Harper's Magazine: August 1998

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August 1998

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Teun Hocks SEE ALSO: Men; Tables PDF IMAGES
4-82	Letters/Department Letters On Magic Mountain, from May 1998: Letter By Robert Shapton Letter By Andre van Zijl On Reagan's baggage check, from May 1998: Letter By Bonnie Barreras On Taking off Emily Dickinson's clothes, from May 1998: Letter By Lee McCarthy Letter By Joan Murray On The shamed house, from May 1998: Letter By David Hellerstein On Fast forward, from May 1998: Letter By Stephen Ahad Letter By Adam Kopman Letter By Terry Scott Letter By Rennick W. Harris Letter By Kevin Wheeler Letter By Fred Rosebury On The incoherent brain, from May 1998: Letter By Peter Wood Letter By Philip David Zelazo Letter By Daniel Ryan Letter By Webb Harris Jr. Letter By Patricia L. Aiken Letter By David Krolick Letter By Bill Miller On Where women are women and so are men, from May 1998: Letter By Lorelle Posten Letter By Michael McLaughlin On Swiss pastry, from June 1998: Letter By Robert Shapton Letter By Andre van Zijl On Thanks from the man in black, from June 1998: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
7-11	Notebook/Article Elephant act By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Big business; Consolidation and merger of corporations PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Animal; Art; Banking; The Boy Scouts; Great Britain; Business; Central Intelligence Agency; Colonialism; United States Congress; Cuba; Death; Democracy; Economics; Energy; Entertainment; Folly; Founding Fathers; Freedom; Immigration; India; Japan; Marriage; Stewart, Martha; Mexico; Michigan; Money; Music; New Mexico; Nuclear Energy; Oil; Oklahoma; Pakistan; Race; Russia; Science; Sex; Sport; Tennessee; Transportation; Weapons of Mass Destruction; War; Washington, D.C.; Wealth; Weapons PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article Programming under the wizard's spell By Ellen Ullman SEE ALSO: Microsoft Windows (Computer operating system); Operating systems (Computers); Programming (Electronic computers) PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Poem Hollywood By Czeslaw Milosz PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Many mansions By Kerry James Marshall SEE ALSO: African American men; Gardening; Gardens PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration The new Russians SEE ALSO: Rich people; Russia (Federation) PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo Arcticum Lappa: Tenacious leaves—tenacious memories By Tanya Kellner (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Leaves PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Cartoon The literature + music of corporate culture SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Computer music; Laptop computers; Literature; Music PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Selling Windows to the world By David Chun SEE ALSO: Computer industry; Microsoft Windows (Computer operating system); Monopolies; Operating systems (Computers) PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Where they are now SEE ALSO: Alumni and alumnae; College graduates; Oberlin College PDF IMAGES
23-25	Readings/Article God versus G.E. By John F. Welch and Patricia Daly SEE ALSO: Electric industries; Environmental aspects; General Electric; Health aspects; Pollution; Public Relations PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Naoya Hatakeyama (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Factories PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article More tee time = better bottom line By Graef S. Crystal SEE ALSO: Chief executive officers; Corporations; Golf; Recreation PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Marx and Lenin: The left's poster boys no more By William Phillips SEE ALSO: Marx, Karl; Political and social views; Radicalism; Lenin, Vladimir Ily`ich PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Das kapital PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Desensitivity training PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Road and Rudy rage By George H. Gurley SEE ALSO: Career as New York City mayor; Lebowitz, Fran; Interviews; Mayors; Giuliani, Rudolph W.; Taxicabs; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Sanctuary By David W. FeBland SEE ALSO: African American taxicab drivers; Cities and towns; Taxicabs PDF IMAGES
29-31	Readings/Article If we could talk to the animals By Jenny Hansell SEE ALSO: Human-animal communication PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Disney's unnatural selection SEE ALSO: Orlando; Zoo animals PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo Fabulous fowl By Tamara Staples (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chicken breeds; Chickens PDF IMAGES
31-33	Readings/Fiction Unspeakable rituals By Paul Theroux PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration S'mores: The day after By Tony Matelli SEE ALSO: The Boy Scouts PDF IMAGES
35-42	Article Who'll stop the drain? Reflections on the art of going broke By Vince Passaro SEE ALSO: Consumer credit; Cost and standard of living; Debt; Finance, Personal; Passaro, Vince PDF IMAGES
43-54	Article Torch song: At the peripheries of violence and desire By Charles Bowden SEE ALSO: Arizona; Career as reporter; Bowden, Charles; Child abuse; Reporters and reporting; Sex crimes; Tucson PDF IMAGES
55-62	Collection Imperial variations By Karel Capek PDF IMAGES Fiction Napoleon By Karel Capek and Dora Round (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
57-59	Fiction Attila By Karel Capek and Dora Round (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
59-61	Fiction The emperor Diocletian By Karel Capek and Dora Round (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
61-62	Fiction Alexander the Great By Karel Capek and Dora Round (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
63-67	Article Washington meal ticket: How to buy a senator's smile By Michael Lind SEE ALSO: Bribery; Ethics; Gifts; Lobbying; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
69-77	Fiction Doctor Mom By Matthew Sharpe PDF IMAGES
83	Double acrostic/Department No. 187 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
84	Puzzle/Department Playfair square—II By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES