October 1996

Articles

• A Conversation with Donald Hall

• A Talk With Bill Clinton

  The President shows himself to be at once confident about what we should do to better life for the next generation and guarded about how much we can achieve toward that end

  James Fallows

• India Cotton Shirt

  Erica Funkhouser

• The Sub-Seabed Solution

  Far from being embraced, a promising solution to the radioactive-waste problem faces stiff opposition from the federal government, the nuclear industry, and environmental interests

  Steve Nadis

• Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist

  In the multiracial American future Jefferson will not be thought of as the Sage of Monticello. His flaws are beyond redemption. The sound you hear is the crashing of a reputation.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

• The Empty Symbolism of American Politics

  Seeking a middle ground, liberal and conservative politicians alike propose split-the-difference "solutions" to our problems which seem plausible and pragmatic but do not, of course, represent solutions at all. What's missing? The dimension of reality,

  Robert A. Levine

• Clinton Scandals, Inc.

  Whitewater, the author writes, exemplifies the old saw that a lie can travel halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. 

  Martin Walker

• Salsa Without Tears

  You don't have to go for the burn to appreciate the subtlety and tingle of Mexican food.

• Banana Man

  A pseudonymous Los Angeles columnist stirs up the Korean-American community.

  Nicholas Lemann

• Say Something

  They're only children

  Lucie Prinz

• From Willow Temple

  During the day my parents tried to carry on as they always had. I was impressed by the aplomb with which they behaved, "for the child's sake." Their ability to deceive, to be utterly different by day and by night, carved itself into my soul.

  Donald Hall

• Two Kinds of Paradise

  Nevis has one of theCaribbean's grandest resorts and someof its most historic inns.

  Barbara Wallraff

• A Birth-Control Crusader

  "The Sex Side of Life"--Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education

  Marjorie Heins

• 77 North Washington Street

• Letters

• The Almanac

• Word Court

  Barbara Wallraff

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