| LETTERS | 1 |
| TILTING AT WINDMILLS | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Ice Fishing | 10 |
| Ortega, Bob | |
| Dollars and Scents | 16 |
| Honigsbaum, Mark | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 20 |
| The Specter Initiative | 21 |
| Gourley, Jay | |
| THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY Journalism Award | 27 |
| How To Make a Prime Minister Paranoid | 28 |
| Jay, Jonathan Lynn and Antony | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 35 |
| The Case Against Kids | 36 |
| DeParle, Jason | |
| WHOS WHO | 43 |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 44 |
| Barclay, John | |
| The Billy Pulpit | 45 |
| Babbitt, Bruce | |
| Arbitrageurs Anonymous | 50 |
| Rothchild, John | |
| POLITICAL BOOKNOTES | 56 |
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