| LETTERS | 1 |
| TILTING AT WINDMILLS | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| NOBEL FEVER: Why The Engineers Left The Shop Floor | 12 |
| Rowe, Jonathan | |
| HOW MONDALE MAKES HIS MONEY | 23 |
| Keisling, Phillip | |
| The Lost Roast of Gary Hart | 28 |
| Malanowski, Jamie | |
| Journalism Award | 35 |
| WHO'S WHO in the Administration | 36 |
| It Must Be Legitimate, Thelma, They Advertise in the Wall Street Journal. | 37 |
| ROWSE, ARTHUR | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 45 |
| Barclay, John | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 46 |
| The Day the PTA Stayed Home | 47 |
| Aldrich, Hope | |
| TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES | 55 |
| THE STONING OF DONALD REGAN: How I Set Off Washington's Great Gaffe Machine | 56 |
| Fallows, James | |
| POLITICAL BOOKNOTES | 58 |
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