Harper's Magazine: October 1998

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October 1998

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Alexis Rockman SEE ALSO: Animals, Mythical; Jungles PDF IMAGES
6-94	Letters/Department Letters On The secret sharer, from July 1998: Letter By Laura Simons Letter By John Ball Letter By Michael Fumento Letter By Michael P. Wright Letter By JoAnn Wypijewski On Where the good begins, from July 1998: Letter By Eva Bednarowicz On Sisyphus in the basement, from July 1998: Letter By David O. Knuttunen Letter By Michael Collins Letter By Eric Laursen Letter By Julia Daugherty PDF IMAGES
12-15	Notebook/Article Members only By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Etiquette; 1971-; Success PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Banking; Clinton, Bill; Business; California; The Catholic Church; Cookery; Corporations; Death; Education; Entertainment; Finance; Firearms; Georgia; Germany; Japan; Law; Lust; The Media; Medicine; Mexico; Microsoft; Science; Sexual Assault; Slavery; Social Security; Sport; Taxes; Technology; United Nations; Violence; World War II; War PDF TEXT IMAGES
19-22	Readings/Article Fifty years of dispossession By Edward W. Said SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Israel; Jewish-Arab relations; Palestinian Arabs PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article The CIA's rose-colored glasses SEE ALSO: CIA briefing, 1959; Communism; Cuba; Castro, Fidel; 1953-1961; 1959-; Revolution, 1959; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo Cows, Thailand By Jan Staller (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cows; Fences; Thailand PDF IMAGES
22-26	Readings/Article Ferrying dreamers to the other side By Tomas Robles SEE ALSO: Emigration and immigration; Human smugglers; Illegal aliens; Mexican-American Border Region; Mexicans PDF IMAGES
26-29	Readings/Article The long arm of the law By David P. Cole SEE ALSO: Drug couriers; Drug traffic; Investigation PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Lawn ornament By Liza Lou SEE ALSO: Beadwork; Lawns PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article A domestic indicator By Barton M. Biggs SEE ALSO: Greenwich; 1981-; Nannies; Rich people; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Prophet motives By Ken Melrose, Kanwal Rekhi, Michael Roach, and Kris Kalra SEE ALSO: Executives; Management PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article My lords, must we expectorate? SEE ALSO: Debates and debating; Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article You're a good man, Charlie Schulz By Ivan Brunetti SEE ALSO: Apologizing; Appreciation; Cartoonists; Schulz, Charles M.; Letters to the editor PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Photo Geometry By Sally Gall (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Couples; Foot; Nudity PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The sorrows of a modern Werther By Alain De Botton SEE ALSO: Characters—Werther; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Separation (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Article Last things By C.K. (Charles Kenneth) Williams SEE ALSO: Bereavement; Portrait photography; Postmortem photography PDF IMAGES
39	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Thomas Roma (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Commuters; Sleep; Subways PDF IMAGES
41-56	Fiction Brief interviews with hideous men By David Foster Wallace PDF IMAGES
57-69	Article Planet of weeds: Tallying the losses of Earth's animals and plants By David Quammen SEE ALSO: Jablonski, David; Effect of human beings on; Evolution (Biology); Extinction (Biology); Forecasting; Knowledge—Evolution; Nature PDF IMAGES
70-71	Article Bulldozer diplomacy: Israel plays politics with Palestinian development By Malu Halasa SEE ALSO: Building laws; Discrimination in housing; Housing; Housing development; Legal status, laws, etc.; Palestinian Arabs; West Bank PDF IMAGES
72-80	Article Coming home: Hunting squirrels and tigers with the Hmong By John Hildebrand SEE ALSO: Hunting PDF IMAGES
81-90	Article Freedom fighters: When the Prague Spring came to a California high school By Don Wallace SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Wallace, Don; High school students; Male friendship; Revolutionaries; Societies and clubs; Teenage boys PDF IMAGES
95	Double acrostic/Department No. 189 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
96	Puzzle/Department Chessmen—II By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES