May 1988
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Articles
Anchors Away
CBS's Ed Joyce airs his disputes with Dan Rather and his gripes with the network at large in a 1988 memoir
Toward Appomattox
In the footsteps of Grant and Lee
Fang Lizhi: China's Andrei Sakharov
The speeches of the astrophysicist Fang Lizhi have galvanized students and given political discourse in China a new depth of field, and although he has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party his influence is undiminished
The May Almanac
Notes: The Bike
Haiti: Return to Normalcy
The country’s sorry reputation is safe for now
Trade: Blues in the Gulf
The seaports along the Gulf of Mexico gambled on expanding north-south trade, and lost
Vanna Karenina
China's Andrei Sakharov
The speeches of the astrophysicist Fang Lizhi have galvanized students and given political discourse in China a new depth of field, and although he has been expelled from the Chinese Communist Party his influence is undiminished
Contributors
Tomato Soup
Room Enough to Move
Questions of artistic freedom and the future of ballet are arising ,in an era when corporate and individual patrons pick up where the government leaves off and some donors aspire to a controlling interest
Irving Berlin and George Gershwin
Corporation and Nation
What’s good for America’s largest firms is not necessarily good for America. This inversion of an old dictum captures one of the new economic realities of our time
First, Do No Harm: Lack of Understanding Often Results in the Misprescription of Drugs
The Frightful and the Sublime
Love in the Time of Cholera
Black Box
The Greenlanders
Ustinov in Russia
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life
Hot Money
Acrostic No. 34
The Puzzler
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.
