September 4, 1989 | Vol. 134 No. 10

Congress: Barney Frank's Pygmalion (American Notes)

Barney Frank's "Pygmalion"

Libraries: The Great Patent Heist (American Notes)

The Great Patent Heist

Oakland: The Panthers' Lost Leader (American Notes)

The Panthers' Lost Leader

Race: No Place For Mankind (American Notes)

No Place For Mankind

Going Too Far

The drug thugs trigger a backlash in Colombia and Kennebunkport

My Lunch with Felix

A correspondent's very public encounter with a suspected spy

A Chain of Freedom

Eastern Europe Uncharted Waters

Soviet allies draw conflicting conclusions from Gorbachev's agenda

Israel Is the Intifadeh Losing Steam?

Palestinians turn their frustration on one another

Kenya Murder in the Game Reserve

Roving poachers bring down the man who helped lions live free

Poland: The Vision Thing

A Distant Mirror (World War II)

As Berlin goes to war, Tokyo continues to march through Asia

Desperate Years (World War II)

After conquering Poland, Hitler menaces the rest of Europe. Churchill's reply: "We shall never surrender"

What If . . .? (World War II)

Some sharp but unanswerable questions about the outcome

Remembrance . . . It Was Awful (World War II)

Remembrance I Heard the Sound of Planes (World War II)

Remembrance It Was Incredibly Macabre (World War II)

Sport: Charlie Hustle's Final Play: Pete Rose

An unrepentant Pete Rose is banned from his beloved game

Ideas: Has History Come to an End? (Ideas)

A provocative case: democracy has outlived Communism