Harper's Magazine: March 1997

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March 1997

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Galen A. Rowell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Greenland; Ice PDF IMAGES
4-78	Letters/Department Letters On Lending Big Brother a hand, from October 1996: Letter By Kevin Wheeler On Missing children, from October 1996: Letter By Leah Rugen On Dies irae, from December 1996: Letter By Seaborn P. Jones On An American yearning, from December 1996: Letter By Alan Shefsky Letter By Chris Lehmann On While you were sleeping, from December 1996: Letter By Teresa A. Ellis Letter By Joseph Skinner Letter By James Burke On Letters, from January 1997: Letter By Leah Rugen PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Alms for oblivion By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Appreciation; De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Historiography; “The easy chair” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-18	Readings/Article The elusive goal of war trials By Michael Ignatieff SEE ALSO: Reconstruction; War crime trials; Yugoslav War, 1991 PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article A tough new environmental policy By Michael G. McKenna SEE ALSO: Career as governor of Virginia; Environmental policy; Allen, George; Government publicity PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Wicoun pinkte maka kin ta wicokunze oyake pelo (“They said treaties shall be the law of the land”) By Francis Yellow SEE ALSO: Dakota Indians; Maps; Nebraska; Tipis; United States. Army. Cavalry PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article The good news SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Headlines PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The bombs the Times forgot By Jim Naureckas SEE ALSO: Bombings; The Middle East; New York times (American newspaper); Press coverage PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo The priestess of Obaluwaye Shrine By Phyllis Galembo (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Nigeria; Shrines PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article A sheriff for Toon Town By Linda Shima-Tsuno SEE ALSO: Violence in television PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Write-offs SEE ALSO: Claims vs. Internal Revenue Service; Examination of witnesses; Finance, Personal; Income tax deductions for expenses; Irwin, Pennel Phlander; San Francisco; United States. Internal Revenue Service PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Illustration Lou By Melvin Leipzig SEE ALSO: African American men; Files (Records); Offices PDF IMAGES
23-26	Readings/Article The gospel according to Greenspan By Edward Luttwak SEE ALSO: Banks and banking, Central; Economics; Inflation (Finance) PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article The root of Yeltsin's troubles? By Sarah Brown (Trans.) and R. Sivulev SEE ALSO: Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich; Government correspondence; Russia (Federation); Staples and stapling machines; Views on stapling of government documents PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Andrew Bordwin (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Lawns; Monuments PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article Geniuses with back hair By A.G. Alias SEE ALSO: Intellect PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Aaron Hsu-Flanders PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Laugher curve By Kenneth H. Craik SEE ALSO: Joking; Wit and humor PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article A room with too much view By Michael Pollan SEE ALSO: Architecture, Domestic; Homes and haunts; Human ecology; Pollan, Michael; Views; Windows PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration The blues By Peter Wegner SEE ALSO: Blue; Colors; Paint; Terminology PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Surroundsound By Graham Nash SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Young, Neil; Rock musicians; Stereophonic sound systems PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The basement war By Jonathan Franzen PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo Floral arrangements By Roe Ethridge (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Flowers; Photography, Pinhole PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Poem Legend By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
34-44	Article Cold comfort: Looking for the sun in Greenland's endless night By Gretel Ehrlich SEE ALSO: Dogsledding; Greenland; Ehrlich, Gretel; Journeys—Greenland; Winter PDF IMAGES
45-53	Article There goes the neighborhood: After the Berkeley fire, an architectural disaster By David L. Kirp SEE ALSO: Architecture, Domestic; Berkeley; Oakland; Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire, 1991 PDF IMAGES
54-55	Article K Street schadenfreude: One lobbyist's attempt to transmute despair into dollars By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Career as lobbyist; Foreign economic relations; Lobbying; Lobbyists; Philippines; Smith, Tom PDF IMAGES
57-63	Fiction The knife thrower By Steven Millhauser PDF IMAGES
65-74	Article Silence, please: The public library as entertainment center By Sallie Tisdale SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Libraries and society; Public libraries PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 171 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Dressed to the nines—III By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES