MER
July 1993
A Court in Honolulu Asks the Question First
Closed mid-June 1993 · On stands late June 1993
The Front
Field Notes: The Beach Read
A tally of what the office is actually carrying on the commute this month, as opposed to what it claims
The Essay
Sex Discrimination, Reconsidered
The Hawaii Supreme Court rules in Baehr v. Lewin that denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples is a form of sex discrimination
The Foreign File
The Siege, Unbroken
A short dispatch on a second summer under siege, the aid convoys and the shelling both routine now
The Feature Well
The One-Hit Wonder Business
A profile of an A&R executive chasing the summer's single, and the industry math behind a season's throwaway pleasure
The City
Subject: A new piece of software makes the World Wide Web legible to people without any training in it at all
The Back
The Big Book, Closed
Sears prints the last edition of its general mail-order catalog
On Rereading, the Summer Edition
A short appreciation of a book worth a second look at the beach