Harper's Magazine: December 1993

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December 1993

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Laszlo Stern (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Feathers PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The practical heart, from July 1993: Letter By Anthony Robinow On Cut and paste, from September 1993: Letter By Paula Anderton On The question Bush never got asked, from September 1993: Letter By Glenn Bowerman Letter By Frank P. Del Deo On Faulty diagnosis, from October 1993: Letter By M.D. and Jed Jacobson Letter By Mort Brooks Letter By Felicia Ackerman Letter By Adeline Ciebien PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article Santa's little helper By David Sedaris SEE ALSO: Actors; Career as department store Christmas elf; Sedaris, David; Macy's (Department store); Seasonal labor PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Temporary insanity SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Resolution Trust Corporation; Temporary employees PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration Coming from the U.S. Postal Service By Rich Harrington SEE ALSO: Forecasting; Postage stamps PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Bill Clinton, America's pen pal SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Classification; Correspondence PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Excuse me, your honor SEE ALSO: Excuses; Jury selection PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Map Onward, Christian statisticians SEE ALSO: Alabama; Baptists; Church membership PDF IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article Police reform: Still on hold SEE ALSO: New York (New York). Police Dept.; Police corruption PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Contempt of court SEE ALSO: Australia; Invective; Pre-trial procedure PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Overeat to live SEE ALSO: Cookery (Bacon); Cookery (Eggs); Food; HIV-positive persons; Sandwiches PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Do organ donors have to be dead? By Robert M. Arnold and Stuart J. Youngner SEE ALSO: Death (Biology); Donation of organs, tissues, etc.; Medical ethics; Terminally ill PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Paging Dr. Kevorkian By Charles J. Engel and A. Hilton Parmentier SEE ALSO: Overdosage; Suicidal behavior PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article An Emily Post for the homeless set SEE ALSO: Baltimore; Beggars; Etiquette PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Chuck Fishman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Immigrants PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Ozone anxiety: It's a white thing By David A. Bush SEE ALSO: Health aspects; Human skin color; Interracial marriage PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article Ranting well is the best revenge By Billy Bermingham SEE ALSO: Langer, Adam; Letters to the editor; —Review of Fat men in skirts (Play) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Dance of the sugarplum hair balls By Cyndi Lee SEE ALSO: Lee, Cyndi; Modern dance PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Casting Christ SEE ALSO: Actors; Career as actor; Drama; Lamour, Jean Marie; Jesus Christ PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The world's smallest talk By Alex Trebek SEE ALSO: Game shows; Interviewing in television PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo Boys and crib By Jocelyn Lee (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cribs (Children's furniture) PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article Not that boldly! PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Slow motion By Reginald Gibbons PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Frans Lanting (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chameleons PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Fiction The music of lives in bed By Kenneth Koch PDF IMAGES
35-43	Article Adieu, Big Bird: On the terminal irrelevance of public television By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Public television PDF IMAGES
45-51	Fiction A Christmas pageant By Donna Tartt PDF IMAGES
52-60	Capital letter/Article Babbitt in the woods: The Clinton environmental revolution that wasn't By James Conaway SEE ALSO: Babbitt, Bruce E.; Cabinet officers; Career as U.S. secretary of interior; Environmental policy; 1993-; United States. Dept. of Interior PDF IMAGES
61-77	Article Choice academic pork: Inside the leadership-studies racket By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: Leadership PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 132 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Is there a doctor in the house? By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES