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March 1981

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	Photo [Cover art] By Alon Reininger (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; El Salvador PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Cures that kill, from December 1980: Letter By M.D. and John M. Kirkwood Letter By Neil S. Wolfram Letter By Ann Giudici Fettner Letter By Michael O. Miller Letter By David Hellerstein On State vs. academe, from December 1980: Letter By Walter F. Mondale Letter By Richard W. Lyman Letter By Daniel Patrick Moynihan On Inside Islam, from January 1981: Letter By Harold Wershow Letter By Zarko G. Bilbija Letter By Carl Berg Letter By Edward Said Note/correction PDF IMAGES Notice Announcement PDF IMAGES
14-16	The easy chair/Article The precarious Eden: Sinatra yes, Dylan no By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: 1981-1989; Philosophy; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
18-22	Article Two cheers for government regulation: The inevitable failure of Ronald Reagan By Kenneth Joseph Arrow SEE ALSO: Intervention (Federal government); 1981-1993 PDF IMAGES
24-29	Washington/Article Ersatz BBC: In search of public radio By Simon Winchester SEE ALSO: Public radio PDF IMAGES
31-50	Article Rising to rebellion: Inside El Salvador By T.D. Allman SEE ALSO: Central America; El Salvador; 1977-1981; 1979-; 1979-1992; 1981-1989 PDF IMAGES
52-56	Fiction On being courteous when compelled to break the law: A short story By Heinrich Böll and Leila Vennewitz (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Bank robberies; Courtesy; Desertion, Military PDF IMAGES
57	In our time/Cartoon The evolution of the species: No. 3 SEE ALSO: Fashion designers PDF IMAGES
58-59	The public record/Article The public record SEE ALSO: Vogt, George; Government correspondence; Bruns, Roger; Your government inaction (Book) PDF IMAGES
60	The mind's eye/Illustration Roman à clef By David Suter SEE ALSO: Construction; Piano PDF IMAGES
61-70	Article Water and power: The Owens Valley water war By Page Stegner SEE ALSO: California, Southern; Environmental aspects; Los Angeles (Calif.); Owens Lake (Inyo County, Calif.); Water resources development; Water rights PDF IMAGES
70	Poem For Mozart, from the beginning By John Engels SEE ALSO: Poem; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
71-72	Article Dividends: Little man, what now? By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: Dismissal of; Employee stock options; Middle managers; Office politics PDF IMAGES
73-77	Books/Review Emblems of adversity: Seamus Heaney By Terrence Des Pres SEE ALSO: Field work (Book); In literature; Northern Ireland; Poems, 1965-1975 (Book); Poets, Irish; Political and social views; Political poetry; Preoccupations: selected prose, 1968-1978 (Book); Heaney, Seamus PDF IMAGES
78-79	In print/Review Juvenalia et alia: The hope of satire By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: A confederacy of dunces (Book); Mercer, Charles E.; Toole, John Kennedy; Pacific (Book); Kohout, Pavel; The hangwoman (Book) PDF IMAGES
80-82	Revisions/Article The two thousand years' war: Thucydides in the cold war By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Cold War; Greece; Thucydides; Views on Peloponnesian War PDF IMAGES
83	Article The TBR 500: Selling space By Matthew Mills Stevenson SEE ALSO: Book reviewing PDF IMAGES
84-87	Article Ordinary critics: Immanuel Kant and the Talking Heads By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: Amherst; Amherst College; Critical thinking; Film critics; Music critics PDF IMAGES
88-90	The fourth estate/Article In Duran's corner: The press takes a dive By Sally Helgesen SEE ALSO: Boxers (Sports); Career in boxing; Heroes; Duran, Roberto; Sportswriters; Leonard, Sugar Ray PDF IMAGES
91-93	American miscellany/Article Aristotle's garage: A mechanic's metaphysics By Don Sharp SEE ALSO: Automobile mechanics; Brakes; Sharp, Don; Philosophy PDF IMAGES
96	Puzzle/Department Overlapplique By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES