ISSUE DATE:  MAY 1997; VOL. 294, NO. 1764

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COVER: Painting Py Josef Levi / OK Harris Works of Art. Photograph by Penny Gentteu.

Letters: Madness as manual . . . Melvin Sabshin, Andrew Garrison.
Notebook: Magic lanterns . . . Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index.
Readings.
Buried Alive in Iran . . . Faraj Sarkuhi.
Clinton's Color Guard . . . White House African American Working Group.
The Bombay Rush . . . Suketu Mehta.
Urban Delight . . . Ben Katchor.
An Ill-Begotten Enterprise . . . Harlan Ellison.
Royal Treatment . . . Sarah, Duchess of Marlboro.
The Disclaimer . . . Ron Carlson.
And... Lyndon B. Johnson, Niu Bo, Greta Pratt, customers of the "manicure mills" of Texas.
Essay: TOWARD AN END OF BLACKNESS . . . Jim Sleeper . . . An argument for the surrender of race consciousness.
Forum: OUR MACHINES, OURSELVES . . . James Bailey, David Gelernter, Jaron Lanier . . . About computers, chess, clones, and human anxiety Charles Siebert, Jack Hitt.
Annotation: THE BOEING FORMATION . . . Ken Silverstein. A squadron of seventy lobbyists prepares for total air superiority.
Story: PENANCE . . . Matthew Cram.
Miscellany: THE LONG GOOD-BYE . . . Amanda Coyne . . . Mother's Day in federal prison.
Acrostic: Thomas H. Middleton.
Puzzle: Richard E. Maltby Jr.

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