ISSUE DATE: OCTOBER 1990; VOL. 281, NO. 1685

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Letters: In search of the public square . . . Sim Sadler, Raymond Birt.
Notebook: Lines in the sand . . . Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index.

Readings:
The Velvet Hangover . . . Vaclav Havel.
S&Ls: The Final Frontier . . . Stanley E. Adams.
Professors, Students, and Sex . . . Leon Botstein.
One Evening" . . . a story by Samuel Beckett.
King" . . . fiction by John Edgar Wideman.
Going" . . . a poem by August Kleinzahler.
And... . . . Mark Helprin, Senator Alan Simpson, U.S. Department of Justice.

Annotation: A (POST)MODERN (ALLEGED) MOBSTER: John Gotti: The substance of his style . . . Marshall Blonsky.

Forum: SACRED OR FOR SALE?: The human body in the age of biotechnology . . . Lori Andrews, Jack Kevorkian, Andrew Kimbrell, William May, Jack Hitt.

Memoir: LATE VICTORIANS: San Francisco, AIDS, and the homosexual stereotype . . . Richard Rodriguez.

Story: SWEET CHEEKS . . . Lee K. Abbott.

Capital Letter: WASHINGTON'S KOHL FRONT: Christopher Hitchens: Embracing a chancellor, eschewing debate.

Acrostic . . . Thomas H. Middleton.
Puzzle . . . E. R. Galli and Richard Maltby Jr.

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