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October 1988

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Bruno Barbey (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Flags PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The geography of ancestry, from June 1988: Letter By Danette Jones On The reason for stories, from June 1988: Letter By Alfie Kohn On Harper's index, from July 1988: Letter By Rose Anne Swan On Toward something American, from July 1988: Letter By Charles R. Edris On A will to cultural power, from July 1988: Letter By David Seeley Letter By Tom McBride Letter By Ben Birnbaum On Small-hands Chen, from August 1988: Letter By Jane Owen On Sad tales of la libertad de prensa, from August 1988: Letter By Mark Fried PDF IMAGES
9-12	Notebook/Article Elegy for a lost enemy By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Cold War; 1981-1989; 1985-1991 PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article A Jew's grief By George Steiner SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Attitudes toward Israel; Foreign public opinion; Israel; Israel and the diaspora; Jews PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article Great books and bayonets By Cyrus Veeser SEE ALSO: Civilization, Western PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Map The geography of political volatility SEE ALSO: Maps PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Contempt in court SEE ALSO: Forms of address; Pittsburgh; Trials PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Israel; Vandalism PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article How do you feel about women's centers? SEE ALSO: College teachers; Employment interviewing; Feminism and education; Selection and appointment; Women in education PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Sing along with Rehnquist By William H. Rehnquist PDF IMAGES
24-28	Readings/Article Politics and the character factor By Nicholas Xenos SEE ALSO: Character; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article At least we spelled your name right SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Corrections; Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc.; Veterans PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article Miss Manners goes to Seoul SEE ALSO: Korea (South); Travel etiquette PDF IMAGES
30-34	Readings/Fiction Zapatos By T. Coraghessan Boyle (Trans.) and Filéncio Salmón PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration President makers SEE ALSO: Finland; Political posters; Pregnant women PDF IMAGES
34-39	Readings/Article Quabbin By Nicholas Knowles Bromell SEE ALSO: Consciousness; Economics; Thoreau, Henry David; Philosophy; Walking PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Cow project By Alexander Beck (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cows; Installations (Art); Landscape PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Article Ruminant By Conger Beasley SEE ALSO: Anatomy PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Photo A grove of birches By Gretchen Garner (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Birch; Forests and forestry; Seasons PDF IMAGES
43-49	Article The new god will fail: Moscow By George Feifer SEE ALSO: 1970-1991; 1985-1991; 1986-1991; Perestroika PDF IMAGES
50-51	Article Filling out the last form: The bureaucrat at death's door By Michael Zimecki SEE ALSO: Causes; Classification; Mortality; Proof and certification; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
53-58	Fiction On the flats By George H. Rosen PDF IMAGES
59-63	Article In my backyard: A visit to the proposed national nuclear waste repository By William Kittredge SEE ALSO: Journeys—Nevada—Yucca Mountain; Nevada; Radioactive waste sites; Kittredge, William; Yucca Mountain PDF IMAGES
64-70	Article Vicissitudes of the avant-garde: In search of a worthy “no” By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Opposition, Theory of PDF IMAGES
71-76	Article Memories official and unofficial: Notes on nationalism By Hans Koning SEE ALSO: National liberation movements; Nationalism PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 70 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department No unches By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES

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