ISSUE DATE:  MARCH 1997; VOL. 294, NO. 1762

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Letters: The Politics of Meanness . . . Alan Shefsky, Chris Lehmann.
Notebook: Alms for Oblivion . . . Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index.
Readings:.
The Elusive Goal of War Trials . . . Michael Ignatieff.
A Sheriff for Toon Town . . . Linda Shima-Tsuno.
The Gospel According to Greenspan . . . Edward Luttwak.
Laugher Curve . . . Kenneth H. Craik et at.
A Room with Too Much View . . . Michael Pollan.
The Basement War . . . Jonathan Franzen.
Legend . . . W. S. Merwin.
And . . . Francis Yellow, Phyllis Galemho, Graham Nash, Pennel Phlzrnder Irwin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Report: COLD COMFORT. Looking for the sun in Greenland's endless night . . . Gretel Ehrlich.
Letter: THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD. After the Berkeley fire, an architectural disaster . . . David L. Kirp.
Annotation: K STREET SCHADENFREUDE One lobbyist's attempt to transmute despair into dollars . . . Ken Silverstein.
Story: THE KNIFE THROWER . . . Steven Millhauser.
Miscellany: SILENCE, PLEASE. The public library as entertainment center . . . Sallie Tisdale.
Acrostic . . . Thomas H. Middleton.
Puzzle . . . Richard E. Maltby Jr.

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