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March 1996

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Andres Serrano (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Aged; Dead PDF IMAGES
6-74	Letters/Department Letters On Leaving the folk, from October 1995: Letter By Wade Hampton McKinney III, Samuel Berry McKinney, Virginia Ruth Henderson, and Mary Louise Edmonds On The enemies of imagination, from November 1995: Letter By T. Coraghessan Boyle On Black jurors, from December 1995: Letter By Kathleen M. Thorne Letter By John G. Epstein Letter By Jackie McCowen Letter By Douglas A. Ingold On Déjà vu, from December 1995: Letter By Elizabeth Dietmann Williamson Letter By Jonathan Franzen PDF IMAGES
8-11	Notebook/Article Old-time religion By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Lazare, Daniel; Democracy; The frozen republic: how the Constitution is paralyzing democracy (Book); United States. Constitution PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-17	Readings/Article Vanishing knowledge By David Ehrenfeld PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Judaism: The next generation SEE ALSO: Electronic discussion groups; Judaism; Star Trek television programs PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Art Wolfe (Photog.) SEE ALSO: British Columbia; Mallard; Vancouver PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The real Republican revolution By T.R. Goldman SEE ALSO: Lobbying; Lobbyists; 1993-; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Arlene Gottfried (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Infants; Puerto Rico; San Juan; Stores, Retail PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article Those wild Bush years By June Weiss SEE ALSO: Entertaining; Membership; Photo PDF IMAGES
20	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Bettina Flitner (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cologne; Monuments PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The new journalism SEE ALSO: Dismissal of; Los Angeles; Los Angeles times (American newspaper) PDF IMAGES
21-23	Readings/Article Lost in translation SEE ALSO: Baseball players; Career as translator; Nomo, Hideo; Japanese language; Brown, Kent; Language & Linguistics; Translating into English; Translators PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Welcoming the Colonel By Khushwant Singh SEE ALSO: Chain restaurants; Fast food restaurants; Kentucky Fried Chicken (Chain restaurant) PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Deconstructing Henry SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Kissinger, Henry; Irony; Letters to the editor PDF IMAGES
23-26	Readings/Article The curse of indecision By Alexander George SEE ALSO: Choice (Psychology); Decision-making PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Flags; Mountaineers; Mountains PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Diegahlo By Greg Constantine SEE ALSO: Artists; Rivera, Diego; Kahlo, Frida; Married people; Portraits PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article A crush test SEE ALSO: Interpersonal attraction PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article How many does it take? By David Lance Goines SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Joking; Light bulbs PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration For months he lived between the billboards By Michael Ashkin SEE ALSO: Billboards; Express highways; Models and modelmaking PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Louisiana By Padgett Powell PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Field of water By Philemona Williamson SEE ALSO: Infants PDF IMAGES
29-34	Readings/Article A western boyhood, in Russia By Joseph Brodsky SEE ALSO: American influences; Childhood and youth; Brodsky, Joseph; 1945-1991 PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article A wired child By Brad DeLong SEE ALSO: Computers; Computers and children PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Poem Sparrows By William Kloefkorn PDF IMAGES
35-43	Article Mother's last request: A not so fond farewell By B.J. Nelson SEE ALSO: Nelson, B.J.; Family; Mothers; Suicide PDF IMAGES
45-52	Article Presidential shrimp: Bob Dole caters the political hors d'oeuvres By David Samuels SEE ALSO: Campaign for U.S. president, 1996; 1993-; 1996; Republicans; Dole, Robert J. PDF IMAGES
54-60	Article Closing the books: A once devoted reader arrives at the end of the story By Arthur Krystal SEE ALSO: Krystal, Arthur; Books and reading PDF IMAGES
61-72	Fiction PU-239 By Ken Kalfus PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 159 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Downsizing By Patrick D. Berry PDF IMAGES