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• Book Publishing 
  Franklin Foer Dec. 7, 1997
  
• Indian Gambling 
  Lakshmi Gopalkrishnan Nov. 28, 1997
  
• Racial Integration 
  Franklin Foer Nov. 23, 1997
  
• Iraq Since the Gulf War 
  Franklin Foer Nov. 16, 1997
  
• Stock-Market Tumult 
  Franklin Foer Nov. 9, 1997
  
• Stock-Market Circuit Breakers 
  Franklin Foer Nov. 2, 1997
  
• Fast Track 
  Franklin Foer Oct. 26, 1997
  
• The Nation of Islam 
  Franklin Foer Oct. 19, 1997
  
• Mossad 
  Franklin Foer Oct. 12, 1997
  
• National Education Standards 
  Franklin Foer Oct. 4, 1997
  
• Bounty Hunters 
  Franklin Foer Sept. 28, 1997
  
• Russians in Space 
  Seth Stevenson Sept. 14, 1997
  
• Waco 
  Franklin Foer Aug. 31, 1997
  
• Major League Baseball 
  Franklin Foer Aug. 17, 1997
  
• The Palestinian Authority 
  Franklin Foer Aug. 10, 1997
  
• War Crimes 
  Franklin Foer July 20, 1997
  
• Apologies 
  Seth Stevenson July 13, 1997
  
• Telecommunications Reform 
  David Franklin June 29, 1997
  
• Cambodia 
  Franklin Foer June 22, 1997
  
• Adultery 
  Franklin Foer June 15, 1997
  
• Post-Apartheid South Africa 
  Franklin Foer June 8, 1997
  
• The Murder of JonBenet Ramsey 
  Franklin Foer June 1, 1997
  
• Fetal Viability 
  Franklin Foer May 25, 1997
  
• Selling Land to Jews 
  Franklin Foer May 18, 1997
  
• The Attorney-Client Privilege 
  Franklin Foer May 11, 1997
  
• The Republic of Texas 
  Franklin Foer May 4, 1997
  
• Eastern Europe 
  Franklin Foer April 27, 1997
  
• Death and Taxes 
  Franklin Foer April 20, 1997
  
• The Mafia 
  Franklin Foer April 6, 1997
  
• Taxing the Internet 
  Carol M. Beach March 30, 1997
  
• Zaire 
  Franklin Foer March 23, 1997
  
• The Chinese Connection 
  Franklin Foer March 16, 1997
  
• The White House and the Hatch Act 
  Franklin Foer March 2, 1997
  
• The Chemical-Weapons Treaty 
  Franklin Foer Feb. 23, 1997
  
• Did She Know? Was Madeleine Albright really surprised about her Jewish roots?
  Franklin Foer Feb. 16, 1997
  
• NATO Expansion 
  Karenna Gore Feb. 9, 1997
  
• Campaign Fund Raising: Who's Worse? 
  Franklin Foer Feb. 2, 1997
  
• Germany vs. Scientology 
  Michael Page-English Jan. 18, 1997
  
• Washington, D.C. 
  David Plotz Jan. 12, 1997
  
• Hispanics 
  Karenna Gore Jan. 5, 1997