Harper's Magazine: November 1998

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November 1998

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By George Deem SEE ALSO: Classrooms; Desks; Windows PDF IMAGES
4-9	Letters/Department Letters On Scent of a woman's ink, from June 1998: Letter By Carole Maso On Laughing with Kafka, from July 1998: Letter By Joshua Roberts On Programming under the wizard's spell, from August 1998: Letter By Ananda Gupta Letter By Matthew T. McGarvey Letter By Afshin Rouhani On Who'll stop the drain? Reflections on the art of going broke, from August 1998: Letter By Rogier van Bakel Letter By Scott Anderson Letter By Emily Faxon Letter By Lynn Gustafson Letter By Lawrence Chimerine Letter By Jean Brady Letter By Rebecca Payes Letter By Brian P. Boyle Letter By Bryan Larsen Letter By Sarah Mae Brown Letter By Manuel R. Lehman-Rios On Letters, from September 1998: Letter By Carole Maso PDF IMAGES
11-13	Notebook/Article Hide-and-go-seek By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Ethics; 1993-; Political ethics; Scandals PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Animal; Arkansas; Clinton, Bill; Yeltsin, Boris; Business; China; United States Congress; Cookery; Crime; Democracy; Drugs; Finance; Freedom; Germany; Gnomes; Health Care; Intellectual Property; The Internet; Iraq; Kennedy, John F.; Pope John Paul II; Forms of Justice; Starr, Kenneth; Il, Kim Jong; The Media; Medicine; Mendacity; New Jersey; North Dakota; North Korea; Oklahoma; Parenting; Race; Russia; Sex; South Carolina; Space; Sport; Sudan; Sweden; Vice; War PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
17-20	Readings/Article Isn't it romantic? By Jack Hitt SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Mistresses; Lewinsky, Monica S. (Monica Samille); Relations with Bill Clinton; Relations with Monica Lewinsky PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration Black Rock Desert of the Nevada Great Basin By Jack W. Dykinga SEE ALSO: Nevada; Rocks; Springs PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Identity (Psychology); Middle aged men; Whites PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Revising the F-word By Jesse Sheidlower SEE ALSO: Sheidlower, Jesse; Obscene words; The F-word (Book) PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo Anti-porn protester By William Miller (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Demonstrations; Pornography; Signs and signboards PDF IMAGES
22-25	Readings/Article Phone fun in Sarajevo By Michael Cresswell SEE ALSO: Bosnia and Hercegovina; Communication systems; Confidential communications; Sarajevo; United Nations; Wiretapping PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Prelude to genocide? SEE ALSO: Congo (Brazzaville); Ethnic relations; Genocide; Tutsi (African people) PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Tram Chim #4 By Kate Collie SEE ALSO: Cranes; Environmental aspects; Vietnam PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By John Ellsberry SEE ALSO: Ruth, Babe; Celebrities; Knotts, Don; Glass painting and staining; Kissinger, Henry; Mosaics; Portraits PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The spoken weed By Robert C. Byrd SEE ALSO: Oral communication PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article Mr. T, real-life superhero By Chris S. Morrill SEE ALSO: African American actors; Interviews; Mr. PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article There goes the neighborhood By Kurt Vonnegut and André Gregory SEE ALSO: Gregory, André; Businessmen; Dwellings; Homes and haunts; Homes and haunts—New York (State)—Sagaponack; Housing development; Rennert, Ira; Kurt Vonnegut; Mansions PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Your life with my dog By Daniel Levine SEE ALSO: Dog owners PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Grace Slick's feathered friends By Grace Slick SEE ALSO: Control; Pigeons PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The novelist's super ego By Francesca Riviere SEE ALSO: Interviews; Amis, Martin; Novelists, English PDF IMAGES
31-35	Readings/Article The survivor's question By Peter Stitt SEE ALSO: Bereavement; Death and burial; Berryman, John; Poets, American; Suicide PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Photo Flower (#86), Chrysanthemum By Amanda Means (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chrysanthemums PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Poem Do please circle By Joshua Saul Beckman PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Article Blank canvas By Bernard Cooper SEE ALSO: Nothing (Philosophy) PDF IMAGES
37-47	Article Goodbye to all that: Why Americans are not taught history By Christopher Hitchens PDF IMAGES
48-49	Article Let them eat nutri-cake: Merriam-Webster thinks our “biosolids” don't stink By Sheldon Rampton SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Sewage sludge PDF IMAGES
51-58	Article Foundering father: A 1797 confession of adultery By Alexander Hamilton SEE ALSO: Adultery; Hamilton, Alexander; Ethics; Extortion; Political ethics; Relations with Mrs. Maria Reynolds PDF IMAGES
59-72	Article The radioactive boy scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Hahn, David; Experiments; Knowledge—Nuclear engineering; Nuclear engineering; Radiochemistry; Recreation; Teenage boys PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
73-86	Article Home after dark: A funeral for three girls in Kentucky By Jayne Anne Phillips SEE ALSO: Baptists; Death and burial; Funeral rites and ceremonies; James, Jessica; Steger, Kayce; Mass murder; Hadley, Nicole; Paducah; Teenagers PDF IMAGES
87	Double acrostic/Department No. 190 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Misprints—III By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES