Harper's Magazine: September 1990

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September 1990

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989- PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Ghettoized by black unity, from May 1990: Note/correction Note/correction Note/correction On Wood, that it be true, from June 1990: Letter By H. Keith Wicker PDF IMAGES
7-11	Notebook/Article The visible hand By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Capitalism; 1981-1993; Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989- PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-22	Readings/Article The lost art of political argument By Christopher Lasch SEE ALSO: Press and politics PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Federal funding: For art's sake? By Tom Carson SEE ALSO: Art and state PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo Twin backyards, Ocean City, New Jersey By David Graham (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Patios PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Would you buy a newspaper from this man? By Peter W. Selkowe SEE ALSO: Apologizing; Automobile dealers; Career in sportswriting; Severin, Greg; Stereotype (Psychology) in mass media PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Bailout etiquette: A primer By Craig A., Jr. Francis SEE ALSO: Employee rules; Resolution Trust Corporation; Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989- PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Presley, Elvis PDF IMAGES
28-31	Readings/Article Beijing's China card By Shi Heping (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Chinese; 1976-; 1989-1993 PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] SEE ALSO: Nuclear crisis control PDF IMAGES
31-34	Readings/Article Germany after NATO By Josef Joffe SEE ALSO: 1989-; Unification, 1990 PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Life among the Americans SEE ALSO: Etiquette; Germans; Internship programs PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article Bullish on war SEE ALSO: Defense industries; International relations PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article To go By Dawn M. Weyrich SEE ALSO: Executions and executioners PDF IMAGES
38-42	Readings/Article A very rainbow coalition By John E. Brandenburg SEE ALSO: Congresses; Life on other planets PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon At the Heimlich museum of modern art SEE ALSO: Art, Modern PDF IMAGES
42	Readings/Article Overdo the right thing? By Sarita L. Karon and Catherine Odette PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Blame it on Brautigan SEE ALSO: Burlington; Catalogs PDF IMAGES
44	Readings/Poem Short history of the bourgeoisie By Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Alasdair King (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Middle class PDF IMAGES
45	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] SEE ALSO: Commercial products; Testing PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Mtasipol By Benjamin Fondane and Leonard Schwartz (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] SEE ALSO: Commercial products; Electric toasters; Testing PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES
46	Readings/Photo Wave lave lace By John Pfahl (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Ocean waves PDF IMAGES
47	Readings/Fiction Juno of the Veii By Guy Davenport SEE ALSO: Fiction; Historical fiction; Camillus, Marcus Furius PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Suicide PDF IMAGES
50-66	Article Chronicle of a debacle foretold: How deregulation begat the S&L scandal By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis SEE ALSO: Savings and loan associations; Savings and Loan Bailout, 1989- PDF IMAGES
68-70	Article That old “Picayune-Moon”: Off his chest, from his heart By Garrison Keillor SEE ALSO: American wit and humor; Letters to the editor PDF IMAGES
71-78	Article What price Panama? A visit to a barrio destroyed by U.S. forces By Francisco Goldman SEE ALSO: American Invasion, 1989; Panama PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 93 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Quadrants By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES