SEPTEMBER 1999 \| Volume 284 No. 3
	Dow 36,000 Wall Street experts warn that stocks in today's market are greatly overvalued and that investors are caught up in an "insane euphoria." Those experts are wrong, the authors say. They present a theory that explains the spectacular rise in stock prices over the past two decades. And, the authors contend, stocks are in the midst of a rise to even higher ground. by James K. Glassman and Kevin A. Hassett
Lincoln's Greatest Speech? It contains only 703 words, but Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address performed an extraordinary political function -- reconciling America to the irreconcilable. by Garry Wills Web-Only: Rhetoric of Freedom Atlantic articles by Emerson and Frederick Douglass comment on Lincoln's greatest decision, and his greatest legacy.
Schooling the Imagination Waldorf schools, which combine a multisensory approach to learning with a strong emphasis on ethics, may be the world's "best-kept education secret." by Todd Oppenheimer

Reports

Notes & Comment:
Told You So
Everyone has noticed the proliferation of warning labels. But could it be that they don't go far enough?
by Cullen Murphy

Foreign Affairs:
China's Wild West
Xinjiang -- where natural resources and ethnic hatred are plentiful -- is a laboratory for the new world disorder. Its troubles don't derive entirely from Chinese rule, our correspondent writes. "History and geography have slighted the region."
by Jeffrey Tayler

Humor, Fiction & Poetry

Man Listening to Disc
A poem
by Billy Collins

Wind From a Waterfall
A poem
by Robert Morgan

Basil the Dog
A short story
by Frances Sherwood

Paths
A drawing
by Guy Billout

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Arts & Leisure

Travel:
The Stuff of Myths
Cyprus usually figures in the news as a locus of low-grade international tension. With its compact size, its rich history, its breezy beaches, and its splendid cuisine, it may be the perfect classroom in which to become an accomplished tourist.
by Gene Burns

Music:
We Want Magic
New productions of old operas are far likelier than productions of newly written ones to give operagoers that feeling of bliss they seek.
by David Schiff

Books

The Mystique of Betty Friedan
Looking back at the foundations of Friedan's theory.
by Alan Wolfe

Brief Reviews
by Phoebe-Lou Adams

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