AFTER THE WAR

• Ten days that shook the White House
  a veteran journalist discusses how television -- a medium frequently manipulated by the White House -- forced George Bush to change his mind about America's involvement in post-war Iraq
  by Daniel Schorr
• The kingdom and its messengers
  Last August, Saudi Arabian newspapers waited three days before telling readers that Iraq had invaded Kuwait. So what's news now?
  by Stephen Franklin

Make it right... then toss it away
A guided tour -- including high-anxiety elevator rides (will someone be fired before reaching the ground floor?) -- through the corporate culture of Conde Nast
by Veronique Vienne

The Kitty Kelly syndrome
More often than not these days a book's cover is a lot harder than the "facts" inside. A look at the reasons why
by Steve Weinberg

Coping with the RSI epidemic
Repetitive strain injury has become the nation's leading work-related illness. A CJR update describes how reporters, editors, and publishers are responding.
by Diana Hembree and Ricardo Sandoval

Chronicle

• How the BBC is invading America
• Can Spy come in from the cold?
• Checkbook journalism, Soviet style
• Talking nurses: a quiz
• XS: the Tribune Company gets hip
• Lost in translation: locker-room prose

Resources
Campaign '92: Following the money
by Steve Weinberg

Judgment Call
How far down the tobacco road?
by Mike Fitzberald and Brent Shearer

Document
Naming the rape victim on NBC
An in-house memo from Michael Gartner

Books
The Bingham saga
Four books on the Louisville clan
reviewed by James Boylan

Letters

Darts and Laurels

Short Takes

• The Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman
• Arizona Kiss, by Ray Ring
• Inside the KGB: My Life in Soviet Espionage, by Vladimir Kuzichkin
• Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government, by P.J. O'Rourke

The Lower Case