Why Start a Magazine?
Our Editors on the soapbox
DAVID HASKELL & JO GULDI

Contributors

An Ace
Flying the Pacific in World War II
JAMES SPENCER

Three Roles of Film
Photographs of a Ground Zero resident
JUSTIN BEAL

The Old New War
Predictions in the age of terror
OWEN WEST

No Choice But to Fight
Caught in Zimbabwe's struggle for freedom
JAMES TENGATENGA

The Road to Shchuch'ye
Visiting the most frightening warehouses on Earth
PAUL F. WALKER

Patriots
Football, victory and a half-time show
DANIEL SILK

Recruiting and Remembering
Architects design for two sides of war
ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH OFFICE & ADAM YARINSKY

Finding a Balance
A young biographer warns of misusing the past
DOUGLAS MURRAY

Three Roles of Film, Continued

A-Levels in Hong Kong
When the classroom becomes a battlefield
MICHAEL HOEVEL

If You Come Back
A Polish public servant on hell-holes the world over
RADEK SIKORSKI

Innovation & the Warrior Ethos
Perspective from Annapolis on military life
WILLIAM M. McBRIDE

Three Roles of Film, Continued

The Early Days of a New War
A Harvard professor returns home to Manhattan
JAMES R. RUSSELL

Two Worlds
A challenge of words
MAX DAVIS

Drawing War and Peace
Virginia grade-schoolers share their pictures
STUDENTS OF MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY,
BUENA VISTA, VIRGINIA

America's New Weapon
What's wrong with assassination?
ANNE D. PLATT

Basic Training
Boredom at a West Bank checkpoint
NITZAN SHOSHAN

Waging Peace in Kashmir
An idea without borders
from the Open Policy Institute
ANNE D. PLATT

The Birds & the Bugs
The danger of helping a beetle
LAUREN WEINSTEIN

Forty Lemon Trees
How things work in Azerbaijan
POOJA KUMAR

Terrorism, Box Trucks
& the American Elite

Teaching Harvard students how to survive
JOHN R. STILGOE

Midnight at Stalin's Opera
Fifty soms and a tank at the door –
The Barber of Seville in Kyrgyzstan
SUE MYERS

A Daisy from No Man's Land
Love letters from World War I
NATHAN HALE LERNER & EVELYN SALZMAN

Three Roles of Film, Continued


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Topic Magazine
Issue 1 | Summer 2002

Editors in Chief
Joanna Guldi &
David Haskell
Managing Editor
Robert B. Gilpin
Senior Editors
Mohit Bhende, Aubrey Gilbert, Hunter Keith, Thi Nguyen & Bartlomiej Szewczyk
Solicitation Director
Eliza Young
Graphic Designer
Daniel B. Visel
Associate Editor
Christopher Douglas
Solicitation
Sandra Scanlon
Publisher
Mohit Bhende
Associate Publishers
Nilima Gulrajani &
Walter Rentsch
Distribution
Jackson Armstrong, Arne Morteani & Sam Olofin
Publicity
Geraldine Parsons Caroline Reed & Maggie Evans
Legal Advisor
Julie Cooke
Web Content Editor
Robert Colvile
Web Designer
Shawn Cheng


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