ISSUE DATE:  DECEMBER 1998; VOL. 297, NO. 1783

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Letters: Keeping Faith . . . Matthew Becker, Kathryn Hatt.
Notebook: Sucking at Straws . . . Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index.
Readings:.
Speculative Crimes and Global Punishment . . . Edward Luttwak.
Fyodor's Guide to Russia . . . Ray Kroll.
An American in Princeton . . . an interview with Edmund White.
Find "Gap Dress" . . . confessions of a smut blocker.
Balanced, Objective Gay-Bashing . . . a study by Lisa Bennett.
American Heartworm . . . Ben Metcalf.
The Homeric Ali . . . Carlo Rotella.
A Punk Rocker's Angry Christ . . . Nick Cave.
The Playhouse . . . Max Steele.
And... Spencer Tunick, Lise Sarfati, and D.C. 's cop crackdown.
Essay: UP IN SMOKE The suckers bring the money; Wall Street supplies the matches . . . Ted C. Fishman.
Memoir: STILL LIFE Notes on Pierre Bonnard and my mother's ninetieth birthday . . . Mary Gordon.
Letter: SAILING OUT OF PANAMA The American Empire discards an obsolete canal . . . Patrick Symmes.
Story: SON OF THE WOLFMAN . . . Michael Chabon.
Acrostic: Thomas H. Middleton.
Puzzle: Richard E. Maltby Jr.

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