Harper's Magazine: April 1997

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April 1997

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Opium poppy PDF IMAGES
4-90	Letters/Department Letters On An American yearning, from December 1996: Letter By Michael Lerner Letter By Peter Marin On Prisoner of war, from January 1997: Letter By Terence Wrong Letter By Scott Anderson On Dreaming of a black Christmas, from January 1997: Letter By Wallace J. Guillaume On A flapping of scolds, from January 1997: Letter By Chris Halliday Letter By David Charbonneau PDF IMAGES
8-11	Notebook/Article The Spanish armadillo By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Hesse, Hermann; Mass media and culture; The glass bead game (Book) PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article When hope and history don't rhyme By Lore Groszmann Segal SEE ALSO: Autobiographical memory; Holocaust survivors; Hope; Self-deception PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article China's slow news days SEE ALSO: Censorship; Press; Propaganda PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Beauty salon in Vedado, Havana By Tria Giovan (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Beauty operators; Beauty shops; Cuba; Hairdressing; Havana PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Fodor's for the born-again SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Baptists; Cuba; Gay marriage; Hawaii; Homophobia; Kansas; Legal status, laws, etc.; Patients PDF IMAGES
20-23	Readings/Article Revolutionary regrets By Bernard Coard SEE ALSO: Grenada; 1983-; Political prisoners; Revolutionaries PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Give inner peace a chance By Carolyn Butts SEE ALSO: Psychology, Military PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Collection Readings By Miguel A. Gandert (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo David Gonzales By Miguel A. Gandert (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Men; Mestizos; New Mexico PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Tanya Trujillo By Miguel A. Gandert (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Mestizos; New Mexico PDF IMAGES
23-25	Readings/Article Psychological torture, CIA-style SEE ALSO: Military interrogation; Torture; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Dissent: A bad career move SEE ALSO: Employee participation; Management PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Unhitched By Peter Bogdanovich SEE ALSO: Hitchcock, Alfred; Anecdotes; Motion picture producers and directors PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Shout By Ronnie Cutrone SEE ALSO: Flags PDF IMAGES Readings/Article With liberty and tote bags for all SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Inauguration; Inauguration, 1997 PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration The garden By Portia Munson SEE ALSO: Decoration and ornament; Installations (Art) PDF IMAGES
27-30	Readings/Article Poetry: Our worst-kept secret By Richard Howard SEE ALSO: Appreciation PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Chewing the fat By Carolynn Hillman SEE ALSO: Body image in women; Overweight women; Self-help techniques PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Castaways; Clichés; Islands PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo Tossing a friend (Melinda 1, 2, and 3) By Martin Kersels (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Men; Play PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Webster's by websters SEE ALSO: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Slang; Teenagers PDF IMAGES
31-33	Readings/Fiction The conversion By Lewis Nordan PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jeff Burton (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Awards; High school athletes; Sports; Teenage girls PDF IMAGES
35-58	Article Opium, made easy: One gardener's encounter with the war on drugs By Michael Pollan SEE ALSO: Career as amateur gardener; Hogshire, Jim; Knowledge—Opium poppy; Legal status, laws, etc.; Pollan, Michael; Narcotics, Control of; Opium poppy; Opium poppy growers PDF IMAGES
59-65	Article Shears of the censor: Notes on excision, imprisonment, and silence By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Career as military censor; Censorship; Ideology; Persecution; Gass, William PDF IMAGES
68-80	Article Judgment day: In Rwanda, 92,392 genocide suspects await trial By Alan Zarembo SEE ALSO: Civil War, 1994; Genocide; Investigation; Murder; Prisoners; Rwanda; War crime trials PDF IMAGES
81-87	Fiction Two boys By Padgett Powell PDF IMAGES
91	Double acrostic/Department No. 172 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
92	Puzzle/Department Theme and variations—IV By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES