Harper's Magazine: November 1997

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November 1997

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	Photo [Cover art] By Sam Abell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Pear; Russia (Federation); Windows PDF IMAGES
4-94	Letters/Department Letters On In the garden of tabloid delight, from August 1997: Letter By Glenn R. Roesler Letter By Chris Wood Letter By Nathaniel Frank Letter By Jill McRae Letter By Frank R. Tangherlini Letter By Suzanne Ehlers Letter By Wendy M. Wilson Letter By Matthew Christensen On Spinning the poor into gold, from August 1997: Letter By William D. Eggers Letter By John Dewitz On The inhumanity of the animal people, from August 1997: Letter By M.D. and Michael E. DeBakey Letter By Carla Bennett Letter By David T. Pudelwitts Letter By Theodore Klupinski Letter By James E. Lewallen Letter By Doug Doty On Aboard the gravy train, from August 1997: Letter By Jill Buckley Letter By Rebecca Clay Letter By Jennifer Cole PDF IMAGES
11-14	Notebook/Article Fatted calf By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Fame; Greece; Mass media; Diana, Princess of Wales; Princesses; Sacrifice PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-24	Readings/Article Curbing nature's paparazzi By Bill McKibben SEE ALSO: Effect of human beings on; Nature PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Lowest common denominator SEE ALSO: Crime; Lancaster; Mathematics; Word problems (Mathematics) PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo Betty By Valerie Shaff (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Mountains; Saint Bernard dog PDF IMAGES
24-29	Readings/Article Welfare as they know it By Tamika Capers, Mery Mejia, Omar Torres, and Sylvia Ruff SEE ALSO: Street cleaners; Welfare recipients; Work environment PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Antibacterial classics SEE ALSO: Advertising, Public service; American literature; Hand washing; Parodies, imitations, etc.; Pittsburgh PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo Continuum By Roberto Huarcaya (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Family—Portraits; Glass containers; Peru; Huarcaya, Roberto; Swimming PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Receiving treaty money By Allen Sapp SEE ALSO: Cree Indians; Government relations; Police; Saskatchewan PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article China's crimes and punishment SEE ALSO: Capital punishment; Executions and executioners PDF IMAGES Readings/Article First acne, now this! SEE ALSO: Death row inmates; Errata; High school students; Mistaken identity PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article Trouble at the reference desk By Bruce A. Shuman SEE ALSO: Libraries and readers; Public libraries; Security measures PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The marriage of hip and square By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Mass media and culture; 1960-1970; Nineteen sixties; Social change; Social history PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article Mon amour By Simone de Beauvoir SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Salutations; Beauvoir, Simone de; Women authors, French PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Erin Patrice O'Brien (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article This course brought to you by . . . SEE ALSO: College teachers; Corporate sponsorship; Industry and education; Titles PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Photo Poultry in motion By Carina Weidle (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Athletics; Brazil; Chickens; Olympics PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Modern art: The bottom line By Richard Polsky SEE ALSO: Art, Modern; Collectors and collecting; Investments; Prices PDF IMAGES
39-40	Readings/Article Trying for the kingdom By Peter Trachtenberg SEE ALSO: Drug use; Narcotic addicts; Trachtenberg, Peter; Visions PDF IMAGES
40	Readings/Illustration Everybody wants the same thing By Attila Richard Lukacs SEE ALSO: Graffiti; Men; Narcotic addicts; Windows PDF IMAGES
43-60	Collection Intrigues By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Peter Constantine (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Fiction How I came to be lawfully wed By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Peter Constantine (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
45-46	Fiction A hypnotic seance By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Peter Constantine (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
46-50	Fiction On the train By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Peter Constantine PDF IMAGES
51-53	Fiction Intrigues By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Peter Constantine (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
53-54	Fiction Sarah Bernhardt comes to town By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Peter Constantine (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
54-57	Fiction In autumn By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Peter Constantine (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
57-58	Fiction From the diary of an assistant bookkeeper By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Peter Constantine (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
58-60	Fiction At the pharmacy By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Peter Constantine (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
60	Fiction Elements most often found in novels, short stories, etc. By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and Peter Constantine (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
61-71	Article At your disposal: The funeral industry prepares for boom times By Judith Newman SEE ALSO: Funeral homes; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Undertakers and undertaking PDF IMAGES
72-75	Review The unsparing vision of Don Delillo: In his new novel, Underworld, an American fresco By Vince Passaro SEE ALSO: DeLillo, Don; Underworld (Book) PDF IMAGES
78-79	Article Unmasking the court of no appeal: A secret federal surveillance tribunal takes exception to the Bill of Rights By Benjamin Wittes SEE ALSO: Electronic surveillance; Espionage PDF IMAGES
80-91	Fiction The house gun By Nadine Gordimer PDF IMAGES
95	Double acrostic/Department No. 178 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
96	Puzzle/Department Pure puzzle By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES