Harper's Magazine: October 1993

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October 1993

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Greg Girard (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chinese PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Dethpicable!, from July 1993: Letter By Barbara P. Fleming Letter By Jason Scott Bell On Behold now behemoth, from July 1993: Letter By Orrin G. Hatch Letter By Nelson Marans Letter By Dolores J. Nurss Letter By Daniel J. Lynch Letter By Barry Mann On The crash of blue sky California, from July 1993: Letter By Frank Kofsky PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Washington phrase book By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Government jargon; Language & Linguistics; 1993- PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
14-17	Readings/Article An unsentimental Mideast peace By Amos Oz SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Jewish-Arab relations PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Thomas Brummett (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Airborne seeds; Dandelions; Seeds PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Bullets, bombs, breakfast in bed By Massimo Commanducci (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Lebanon; Package tours; Safety measures; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Haka war dance, Auckland By Geoff Mason (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Auckland; Maori (New Zealand people); New Zealand PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Japanese etiquette: When Pearl Harbor comes up By Fred F. Yoshino, Christine Leggett, and Elizabeth A. Fedor SEE ALSO: Business etiquette; Foreign public opinion, American; Japanese; Travel etiquette PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon The man with no name meets the man without a country SEE ALSO: Citizenship; Men PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article Beverly Hills mansion envy? SEE ALSO: Beverly Hills; Capitalists and financiers; Dwellings; Homes and haunts—California—Beverly Hills; Mansions; Manoukian, Robert PDF IMAGES Readings/Article When actors think really, really hard By Eric Stoltz, Bridget Fonda, and Matthew Modine SEE ALSO: Environmentalism; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture industry; Motion picture plays; Waste minimization PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article The flood's forgotten victims By Deborah Efron SEE ALSO: Floods; Pet owners; Pets PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Clash of the middle classes By Alan Wolfe SEE ALSO: Middle class PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article The grunge diet By Lisa Carver SEE ALSO: Love, Courtney; Views on weight loss; Weight loss; Women rock musicians PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Judy Olausen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Housewives; Living rooms; Middle aged women PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Collection Readings By William Scarbrough PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The abdominizer By William Scarbrough SEE ALSO: Suicide machines PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The gutslicer By William Scarbrough SEE ALSO: Suicide machines PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The gasmaster By William Scarbrough SEE ALSO: Suicide machines PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article My dear John Deere By Ronald L. O'Halloran and Park Elliott Dietz SEE ALSO: Agricultural machinery; Sexual behavior PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Hot feet SEE ALSO: Catalogs PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article The moron lobby strikes again By Darlene Lieblich SEE ALSO: Editing; Mentally handicapped; Television scripts PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The very late edition By Luke Jaeger and Shoshana Marchand SEE ALSO: Dreams PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo Giving it to the man, with relish By Tim Archibald (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Arizona; Attorneys general; Fugitives from justice; Woods, Grant; Phoenix; Portraits; Prisoners; Carter, Robert PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Leftovers By Italo Calvino and Tim Parks (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Calvino, Italo; Psychology; Refuse and refuse disposal PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Hard truths about concrete By Peter Schjeldahl PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo Leaf pattern, sea grape tree, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida By William Neill (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Leaves PDF IMAGES
31-32	Readings/Fiction Three ways to die from the fifties By Robert Olen Butler PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Leaves By Charles Simic PDF IMAGES
33-56	Article Going to see the dragon: A journey through south China, land of capitalist miracles, where yesterday's rice paddy becomes tomorrow's metropolis, and a thousand factories bloom By Paul Theroux SEE ALSO: Commerce; Journeys—China, Southeast; 1976-; Theroux, Paul PDF IMAGES
57-64	Article Faulty diagnosis: Why Clinton's health-care plan won't cure what ails us By Willard Gaylin SEE ALSO: Health care reform; Medical care; Medical policy PDF IMAGES
65-74	Fiction A note on the type By Ron Carlson PDF IMAGES
75-82	Article Memories held in check: Perusing a lifetime of my father's expenditures By Thomas Mallon SEE ALSO: Checks; Family; Fathers; Finance, Personal; Mallon, Thomas PDF IMAGES
87	Double acrostic/Department No. 130 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Lights fantastic By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES