ISSUE DATE:  MAY 1996; VOL. 292, NO. 1752

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COVER: Painting by Juan Genovds. courtesy Marlborough Gallery.

Letters: Kissing is telling . . . R. William Betcher, Amit Barniv.
Notebook: Baizac's garret . . . Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index Readings:
Collecting the Stuff of Life . . . Barbara Grizzuti Harrison.
The Bull Market in Inequality . . . PaineWebber.
A Mistake Was Made . . . Jean Chretien.
The New Math on K Street . . . Wright Andrews.
Being and Trendiness . . . Jean-Paul Sartre.
Writing the Great American Weapons Guide . . . Paladin Press.
A (Very Strange) Day at the Races . . . Salvador Dali.
And... . . . Paul Krugman, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, How to Write While You Sleep.
Forum: DOES AMERICA STILL WORK/ On the turbulent energies of the new capitalism . . . Ronald Blackwell, Albert Dunlap, George Gilder, Edward Luttwak, Robert Reich, Paul Tough.
Report: SADDAM'S INFERNO In Baghdad, things go from bad to worse . . . Paul William Roberts.
Miscellany: TOUR DE FAX Around the world, faster than ever . . . Tony Earley.
Story: SHORTCUT . . . Stephen Dixon.
Acrostic . . . Thomas H. Middleton.
Puzzle . . . Patrick D. Berry and Richard E. Maltby Jr.

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