July 1992
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Articles
Crashing the Locker Room
Why are there so few women in Congress? Why is it especially difficult for women to make it to the Senate? With a record number of women running for the Senate this year, our reporter takes a careful look at the obstacles in the way of women candidates and at their emerging advantages.
The July Almanac
Notes: Force of Numbers
Demographics and destiny
Nicaragua: After the Sandinistas
Free enterprise has replaced a planned economy, with the usual mixed results —reduced inflation, but growing unemployment and shortages
Japan: Nationalism, Not Racism
The argument that frictions between the United States and Japan are essentially racial in character is not only wrong but dangerous
The Suburban Century Begins
The real meaning of the 1992 election
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
The Pink House
He did not want a swimming pool, or walk-in closets. He wasn’t sure he wanted to buy a house in the first place. His wife and son, however, hoped to show him the way
Aphrodite and the Nature of Art
One Thousand Cranes
Better but Not All Better
A father and son revisit South Africa and are encouraged to find the country irreversibly on the path to interracial government—but that path is bloody, and many of the overwhelming problems at its beginning will remain at its end
Eugene Debs and John Reed
Suavely Lyrical: Nat King Cole's Ingratiating Singing Obscured His Cool Piano Technique
A Ten-Thousand-Letter Love
To the Linksland
Frontiers
Women and Doctors
Boomfell
Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage
Word Histories: Etymologies Derived From the Files of the Dictionary of American Regional English
