Harper's Magazine: May 1988

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May 1988

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration Battle of Cowpens By Oscar De Mejo SEE ALSO: Art and the revolution; Cowpens, Battle of, 1781 PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On How Republicans “spread” AIDS, from February 1988: Letter By William E. Dannemeyer On Hunting in earnest, from February 1988: Letter By Steve Gallizioli On When free speech was first condemned, from February 1988: Letter By Peter Marin Letter By Godfrey D. Lehman Letter By Miles Hawthorne Letter By William R. Cozart Letter By Robert Payne On A dwarf for all seasons, from March 1988: Letter By Paul Rusdorf On The profit in work's pleasure, from March 1988: Letter By John G.B. Howland PDF IMAGES
12-13	Notebook/Article Skywriting By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Authors and readers; Marketing PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Article The President's script SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Mnemonics; Reagan, Ronald; Staff PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Attorneys general; Caricatures and cartoons; Meese, Edwin; 1981-1989; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Shopping with the contras By Robert W. Duemling SEE ALSO: Counterrevolutionaries; Humanitarian assistance, American; 1979-1990; Nicaragua PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Voice of the uprising By David Kuttab (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Gaza Strip; Intifada, 1987-; West Bank PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article A Presidential flubometer By Louis A. (Louis August) Gottschalk, Regina L. Uliana, and Ronda Gilbert SEE ALSO: Campaign debates; Career as U.S. president; Health; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Surfin' Salvador SEE ALSO: El Salvador; Guerrilla warfare; Surfing PDF IMAGES Readings/Article There is a limit By Willis Johnson (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Gaza Strip; Israel. Army; Jewish-Arab relations; Military offenses; 1973-; Regulations; West Bank PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration Street manners By Ilona Granet SEE ALSO: Sexual harassment of women; Street signs PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article A plea from Czech punks By Z. Jetelka (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Czechoslovakia; Husák, Gustáv; Police; Punk culture PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The limits of Perestroika By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Interviews; Mixed economy; 1985-1991; Perestroika; Men'shikov, S.M. (Stanislav Mikhailovich) PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Golden arches on Red Square By Petra Karin Kelly SEE ALSO: Germany (West); 1985-1991; Perestroika PDF IMAGES
28-32	Readings/Article Acceptable risks: Who decides? By Barry Commoner SEE ALSO: Dioxins; Environmental policy; Environmental Protection Agency; Pollution; Risk assessment PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Article Axis of fear By Paul Slovic SEE ALSO: Crisis management; Disaster relief; Fear; Public Relations PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article How to find a baby By Cynthia D. Martin SEE ALSO: Adoption; Pregnancy, Unwanted; Teenage pregnancy PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Photo Jersey lights By Jan Staller (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The trial of Allan Bloom By Frank Gannon PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Fast food restaurants PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Elkin of Stanleyness By Stanley Elkin SEE ALSO: Onomasiology PDF IMAGES
38-39	Readings/Poem Elective mutes By Lucie Brock-Broido PDF IMAGES
41-49	Article In defense of politics By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Historiography; Political science; Power (Social sciences) PDF IMAGES
52-53	Article Little hope for fewer missiles: Why START will stall By Fred M. Kaplan SEE ALSO: Nuclear arms control; Verification PDF IMAGES
54-64	Fiction Hidalgos By Bob Shacochis PDF IMAGES
66-68	Article Informed by indifference: A walk in Antarctica By Barry Holstun Lopez SEE ALSO: Antarctica PDF IMAGES
69-73	Article Brave new foods: Forging a microwave cuisine By Erik Larson PDF IMAGES
74-76	Article Ifs: Destiny and the archduke's chauffeur By Hans Koning SEE ALSO: Fate and fatalism; Miscellanea PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 65 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Quadrilateral By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES