Harper's Magazine: February 2000

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February 2000

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	Photo [Cover art] By Joyce Marshall (Photog.) and Rick Moon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Baseball cards; Baseball fields; Bush, George W.; Portraits PDF IMAGES
6-98	Letters/Department Letters On Why Johnny can't fail, from September 1999: Letter By Jerry Jesness Letter By Terrence T. DeShone On The kingdom of apples, from October 1999: Letter By Malcolm L. Feeley On The sweet hereafter, from November 1999: Letter By Patrick Maxwell Letter By Jack Morrow Letter By Jorge Dominicis Letter By Paul Roberts On Give war a chance, from November 1999: Letter By Steven Harnad Letter By Brigid Grant Letter By C. Hugh Barker On Letters, from December 1999: Letter By Jerry Jesness Letter By Terrence T. DeShone PDF IMAGES
10-13	Notebook/Article Merit badges By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Campaign for U.S. president; McCain, John; 1993-; 2000; Republicans PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: AIDS; Africa; Animal; Clinton, Bill; Brazil; Burma; Business; Chechnya; China; Civil Rights; Colombia; Cookery; Crime; Democracy; Drugs; Education; Energy; Finance; Founding Fathers; Bush, George W.; Georgia; Global Warming; The Internet; Ireland; Forms of Justice; Law; Marriage; King, Martin Luther; Medicine; Microsoft; New York; Parenting; Pollution; Prison; Race; The Republican Party; Russia; Science; United States Senate; Space; Sport; Technology; Terrorism; Transportation; Ukraine; Violence; World Trade Organization; War PDF TEXT IMAGES
17-20	Readings/Article Field trips By Stuart Dybek SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Prisons; School children; School field trips; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses; Dybek, Stuart PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Poem The water inspector By John Ashbery PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Mary Berridge (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bears; Buses; Moscow; Russia (Federation) PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article A class outing SEE ALSO: Gay men; High school students; Homophobia PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article There's a place in France SEE ALSO: Tourist trade PDF IMAGES Readings/Article All the philosopher king's men By James Warren SEE ALSO: Homophobia; Political and social views; Racism; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo Rex in peace By Ethan Acres (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Angels; Pets PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Take my pregnant wife—please SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Corrections; Errata; New York times; Pregnant women; Sections, columns, etc.; Television journalists PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Havana be your valentine By Fidel Castro SEE ALSO: Cuba; 1959-; 1963-1969 PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Room 114 By Cosimo Cavallaro SEE ALSO: Cheese; Installations (Art); Rooms PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Beer and loafing on the campaign trail By David E. Wyatt SEE ALSO: Campaign for U.S. president; Wyatt, David E. PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Master of His Own Domain SEE ALSO: Campaign for U.S. president; Bush, George W.; Web sites PDF TEXT IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Quit avramizing, you squirtus SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; New words PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Cats, now and forever By William S. Burroughs SEE ALSO: Cat owners; Cats; Diaries; Burroughs, William S. PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Drunk on words SEE ALSO: Wine and wine making; Wine labels PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration 4,000 yards (apple trees, after Gerhard Richter) By Vik Muniz SEE ALSO: Trees PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Three measures of loneliness By J. Robert Lennon PDF IMAGES
34-38	Readings/Article Visualizing history By Simon Schama SEE ALSO: Historiography PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Photo Slide projection of former Jewish resident and hat shop, circa 1930, Berlin, 1993 By Shimon Attie (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Berlin; Jews; Lantern projection; Tenement houses PDF IMAGES
39-53	Article I. The George W. Bush success story: A heartwarming tale about baseball, $1.7 billion, and a lot of swell friends By Joe Conason SEE ALSO: Business and politics; Campaign funds; Career in business; Bush, George W.; Governors; Ownership; Portraits; Texas Rangers (Baseball team) PDF IMAGES Collection Notes on a native son PDF IMAGES
54-58	Article II. The prospect of a Bush restoration By Kevin P. Phillips SEE ALSO: Campaign for U.S. president; Career as U.S. president; Bush, George; Bush, George W.; 1989-; Republicans PDF IMAGES
60-61	Article Guerrilla capitalism: A gringo's guide to doing business in Colombia By Daren Fonda SEE ALSO: Business enterprises, Foreign; Colombia; Gold mines and mining PDF IMAGES
62-71	Article Back in the U.S.S.R.? Eight years after independence, Belarus ponders reunification By Jeffrey Tayler SEE ALSO: Belarus; Tayler, Jeffrey; Journeys—Belarus; 1991-; Russia (Federation) PDF IMAGES
73-78	Fiction The sun-dog trail By Jack London PDF IMAGES
79-82	Review Every sweatshop has a silver lining: Happiness is a PBS documentary on New York By Lee Siegel SEE ALSO: Historical television programs; Television PDF IMAGES
83-88	Review Connubial abyss: The mysterious narrative of marriage By Kathryn Harrison SEE ALSO: Authors; Birthday letters (Book); Elegy for Iris (Book); Family relationships; Kureishi, Hanif; Intimacy (Book); Bayley, John; Parallel lives: five Victorian marriages (Book); Rose, Phyllis; Schiff, Stacy; Hughes, Ted; Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) (Book) PDF IMAGES
89-96	Fiction The paperhanger By William T. Gay PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Twofers By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Article Colombian overdose SEE ALSO: Colombia; Drug traffic; Maps PDF IMAGES