| LETTERS | 2 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| General Failure | 11 |
| Shuger, Scott | |
| WHO'S WHO | 19 |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 20 |
| FINE-TUNING THE FREE MARKET Stock Buybacks: The Corporate Con You're Still Falling For | 21 |
| Fischetti, Mark | |
| FINE-TUNING THE FREE MARKET Stock Buybacks: Beyond Beauty Schools | 26 |
| Boo, Katherine | |
| Kicking the Oil Habit | 32 |
| Gray, Peter | |
| Trivia Pursuit | 36 |
| Hamilton, David P. | |
| The Senate's Lame Doves | 43 |
| Bennet, James | |
| THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY JOURNALISM AWARD | 46 |
| POLITICAL BOOK AWARD | 48 |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS: Class Can't Be Dismissed | 49 |
| Fallows, James | |
| Days of Whine and Poses | 51 |
| Waldman, Steven | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 54 |
| Productivity with a Human Face | 55 |
| Maccoby, Michael | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 57 |
| Political Booknotes | 58 |
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