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January 1987

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	Photo [Cover art] By Harry Gruyaert (Photog.) SEE ALSO: City and town life; Homeless persons PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On Dreams gone to rust. The Monongahela Valley mourns for steel, from September 1986: Letter By Gil Newbold Letter By Patricia C. McCrory On A drunkard's progress. AA and the sobering strength of myth, from October 1986: Letter By Martha B. Letter By Phoenix Letter By Scott On Letters, from November 1986: Letter By John Lukacs Letter By Vickie Chapman On Teacher and plagiarist, from November 1986: Letter By Millicent V. Hay Letter By M. Wm. Krasilovsky PDF IMAGES
12-13	Notebook/Article Cautionary tales By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Television broadcasting of news; Television stations; Television viewers PDF IMAGES
14	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
16-18	Readings/Article Outside history By Lawrence Weschler PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Cartoon The whole town's whining SEE ALSO: Discontent; Negativism PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Photo Black-out time SEE ALSO: Censorship; Censorship—Pictorial works; Tambo, Oliver; South Africa; Time (American periodical) PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article Jesus freak meets pothead By Jack Reynolds SEE ALSO: Converts; Drug legalization; Evangelistic work; Marijuana; Oregon PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The Tao of Marin County SEE ALSO: Community life; Marin County PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Pet rocks SEE ALSO: Precious stones; Psychic aspects; Therapeutic use PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Call me entrepreneur SEE ALSO: Businesspeople; Entrepreneurship PDF IMAGES Readings/Article I like Harper's! SEE ALSO: Self-culture PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article Gorbachev's next move By Matthew Evangelista SEE ALSO: Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich; Military policy; 1985-1991; 1986-1991; National security; Political and social views PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Cartoon Hope for the small farmer SEE ALSO: Bestiality; Business enterprises; Swine PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Nixon: The fairway tapes By Sam Snead and George Mendoza SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Golf; Golfers; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Whoopi's blue eyes By Spike Lee and Marlaine Glicksman SEE ALSO: Interviews; Political and social views; Lee, Spike; Goldberg, Whoopi PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Shooting a buck By Richard K. Nelson SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Deer; Deer hunting; Human-animal relationships; Knowledge—Deer; Nelson, Richard K. PDF IMAGES
30-34	Readings/Article The action of metaphor By Leonard Michaels SEE ALSO: Metaphor; Storytelling PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
33	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Christo SEE ALSO: Christo; Germany. Reichstag PDF IMAGES
34-35	Readings/Fiction The red cocoon By Lane Dunlop (Trans.) and Kobo Abe PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Amy Arbus (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Lang, Charles; Homes and haunts—Pictorial works; Interior decoration; Jigsaw puzzles; Portraits PDF IMAGES
36-38	Readings/Article A visit with Yevtushenko By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Friends and associates; Homes and haunts; Journeys—Soviet Union; Psychology; Gass, William H.; Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Poem Velocity of money By Allen Ginsberg PDF IMAGES
39-49	Article Helping and hating the homeless. The struggle at the margins of America By Peter Marin SEE ALSO: Alienation (Social psychology); Homeless persons; Marginality, Social PDF IMAGES
50-51	Article Black holes in the budget. How the Pentagon spends by stealth By David C. Morrison SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Government spending policy; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
53-60	Article A state of permanent revolution: Ethiopia bleeds Red By Maria Thomas SEE ALSO: Cubans; Ethiopia; Journeys—Ethiopia; Thomas, Maria; 1974-; Soviets (People) PDF IMAGES
66-71	Fiction Research By Max Apple PDF IMAGES
72-74	Article Imagine Paris. A city, a walk, a metaphor By John Berger SEE ALSO: National characteristics, French; Paris (France) PDF IMAGES
75-76	Review Bring on the night. The stellar ambitions of the new astronomers By Laurence A. Marschall SEE ALSO: Astronomy; Raymo, Chet; Frozen star (Book); Greenstein, George; Popular works; The soul of the night (Book) PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 49 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Letters latent By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES