Harper's Magazine: November 1993

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November 1993

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Maxwell MacKenzie (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Rural schools; School buildings PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On New rules about sex on campus, from September 1993: Letter By Marc Rogers Letter By Michelle Fogus Letter By Steve Messina Letter By “Name Withheld” Letter By Ian Morris Letter By Mary S. Bell Letter By Holly Furdyna Letter By William M. Dingfelder Letter By Allen Smalling Letter By Marianna Scheffer PDF IMAGES
10-13	Notebook/Article Yellow brick road By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Consumption (Economics); Land of desire (Book); 1865-1918; 1918-1932; Leach, William PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Article Men's bodies, men's selves By John Updike SEE ALSO: Body, Human; Men; Mind and body; Sex differences PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Safe-sex small talk SEE ALSO: Condoms; Conversation PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo The family By Ton Huijbers (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Family—Pictorial works; Netherlands; Nudity; Huijbers, Ton PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Sarajevo on $0 a day By Miroslav Prstojeviâc and Aleksandra Wagner (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina); Siege, 1992-1996 PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Illustration The economy's moving again! SEE ALSO: Labor costs; Offshore assembly industry; Yucatán Peninsula PDF IMAGES
21-23	Readings/Article Guilty of chutzpah SEE ALSO: Actions and defenses; Claims vs. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; Dotson, Harold W.; Narcotic addicts; Thieves PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Ode to the new California By William J. Knight PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article A note from the school nurse SEE ALSO: Abortion PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article A pro-life equation By Randy C. Alcorn SEE ALSO: Abortion; Assassination; Gunn, David; Murder; Pro-life movement PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Clean your plate! By Thomas Lee Gillette SEE ALSO: Evidence, Expert; Obscene words; Personalized license plates; Braverman, Randy; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article What gives with Joe Biden? By Terry Southern SEE ALSO: Health—Humor; Biden, Joseph R.; Smile; Tic disorders PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Becoming a leader: The teen years SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Clinton, Bill; Childhood and youth; Homes and haunts—Arkansas—Hot Springs; Hot Springs; Hot Springs (Ark.); Teenage boys; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The Pentagon's real gay policy: Ask, don't listen SEE ALSO: Gays; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Map All the king's fans SEE ALSO: Appreciation—United States—20th century; Demography; Presley, Elvis; Rock music fans PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article The word in Mogadishu By Rob Krott SEE ALSO: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Slang; Somalia PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Diary of an exile returning home By Breyten Breytenbach SEE ALSO: Breytenbach, Breyten; Diaries; 1961-; South Africa PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Mix it up, and they will come By David Tippets SEE ALSO: Baseball; Violence in sports PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Men; Public opinion; Public opinion polls PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article On not writing By George Plimpton and James Linville SEE ALSO: Authorship; Lebowitz, Fran; Women authors, American; Writer's block PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Photo Cranberry harvesting By Alex S. MacLean (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cranberries; Harvesting; Plymouth PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The dark beauty of the cigarette By Richard Klein SEE ALSO: Cigarettes; Smoking PDF IMAGES
39-46	Article America skips school: Why we talk so much about education and do so little By Benjamin R. Barber SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Education and state PDF IMAGES
48-49	Article The song-and-dance remains the same: Selling Congress planes we don't need to fight enemies we don't have By David Segal SEE ALSO: Defense contracts; Jet planes, Military PDF IMAGES
50-57	Article Tales from the cutting-room floor: The reality of “reality-based” television By Debra Seagal SEE ALSO: —Career as story analyst for American detective (Television program); Seagal, Debra; Production and direction; Reality television programs; Television PDF IMAGES
58-69	Article Can an ape tell a joke? Learning from a Las Vegas orangutan act By Vicki Hearne SEE ALSO: Animal trainers; Animal training; Berosini, Bobby; Career as animal trainer; Entertainers; Las Vegas; Nevada; Orangutan; Training; Working animals PDF IMAGES
70-82	Fiction Trick or treat By Padgett Powell PDF IMAGES
83	Double acrostic/Department No. 131 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
84	Puzzle/Department Celebration By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES