Harper's Magazine: August 1997

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August 1997

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Chris Steele-Perkins (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Breast; Entertaining; Hugging; Young men PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On Opium, made easy, from April 1997: Note/correction On Toward an end of blackness, from May 1997: Letter By David Wright Letter By Martin Kilson Letter By D. Joseph Whitten On Our machines, ourselves, from May 1997: Letter By Courtney Tedrowe Letter By Kenneth Bouley Letter By Chris Ryan Letter By Rick Neale Letter By John A. Washington V On The long good-bye, from May 1997: Letter By Jennifer Krehbiel On The life of a guinea pig, from July 1997: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article Made in America: A lethal weapon's return policy By Robert Fisk SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Arms transfers; Israel; Lebanon; Military assistance, American; Military ethics PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Forbes's $64 billion questions SEE ALSO: Billionaires; Interviewing in journalism PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration The bilingual cop By Robert Colescott SEE ALSO: Arizona; Bilingualism; Police; Racism PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration Toys 'R' U.N. SEE ALSO: Angola; Children's art; United Nations; War toys PDF IMAGES
19-22	Readings/Article A terrorist moves the goalposts By Dan Setton SEE ALSO: Career as terrorist; Interviews; Israel; Jihad; Palestinian Arabs; Sakher, Rashid; Soccer fans; Terrorists PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Pat Robertson's thin blue line SEE ALSO: Evangelists; Robertson, Pat; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article Assassination: A primer SEE ALSO: Assassination; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo Learning to swordfight at school for Sikh boys By Raghu Rai (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
24-27	Readings/Article In praise of invective By Charles Simic SEE ALSO: Freedom of speech; Ideology; Invective PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peo Quick (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Beaches; Sweden PDF IMAGES
27-29	Readings/Article They shoot monkeys, don't they? By Wendeline L. Wagner SEE ALSO: Animal experimentation; Medical research personnel PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo Novice By Deborah Bright (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chains PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article Raising our own Titanics By Jenny Diski SEE ALSO: Atlantic Ocean; Shipwrecks PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The pending millennium SEE ALSO: Millennium; Trademarks PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Drama The future looks bright By David Auburn PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo Wish to tell By Shelly Corbett (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Nicole By Shelly Corbett (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings By Shelly Corbett (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
32-33	Readings/Poem Canada By Billy Collins PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Lotte Jacobi (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Einstein, Albert; Boats and boating; Long Island; Physicists; Portraits; Recreation PDF IMAGES
35-43	Article In the garden of tabloid delight: Notes on sex, Americans, scandal, and morality By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Scandals; Sex in mass media PDF IMAGES
44-52	Article Spinning the poor into gold: How corporations seek to profit from welfare reform By Barbara Ehrenreich SEE ALSO: Congresses; Corporations; Public welfare PDF IMAGES
53-59	Fiction Gare du Nord By Suketu Mehta PDF IMAGES
60-67	Article The inhumanity of the animal people: Do creatures have the same rights that we do? By Joy Williams SEE ALSO: Animal welfare PDF IMAGES
69-76	Article Aboard the gravy train: In Kazakhstan, the farce that is U.S. foreign aid By Matt Bivens SEE ALSO: Career in public relations; Economic assistance, American; Kazakstan; Bivens, Matt; Privatization; Public Relations PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 176 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Head-hunting III By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES