Harper's Magazine: July 1998

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July 1998

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	Photo [Cover art] By Jerry Uelsmann (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Hand PDF IMAGES
4-86	Letters/Department Letters On The wreck of time, from January 1998: Letter By Daniel J. Biezad On The depressed person, from January 1998: Letter By Jason A. Seidel Letter By Johanna Isaacson Letter By Sarah Caudle On Letters, from April 1998: Letter By Jason A. Seidel Letter By Johanna Isaacson Letter By Sarah Caudle Letter By Daniel J. Biezad On Dangerous liaisons, from April 1998: Letter By Andrew Keegan Letter By Eric Tadsen On Virtual Tibet, from April 1998: Letter By Jeffrey Harper Letter By Shane Sammon Letter By Charles Wilkinson On Hitler's couch, from April 1998: Letter By Jody Harmon Letter By Kenneth L. Zimmerman On And then there were none, from April 1998: Letter By Priscilla Aydelott Letter By Rebecca Zegstroo Letter By J. Young Letter By Sherry Jones On The forgotten killer, from April 1998: Letter By Robert Strong PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Anywhere but here By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Philosophy; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Animal; Banking; Clinton, Bill; Birds; Business; California; United States Congress; Connecticut; Conservation; Cookery; Democracy; Disney; Education; Entertainment; Food and Drug Administration; Founding Fathers; Indonesia; Judaism; Forms of Justice; Language & Linguistics; Music; Netherlands; New York; New York City; Pollution; Pornography; Race; Rwanda; Sex; Social Security; Space; Transportation; Vermont; War; Wealth PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-17	Readings/Article America's long affair with Pol Pot By John Pilger SEE ALSO: Cambodia; Career as Cambodian leader; Khmer Rouge; 1945-1989; Pol Pot; Political atrocities PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article The Bosnian war criminals' lazy days By Milan Simic SEE ALSO: Bosnia and Hercegovina; Prisons; War criminals PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Boy scouts and Fremont's Pyramid, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada By Richard Misrach (Photog.) SEE ALSO: The Boy Scouts; Nevada PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Kudzu, kudzu, kill! Kill! Kill! By Bruce E. Babbitt SEE ALSO: Control; United States. Dept. of Interior; Weeds PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Janet Reno's psychic friend By Kreskin SEE ALSO: Lie detectors and detection; Psychics; Whitewater Inquiry, 1993- PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem The lobby shop of the Whopper PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Illustration Whack-a-pol SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Pictorial works; White House (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Education by the numbers By Daniel Ferri SEE ALSO: Achievement tests; Composition and exercises; Education, Elementary PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Bringing the scumbags to light SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; New York times; Obscene words PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Photo Fireworks By Jerald Frampton (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fireworks; Garages PDF IMAGES
23-27	Readings/Article Laughing with Kafka By David Foster Wallace SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Kafka, Franz; Humor in literature; Literature, Modern PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Literacy PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Alex Majoli (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Acting; Prisoners; Siena PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Chronic publicity syndrome By Elaine Showalter SEE ALSO: Showalter, Elaine; Psychosomatic aspects; Public opinion; Publicity; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo Family portrait, Ramat Gan, Gulf War, 1991 By Micha Bar-Am (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Gas masks; Israel; Persian Gulf War, 1991 PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Obi-Wan rethinks his past By Alec Guinness SEE ALSO: Guinness, Alec; Anecdotes; Motion pictures and children; San Francisco PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article The coldest profession By F.M. (Frederick Mercer) Hunter and L.S. Davis SEE ALSO: Antarctica; Sexual behavior in animals PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Loser By Aimee Bender PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo The inmates are running the asylum By Zvia Sadja (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Lawns; Toys PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Thaddeus Holownia (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Landscape; New Brunswick; Seasons PDF IMAGES
35-54	Article The secret sharer: Sex, race, and denial in an American small town By JoAnn Wypijewski SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Jamestown; Williams, Nushawn; Sexual behavior; Teenage girls PDF IMAGES
56-57	Poem Waiting for the teacher: On Israel's fiftieth anniversary By Arthur Miller PDF IMAGES
59-66	Article Where the good begins: Notes on the art of modern travel By Edwin Dobb SEE ALSO: Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
67-74	Article Sisyphus in the basement: Reflections of a lapsed socialist By George Packer SEE ALSO: Packer, George; Membership; Membership in Socialist party; Socialism; Socialists PDF IMAGES
75-82	Fiction The woods at the back of our houses By Dale Ray Phillips PDF IMAGES
87	Double acrostic/Department No. 186 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Abecedarian jigsaw—V By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES