Harper's Magazine: March 1987

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March 1987

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Wilma Ervin (Photog.) SEE ALSO: City and town life; Mother and infant PDF IMAGES
4-9	Letters/Department Letters On Readings, from November 1986: Note/correction On Teacher. The making of a good one, from November 1986: Letter By Anne Eggebroten Letter By David J. Peffer On Truer than strange. Why I am not a short-story writer, from December 1986: Letter By David Cates PDF IMAGES
10-11	Notebook/Article Happy anniversary By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: American periodicals; Anniversaries, etc. PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-22	Readings/Article Interpreting Palestine By Edward W. Said SEE ALSO: Israel; Jewish-Arab relations; 1948-; 1949-; Palestine; Palestinian Arabs PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Map The geography of gender SEE ALSO: Maps; Population PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Onward Christian singles SEE ALSO: Christians; Dating (Social customs); Questionnaires; Single people PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article Reaganomics with a human face By Robert Lekachman SEE ALSO: Liberalism; 1981-1993; 1989-; Social policy PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Kitchen Spanish By Leslie Hayden SEE ALSO: Domestics PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article Foiling the urine police SEE ALSO: Analysis; Drug testing; Examination; Urination; Urine PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Fiction Reading comprehension By Peter Cherches PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article Night, the final frontier By Murray Melbin SEE ALSO: Frontier and pioneer life; Night PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Begging; Charity; Homeless persons PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A child's prison By Elizabeth Marek SEE ALSO: Abused children; Child abuse; Imprisonment; Mute persons PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Map California's chances SEE ALSO: Computer programs; Earthquake prediction; Earthquakes; Maps PDF IMAGES
36-37	Readings/Fiction Jealousy By Leonard Michaels PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Dating (Social customs) PDF IMAGES
37-38	Readings/Poem Elegy By Christianne Balk PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Collection Readings By Stephen Jay Gould (Photog.) and Rosamond Wolff Purcell (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Night thoughts By E.M. (Emile M.) Cioran and Leonard Schwartz (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Aphorisms and apothegms PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Stephen Jay Gould (Photog.) and Rosamond Wolff Purcell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Collection and preservation; Flamingos; Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Stephen Jay Gould (Photog.) and Rosamond Wolff Purcell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Collection and preservation; Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology; Penguins PDF IMAGES
39-40	Readings/Poem An open letter By Seamus Heaney PDF IMAGES
42-53	Article Across the borders of history. Tijuana and San Diego exchange futures By Richard Rodriguez SEE ALSO: Boundaries; Relations; San Diego (Calif.) PDF IMAGES
54-55	Article Making book on Oliver North. The big money in tarnished images By Scott Meredith SEE ALSO: Authors and publishers; Authorship; Biography; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; North, Oliver; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
57-62	Article The erotic stripped bare. Romanians are prisoners of sexlessness By Linda Mizejewski SEE ALSO: Journeys—Romania; Mizejewski, Linda; 1945-1989; Romania; Romanians; Sexual behavior PDF IMAGES
63-65	Fiction Mole By Rick DeMarinis PDF IMAGES
66-69	Advertising Supplement Spring 1987 catalogue showcase PDF IMAGES
71-73	Article Amnesia in litteris. The books I have read (I think) By Patrick Süskind SEE ALSO: Books and reading—Humor; Knowledge and learning—Humor; Memory; Süskind, Patrick PDF IMAGES
75-76	Article Blabscam. TV's rigged political talk shows By Christopher Hitchens SEE ALSO: Debates and debating; Talk shows; Television and politics PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 51 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Plus fours By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES