Harper's Magazine: December 1991

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December 1991

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Jeremy Wolff (Photog.) SEE ALSO: College buildings PDF IMAGES
4-9	Letters/Department Letters On Written in the big wind, from September 1991: Letter By Joe Witte On What's wrong with animal rights, from September 1991: Letter By Ethan Gilsdorf Letter By Gary L. Francione Letter By Elizabeth L. DeCoux Letter By Jonathan McVity Letter By Gene Fendt Letter By Mary Sternberg Letter By Terrence O'Keeffe On The bard of baseball, from October 1991: Letter By Lorraine LaFemina On Unlawful, unelected, and unchecked, from October 1991: Letter By David G. Gardner PDF IMAGES
10-15	Notebook/Article More light By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Hill, Anita; Thomas, Clarence; Investigation; Legislative hearings; Nomination to U.S. Supreme Court; Selection and appointment; Sexual harassment; Testimony in congressional hearings regarding Clarence Thomas PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-22	Readings/Article My daily dives in the dumpster By Lars Eighner SEE ALSO: Career as scavenger; Homeless persons; Eighner, Lars; Ragpickers; Salvage (Waste, etc.) PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Beyond spare change SEE ALSO: Begging; Berkeley; Charities; Homeless persons; Services for PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo Mario By Philip-Lorca DiCorcia (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Kitchens; Men; Refrigerators PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Dope By Collin, III Hudson SEE ALSO: Business cards; Crack (Drug); Narcotics dealers; Richmond PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Vegetable house SEE ALSO: Entertaining; New Brunswick; Rules and practice PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article In a coma through the coup By Timothy Sultan (Trans.) and Chris Alexander (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Attempted coup, 1991; Health; Prime ministers; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Treason); Pavlov, V.S. (Valentin Sergeevich) PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Condoms; Parent and child; Sex instruction for boys PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Dialing for the death penalty By W. Lee Rawls SEE ALSO: Capital punishment; Lobbying PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A real blast SEE ALSO: Ammunition PDF IMAGES
28-32	Readings/Article The Bob Hope special you can't turn off By Sally Fox SEE ALSO: Hope, Bob; Government correspondence; Mentally ill women; Miscellanea; Paranoia PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article 'Tis the season to be clumsy SEE ALSO: Christmas decorations; Health aspects; Home accidents PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article Engine trouble SEE ALSO: Chicago tribune (American newspaper); Errata PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Thomas, Clarence; O'Connor, Sandra Day; Sexual harassment of women; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Reading Roman walls By Antonio Varone SEE ALSO: Graffiti; Inscriptions, Latin; Pompeii; Translations into English PDF IMAGES
34-38	Readings/Article Reading books, great or otherwise By Katha Pollitt SEE ALSO: Canon (Literature); Curricula PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article Instant classics SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Latin language PDF IMAGES
38-39	Readings/Article Selling our innocence abroad By Pico Iyer SEE ALSO: American influences; Civilization, Modern; Foreign public opinion; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Illustration Fred and Barney's Mongolian adventure SEE ALSO: Mongolia; Postage stamps PDF IMAGES
42	Readings/Article Chatting with my idol's dad By Brian LaFountain SEE ALSO: Harry, Debbie; Family; Family relationships; Interviews; Harry, Richard; Rock music fans; Women rock musicians; Women singers PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The sixties By David Shields PDF IMAGES
45	Readings/Photo Great Russians, August '91 By Wojtek Laski (Photog.) and Vladimir Sichov (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Attempted coup, 1991; Russians PDF IMAGES
47-56	Article What are universities for? The real crisis on campus is one of identity By Louis Menand SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Curricula; Education, Higher PDF IMAGES
57-61	Article What campus radicals? The P.C. undergrad is a useful specter By Rosa Ehrenreich SEE ALSO: Harvard University; Political correctness PDF IMAGES
62-67	Article Beggaring our better selves: The tug of the outstretched hand, day after day By Lynne Sharon Schwartz SEE ALSO: Beggars; Begging; Charity PDF IMAGES
68-78	Article Tennis, trigonometry, tornadoes: A Midwestern boyhood By David Foster Wallace SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Wallace, David Foster; Suburban life; Teenage boys; Tennis; Tornadoes; Training PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 108 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Migratory pattern By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES