Harper's Magazine: April 1998

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April 1998

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	Photo [Cover art] By Galen A. Rowell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Buildings; Mountains; Rainbow; Tibet PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Hasta la vista, Fidel, from December 1997: Letter By Shawn Blore Letter By Dennis Peacock Letter By Ann Morrissett Davidon On Why art should be bad, from January 1998: Letter By C. Powell On Before the temple of fire, from January 1998: Letter By Rene Murray Letter By Arline Jacobson On The wreck of time, from January 1998: Letter By Mary Korbulic Letter By Jan Venolia Letter By Paul Shippee On The depressed person, from January 1998: Letter By Russell Mott Letter By Tomi Conner Letter By C. Powell Letter By Mary Sojourner On Hockey nights, from January 1998: Letter By J.H. Browne Jr. Letter By Georgina Switzer Letter By Robert Giannetto PDF IMAGES
11-15	Notebook/Article Collateral damage By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Entertaining; Ethics; Mass media PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Banking; Clinton, Bill; Business; China; Cookery; Crime; Death; Democracy; Disease; Dogs; Europe; Family; Feminism; Florida; Folly; Food; Germany; The Gulf War; HouseOfRepresentatives; Internal Revenue Service; Iraq; Japan; Jesus Christ; Forms of Justice; King, Martin Luther; Medicine; Mexico; Money; Music; New York City; Poverty; Science; United States Senate; Sex; Shelter; Taxes; United Nations; Vietnam; Violence; Wealth PDF TEXT IMAGES
19-25	Readings/Article Dangerous liaisons: Public and private By Laura Kipnis SEE ALSO: Adultery; Scandals PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Starr 69 SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Claims vs. Bill Clinton; Jones, Paula; Sexual behavior; Sexual harassment of women PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By David Alan Harvey (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Crowds; Discotheques PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Canada's boredom crisis By Robert David Bradley SEE ALSO: British Columbia; Career as legislator; Campbell, Gordon; Recall PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Man your frying stations By Jack Greenberg SEE ALSO: Competition PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration This is my physical power, show me your nuclear weapons, quick! By Joseph Bertiers SEE ALSO: Battlefields; Clinton, Bill; Guided missiles; Iraq; Nuclear reactors; Portraits; Hussein, Saddam PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A dirty warrior in repose By Gabriela Cerruti and Marko Miletich (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Astiz, Alfredo; Argentina; Career as Argentine military officer; Disappeared persons; Human Rights; Interviews; 1983-; Political persecution PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Liberation theology By Susan MacGregor SEE ALSO: Church of England; Interviews; Papworth, John; Shoplifting; Supermarkets; Views on shoplifting PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo Ramon Espinoza By Claudio Edinger (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cuba; Havana PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The revolution will be televised By Greg Jackson SEE ALSO: African American men; Police; Seattle; Video recording; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration All of the poverty, none of the hassle SEE ALSO: Inner cities; Motion pictures; Production and direction PDF IMAGES
29-31	Readings/Article A timeless correspondence By Gustave Flaubert, Julian Barnes, and Francis Steegmuller (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Authors, French; Correspondence; Flaubert, Gustave; Barnes, Julian; Political and social views PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Plutocrats fight the power SEE ALSO: Beef; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Entertaining; Etiquette PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration North Yorkshire By David Hockney SEE ALSO: Farms; Landscape; Yorkshire PDF IMAGES
31-35	Readings/Article Returning death's gaze By Annie Proulx SEE ALSO: Death in art; Postmortem photography PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Rosamond Wolff Purcell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Face PDF IMAGES
35-36	Readings/Article Performance art's new standard By Greil Marcus SEE ALSO: Child abuse; Family—In mass media; Ramsey, JonBenét; Performance art PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Collection Readings By Volker Seding (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Jaguar, Cincinnati, Ohio By Volker Seding (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cincinnati; Jaguar; Zoo animals; Zoos PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Sleeping lion, Jacksonville, Florida By Volker Seding (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Jacksonville; Lions; Zoo animals; Zoos PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Black rhinoceros, Brookfield Zoo, Chicago By Volker Seding (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Rhinoceroses; Zoo animals PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A pony's tale By Paul Reed SEE ALSO: Fetishism (Sexual behavior); Role playing; Sexual dominance and submission PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Poem Barney By Laura Kasischke PDF IMAGES
39-50	Article Virtual Tibet: Where the mountains rise from the sea of our yearning By Orville Schell SEE ALSO: Argentina; In motion pictures; Journeys—Argentina; Motion pictures; Schell, Orville; Production and direction; Tibet PDF IMAGES
51-57	Article Hitler's couch: When history makes an unexpected entrance By Mark Slouka SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Anecdotes; Death and burial; Evidence; Slouka, Mark; Philosophy; War correspondents PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article No place like home: Orlando's poor laws attempt to regulate the homeless away By Eric Brosch SEE ALSO: Begging; Homeless persons; Legal status, laws, etc.; Orlando PDF IMAGES
60-70	Article And then there were none: On the Navajo reservation, a passion for blood sport By Debra Weyermann SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Indian reservations; La Plante, Marco; Murder; Navajo Indians; New Mexico; Violence PDF IMAGES
71-76	Article The forgotten killer: The work of William S. Burroughs, once dangerous, is in danger itself By Vince Passaro SEE ALSO: Beat generation; Criticism and interpretation; Modernism (Literature); Portraits; Burroughs, William S. PDF IMAGES
77-84	Fiction Unapproved minutes of the Carthage, Vermont, Zoning Board of Adjustment By Tom Paine PDF IMAGES
87	Double acrostic/Department No. 183 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department What is the question? By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES