Harper's Magazine: December 1996

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December 1996

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Odd Nerdrum PDF IMAGES
4-78	Letters/Department Letters On Lights, camera, democracy! On the conventions of a make-believe republic, from August 1996: Letter By Henry Welsh Letter By Marion Davidson Letter By Mike Kelly On Should the clinics come to Davenport?, from August 1996: Letter By Daniel L. Kline Letter By James Larsen Letter By Leslie Nuss Letter By Tim Townsend On The only girl in the car, from August 1996: Letter By “Name Withheld” Letter By Charles M. Luther On True west, from September 1996: Letter By William Corcoran Letter By Todd Lundgren On Dragon fiction, from September 1996: Letter By Gary Brown Letter By Peter T. Chattaway Letter By David Ritchie On Lending Big Brother a hand, from October 1996: Letter By Paul M. Cashman PDF IMAGES
8-10	Notebook/Article Dies irae By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Millennialism; Bork, Robert H.; Slouching towards Gomorrah (Book) PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-18	Readings/Article Hiding behind the ban By Arjun Makhijani and Hisham Zerriffi SEE ALSO: Nuclear arms control; Nuclear weapons; Nuclear weapons industry; Testing PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article D.C.'s poster child By Rodney L. Palmer SEE ALSO: Children's art; Competitions PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Anne Noggle (Photog.) SEE ALSO: United States. Air Force PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article A professor's best ammo By Viktor Robert Kemper SEE ALSO: Comic books, strips, etc. in education; Firearms ownership; Gun control PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The miracle that wasn't By Rich Galen SEE ALSO: Election forecasting; 1996 PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina); Siege, 1992-1996 PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The Freudian 500 By Neil Goldberg SEE ALSO: Corporations; Dreams; Facsimile transmission PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Poem Ross Perot's swan songs By Linda Grant De Pauw PDF IMAGES
21-25	Readings/Article A cinephile faces the blockbuster By Kent Jones SEE ALSO: Film criticism; Motion pictures PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Barbra bush By Rhonda Lieberman SEE ALSO: Streisand, Barbra; Christmas trees; Pictorial works; Women singers PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Photo Closed contact By Glen Luchford (Photog.) and Jenny Saville (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Nudity PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Fine dining's biggest threat By Bryan Miller SEE ALSO: Career as restaurant critic; Restaurant critics; Reichl, Ruth PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The hyperactive family enjoys some quality time By Edwin J.C. Sobey SEE ALSO: Scientific recreations; Tableware PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Esko Männikkö (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Finland PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article More on Julklaps! By Leigh Hunt SEE ALSO: Christmas in literature PDF IMAGES Readings/Article In the canon, for all the wrong reasons By Amy Tan SEE ALSO: Tan, Amy; Authorship; Canon (Literature); Minorities in literature PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo Swimming pool By Guy Kloppenburg (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Swimming pools PDF IMAGES
31-33	Readings/Article The test By Scott Carrier SEE ALSO: Career as psychological field researcher; Field work; Psychological testing; Schizophrenics; Carrier, Scott; Utah PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Baby By Eugène Savitzkaya and Tony Paschall (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Photo Roof garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art By Lynn Saville (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York); Night; Roofs PDF IMAGES
35-43	Article An American yearning: Seeking cures for freedom's terrors By Peter Marin SEE ALSO: Ethics; Lerner, Michael; 1960; Philosophy; Religion and politics PDF IMAGES
44-52	Article While you were sleeping: In Juárez, Mexico, photographers expose the violent realities of free trade By Charles Bowden SEE ALSO: News photographers; Photojournalism; Social problems PDF IMAGES
53-62	Article Far from normal: Scenes from the new Moscow By Ken Kalfus SEE ALSO: Moscow (Russia) PDF IMAGES
63-74	Fiction Je reviens By Stuart Dybek PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 168 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Triplets II By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES