November 1988

Articles

• Lost In Transition

  To a President-elect, staffing a new government looks easy next to the challenge of getting elected, but a number of circumstances—some structural, some historical, and some quasi-magical in character—combine to make it an undertaking fraught with risk

  Carl Brauer

• Dictionary of the Khazars

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Iconologia

• Iconologia

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Acrostic No. 40

  Dorothy Osborne

• The Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

• Word Watch

  Here are a few of the words being tracked by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary, published by Houghton Mifflin. A new word that exhibits sustained use may eventually make its way into the dictionary. The information below represents the first stage of research, not the final product.

  Anne H. Soukhanov

• The November Almanac

• Notes: The First Election

  Neil Spitzer

• Colombia: Murder City

  Tina Rosenberg

• Medicine: The Riddle of Tle

  A hard-to-diagnose malady causing bizarre behavior may be curable

  Eve Laplante

• Environment: The Flows

  Activists arguing over bogs in Scotland are learning that desirable objectives are not always compatible

  Ellen Ruppel Shell

• Contributors

• Why Study History?

  Civic education can help us to see that not all problems have solutions, to live with tentative answers, to accept compromise, to embrace responsibilities as well as rights—to understand that democracy is a way of living, not a settled destination.

  Paul Gagnon

• Homer's Seeing-Eye Dog

  William Matthews

• Contents

• The Caribbean

• The Bahamas & Bermuda

• Latin America

• Europe

• Asia, Oceania, & Africa

• Canada

• My Life in Prison

  Garrison Keillor

• The Secret to Not Getting Stuck

  Jay Woodruff

• Anton Chekhov and Leo Tolstoy

  Nancy Caldwell Sorel

• Bird on Film: Charlie Parker Gets Lost in a Fan's New Movie

  Francis Davis

• The Strategist

  Peter Paret

• Ordinary People

  Cullen Murphy

• The Arctic Grail

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Trojan Generals Talk

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Somerset Homecoming

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

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