| LETTERS | 4 |
| TILTING AT WINDMILLS | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| How Chip Carter Got His New Job | 10 |
| Kurtz, Howie | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 18 |
| WHO'S WHO | 19 |
| Survival Networks: Staying in Washington | 22 |
| Lemann, Nicholas | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 33 |
| The Screwing of the Average Fan: Edward Bennett Williams and the Washington Redskins | 34 |
| Nocera, Joseph | |
| What's Wrong With Sociology | 42 |
| Nelson, Michael | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 50 |
| Barclay, John | |
| Tapping the Federal Till the Occidental Way | 51 |
| Gilroy, Tom | |
| RICHARD REEVES ON POLITICAL BOOKS | 55 |
| POLITICAL BOOK NOTES | 59 |
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