Harper's Magazine: January 1990

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January 1990

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration The senate By William Gropper SEE ALSO: United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The futility of global thinking, from September 1989: Letter By Karen Leigh Stroup On Berlitz from hell, from September 1989: Letter By Anthony F. Tedesco On The quiet coup, from September 1989: Letter By Karen Osowitz Letter By Steven L. Katz On Harper's index, from October 1989: Letter By Rhys Thomas On Reassurance, from November 1989: Letter By Ian Dunham PDF IMAGES
8-11	Notebook/Article Annus mirabilis By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; Civilization, Modern; Cold War PDF IMAGES
13-20	Readings/Article When worlds collide By John Lofton SEE ALSO: Ginsberg, Allen; Interviews; Poets, American; Sexual fantasies; Sexual orientation PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Animal welfare PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Educational calling SEE ALSO: Dial-a-message telephone calls PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Prayers à la carte By Reverend Ike SEE ALSO: Career in ministry; Reverend Ike PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Choose your weapon SEE ALSO: Firearms; Slang PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Bidding Mr. Ovitz adieu By Joe Eszterhas SEE ALSO: Career in motion picture industry; Career in screenwriting; Eszterhas, Joe; Literary agents; Ovitz, Michael; Motion picture industry; Screenwriters; Threats PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo Landscape in forward motion By Stephen Fox (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Roads PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article Putting on the squeeze SEE ALSO: Career in entertainment; Entertainers; Food service; Nutrition; Allen, Steve; Television broadcasting PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article And justice for dogs By David B. Saxe SEE ALSO: Divorce settlements; Dog owners; Pet owners PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Successful mingling By Susan RoAne SEE ALSO: Conversation; Social skills PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Newlyweds, newly considered By Jerome (Jerome H.) Stern SEE ALSO: Game shows; Married people; Privacy PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Death takes a sabbatical SEE ALSO: Mortality; -Statistics; Undertakers and undertaking PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article One Europe, under criticism By Milan Kundera and Lois Oppenheim (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Criticism; European literature PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Cartoon PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Lynn Davis (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Greenland; Icebergs PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Article Train of thought By Bernard Cooper SEE ALSO: Terms and phrases PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article One-way tickets SEE ALSO: Aged PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Life with father By Itabari Njeri SEE ALSO: African American families; African American fathers; Childhood and youth; Njeri, Itabari; Race discrimination PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By William Wegman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Weimaraners (Dogs) PDF IMAGES
41-44	Harper's index/Department The decade by number PDF IMAGES
45-55	Article What's wrong with the Democrats? By Jack Hitt SEE ALSO: Boxer, Barbara; Frank, Barney; Barber, Benjamin R.; Babbitt, Bruce E.; Democratic Party (U.S.); Townsend, Kathleen; 1981-1989; 1989-; Reich, Robert B.; Burris, Roland; Views on Democratic Party PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article This time, it could be AIDS: An anxious gloss of a lab report By John Preston SEE ALSO: Diagnosis, Laboratory; HIV-positive persons PDF IMAGES
60-69	Fiction Witness By Madison Smartt Bell SEE ALSO: Family violence; Legal stories PDF IMAGES
70-75	Capital letter/Article A few questions for Poindexter: He could have much to say about Iran-Contra By Christopher Hitchens SEE ALSO: Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Poindexter, John M.; North, Oliver; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
76-82	Article Bound upon a wheel of fire: To burn for flames By Sallie Tisdale SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Fire; Fire fighters; Tisdale, Sallie PDF IMAGES
83	Double acrostic/Department No. 85 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
84	Puzzle/Department Answers first By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES