ISSUE DATE:  JANUARY 1999; VOL. 298, NO. 1784

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Letters Earth, R.I.P. . . . David McDowell, Beverly Russell.
Notebook: Italian opera . . . Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index.
Readings:.
A Despot's Last Shot at Redemption . . . Ariel Dorfman.
The Problem with Being a Dove in Hawk's Clothing . . . John A. Gentry.
Peacekeeping Spice . . . an interview with Geri Halliwell.
Necessary Incivilities . . . Tony Kushner.
Managed Despair . . . J. Timothy Hogan.
Epics of Everydayness . . . Peter Handke.
Dick Morris U. . . . the Meramec Campus Police Department.
Let Us Now Praise Infamous Men . . . the staff of Marion Barry Jr.
The Gray Matron of Our Days . . . Louis Couperus.
Arctic Dreams . . . Kenneth Koch.
And... Catherine Chalmers, Sabina Spaldi, and the cruel unison of basketball fans.
Folio: NICKEL-AND-DIMED On (not) getting by in America . . . Barbara Ehrenreich.
Essay: SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE, SCRIBBLE The literary impulse, its despair and delight . . . Nicholas Delbanco.
Criticism: BUT IS IT ADVERTISING? Capitalist realism at the Clio Awards . . . Jonathan Dee.
Story: AGAINST THE ODDS . . . William Trevor.
Acrostic: Thomas H. Middleton.
Puzzle: Richard E. Maltby Jr.

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