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Monitor articles for August 31, 1987
- With calm words and a passion for justice, he nurtures Sweden's welfare state
- Slavery regains foothold in regions of Sudan. Tribes use government-provided defensive arms to raid neighbors
- Musical sleuth unravels the `Puccini Mystery'
- `A Southern Family': Godwin on life amid the magnolias
- Life's little inconsistencies - they abound in Iran's Islamic revolution
- Sights and sounds from a critic's magical mystery tour
- A critic's musings. When art-world stars come and go as quickly as rock stars and movie idols, critics and art professionals need to go beyond a con...
- Investors have done well, but the market is walking on air
- Striking miners' retreat deals setback to black activism in S. Africa
- Candidates and the times
- Britons up in arms about guns after rampage
- Kind-hearted Billy Martin a natural as youth baseball teacher
- Think of London. What do you see? The Palace of Westminster? Tower Bridge? A Barbican show will make you think again.
- The not-cool collegians are back on the screen for further revenge
- R.I.P.
- Erratic rains test staying power of Asia's green revolution. Century's worst drought spurs search for new ways to protect and increase farm producti...
- The rise of administrators, and the fall of the humanities
- Communications battle is waged under water and in space. Fresh competition from fiber-optic cable stings satellite industry
- Loud, sweet, and memorable
- Day care in Sweden: the debate runs deep. The emergence of private centers jolts the welfare state
- Videos recapture some of the magic of reading aloud
- Gulf mines provide additional source of war-caused environmental damage
- The `new poor' in the oil patch. They slipped from the middle class, without much safety net
- `Shear Madness': a whodunit that allows you to say who did it
- The Bible is for healing
- Winning the White House. The political dynamics of 1988
- Philippine coup attempt highlights military problems
- Parents want more say-so in how schools operate
- Using division to multiply stocks
- Constitutional Journal
- Law Lords under a microscope. `Spycatcher' sparks scrutiny of Britain's highest court
- Forum boosts Soviet-American ties
- There was a cobra in the third row, but Segovia played on