May 1983
In This Issue
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Articles
Voting for Unemployment
Why union workers sometimes choose to lose their jobs rather than accept cuts in wages
Guns in the Courts
In the 1980s, lawsuits arose seeking to hold handgun manufactures liable for the damage caused by their product
Sandpiper Poetry
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Truman Capote
Home Before Morning
Voices of Baseball
The Diary of a Good Neighbour
Our Marvelous Native Tongue
The Wreck of the "Rusty Nail"
Forgotten News
The Devil's Book of Verse
Banker
Yet Being Someone Other
The Next American Frontier
The Atlantic Puzzler
Kuwait: Embassy Cables
How the U.S. Embassy reported an economic crisis in Kuwait to the State Department
Yosemite Valley: Fixed-Object Jumping
A dangerous, sometimes deadly, new pastime exists in a vague region between sport and stunt
In the Month of May
Benign Violence
“Some surgeons are just lucky,” according to one doctor. But a surgeon’s luck is a matter of skill and character
Reliable Heat
A Thank-You Letter
The Eventual Nuclear Destruction of Cheyenne, Wyoming
Everything Everybody Ever Wanted
The “arrogant wastry” of Nelson Rockefeller’s Albany Mall may have produced an ugly anachronism,but it also produced unexpected results
The Law: Guns in the Courts
Lawsuits now pending seek to hold handgun manufacturers liable for the damage caused bg their product
Appleglow
Constantine Stanislavsky and Isadora Duncan
She Never Liked Jane Eyre
“Al” Geebler Interviews Grace Poole
The Russian Army: Inept and Invincible
The Foundation of Liberalism
