Harper's Magazine: January 1996

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January 1996

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By James Montgomery Flagg SEE ALSO: Twain, Mark; Portraits PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On To have and have not, from June 1995: Letter By Paul Limbert Allman On Lacking all conviction, from August 1995: Letter By Laura Capps On Letters, from September 1995: Letter By Paul Limbert Allman On Beauty's secrets, from October 1995: Letter By Amy Gershenson Letter By Caroline S. Kelley On The bull market in fear, from October 1995: Letter By Richard S. Blake Letter By David Galef Letter By Rick Reeves Letter By Charles Hayman Letter By Richard Rosenthal Letter By Chris Hutcheson Letter By Phil Sheehan On Letters, from November 1995: Letter By Paul Limbert Allman On Ivied halls, rooftop falls, from November 1995: Letter By Craig Vetter PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Time lines By Lewis H. Lapham PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article The middle-class backlash By Edward Luttwak SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Job security; Middle class PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Class snuggle By Matt Weinstein SEE ALSO: Employee fringe benefits; Industrial relations; Management PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo Paradise By Eric Chu (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Beaches; Bulldozers; Rafts; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Backlash: The view from Wall Street By Stephen F. Roach SEE ALSO: 1981-; Wages and labor productivity PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The service economy find its roots By Bill Hall SEE ALSO: Employment agencies; Slavery PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Article Tracking the NAFTA effect SEE ALSO: North American Free Trade Agreement; Unemployment PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Great slackers in history By Jason Torchinsky SEE ALSO: Einstein, Albert; Haller, Albrecht von; Career as secretary; Career in Swiss patent office; Finance, Personal; Marx, Karl; Workload PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration United shapes of America II By Kim Dingle SEE ALSO: Maps PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Covering for China SEE ALSO: Censorship; Baker, James Addison; 1976-; 1993-; The politics of diplomacy (Book) PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Illustration The progress of America By Mark Beard SEE ALSO: Mural painting and decoration, American PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Re-election is in the details By Harold Ickes SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Clinton, Bill; Career as U.S. president; Government publicity PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article The right's new abortion fight By William Bennett SEE ALSO: Abortion; Pro-life movement; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The G.O.P. hones its message SEE ALSO: Bumper stickers; Political slogans; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article Missing persons By Andrew O'Hagan SEE ALSO: Missing persons PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Triplets in the night By Danny Dowler SEE ALSO: Triplets PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration Gate By Doris Bloom and William Kentridge SEE ALSO: Environment (Art); Fire; Gates; South Africa PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Watch out for Ruth By Thomas W. Monetti SEE ALSO: Miscellanea; Restaurant critics; Reichl, Ruth PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Blazing saddles By Jim Tour and Mike Knodel SEE ALSO: Explosives in forestry; Horses PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Operadical, dude! SEE ALSO: Opera programs PDF IMAGES Readings/Article What the kids are listening to these days SEE ALSO: Rock music PDF IMAGES
29-31	Readings/Fiction You studio people By Eugene Stein PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Buses; Travelers PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo Midnight sun on tabular iceberg, Weddell Sea, Antarctica By Galen A. Rowell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Antarctica; Icebergs PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Article The sigh By Bernard Cooper PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Photo American democracy, looking up By Eric Oxendorf (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Domes PDF IMAGES
33-56	Article Shipping out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise By David Foster Wallace SEE ALSO: Caribbean Area; Wallace, David Foster; Journeys—Caribbean Area; Ocean travel; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article Taking the measure of Castro, ounce by ounce: A Cuban ration book shows a country short on resources but long on resourcefulness By Patrick Symmes SEE ALSO: Cuba; Food supply; 1959-; Rationing PDF IMAGES
61-67	Article Say it ain't so, Huck: Second thoughts on Mark Twain's “masterpiece” By Jane Smiley SEE ALSO: Twain, Mark; The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Book) PDF IMAGES
70	Notice Harper's Magazine 30-second fax survey SEE ALSO: Circulation; Readership surveys PDF IMAGES
71-76	Article Fifty years under a cloud: The uneasy search for our atomic history By Tom Engelhardt SEE ALSO: Bombardment, 1945; Cold War; Exhibitions; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Nagasaki-shi (Japan); Nuclear weapons; Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES
78-82	Article Legends of the fall: The short way down an English cliff By Louis De Bernières SEE ALSO: Falls (Accidents); Suicidal behavior PDF IMAGES
87	Double acrostic/Department No. 157 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Heads or tails—II By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES