Harper's Magazine: May 1991

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May 1991

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Juergen Schmitt (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Baboons PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Who owes what to whom?, from February 1991: Letter By Ronald P.S. Mahler Letter By Mark L. Kleinman Letter By Doris B. Wilson Letter By Richard W. Lyman PDF IMAGES
10-15	Notebook/Article Trained seals and sitting ducks By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Mass media and the war; Persian Gulf War, 1991 PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-26	Readings/Article Influence: A buyer's guide SEE ALSO: Arizona; Meredith, Jim; Stedino, Joseph; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Hog heaven SEE ALSO: Equipment and supplies; Swine PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article We're looking for a few good spies SEE ALSO: Recruiting; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Barbara P. Norfleet (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Martha's Vineyard; Raccoons PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article CNN's hidden meanings By David John Oates SEE ALSO: Jaco, Charles; Holliman, John; Mass media and the war; Oral communication; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Arnett, Peter; Subconsciousness PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Backing up as fast as I can By Jerry MacDonald SEE ALSO: Apologizing; Labrecque, Claude; Correspondence; MacDonald, Jerry PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article The relationship is in the mail (I) SEE ALSO: Letter writing PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The relationship is in the mail (II) SEE ALSO: Greeting cards PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Paul Kuhrman and Jim Markowich SEE ALSO: Baseball cards PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Article Your softener and you SEE ALSO: Equipment and supplies; Laundry; Marketing PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The Grateful Dead: A concordance SEE ALSO: Popular music; Texts PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article My patient's suicide By Timothy E. Quill SEE ALSO: Right to die PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Cartoon The yellow ribbon crisis SEE ALSO: Public relations and politics PDF IMAGES
34-36	Readings/Article The truth in a petri dish By Miroslav Holub, David Young (Trans.), Jarmila Milner (Trans.), and Ian Milner (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Tissue culture PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Cartoon A.A. in L.A. SEE ALSO: Alcoholics; Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The highlighter crisis By Lawrence A. Beyer SEE ALSO: Reading; Study skills PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Article Van Gogh's increasing cloudiness By David Gedzelman SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Gogh, Vincent van PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Article The calculated canon SEE ALSO: Marketing PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The exile as African By Breyten Breytenbach SEE ALSO: Exiles PDF IMAGES
44	Readings/Fiction Tompkins Square By Don DeLillo SEE ALSO: Homeless persons PDF IMAGES
49-58	Article Where have all the animals gone? The lamentable extinction of zoos By Charles Siebert SEE ALSO: Human-animal relationships; Zoos PDF IMAGES
59-64	Article Defining the new world order By Ian Buruma, Owen Harries, and Richard J. Barnet (Trans.) SEE ALSO: 1989-; World politics PDF IMAGES
66-67	Article An image of appetite appeased: Food for everything but eating By Tom Thompson PDF IMAGES
68-70	Fiction Possum By Charles Baxter SEE ALSO: Brothers and sisters PDF IMAGES
71-78	Article Purpose, blame, and fire: An eight year old's introduction to war horror By Donald Hall SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Children and war; Hall, Donald PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 101 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Jigsaw By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES