Harper's Magazine: February 1998

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February 1998

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By James Hamilton (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Angola; Bulls; Prisoners; Recreation; Rodeos PDF IMAGES
6-82	Letters/Department Letters On Curbing nature's paparazzi, from November 1997: Letter By Bruce Stutz Letter By James Balog Letter By Gary Braasch On Welfare as they know it, from November 1997: Letter By John Ramos On At your disposal, from November 1997: Letter By George W. Clarke PDF IMAGES
8-11	Notebook/Article New wine in old bottles By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Literature; Reprints (Publications) PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-18	Readings/Article The dialects of faith By Thomas Lynch SEE ALSO: Catholics; Group identity; Religion; Lynch, Thomas; Undertakers and undertaking PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article The U.N. strikes again By Palaver SEE ALSO: Aircraft accidents; Transportation; Uganda; United Nations PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Liberto Macarro (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cows; Landscape PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration Our Lady of Guadalupe (of field and stream) By Colette Hosmer SEE ALSO: Guadalupe, Our Lady of; Statues PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The pen is crueler than the sword By Christopher Hitchens, Salman Rushdie, and John Le Carré SEE ALSO: Hitchens, Christopher; Correspondence; Invective; Le Carré, John; Letters to the editor; Rushdie, Salman PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Photo 14th Street By Michael Ackerman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Assault and battery; City dwellers; Graffiti PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Our plan in Havana SEE ALSO: Cuba; 1959-; 1961-1963; Records and correspondence; Subversive activities PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Stairway to heaven SEE ALSO: Missionaries PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article Among the dead By Philip Gourevitch SEE ALSO: Civil War, 1994; Dead; Genocide; Journeys—Rwanda; Gourevitch, Philip; Rwanda PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Photo Gators in flight, #6 By Ron Levine (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Alligators; Reflections PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article My semester in court By Tonya Stedman and Vicki Stavig SEE ALSO: Career as juror; Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995; McVeigh, Timothy; Stedman, Tonya; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Terrorism); Women jurors PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Polygamy now! By Elizabeth Joseph SEE ALSO: Feminism; Polygamy; Utah; Working mothers PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Middle Earth in the balance By Rachael Levy (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Fairies; Interviews; Zoeteman, Kees; Nature worship; Netherlands; Officials and employees; Views on fairies PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo Hula hoopers By Mickey Pallas (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fads; Hula hoops PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Working for the friendly man By Scott Carrier SEE ALSO: Career in radio journalism; Interviewing in journalism; Journalistic ethics; Radio journalism; Carrier, Scott PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Truer crime By Brian Hessel SEE ALSO: Hessel, Brian; Correspondence; Letters to the editor; Murderers; Oregon; Prisoners PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration Waiting in the desert By Michael Chapman SEE ALSO: Benches; Deserts PDF IMAGES
33-46	Article God bless this rodeo: Louisiana prison inmates illustrate a warden's Bible lessons By Daniel Bergner SEE ALSO: Angola; Cain, Burl; Career as prison warden; Prisoners; Recreation; Rodeos PDF IMAGES
47-52	Article The long jolt of public opinion: On celebrity, genius, and would-be novelists By Oliver Wendell Holmes SEE ALSO: Fame PDF IMAGES
53-59	Article Where have you gone, Louis Sullivan? Will America recover from its fifty-year bout of Europhilia? By Michael Lind SEE ALSO: Arts, American; European influences PDF IMAGES
60-68	Fiction The whore's child By Richard Russo PDF IMAGES
69-79	Article Prophets and losses: The futures market for phone psychics By Stephen Glass SEE ALSO: Career as telephone psychic; Professional ethics; Glass, Stephen; Swindlers and swindling PDF IMAGES
83	Double acrostic/Department No. 181 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
84	Puzzle/Department In a sense By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES