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