Harper's Magazine: March 1992

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March 1992

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Gianfranco Gorgoni (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Beaches; Cuba; Havana; Roads PDF IMAGES
4-78	Letters/Department Letters On History lesson, from November 1991: Letter By Khalil Rohoman Letter By G.E. Mortimore On Mixed blood, from November 1991: Letter By Micaela Rubalcava Letter By Elizabeth Walser On Standards, from November 1991: Letter By Helga Sandburg On What are universities for? The real crisis on campus is one of identity, from December 1991: Letter By Susan Clayton Letter By David Rankin On Tennis, trigonometry, tornadoes, from December 1991: Letter By Richard Elman On Obstacles and desire, from January 1992: Letter By Margo L. Tarasov Cartun PDF IMAGES
7-10	Notebook/Article Journey to the East By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Foreign economic relations; Bush, George; Journeys—Japan; Visits of state PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-17	Readings/Article The new economics of high technology By Lester C. Thurow SEE ALSO: Competition, International; Manufacturing processes; Research and development contracts; Technological innovations PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Campaign debates; Caricatures and cartoons; Bush, George PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article The mother of all petals SEE ALSO: Peace; Persian Gulf War, 1991 PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The unified theory of everything SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Cycles PDF IMAGES
19-22	Readings/Article How to sell a nuclear dump SEE ALSO: Nevada; Nuclear industry; Public Relations; Radioactive waste sites PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Just a coincidence? By Lucy Harvey SEE ALSO: Chronology, Historical; Coincidence; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. PDF IMAGES
22-26	Readings/Article Playing the primary chords By Jay Rosen SEE ALSO: Advertising, Political; Communication in politics; Mass media; 1989-1993; 1992; The responsive chord (Book); Schwartz, Tony PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo A Republican party, Neiman-Marcus department store, Republican National Convention, Dallas 1984 By Jeff Jacobson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dallas; Elephants; Republicans PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Risks of romance SEE ALSO: Contracts; Dating (Social customs); Game shows PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article For sale: Data about you SEE ALSO: Privacy, Right of; Public records PDF IMAGES
27-30	Readings/Article Politics and the culture of contentment By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Contentment; Middle class; 1981-; 1981-1993; 1989-1993 PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Scenting a generation gap By Alan R. Hirsch SEE ALSO: Generations; Nostalgia; Odors PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Rick V. By Adrienne Salinger (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bedrooms; Personal paraphernalia; Teenage boys PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Amie D. By Adrienne Salinger (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bedrooms; Personal paraphernalia; Teenage girls PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Leslie M. By Adrienne Salinger (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bedrooms; Personal paraphernalia; Teenage girls PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Boy with self portrait By Denise Marcotte (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bedrooms; Personal paraphernalia; Self-portraits, American; Teenage boys PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Help wanted, badly SEE ALSO: Employment interviewing PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By David Liittschwager (Photog.) and Susan Middleton (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Birds; Endangered species PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Shoplifting casualties By Edgardo Cozarinsky PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Article Dos and don'ts of human extinction SEE ALSO: Extinction (Biology); Genocide PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Audiocassettes; Butterflies; Innocence (Psychology); Peddlers and peddling; Selling PDF IMAGES Readings/Article American fiction and its reach By Stanley Elkin SEE ALSO: Health; Literature and society; Elkin, Stanley PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Poem Inventing angels By Gary Fincke PDF IMAGES
36-46	Article Havana then and now: Revisiting a city once again in history's straits By Robert Stone SEE ALSO: Cuba; Havana; Havana (Cuba); Journeys—Cuba—Havana; Stone, Robert PDF IMAGES
48-55	Fiction Charlotte By Tony Earley PDF IMAGES
56-57	Article Out-of-bounds lines? All the marks of multicultural gerrymandering By Michael Tomasky SEE ALSO: Apportionment (Election law); Gerrymandering; Houston; Minorities; Suffrage PDF IMAGES
58-63	Article Russian winter tales: Of snow and shortages, dread and metaphor By Jamey Gambrell SEE ALSO: 1991-; Russia (Federation); Winter PDF IMAGES
68-72	Article Time on ice: Images and encounters frozen in the Arctic By Gretel Ehrlich SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Kelly, Brendan; Ehrlich, Gretel; Journeys—Arctic regions; Knowledge—Ringed seal; Scientific expeditions PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 111 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department No unches By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES