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February 1986

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration Gathering wood for winter By George Henry Durrie SEE ALSO: Winter PDF IMAGES
4-76	Letters/Department Letters On What has been learned so far, from November 1985: Letter By Jane F. Cushman Letter By Peter Oliver Letter By Judy Kilgore Letter By Michael Chimes Letter By Leon Botstein PDF IMAGES
10-11	Notebook/Article Brand names By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Corporations; Identity (Psychology); Individualism PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
14-15	Readings/Article TV and the ethics of victimhood By Michael Ignatieff SEE ALSO: 1975-1985; Television; Television in politics; Television viewers; Victims; World politics PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Quien vas a llamar? SEE ALSO: Counterinsurgency; El Salvador PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Hostage tips SEE ALSO: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Hostage negotiations; Hostages PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Finding New York's finest SEE ALSO: Police; Selection and appointment PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Swine PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Graphs and Charts The KGB's top fifteen SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Defense contracts; Military intelligence; Procurement PDF IMAGES Readings/Article AIDS outlaws By Courand Rothe SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Legal status, laws, etc.; Patients; San Antonio; Transmission PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Drama Aunt Dan defends Dr. K. By Wallace Shawn PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo Niagara power project By John Pfahl (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Electric power-plants; Niagara Falls; Waterways PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Derrida: Racism's last word By Jacques Derrida and Peggy Kamuf (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Apartheid; 1948-; Racism in language; South Africa PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article Where “dis” and “dat” came from By Cleanth Brooks SEE ALSO: Black English; Dialects; Sussex PDF IMAGES
24-27	Readings/Article Waitress stories SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Restaurants; Waitresses PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo Captioned mirrors By Jim Goldberg (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Couples PDF IMAGES
27-31	Readings/Article A rape SEE ALSO: Rape; Rape victims PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo Victorian blooms By Anna Atkins (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article Reading and rolling By G. (Guillermo) Cabrera Infante SEE ALSO: Cigar industry; Cuba PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Graphs and Charts A country soundscape SEE ALSO: British Columbia; Charts, diagrams, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The tumbling of worms By Stanley Kunitz SEE ALSO: Aged men; Homes and haunts—Connecticut; Kunitz, Stanley PDF IMAGES
35-36	Readings/Article Cupid's disease By Oliver Sacks SEE ALSO: Diseases PDF IMAGES
36-37	Readings/Fiction It had wings By Allan Gurganus PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Illustration Return to sender SEE ALSO: Presley, Elvis; On postage stamps; Portraits; Postage stamps PDF IMAGES
39-51	Collection How not to fix the schools PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Theodore R. Sizer, Walter Karp, Mark Danner, Ernest L. Boyer, Albert Shanker, Floretta Dukes McKenzie, A. Graham Down, and Dennis Littky SEE ALSO: Educational change; Educational law and legislation; Educational tests and measurements; Standards PDF IMAGES
43	Graphs and Charts Charting state reforms SEE ALSO: Charts, diagrams, etc.; Educational change; Educational law and legislation PDF IMAGES
44	Graphs and Charts The schooling of America SEE ALSO: Charts, diagrams, etc.; College graduates; High school graduates; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
47	Quotation The rudiments of teacher education By Evelyn Waugh SEE ALSO: Teachers; Teaching PDF IMAGES
53-59	Article Warming to the cold snow: The satisfactions of a New Hampshire winter By Donald Hall SEE ALSO: Hall, Donald; Homes and haunts; Winter PDF IMAGES
60-65	Article Tanked: Test-driving the Army's M1 By Fred Reed SEE ALSO: Military life; Tank crews; Tank warfare PDF IMAGES
66-69	Article What gets made in Congress: Disclosure and the secrets it keeps By Gregory A. Fossedal SEE ALSO: Finance, Personal; Financial disclosure PDF IMAGES
70-74	Article Beware of the dog: Thurber, Rex, and the making of a hero By Vicki Hearne SEE ALSO: Characters; Criticism and interpretation; Thurber, James PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 38 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Hearts & embraces By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES