Harper's Magazine: May 1998

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May 1998

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Apples; Bullets; Shooting PDF IMAGES
6-78	Letters/Department Letters On God bless this rodeo, from February 1998: Letter By Stephan Torre On Where have you gone, Louis Sullivan? Will America recover from its fifty-year bout of Europhilia?, from February 1998: Letter By Harry Styron Letter By Richard Schlesinger Letter By Gathorne Burns Letter By Richard P. Johnson On Prophets and losses, from February 1998: Letter By Mike Pesca Letter By Susan Osburn PDF IMAGES
8-13	Notebook/Article Magic Mountain By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Economic security; International economic relations; Journeys—Switzerland—Davos; Lapham, Lewis H.; World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland : 1998) PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Abortion; Alcohol; Animal; Clinton, Bill; Great Britain; Business; California; Canada; United States Congress; Cookery; Crime; Democracy; Diet; Disasters; Disney; Drugs; Education; The Gulf War; Forms of Justice; Malaysia; Maryland; Medicine; Microsoft; Missouri; NATO; New York City; Nuclear Energy; Policing; Russia; San Francisco; Science; United States Senate; Sex; Space; Suicide; Transportation; Ukraine; Violence; War PDF TEXT IMAGES
17-18	Readings/Article Half-lives: Chernobyl revisited By Ludmilla Ignatenko SEE ALSO: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986; Fire fighters; Radiation victims; Ukraine PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Reagan's baggage check By David Corn SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; 1981-1989; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Lisa Safardi (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Blue collar workers; Norilsk; Rest periods; Russia (Federation) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Alberto Fujimori's tunnels of love By Antonella Palazio and Marko Miletich (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Fujimori, Alberto; Homes and haunts; Interviews; Peru PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Oral sexual personae By Camille Paglia SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Sexual behavior PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Let's pie the polluting lolly! By Hugues Henry (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Belgium; Career as prankster; Interviews; Godin, Noël; Practical jokes PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Seventh-inning sketch By James Fields SEE ALSO: Baseball players; Role playing; Texas Rangers (Baseball team) PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Nerd processors SEE ALSO: Children's drawings; Computer industry; Computer programmers PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Something wicca this way comes By Melody J. Dickson SEE ALSO: Money; Neopaganism; Witchcraft PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Monica: Postfeminist icon SEE ALSO: Feminism; Lewinsky, Monica S. (Monica Samille); Sex role in the work environment; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The Boss's literary life By Will Percy SEE ALSO: Books and reading; Springsteen, Bruce; Interviews; Music and literature; Rock musicians PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Michael Ackerman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Alleys; Atlanta; Porches PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article I am your welfare reform By Annie Downey SEE ALSO: Aid to families with dependent children programs; Unmarried mothers; Welfare recipients PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Greetings and solicitations SEE ALSO: Advertising, Direct-mail PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article The widow's pique SEE ALSO: Obituaries; Organizing; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes By Billy Collins PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo Meagan's new shoes By Keith Carter (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Costume; Fireworks PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The shamed house By Mary Gordon PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The hermeneutics of Martha By Zoe Newman and Kyla Wazana SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Home economics; In mass media; Stewart, Martha PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration The picnic at Giverny By Faith Ringgold SEE ALSO: Gardens; Giverny; Picnicking; Women artists PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Cartoon The wonderful world of Gurs SEE ALSO: Concentration camp inmates; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Mickey Mouse (Fictitious character) PDF IMAGES
37-48	Article Fast forward: Our high-speed chase to nowhere By Mark Kingwell SEE ALSO: Speed PDF IMAGES
49-54	Article Washington wheel of fortune: Two stops, a century apart, on a losing number By Philip Guedalla SEE ALSO: Depressions; 1783-1865; 1919-1933; To 1865 PDF IMAGES
55-64	Article The incoherent brain: Learning to teach the learning disabled By Allyson Goldin SEE ALSO: Goldin, Allyson; Career as special education teacher; Mentally handicapped; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
65-69	Article Where women are women and so are men: In today's Britain, every man's a queen By Fay Weldon SEE ALSO: 1979-; Sex role PDF IMAGES
70-76	Fiction The gesture hunter By David Means PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 184 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Sixes and sevens (and twelves)—II By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES