ISSUE DATE:  SEPTEMBER 1997; VOL. 295, NO. 1768

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Letters: The forests or the trees? . . . Mark Slouka, Nicolas E. Tipple.
Notebook: The life . . . Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index.
Readings:.
Snowed by the CIA . . . George C. Herring.
Notes on Writing and the Nation . . . Salman Rushdie.
The End and the Beginning . . . Wislawa Szymhorska.
Trials and Their Tribulations . . . Dr. Stanley M. Kaplan and Carolyn Winget.
War and Peace and Quiet . . . Leo Tolstoy.
Releasing the Memoirist Within . . . Mark Leyner.
The View from Intensive Care . . . Saul Bellow.
And... Majima Ryoichi , Massimo Siragusa, the selectmen of Newbury, New Hampshire.
Essay: ON THE USES OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION:.
I. As lite entertainment for bored college students . . . Mark Edmundson.
II. As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor . . . Earl Shorris.
Letter from Belfast: MEAN SEASON In Northern Ireland, the Troubles come as regular as rain . . . Adrian McKinty.
Story: THE LAKE . . . Anthony Giardina.
Acrostic: Thomas H. Middleton.
Puzzle: Richard E. Maltby Jr.

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