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December 1987

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Seymour Chwast SEE ALSO: Bedrooms PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Harper's index, from August 1987: Letter By David K. Benson On The last hired gun. Ed Cantrell gets the job done, from August 1987: Letter By Eugene D. Lorig Letter By Scott Baltic On It dare not speak its name. Fear and self-loathing on the gay right, from August 1987: Letter By Stephen Share Letter By Scott Tucker On Poison-pen mail, from September 1987: Letter By Jeffrey Benner On Crates of fresh poison. The perils of imported produce, from October 1987: Letter By A.E. Fegan Jr. On Various cakes, 1981, from November 1987: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
11-13	Notebook/Article Spoils of war By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Conquerors; 1945-1989; 1945-1991; World War III PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-20	Readings/Fiction Hard sell By T. Coraghessan Boyle PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Bombings; Iran; Models; Motorboats; Outdoor recreation for children; State-sponsored terrorism PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article The black vote: We deliver SEE ALSO: Political consultants PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Standing up for the banana By Robert M. Moore SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease) in mass media; Banana trade; Bananas; Prevention PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Map The geography of election news SEE ALSO: Maps; Nomination; Press and politics; Primaries PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The zone of no salutes By Kent A. Womack SEE ALSO: Military ceremonies, honors, and salutes; Officials and employees; Pentagon (Va.) PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Foggy Bottom agit prop By Johnathan Miller SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Government and the press; Miller, Johnathan; Latin America; 1980-; 1981-1989; Buchanan, Patrick J.; Press and propaganda PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Losing control of our economy By Michael Moffitt SEE ALSO: Balance of trade; Debts, Public; Industrial policy; Investments, Foreign; 1981-; 1981-1993 PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Why Prague? SEE ALSO: African students; Czechoslovakia; Prague PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article The Weathermen, twenty years on By Peter Marin SEE ALSO: Political crimes and offenses; Radicalism; Subversive activities PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo Royal Gorge, Colorado By David Graham (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Colorado; Patios PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article The dialectics of dissent By Miklós Haraszti SEE ALSO: Art and state; Communist countries; Cultural policy PDF IMAGES
30-33	Readings/Article Literary talk By Leonard Michaels SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth—Anecdotes; High school teachers; Michaels, Leonard; Literature; Veterans PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
32	Readings/Poem Fall's end By A.R. Ammons PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Legends; Loch Ness monster; Ness, Loch (Scotland) PDF IMAGES
35-36	Readings/Drama Bret, like brainstorms By Frank Gannon PDF IMAGES
36-38	Readings/Article Miami to New York: Drop dead By Dave Barry SEE ALSO: Barry, Dave; Journeys—New York (State)—New York—Humor; Transportation PDF IMAGES
43-54	Article Manufacturing the next president By Lesley Stahl, Robert Beckel, Harrison Hickman, Raymond Strother, and Ron Brown SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1988-; Nomination; Primaries PDF IMAGES
57-67	Article Panama fallen among thieves. Of General Noriega and a country convulsed By Guillermo Sánchez SEE ALSO: Career as leader of Panama; Dictatorship; Government, Resistance to; Noriega, Manuel Antonio; Military leadership; 1981-; Panama; Political activity; Political corruption; Díaz Herrera, Roberto PDF IMAGES
68-69	Article Wishing it was just the thought. The business of Christmas cards By Theodore Friend SEE ALSO: Christmas cards; Greeting cards industry PDF IMAGES
70-72	Fiction Imagine a day at the end of your life By Ann Beattie PDF IMAGES
73-76	Article Gazing into Bergdorf's window. Reflections on the higher shopping By Peter Freundlich SEE ALSO: Affluent consumers; Consumer behavior; Luxuries; Social status; Yuppies PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 60 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Variations on a Yuletide theme By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES