| Correspondence | 642 |
| Editorials | 643 |
| Fairness gets a break | 645 |
| Amidei, Nancy | |
| A socialist witness | 646 |
| Fleischman, Harry | |
| The third branch | 648 |
| McCarthy, Abigail | |
| The church & the economy | 650 |
| Steidl-Meier, Paul & Nahser, F. Byron & Willis, Rachel A. & Oswald, Rudy | |
| The case for untidiness | 655 |
| Hertzberg, Arthur | |
| Putting the famine in context | 658 |
| Donders, J. G. | |
| Screen | 659 |
| O'Brien, Tom | |
| Critics' Christmas choices | 662 |
| Howard, Jane & Batchelor, John Calvin & McCormmach, Russell & Whitehead, Evelyn Eaton & Hage, Richard E. & Shannon, Elizabeth & May, William F. & Ponsot, Marie & Horowitz, Irving Louis & Miles, Margaret R. |
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