The Meridian Archive
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April 1991
The Hundred Hours

The Hundred Hours

Closed mid-March 1991 · On stands late March 1991

The Front

The Meridian Index: March

Yellow ribbons sold, homecoming-parade permits filed, the price of a barrel of oil in January against April

The Essay

The Reflex

A pattern in how police departments misclassify anti-gay killings as drug disputes, folded around the Jackson Heights killing of Julio Rivera as one example inside a broader argument on hate-crime law's uneven reach — the killing itself never named as its own story

The Foreign File

The War That Was Managed

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the coalition's air campaign and hundred-hour ground war, filed as the conflict closes

The Feature Well

The City

The Back

Books: A round-up of the season's first Gulf War memoirs rushed to print · Art: A short piece on the season's celebrity-collector auction consignments, prices holding despite the war headlines · Film: A review of the spring's foreign-language slate