Harper's Magazine: March 1995

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March 1995

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Tullio Pericoli SEE ALSO: Boars; Fruit; Vases PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On California's elected anarchy, from November 1994: Letter By Harold M. Isbell Letter By Niel Lynch On Nothing ventured, from November 1994: Letter By Susan Lasher Letter By Tom Whiting On Life as we know it, from December 1994: Letter By Steven Pinker Letter By Emily Perl Kingsley, Charles R. Kingsley, Barbara Levitz, and Jack Levitz Letter By Vivian Norris-Schwinn On The closing of the American mine, from December 1994: Letter By Jim Grossfeld PDF IMAGES
9	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
11-13	Readings/Article Listening to boredom By Joseph Brodsky SEE ALSO: Baccalaureate addresses; Boredom; Time PDF IMAGES
12	Readings/Collection Readings By Martha Madigan (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Spring (Grace) By Martha Madigan (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Leaves PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Clara By Martha Madigan (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Leaves PDF IMAGES
13	Readings/Article It's the accessories, stupid By Patricia McKeon SEE ALSO: Costume; Dress accessories; Legislators' spouses PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Ethnic cleansing: A who's who SEE ALSO: Arkan; Biography; Croatia; Dragan; Serbia and Montenegro; War criminals; Yugoslav War, 1991 PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Judging from experience? By Robert, Jr. Elder SEE ALSO: Ethics; Mansfield, Stephen W.; Truthfulness and falsehood; Vocational qualifications PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Collection Readings By Elise Mitchell Sanford (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Margaret Killough as Thurgood Marshall By Elise Mitchell Sanford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: African American women; Clothing; Costume; Killough, Margaret; Portraits; Marshall, Thurgood PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Anne Clark Culbert as Veronica Lake By Elise Mitchell Sanford (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Actresses; Culbert, Anne Clark; Clothing; Costume; Portraits; Lake, Veronica PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Taking aim at the youth market SEE ALSO: Firearms industry and trade; Firearms ownership; Public Relations; Students as consumers PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Last words (extended version) By Raymond Kinnamon SEE ALSO: Death row inmates; Executions and executioners; Last words PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Catherine Henriette (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chain restaurants; Kentucky Fried Chicken (Chain restaurant); Shanghai PDF IMAGES Readings/Article No more Mr. White Guy SEE ALSO: Caucasian race; Race identity; Racism PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Cartoon Targeting the homeless orphan SEE ALSO: Homeless children; Orphans; Porridge; Vending machines PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Weighing the human interest rate By Robert L. Heilbroner SEE ALSO: Economics; Economists PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Albania: The next paradise SEE ALSO: Albania; Emigration and immigration; Kurtz, Gerhard; How to become rich in Albania (Book); Wealth PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article The work ahead SEE ALSO: Employment forecasting; Forecasting; Professions PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Before the beat goes on By Allen Ginsberg SEE ALSO: Ginsberg, Allen; Contracts; Oral interpretation of poetry; Performances; Poets, American PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Sports meltdown By Neal Pollack PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] SEE ALSO: Knight, Bobby; Dolls; Portraits; Statues; Alberts, Tom PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Photo Everts Township homestead II By Maxwell MacKenzie (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Abandoned farms; Dwellings; Everts Township; Minnesota PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Losing ourselves in biography By Sven Birkerts SEE ALSO: Biography as a literary form PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Bretmania: The next generation By Janine Wilkins SEE ALSO: Appreciation—20th century; Authors and readers; Ellis, Bret Easton PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Vietnam: What I remember By David W. Powell SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. Marine in Vietnam; Powell, David W.; United States Marine Corps; Personal narratives, American; Veterans; Vietnam PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] SEE ALSO: Abkhaziia; Georgia (Republic); Marx, Groucho; Lennon, John; On postage stamps; Portraits on postage stamps; Postage stamps PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The currency of dreams By James Buchan SEE ALSO: Bank notes; Collectors and collecting; Finance, Personal; Buchan, James; Money; Wealth PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Poem One explanation By Jennifer O'Grady PDF IMAGES
31-42	Article Reactionary chic: How the nineties right recycles the bombast of the sixties left By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Conservatism; 1963-1969; 1993-; Gingrich, Newt; Oratory; Radicalism; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
43-53	Collection A revolution, or business as usual? PDF IMAGES Article A revolution, or business as usual? By William Kristol, Frank I. Luntz, Mike Murphy, James P. Pinkerton, Ralph Reed, and David Frum SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Caricatures and cartoons; Leadership; 1993-; Gingrich, Newt; Public Relations; Reed, Ralph; The Republican Party; United States. Congress; Kristol, William PDF IMAGES
46	Article Balancing the budget—what gets cut SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures PDF IMAGES
52	Quotation The values agenda: Then and now By Ralph Reed and Patrick Buchanan SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Family policy; 1989- PDF IMAGES
54-66	Article For sale: Used Marxism By Marc Cooper SEE ALSO: Commerce; Cuba; Dollar, American; Havana (Cuba); Journeys—Cuba; Cooper, Marc; Money; 1959- PDF IMAGES
67-76	Fiction The woodcarver's tale By Mark Slouka PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 147 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Smart set By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES