April 1999

Articles

• Living in Candlestick Park

  In the twenty-first century geopolitics might well take its metaphors from geology, as the state system of international relations gets shaken to its foundations

  John Lewis Gaddis

• Confucius and the Scholars

  East Asian technocrats and modernists in Beijing, among others, are eagerly embracing an updated Confucianism -- even as scholars in the West ask some eyebrow-raising questions. Did the Chinese sage really exist? If so, did he have much to do with the religious and ethical system that bears his name? Could Confucianism have been invented by Jesuit missionaries?

  Charlotte Allen

• Afternoon of the Sassanoa

  Jacob had never in his life seen his father or grandfather call for help while on the water. He had been thinking of his mother's shepherd's pie, but now he saw what he should have seen before

  Jason Brown

• The Virus Wars

  Guided by an inspired analogy with the human immune system, IBM scientists have developed the next generation of defenses against computer bugs.

  Robert Buderi

• If the Shoe Fits- 99.04

  In search of a formula for everything

  Cullen Murphy

• Ambivalent Autonomy

  The vote to create an independent regional authority did not come automatically to Wales, as it did to Scotland. The startlingly close vote reveals much about a nation that has both embraced and resisted a colonial mentality

  Pamela Petro

• Touring Turin

  The place to experience the height of northern-Italian elegance isn't where most people think

• Forget the Callas Legend

  The reissued official Callas discography reveals the art that will last, which the diva's image often obscures

  Matthew Gurewitsch

• Against Inequality

  A valiant proposal to give every American twenty-one-year-old the same chance to prosper (or fail)

  Jack Beatty

• Poet of the Factory Floor

  Peter Davison

• 77 North Washington Street

  Gabriel Amadeus Cooney

• Letters

• The Almanac

• Word Watch

  A selection of terms that have newly been coined, that have recently acquired new currency, or that have taken on new meanings, compiled by the executive editor of the

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