Harper's Magazine: October 1990

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October 1990

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	Photo [Cover art] By Larry Lee (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Architecture; Details; San Francisco PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On Neither morons nor imbeciles nor idiots, from June 1990: Letter By Donald J. Stedman Letter By Mary E. Hamilton On Who are these animals we kill?, from July 1990: Letter By Monica Wood Letter By Trish Stachelski Gorski Letter By Edward D. Ramsey On Whatever became of the public square?, from July 1990: Letter By Sim Sadler Letter By Susana Torre Letter By Wally Orlinsky Letter By Mary Ann Puglisi Letter By Robert F. Doherty Letter By Robert Tennenbaum Letter By Raymond Birt Letter By Ralph Slovenko Letter By Sean Wolf Hill Letter By Ed Healy PDF IMAGES
12-15	Notebook/Article Lines in the sand By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991 PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
18-21	Readings/Article The velvet hangover By Václav Havel and Káca Polácková-Henley (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Career as president of Czechoslovakia; Europe, Eastern; Fear; Havel, Václav PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Foreign economic relations; Saudi Arabia PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration The last banquet By Hongtu Zhang SEE ALSO: Censorship; Last Supper (Painting); 1976-; Leonardo, da Vinci PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Saddam Hussein: The old tack SEE ALSO: Simpson, Alan K.; Metzenbaum, Howard M.; Iraq; Public relations and politics; Hussein, Saddam; Views on public relations PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Al Ruzzo's brainstorm By Al Ruzzo SEE ALSO: Campaign literature; Desecration; Flags; Rhode Island PDF IMAGES Readings/Article S&Ls: The final frontier By Stanley E. Adams SEE ALSO: Moon; Savings and loan associations PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Intimidation, Thornburgh style By Joseph E. Clarkson SEE ALSO: Freedom of speech; Political letter writing; Records and correspondence; United States. Dept. of Justice PDF IMAGES Readings/Article No more seventh-inning sex SEE ALSO: Ontario; Privacy; Rules and practice; Toronto PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Paul Kuhrman SEE ALSO: Baseball cards; Rojas, Cookie; Portraits PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Professors, students, and sex By Jeffrey Kittay SEE ALSO: Great Barrington; Interviews; Botstein, Leon; Sexual harassment in universities and colleges PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Paul Kuhrman SEE ALSO: Baseball cards; Viola, Frank; Portraits PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Kim Moser SEE ALSO: Baseball cards; Righetti, Dave; Portraits PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article San Francisco, 1969 By Mark Helprin SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Helprin, Mark PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Fiction One evening By Samuel Beckett PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Dreams PDF IMAGES
36-40	Readings/Fiction King By John Edgar Wideman SEE ALSO: Radicals PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Cartoon Pavlov's pager SEE ALSO: Beepers (Pagers) PDF IMAGES
40	Readings/Poem Going By August Kleinzahler PDF IMAGES
41	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By James Balog (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Baboons; Endangered species PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By James Balog (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Endangered species; Sea turtles PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By James Balog (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Endangered species PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By James Balog (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chimpanzees; Endangered species PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By James Balog (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Endangered species PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By James Balog (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Endangered species; Florida panther PDF IMAGES
44-45	Article A (post) modern (alleged) mobster: John Gotti By Marshall Blonsky SEE ALSO: Gotti, John; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
47-55	Article Sacred or for sale? By Jack Hitt SEE ALSO: Kimbrell, Andrew; Donation of organs, tissues, etc.; Kevorkian, Jack; Andrews, Lori; Sale of organs, tissues, etc.; Views on donation and sale of organs, tissues, etc.; May, William E. PDF IMAGES
54	Readings/Quotation The sacred and the profane By Herodotus SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Greece; Manners and customs PDF IMAGES
57-66	Article Late Victorians: San Francisco, AIDS, and the homosexual stereotype By Richard Rodriguez SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Bereavement; Gays; Homes and haunts—California—San Francisco; Rodriguez, Richard; San Francisco; San Francisco (Calif.) PDF IMAGES
68-73	Fiction Sweet cheeks By Lee K. Abbott PDF IMAGES
74-82	Capital letter/Article Washington's Kohl front: Embracing a chancellor, eschewing debate By Christopher Hitchens SEE ALSO: Career as chancellor of Germany; Kohl, Helmut; 1989-1993; 1990-; Unification, 1990 PDF IMAGES
83	Double acrostic/Department No. 94 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
84	Puzzle/Department See 24 across By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES