Harper's Magazine: July 1997

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July 1997

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	Photo [Cover art] By Christopher Farina (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Explosions; Las Vegas; Nevada; Sands Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.); Wrecking PDF IMAGES
6-86	Letters/Department Letters On Prisoner of war, from January 1997: Letter By Joseph Spear Letter By Ivan Berger On The encyclopedia of insanity, from February 1997: Letter By Lawrence Feuchtwanger On Letters, from April 1997: Letter By Joseph C. Spear Letter By Ivan Berger On Poetry, from April 1997: Letter By Peter Krause Letter By Ted Pelton On Opium, made easy, from April 1997: Letter By Joseph D. McNamara Letter By Simon M. Greenwold Letter By Ronald E. Krueger On Shears of the censor, from April 1997: Letter By Glenn Cheney Letter By Patricia O'Donnell Letter By Kate Daly On Judgment day, from April 1997: Letter By Gregory S. Gordon Letter By Charles F. MacCormack On Letters, from May 1997: Letter By Lawrence Feuchtwanger PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Abracadabra By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Zoeller, Fuzzy; Hate speech; Humor; Political correctness PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article Will lies set you free? By Gerry Spence SEE ALSO: Defense (Criminal procedure); False testimony; Legal ethics; Markhasev, Mikhail; Trial for murder of Ennis Cosby; Trials (Murder) PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article The essential Dick Morris SEE ALSO: Behind the Oval Office (Book); Clinton, Bill; Career as U.S. president; Morris, Dick; Microsoft Word (Computer program) PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Bang By Kerry James Marshall SEE ALSO: African American children; Flags; Fourth of July celebrations PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration Vocations By Steven Skollar SEE ALSO: Fire fighters; Police PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article The white-collar criminal's survival guide By Ronald TerMeer SEE ALSO: Prisoners; Prisons PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Office psychos: A checklist By Martin Blinder SEE ALSO: Mental health; Murderers PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The IRS walk of fame SEE ALSO: Career as Internal Revenue Service employee; Celebrities; Patterson, Robert M.; Taxation; United States. Internal Revenue Service PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Bloody Mary SEE ALSO: Advertising, Public service; Face; Netherlands; Wounds and injuries PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Cola-tic SEE ALSO: Advertising, Public service; Face; Netherlands; Wounds and injuries; Young men PDF IMAGES
24-27	Readings/Article In the money: A congressman's story By Dan Hamburg SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Career in politics; Hamburg, Dan; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Photo New York City from Brooklyn By James Fee (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Helicopters; Manhattan (New York, New York); Skyscrapers PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo Jump shot By Paul D'Amato (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Basketball; Jumping; Urban youth PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article The life of a guinea pig SEE ALSO: Human experimentation in medicine PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Never surrender SEE ALSO: Cartland, Barbara; Conservatism; Interviews; 1979-; Political and social views; Prime ministers; Women authors, English PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Pet peeves SEE ALSO: Madison; Pet owners PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A short history of cures By Robertson Davies SEE ALSO: Contributions in medicine; Groddeck, Georg; Medicine; Practice PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Claude Nuridsany (Photog.) and Marie Pérennou (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Flight; Insects PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article Fighting words SEE ALSO: Obey, David R.; Fight with David Obey on the floor of the House of Representatives, April 9, 1997; Fight with Tom DeLay on the floor of the House of Representatives, April 9, 1997; Fighting (Psychology); Press coverage; DeLay, Tom D.; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Poem Translator at the reception By Julio Marzán PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The roving recorder By Gabriel García Márquez SEE ALSO: Interviewing in journalism; Journalistic ethics PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Illustration The ironers, 36th St. III By Bill Jacklin SEE ALSO: Clothing trade; Sweatshops PDF IMAGES
34-35	Readings/Article True stories By Ethan Coen SEE ALSO: Coen, Ethan; Family—Anecdotes; Grandmothers; Minnesota; Russians; Storytelling; Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Emily Hallowell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Diving; Swimmers PDF IMAGES
37-52	Article Bringing down the house: An explosion in Las Vegas plays as performance art By David Samuels SEE ALSO: Career in wrecking industry; Loiseaux, Doug; Explosions; Las Vegas; Loiseaux, Mark; Nevada; Sands Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas, Nev.); Wrecking PDF IMAGES
53-59	Article Old soldiers: In Spain, the International Brigades join ranks one last time By Tony Hendra SEE ALSO: Civil War, 1936-1939; Congresses; Participation, Foreign; Veterans PDF IMAGES
61-69	Article Bird-watching as a blood sport: On the redemptive pain of loving the natural world By David James Duncan SEE ALSO: Bird watching; Duncan, David James; Human-animal relationships; Northwest, Pacific; Relations with birds; Vision PDF IMAGES
70-75	Review Black letters on a white page: In a new compendium of African American literature, a world of politics By Vince Passaro SEE ALSO: African American authors; American literature; Colored people (Book); Gates, Henry Louis; McKay, Nellie Y.; The Norton anthology of African American literature (Book); Thirteen ways of looking at a black man (Book) PDF IMAGES
76-81	Fiction Railroad incident, August 1995 By David Means PDF IMAGES
87	Double acrostic/Department No. 175 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Sports page By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES