Harper's Magazine: February 1988

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February 1988

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Richard Merkin SEE ALSO: Three monkeys (Motif) PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On Parse one for the Gipper, from July 1987: Letter By Ollie Phillips On Readings, from November 1987: Letter By Katherine Meyer On Cupcake land. Requiem for the Midwest in the key of vanilla, from November 1987: Letter By Ruth Slickman On And now, for something cheap. What's coming up and going down at PBS, from November 1987: Letter By Mary Jane McKinven Letter By Jack D. Neefus On Where money has little currency. Travels in East Germany, from November 1987: Letter By Rafael Apélian On Standing up for the banana, from December 1987: Letter By N.D. Smith Letter By Colleen Anderson On Miami to New York, from December 1987: Letter By M. Abrams On Gazing into Bergdorf's window. Reflections on the higher shopping, from December 1987: Letter By M. Abrams PDF IMAGES
13-15	Notebook/Article A wish for kings By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Legislative hearings; 1945-1989; Political corruption; Subversive activities PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
18-22	Readings/Article On thinking through a little problem By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Sex role PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Attorneys general; Caricatures and cartoons; Meese, Edwin; 1981-1989; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Crisis management; Pistol shooting PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The “that's old news” strategy By John Thorner SEE ALSO: Anti-environmentalism; Dioxins; Environmental aspects; Environmental Protection Agency; Public relations and politics PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article How Republicans “spread” AIDS By Chuck Rund SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Politics, Practical; The Republican Party; San Francisco PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A short history of love By Lawrence Stone SEE ALSO: Love in literature; Marriage customs and rites PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article AIDS alert SEE ALSO: AIDS phobia; Oklahoma PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Terry Yank (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Aggressiveness (Psychology) in children; Pedestrians PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Poem First we set up the chairs By Ariel Dorfman and Edith Grossman (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
36-38	Readings/Article Art and money SEE ALSO: Artists; Counterfeits and counterfeiting; Interviews; Boggs, J.S.G. (James Stephen George); Legal status, laws, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Butlers; Financial crises; Suicide victims PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Article New naval options SEE ALSO: Uniforms; United States. Navy PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Word perfect By Jeremy P. Tarcher SEE ALSO: Definition (Logic); Lexicology PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Anders S. Nordström (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bathing; Gaze; Infants; Masks; Sweden PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Gorilla tales By Donald E. McLeod SEE ALSO: Animals in advertising; Gorilla; Queries (Authorship) PDF IMAGES
42-44	Readings/Article Hunting in earnest By Edward Abbey SEE ALSO: Biography; Deer hunting; Abbey, Edward; Hunting customs; Small game hunting PDF IMAGES
43	Readings/Illustration Hunt By Mark Dean SEE ALSO: Bear hunting PDF IMAGES
45-56	Collection Hearing nothing, saying nothing PDF IMAGES Article Reviewing the book By Joe Conason, Daniel Schorr, Walter Karp, Leslie Cockburn, and Sam Dash SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Executive privilege (Government information); Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Legislative hearings; Political corruption; Reagan, Ronald; Subversive activities PDF IMAGES
48	Article A selected chronology SEE ALSO: Chronology; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990 PDF IMAGES
53	Article The Meese inquiry SEE ALSO: Attorneys general; Career as U.S. attorney general; Conflict of interests; Meese, Edwin; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990 PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article Invitation to a murder: Colombian death squads send a message By Jamie Fellner SEE ALSO: Assassination; Colombia; Death squads; 1970-; 1974- PDF IMAGES
60-65	Article When free speech was first condemned: The trial of Socrates reconsidered By I.F. (Isidor F.) Stone SEE ALSO: Democracy; Freedom of speech; Plato; Socrates; Translations; Trials, litigation, etc.; Xenophon PDF IMAGES
66-72	Fiction Customs of the country By Madison Smartt Bell PDF IMAGES
73-76	Article Cookies with the candidate: New Hampshire's living-room politics By Donald Hall SEE ALSO: 1951-; Primaries PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 62 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Mirror image By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES