MUSIC
'Diese herrliche Frau,' Clara Schumann
John C. Tibbetts

PHOTOGRAPHY
Beyond the Paparazzi: Italian Photography Today
Susan Tenaglia

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Flies as Medical Allies
Joel Grossman
Control by Thought
Jerry Shine

NATURE WALK
The Greatest Show on Earth
Dwight G. Smith

SCIENCE AND SPIRIT
In Search of the Soul
Michael Moore

SCIENCE ESSAY
Our Inexhaustible Energy Supply
Leonard J. Koch

 

   
CROSSROADS
Returning the Dead: Haitians Await the Outcome of a Vodou War
Donald J. Cosentino
Coming Back to Life: Will the Oromos' Cultural Revival Split Ethiopia?
Ben Barber

FOLK WISDOM
Birds of Beauty: Two Swahili Folktales
Jan Knappert

HERITAGE
'Sanging Out' the Land: Wisconsin's Multimillion-Dollar Ginseng Industry
Sue Bridwell Beckham

PEOPLES
Time for Others: Maintaining Social Customs in Fiji
Barbara McClatchie Andrews

 

   
ESSAYS
Terror and Terrorism in Painting
Francis J. Greene
Guardian of the Permanent Things: An Appreciation of Russell Kirk
Lee Edwards
The Salutary Myth of the Otherworld Journey
Russell Kirk

WHAT IS LITERATURE? TEACHING AND THE CANON
An Elegy for the Canon
Harold Bloom
Fallacies of the Postmodern
Carol Iannone
Looking In on Literature
Maria DiBattista
Teaching the Contemporary Novel
Anne Gardner
Introduction

 
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