January 1993
In This Issue
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Articles
The Story of a Gun
After 60,000 deaths from firearms use over the past two years, America is in a gun crisis. Yet gun laws remain weak, gunmakers continue to promote killing power, and gun dealers accept no responsibility for the criminal use of what they sell.
Stay the Course
Some second thoughts on immortality, which one organization believes may finally be within our grasp
The Sea Mouse
First Encounters: J. Edgar Hoover and Emma Goldman
The Okavango Delta: Where the Elephants Roam, and the Kudu and the Impala Play
On Borderlines
Theodore Roosevelt
Shakespeare
Memories of the Ford Administration
The Crystal Desert
A Walking Tour in Southern France
Titanic
Black Dogs
Looking Around
The Puzzler
Word Histories
The January Almanac
Notes: Stay the Course
Some second thoughts on immortality, which one organization believes may finally be within our grasp
Washington: Colonel Dunlap's Coup
A fictionalized essay that has been circulating within the Pentagon offers a blunt warning on severalfronts
The Middle East: Lions in Winter
Three men, old enemies all, realize that they must soon compromise on matters they have always held sacred if any is to leave his mark on the region
Philadelphia: Black Nationalism on Campus
Conversations with students at Penn and Temple show that black nationalism and assimilation are not the opposites they appear to be
Dancing on Coffee Tables
Webster's Immortal Duchess
Marsalis Meets Martins: A Potent Mix
In Beckett's Footsteps
Bringing Up Baby
Newest Kids on the Block
The Future According to Cohen
Digging Up the Troggs
Curating Jazz
International Take-Out
Dancing Down Under
Upcoming: Bodies Hot and Coed
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Ring in the New Year With Wagner
Poetic Justice
Not Resting on His Laurels
Voices of America
Jefferson's Other Buildings
Houses Thomas Jefferson knew—and houses he designed—shaped the ideas that are familiar from the University of Virginia and Monticello
