The Meridian Archive
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August 1998
A Disability, Not Yet a Symptom

A Disability, Not Yet a Symptom

Closed mid-July 1998 · On stands late July 1998

The Front

Index of the Recess

Numbers of a Washington summer — opinions handed down before the term's end, dissents filed, sessions left before August

The Essay

A Disability, Not Yet a Symptom

The Supreme Court decides Bragdon v. Abbott, ruling asymptomatic HIV a disability under the ADA

Is Feminism Dead?

Time's cover names Ally McBeal alongside Anthony, Friedan, and Steinem; the essay takes the question, and the company, seriously

The Foreign File

The Designation

Kosovo is designated for Temporary Protected Status; the dispatch on what the paperwork does and does not promise

The Feature Well

The Last Summer at the Fairgrounds

A photo essay on a shuttered Midwestern state fairground awaiting a developer's wrecking crews, the last summer before the auction

The City

Subject: The Hudson River Park master plan is adopted, setting in motion the demolition of the last derelict piers

The Back

Music: A review of Radiohead's OK Computer, a year past its release and still the record the desk keeps returning to · Books: A review of a debut story collection · Film: Two July releases, briefly noted