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| Correspondence | 2 |
| Editorial | 3 |
| Notebook | 5 |
| Steinfels, Margaret O 'Brien | |
| Can Republicans govern? | 6 |
| McWilliams, Wilson Carey | |
| The future of foreign policy | 7 |
| Hehir, J. Bryan | |
| Can we still talk? | 9 |
| Ellis, Susan & Marino, Gordon | |
| Poetry | 11 |
| Siegel, Joan I. | |
| A modest proposal | 12 |
| Law, Ishmael | |
| Screen | 13 |
| Alleva, Richard | |
| Critics' choices for Christmas | 15 |
| Mason, Alane & Hansen, Ron & Weakland, Rembert G. & Maitland, Sara & McConnell, Frank & Coles, Robert & Keen, Suzanne | |
| City lights | 31 |
| Byrne, Henry J. |
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