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The lame-duck state

Term limits, Willie Brown, and the hobbling of California government

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Making a killing

The high cost of peace in Northern Ireland

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How to Correspond with a Boy

By an anonymous teenager, excerpted from the January 1963 issue of Seventeen magazine. Craftsmanship shown by female letter writers is infinitely superior to that of males, and for a good…

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A Fountain Pen, an Empty Page, and Thou

February brings with it the romantic chance of Valentine’s Day, but who remembers how to write a love letter? The form was never an easy one, not even for poets,…

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The song-and-dance remains the same

Selling Congress planes we don't need to fight enemies we don't have

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America skips school

Why we talk so much about education and do so little

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Memories Held in Check

Perusing a lifetime of my father’s expenditures

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Faulty diagnosis

Why Clinton's health-care plan won't cure what ails us

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Going to see the dragon

A journey through south China, land of capitalist miracles, where yesterday's rice paddy becomes tomorrow's metropolis, and a thousand factories bloom

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Deep Clean

In Los Angeles, car washing gets beneath the surface

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