Harper's Magazine: November 1991

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November 1991

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By John Running (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Eye; Mestizos PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On Does the White House want a domestic policy?, from July 1991: Letter By David R. Koukal Letter By Kurt Tidmore Letter By Henry Stern On The loyally complicit, from July 1991: Letter By Craig Machado Letter By Steven Lewis Letter By George A. Dean On Ringing up the profits, from July 1991: Letter By John A. Koten Letter By Michael Moynihan On A counter-reality grows in Harlem, from August 1991: Letter By Jennifer Bell PDF IMAGES
13-16	Notebook/Article History lesson By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Attempted coup, 1991; 1985-1991 PDF IMAGES
19	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
23-27	Readings/Article Consider the crank By Carl Pfluger SEE ALSO: Eccentrics and eccentricities PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article A word for Ollie By Pete Stark SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Invective; North, Oliver; Stark, Pete PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Icons of the computer age By Don Steinberg SEE ALSO: Access control; Computers PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo Inflating Spider Man for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, New York, New York, 1988 By David Graham (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Balloons; Parade floats; Spider-Man (Fictitious character) PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article L.A. crises SEE ALSO: Emergency reporting systems; Los Angeles; Telephone PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Onward Christian educators SEE ALSO: Prayers; Religion in the public schools; San Diego PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article Living it up in Albania By Genc Ruli SEE ALSO: Albania; Expense accounts; Political corruption PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Reliving the war SEE ALSO: Fish and Other Aquatic Life; Pistols; Shooting; War PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Photo Food and drink in Germany: Christening on the “Stauffenberg” By Joachim Ellerbrock (Photog.) and Gerhard Schafft (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cake; Entertaining; Infants PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Article D.A. Ikwuwunna, post-colonial con man By D.A. Ikwuwunna SEE ALSO: Mail fraud; Nigeria; Swindlers and swindling PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Leading pols to the trough SEE ALSO: Lobbying; Periodicals PDF IMAGES
34-38	Readings/Article The way we are now By Alan Wolfe SEE ALSO: 1980-; Social change PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article Harvard's new colors By Ellen Jennings SEE ALSO: Cambridge; Graffiti; Harvard University; Language & Linguistics; Recycling; Sanitary affairs; Waste paper PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Article Heavy-metal theology By Duff McKagan SEE ALSO: Rock musicians PDF IMAGES
39-44	Readings/Article The objects of childhood By John Updike SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Children's paraphernalia; Early memories; Updike, John PDF IMAGES
42	Readings/Article Twilight of the idols SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Entertaining PDF IMAGES
44	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Voting PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction One thousand words on why you should not talk during a fire drill By Mark Halliday PDF IMAGES
46	Readings/Article Higher learning SEE ALSO: Help-wanted advertising; Lamas; Selection and appointment; Tutors and tutoring PDF IMAGES
47-56	Article Mixed blood: Columbus's legacy By Richard Rodriguez SEE ALSO: Ethnic identity; Ethnicity; Indians of Mexico; Mestizos; Mexican Americans; Rodriguez, Richard PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article Bring us your huddled millionaires: A new U.S. immigration policy opens doors for the world's wealthiest By Mark Dowie SEE ALSO: Emigration and immigration; Government policy; Legal status, laws, etc.; Rich people PDF IMAGES
60-65	Article Standards: How great songs name us By E.L. Doctorow SEE ALSO: Popular music; Songs, English PDF IMAGES
67-78	Article Inventing an ethnic rivalry: Sri Lanka's civil war has political, not historical, roots By Anthony Spaeth SEE ALSO: Ethnic relations; Political violence; Sri Lanka PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 107 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Crosses By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES