Winter 2008
ARTICLES
 Exhortation: Who Cares
About Executive Supremacy?
Lincoln Caplan
The scope of presidential power is
the most urgent and the most ignored
legal and political issue of our time
Moral Principle vs. Military Necessity
David Bosco
The first code of conduct for warfare, and American
creation, reflected ambiguities we struggle with to this day
Dreaming of a Democratic Russia
Sarah E. Mendelson
A year in Moscow promoting a post-Soviet political process
The Daily Miracle
William Zinsser
The mavericks and oddballs at the New York Herald Tribune
Cuss Time
Jill McCorkle
Swearing an oath for freedom of expression
Alone at the Movies
Mark Edmundson
My days in the dark with Robert Altman and Woody Allen
Balanchine's Cabinet
Ann Hagman Cardinal
A young woman wins a drawing and learns to give and receive
Confluences
Jennifer Sinor
As a beloved uncle makes his final journey, a new life begins
FICTION
The Leap
Roxana Robinson
Moonbow
Amy Hempel
ARTS
On the Road to Nowhere John Patrick Diggins
Tom Stoppard's Russian intellectuals take a wrong turn
The Quiet Sideman Colin Fleming
When tenor saxist 'Chu' Berry emerged from the pack
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DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letters
Letter from Vienna
A fin-de-siecle amusement park
Alexandra Starr
Works in Progress
Old bridge, new look;
information implants;
filter for life; cow power;
1308 papal parchment;
end of the line
Tuning Up
Sign Language
Charles Trueheart
Commonplace Book
Gratitude
Collected by Anne Matthews
Findings
To the Rescue of Romanticism;
Meditations on the Literature of Spying;
The Cradle of Modernism
Jacques Barzun
POETRY
Stephen Cushman,
Rachel Hadas,
and Debora Greger
BOOKS
Essay
John Crowley's hungry souls
Michael Dirda
Reviews
Dead reckoning; elusive
modernism; what we ate;
the Bard in brief; Latin's
life; rough passage
Ernest B. Furgurson, Robert
Campbell, Sandra M.
Gilbert, John F. Andrews,
A. E. Stallings, Robert Wilson
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