October 1995
In This Issue
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Articles
Female Circumcision Comes to America
Performed by new immigrants, veiled in deference to a cultural tradition of the developing world, female circumcision is becoming an American problem
Downsizing Cities
To make cities work better, make them smaller
If the GDP Is Up, Why Is America Down?
Why we need new measures of progress, why we do not have them, and how they would change the social and political landscape
As From a Quiver of Arrows
Private Gardens
A Long Fatal Love Chase
Four Ways to Forgiveness
The Neandertal Enigma
Sabbath's Theater
Jihad vs. McWorld
The Palmer Method
The Puzzler
Words in this puzzle’s six outer Rings are playing a cryptic form of Musical Chairs. Within each Ring, clue answers are to be entered clockwise and in order, beginning at a point to be determined. But each Ring has two or three spaces—or chairs— too few for its answers: letters losing their seats will always drop out between two numbered Sectors, and should be removed to the central ring, where they will sit at a number matching one of those two Sectors. Sector answers, which are to be entered inward from their numbers on the perimeter, will aid solvers in placing Ring answers and discovering which Ring letters must be unseated. When all 16 dropouts have been properly tit into place, you’ll see where they’re sitting. Answers to clues include eight proper nouns.
Word Improvisation
Investigations of slang by the editor of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang
The October Almanac
Another Go at Leporello
A Landmark Restored
Counterpoint of Ideas
A Giant Steps Forward
An Open-Door Musical Polity
Mo' Better Picture of the Inner, City
Friend of the Devil
Techno on the Moskva
My Reputation
A liberal reflects on the perils of holding modulated views
Travel: Flying Down to Europe
Chile is surprisingly European—except that it’s warm in February
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Stalin's Chuckle
Seldom did anyone see Stalin laugh. When he did, it was more like a chuckle, as though to himself. — G. Zhukov, Marshall of the Soviet Union: Reminiscences an;l Reflections
Regional Airport
Doin' the Chameleon
After a lifetime of virtusic imitation of dozens of pianists Dick Hyman is coming into own
