March 1990
In This Issue
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Articles
Germany: The Lost Sheep
Most of the German immigrants in West Germany aren’t from East Germany.
Claiming Savannah: Anyone Can Feel Proprietary About One of America's Handsomest Towns
The Making of L. A
Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
A Tenured Professor
A Tenured Professor
Doing Justice
The Great Dismal
Paradise
The Discovery of the Art of the Insane
Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone
The Message to the Planet
Last Places
Soldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan
The Puzzler
Word Histories: Etymologies Derived From the Files of the Dictionary of American Regional English
The March Almanac
Canada
Notes: The Perfect Job
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
The Politics of Dogs
An organization created to protect the purity of dog bloodlines has become, a journalist argues, misguided in its view of “quality “ and guilty of encouraging destructive forms of inbreeding that have robbed dogs of traditional skills and left them vulnerable to crippling disease
Finding a Dog
Suzanne Valadon and Erik Satie
Afghanistan
Garden
A Problem of Angst
Safe
The Misleading Metaphor of Decline
Analogies between the United States and post-imperial Britain are inaccurate and mischievous. “Americans can afford both social and international security, ” the author argues
The Tone
At Home in the Texas Sun: Regional Architects Use Stone and Other Native Materials to Make Houses Comfortable
