ISSUE DATE:  SEPTEMBER 2002; VOL. 305, NO. 1828

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COVER by Susan Crile.

Letters: An Answer to Edward Said . . . Paul Kennedy, Andrew Tallis.
Notebook: Compass Bearings . . . Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index.

Readings:.
Universal Compassion . . . Natalia Ginzburg.
It Could Happen to You . . . the chances of dying in Israel.
Prisoners' Dilemmas . . . what motivates a suicide bomber.
Bad and Badder . . . children of the Troubles.
Baudolino Tries His Hand at Writing . . . new fiction by Umberto Eco.
Mad Thai . . . defending King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
The Kryptonite Ceiling . . . how superheroines die.
Yes . . . Brian Doyle.
And... Carroll Dunham, Neil Folberg, Euan Uglow, and lamentations for the Party! Party! Party! Party.

Essay . . . A YEAR LATER . . . Mark Slouka . . . Notes on America's intimations of mortality.
Forum . . . BIG BROTHER AT THE OK CORRAL . . . Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton . . . A frontier fable of gun control and federal justice.
Annotation . . . A PRINCE AMONG THIEVES? . . . Adam Davidson . . . Smugglers, forgers, and a Mesoamerican mystery.
Letter from the New Europe . . . LE DIVORCE . . . Nicholas Fraser . . . Do Europe and America have irreconcilable differences?.
Story . . . SOMETHING FOR NOTHING . . . Tim Gautreaux.
Reviews . . . NEW BOOKS . . . Guy Davenport.
CONSUMING CULTURE . . . Lee Siegel . . . When our critics won't turn off the TV.
A WHITE MAN'S BURDEN . . . Geoffrey Wheatcroft . . . Rudyard Kipling's pathos and prescience.
Puzzle . . . Richard E. Maltby Jr.
Quiz . . . SOUTHERN EXPOSURE.

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