Harper's Magazine: May 1990

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May 1990

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Victoria Kann SEE ALSO: Child witnesses PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On What's wrong with the Democrats?, from January 1990: Letter By Sloane Citron Letter By Ando Arike Letter By Jeffrey L. Campbell On Déjà vu, from March 1990: Letter By Jon Myersohn On Adiós, General, from December 1989: Letter By William Thomas Letter By Gloria Giardina Letter By Elizabeth Welborn Letter By Christel Fonzo-Eberhard Letter By Ariel Dorfman PDF IMAGES
12-17	Notebook/Article Play on words By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Political culture; Political leadership; Havel, Václav; Visit to the United States, 1990 PDF IMAGES
19	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
20-23	Readings/Article Ghettoized by black unity By Shelby Steele SEE ALSO: Identity; Race identity PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Birney Imes (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Billiards; Equipment and supplies PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Print the right thing SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Corrections; Miscellanea; New York times (American newspaper); Racism; Sections, columns, etc.; Lee, Spike PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article Good cop, bad cop By F.W. (Frederik Willem) De Klerk SEE ALSO: De Klerk, F.W. (Frederik Willem); 1989-1994; Police; South Africa; Speeches, addresses, etc., South African; Views on policing PDF IMAGES Readings/Article My death row is longer than yours SEE ALSO: Rains, Jack; White, Mark; Views on capital punishment; Views on sentences (criminal procedure) PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article [Sic] SEE ALSO: Bush, George; Miscellanea PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Skipping class struggle By Piotr Wesolowski and Andrzej Tymowski (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Poland PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] SEE ALSO: Fur garments PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Stalking the virile female SEE ALSO: Cigarettes; Marketing; Target marketing PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Cartoon Agoraphobia society SEE ALSO: Agoraphobia PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Signed (away) by the artist SEE ALSO: Censorship; Federal aid to the arts; Freedom and art; National Endowment for the Arts PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Kwong Chi Tseng (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Canaveral, Cape (Fla.); Tseng, Kwong Chi; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Kwong Chi Tseng (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Tseng, Kwong Chi; Self-portraits; Steam locomotives PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES
33-34	Readings/Article The canon and the wisdom of the East By Arthur Coleman Danto SEE ALSO: Canon (Literature); East and West PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article Short-term memories By William L. Ladson SEE ALSO: African American baseball players; Career in baseball; Robinson, Jackie PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Illustration Death of an umpire By Elbert Davis SEE ALSO: Baseball fields PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Death of a right fielder By Stuart Dybek PDF IMAGES
36-42	Readings/Article The lady in the van By Alan Bennett SEE ALSO: Homeless women PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Illustration Urban beast By Luis Cruz Azaceta SEE ALSO: Animals, Mythical PDF IMAGES
43-51	Article But what about Africa? On the global economy's lost continent By Richard J. Barnet SEE ALSO: Africa; Economic assistance; Kenya; 1960; 1963-; World Bank PDF IMAGES
52-63	Article From the mouths of babes to a jail cell: Child abuse and the abuse of justice By Dorothy Rabinowitz SEE ALSO: Case studies; Child sexual abuse; Child witnesses; Michaels, Margaret Kelly; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
64-66	Fiction Eleanor in the underworld By J.S. Marcus PDF IMAGES
67-78	Article A life colored by war: Amsterdam, May 1940 By Hans Koning SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Courage; German occupation, 1940-1945; Koning, Hans; Netherlands PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 89 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Square-rigged By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES