| LETTERS | 2 |
| Tilting at Windmills | 6 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| Why Are Droves of Unqualified, Unprepared Kids Getting into Our Top Colleges? | 10 |
| Larew, John | |
| Hack in the USSR | 16 |
| Kniazkov, Maxim | |
| WHO'S WHO | 24 |
| Lethal Weapon | 25 |
| Shumate, Richard | |
| The Washington Monthly JOURNALISM AWARD | 28 |
| The W-2 Step | 29 |
| Bennet, James | |
| TIDBITS & OUTRAGES | 33 |
| What Mother Teresa Could Learn in a Leather Bar | 34 |
| Boo, Katherine | |
| MEMO OF THE MONTH | 41 |
| Bookshelves of the Vanities | 42 |
| Gill, John Freeman | |
| ON POLITICAL BOOKS Cliffhanging | 48 |
| Alter, Jonathan | |
| National Endowment for Administrators | 51 |
| Mundy, Liza | |
| POLITICAL PUZZLE | 54 |
| Barclay, John | |
| POLITICAL BOOKNOTES | 55 |
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