Harper's Magazine: September 1998

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September 1998

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration The neophyte By Gustave Doré SEE ALSO: Monks PDF IMAGES
6-85	Letters/Department Letters On Global roulette, from June 1998: Letter By Chris Burns On A hundred rivers run through it, from June 1998: Letter By Richard Golb Letter By Joseph L. Sax Letter By Lydia Bell-Edwards Letter By Bert Etling Letter By Wade Graham On Scent of a woman's ink, from June 1998: Letter By Cynthia Ozick Letter By Paul West Letter By Mary Gaitskill Letter By Annie Proulx Letter By Mary Morris Letter By Dani Shapiro Letter By Conrad Goehausen Letter By P.W. Atlakson On A tortoise for the queen of Tonga, from June 1998: Letter By Clelia W. Hendee Letter By C. April Weiss PDF IMAGES
11-15	Notebook/Article Punch and Judy By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Journalistic ethics; Mass media PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: AIDS; Afghanistan; Agriculture; Alaska ; Banking; The Baptist Faith; Clinton, Bill; Great Britain; Business; Cancer; Colorado; Cookery; Crime; Democracy; The Democratic Party; Drugs; Education; Energy; Entertainment; Firearms; France; Global Warming; Israel; Japan; Judaism; Forms of Justice; Lust; Microsoft; North Dakota; Nuclear Energy; Policing; Religion; The Republican Party; Reagan, Ronald; Sex; Sport; Suffering; Technology; Transportation; Vice; War; Wealth PDF TEXT IMAGES
19-25	Readings/Article The science of apartheid SEE ALSO: Biological weapons; Career in chemical and biological weapons research; Chemical weapons; Political persecution; van Rensburg, Schalk Janse; South Africa PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article When he's not killing students . . . SEE ALSO: Li, Peng; Prime ministers; Psychology; Sex role PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jed Fielding (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Naples; Toy guns PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration The seven vials By Nancie Warner SEE ALSO: Balconies; Scientists PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article The solitary death of Jim McDougal By T.J. Lowe SEE ALSO: Death and burial; McDougal, Jim; Prisoners; Solitary confinement; Whitewater Inquiry, 1993- PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The gallbladder will set you free By H. Andrew Chastain SEE ALSO: Donation of organs, tissues, etc.; Fees; Prisoners PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Melts down in your mouth SEE ALSO: Antinuclear movement; Public Relations; Santa Monica PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Partisan politics: Scenes from a deposition SEE ALSO: Claims vs. Bill Clinton and his administration; Depositions; Stephanopoulos, George; Klayman, Larry; 1993-; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Don't drink, don't smoke, what do you do? By Tom Zoellner SEE ALSO: Assault and battery; Cigarette smokers; Crimes against; Gangs; Salt Lake City; Utah PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Cartoon A country worth defending SEE ALSO: Patriotism; Persons; Rising and setting; Social ethics; Sun PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Me and Jim by the dashboard light SEE ALSO: Fantasy; Steinman, Jim; Miscellanea; Rock music fans PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] SEE ALSO: Australia; Sumo; Wrestlers PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article And the Oscar goes to . . . SEE ALSO: Motion picture plays; Motion pictures; Plots, themes, etc. PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article The American sublime By Bill Beckley SEE ALSO: Aesthetics, American; Aesthetics, French; Interviews; Bourgeois, Louise; Nude in art; Women artists PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Thread By Stuart Dybek SEE ALSO: Catholics; Childhood and youth; Dybek, Stuart PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Poem Liberating a pillar of tortillas By Martín Espada PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Photo Tuscany, 1997 By Andrea Modica (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Grasses; Rivers; Swimming; Tuscany PDF IMAGES
39-54	Article Beyond belief: A skeptic searches for an American faith By Fenton Johnson SEE ALSO: Faith; Johnson, Fenton; Monasticism and religious orders; Monks; 1960; Religion PDF IMAGES
55-63	Article The hum of bees: A civilization made of flowers, light, and wax By Susan Brind Morrow SEE ALSO: Bee culture; Beekeepers; Bees; Kime, Bob; Career as beekeeper; Honey; Knowledge—Bee culture; Morrow, Susan Brind PDF IMAGES
65-71	Article The soul encoded: Software that thinks it knows you By Steven Johnson SEE ALSO: Intelligent agents (Computer software); The Internet PDF IMAGES
72-84	Fiction The piano tuner By Tim Gautreaux PDF IMAGES
87	Double acrostic/Department No. 188 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Alphabet soup—II By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES