Harper's Magazine: August 1992

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August 1992

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Tullio Pericoli SEE ALSO: Men PDF IMAGES
2-5	Letters/Department Letters On For a more banal politics, from May 1992: Letter By John Thompson On As to my resume, Mr. Frankel, from May 1992: Letter By Shair Mani On The Anfal, from May 1992: Letter By Sabah Salih On How to get out of a locked trunk, from June 1992: Letter By David L. Patterson PDF IMAGES
7-11	Notebook/Article Captain money By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Billionaires; Career in politics; Perot, H. Ross; 1992 PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-17	Readings/Article The trickle down of judicial racism By Stephen Reinhardt SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Legal status, laws, etc.; Racism; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Pandering to the dyslexic vote? By Lois Hill Hale SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Elections; Hale, Lois Hill; Spelling errors PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Mapping L.A.'s air By Anke Kamrath and Booker Bense SEE ALSO: Air; Air quality; Los Angeles; Pollution PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article The buying of the president SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Political corruption; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Tight lips at the Census Bureau By Daniel H. Weinberg SEE ALSO: Government and the press; Government information PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article Backseat space walkers SEE ALSO: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A new boom and bust theory By Chris Clark SEE ALSO: Beauty, Personal; Breast PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article Virginia is for enemies By Christine Bridge SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Robb, Charles S.; Wilder, Doug; Governors; Politics, Practical PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Alex Double (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article A very little light SEE ALSO: Government information; Records and correspondence; Security classification (Government documents); United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Rush to judgment? SEE ALSO: Judicial process; Tampa; Trials; Women jurors PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Cartoon The drama of the inner adult SEE ALSO: Actions and defenses; Baseball for children; Inner child PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Guns and hoses By Lyn Bates PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Dying, in part(s), for dollars By Jim Hogshire SEE ALSO: Donation of organs, tissues, etc. PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Poem Heir mail PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Poem Wish you were whole PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Ghoulery PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Means to an end By Stephen J. Spignesi SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Death in literature; Horror tales, American; King, Stephen PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article The ones who live alone By Eva Sandstedt SEE ALSO: Housing; Single people; Sweden PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Blonde ambitions: The rise of Madonna studies By Daniel Harris SEE ALSO: Academic writing; Criticism and interpretation; Madonna; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Christine Spengler (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bathing suits; Beaches; Costume; Iran PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration Sacred condoms By Karen Norberg SEE ALSO: Condoms; Dolls PDF IMAGES
33-34	Readings/Article In the space of a sentence By James Linville SEE ALSO: Brodkey, Harold; Interviews; Style, Literary PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Collection Readings By Jean de Beaumont PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Mr. Ripley writes a preface By Jean de Beaumont PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Mrs. Ripley gets it off her chest By Jean de Beaumont PDF IMAGES
35	Article To be continued . . . By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Sequels (Literature) PDF IMAGES Collection To be continued . . . PDF IMAGES Fiction Gregor: My life as a bug By Jane Smiley PDF IMAGES
36-38	Fiction The late Gatsby By Jay Parini PDF IMAGES
38-41	Fiction Rabbit resurrected By David Foster Wallace PDF IMAGES
41-42	Fiction Tadzio's farewell By Paul West PDF IMAGES
42-44	Fiction Franny at fifty By Wendy Wasserstein PDF IMAGES
44-45	Fiction Gulliver goes south By John Vernon PDF IMAGES
46-47	Article The new free-trade heel: Nike's profits jump on the backs of Asian workers By Jeffrey Ballinger SEE ALSO: Corporations, American; Indonesia; Nike, Inc.; Sweatshops; Wages PDF IMAGES
48-56	Fiction I want to live! By Thom Jones PDF IMAGES
62-67	Article The last cold-war monument: Designing the “keep out” sign for a nuclear-waste site By Alan Burdick SEE ALSO: Monuments; New Mexico; Radioactive waste disposal PDF IMAGES
68-73	Article Picking plums: Fathers and sons and their lovers By Bernard Cooper SEE ALSO: Cooper, Bernard; Family; Family relationships; Gay men PDF IMAGES
74-78	Article It gets deep: Learning not to learn to swim By Frank Gannon SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Gannon, Frank; Swimming PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 116 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Milestone By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES