ISSUE DATE: AUGUST 1990; VOL. 281, NO. 1683

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COVER: Photograph by Barry Marcus.

Letters: Child abuse and justice Michael Curtis, Jane E. Johnston, others.
Notebook: Sermons and soda water: Lewis H. Lapham.
Harper's Index.

READINGS:
Inside Qin Cheng Prison . . . Anonymous.
The Thrill of Poverty . . . Thomas Monaghan.
Hudson Bay of Pigs? . . . Floyd W. Rudmin.
Anti-Semitism and the New Europe . . . Ian Buruma.
Road Worrier . . . Mel Gibson, on "Hamlet".
Observations and Experiments" . . . a poem by Annie Dillard.
Edward's Anecdote" . . . a poem by Donald Hall.
And... Edward Hoagland, Hugh Gallagher, New Albania magazine.

Essay . . . THE STIRRINGS OF HISTORY . . . John Lukacs . . . A new world rises from the ruins of empire.

Story . . . DEATH BY LANDSCAPE . . . Margaret Atwood.

Annotation . . . CRACKING THE ELECTRONIC WHIP . . . Sharon Danann . . . Meet the new boss: Computerized evaluation.

Miscellany . . . WINGED . . . Ursula K. Le Guin . . . The creatures on my mind.

Texas Letter . . . BORDERLINE CASES . . . Earl Shorris . . . The violent passage across the Rio Grande.

Acrostic . . . Thomas H. Middleton.
Puzzle . . . E. R. Galli and Richard Maltby Jr.

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