Harper's Magazine: August 1999

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August 1999

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	Photo [Cover art] By A. Boccacio (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Harvesting; Harvesting machinery; Wheat PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Representative government, from May 1999: Letter By N.H. Lorenzen Letter By Steve Mosley On America's altered states, from May 1999: Letter By Doug Fawley Letter By Joel Rice Letter By David Johansson Letter By Thomas B. Roberts Letter By Stephen Sweet Letter By Stephen Young Letter By Tracy Bjorgan Letter By Maia Szalavitz On The old man and the manuscript, from May 1999: Letter By Patrick Nolan Letter By Glen Taylor Letter By Charles Scribner III On The demolition of world order, from June 1999: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
7	Correction [Untitled Correction] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Genocide; Kurds; Turkey PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Tremendous trifles By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Bradley, Bill; Campaign for U.S. president; Leisure class; 1993-; Veblen, Thorstein; Views on leisure class PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: AIDS; Animal; Anthrax; Art; Great Britain; Business; Central Intelligence Agency; China; Cookery; Crime; Death; Democracy; Dolly the Sheep; Education; Energy; Food; Bush, George W.; Germany; Clinton, Hillary; Holidays; Imperialism; Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Kenya; Law; Medicine; Murder; NATO; Namibia; Nepal; New York; Norway; Oil; Pollution; Religion; The Republican Party; Russia; Rwanda; United States Senate; Serbia and Montenegro; Suicide; Thailand; United Nations; Vice; Weapons of Mass Destruction; World War II; War; War Crimes; Washington, D.C.; Yugoslavia; Zimbabwe PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article Belgrade underground By A. G. SEE ALSO: Belgrade; Belgrade (Serbia); Bombing, Aerial; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Personal narratives; Serbia and Montenegro PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Door-suburb, 1999 By Robert Birmelin SEE ALSO: Dwellings; Living rooms; Suburban life PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Reconstructing Dixie SEE ALSO: Deeds; Discrimination; Northerners; Ownership; South Carolina PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article A discouraging word SEE ALSO: Rural development; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Principled uncertainty By Richard Feynman SEE ALSO: Uncertainty PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Illustration Daydreaming By Hang-Ryul Park SEE ALSO: Dragonflies; Korea; Persons; Quietude PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A celebration of flies By Spalding Gray SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Fatherhood; Sag Harbor; Gray, Spalding PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Office-plant politics By Bonnie Lutz SEE ALSO: House plants in office decoration; Rules and practice; Social status PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article From Russia with lust By Eve Conant (Trans.) and Vladimir Zhirinovsky SEE ALSO: Russia (Federation); Sex customs; Sex tourism PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Yes, Virginia, there is a sodomy clause By Franklin E. Kameny PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The masked ball By James Keller (Trans.) and Klaus Mann PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration The five sages By Ashley Bickerton SEE ALSO: Flowers; Men; Philosophers PDF IMAGES
28-31	Readings/Article The man with the golden horde By Cecelia Holland SEE ALSO: History, Military; Mongols; 13th century PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article In excelsis bombo SEE ALSO: Bombing, Aerial; Buildings; Church buildings; Serbia and Montenegro; War damage PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration An American diary By Roger Shimomura SEE ALSO: Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans PDF IMAGES
33-44	Article Wheaties: Chasing the ripening harvest across America's Great Plains By Shane DuBow SEE ALSO: Harvesting; Migrant agricultural laborers PDF IMAGES
45-62	Article Dispatches from a dead war: On the island of Cyprus, a hateful peace emerges By Scott Anderson and Sebastian Junger SEE ALSO: Cyprus; Ethnic relations; 1960 PDF IMAGES
63-72	Article Busted flush: South Carolina's video-poker operators run a political machine By David Plotz SEE ALSO: Casinos; Gambling; 1951-; South Carolina PDF IMAGES
73-77	Article My countryside, then and now: A study in American evolution By Malcolm Cowley SEE ALSO: Homes and haunts—Pennsylvania; Cowley, Malcolm; Rural conditions; Rural-urban migration; Social change PDF IMAGES
78-79	Article Fowl trouble: In the nation's poultry plants, brutality to worker as well as to bird By Christopher D. Cook SEE ALSO: Chicken industry; Poultry; Processing PDF IMAGES
80-89	Review Unlikely stories: The quiet renaissance of American short fiction By Vince Passaro SEE ALSO: Birds of America (Book); Break it down (Book); Brief interviews with hideous men (Book); Wallace, David Foster; Johnson, Denis; Girl with curious hair (Book); Jesus' son (Book); Foster, Ken; Moore, Lorrie; Davis, Lydia; Moody, Rick; Self-help (Book); Short stories, American; The KGB Bar reader (Book); The ring of brightest angels around heaven (Book); The things they carried (Book); O'Brien, Tim PDF IMAGES
90-96	Fiction Forty-minute lunch By Jennifer Egan PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Puzzle about nothing By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Article [Untitled Article] SEE ALSO: Dictators; Exiles PDF IMAGES