Summer Party [announcement]

The Great SWET Survey (enclosed with Newsletter) [announcement]

Fall Highlights [future workshops: typography; financial planning; markets for freelance writers]

Steering Committee Report [organization's status; upcoming events; core member functions]

Kudos and Brickbats (ref: JS, ES) [Directory: efforts; mail misuse; romaji submissions]

(Almost) Rained Out [picnic report]

I Went to IJET... (ES) [attendee report]

Conference: Third International Japanese-English Translation Conference

A Tale of Two Modems (JS) [purchase requisites: state all needs clearly; get own-language manual]

Over Their Shoulders (ref: MT) [translation comparisons: food]

Translators: Bryan Harrell, Lynne E. Riggs, Bruce Walker

An IBMer Buys a Mac (BdeM) [user needs dictate brand choice]

True to Type (BD) [bad results printing italics]

Literary Contest [call for submissions]

Contest: Takeshi Kaiko Award; sponsor: Suntory, Ltd.

Translating with Style (1) (JW) [sample analyzed for style choices, consistency, usage, etc.]

Subheadings: Basic pointers; References; Dictionaries; Style guides; Usage guides

True Confessions [announcement citing plagiarism]

Phantoms by Dean R. Koontz copied by The Crawling Dark by Pauline Dunne