Harper's Magazine: October 1999

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October 1999

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Dugald Stermer SEE ALSO: Apples PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The reanimators, from June 1999: Letter By T. Coraghessan Boyle Letter By Felix R. Gorrio Letter By Ann McCarthy Letter By Mike Gensler On Letters, from July 1999: Letter By Jonathan Bate On A remembrance of ink past, from July 1999: Letter By Cuyler W. Brooks Jr. On The gunfire dialogues, from July 1999: Letter By Joe Stavitsky Letter By Shahryar Sheibani Letter By Max Ludington On At war with ourselves, from July 1999: Letter By Afshin Rouhani Letter By Kenneth Champeon On Busted flush, from August 1999: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
10-13	Notebook/Article Curtain calls By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Death and burial; Kennedy, John F. PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Gore, Al; Animal; Great Britain; Business; Central Intelligence Agency; The Catholic Church; China; Colombia; United States Congress; Death; Democracy; Disease; Drugs; Entertainment; The Environment; Federal Communications Commission; Family; Holidays; Illinois; India; Iowa; Israel; Judaism; The Media; Medicine; Mexico; New Hampshire; Nuclear Energy; Pakistan; U.S. Department of Defense; Pollution; Poverty; Propaganda; Religion; The Republican Party; Milosevic, Slobodan; Taiwan; Taxes; Television; Transportation; Vietnam; War PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
17-21	Readings/Article Writers afoot By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Essay PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article The Falun Gong show SEE ALSO: Persecution; Violence PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration Portrait of the artist By Eric Fischl SEE ALSO: Artists; Fischl, Eric; Portraits; Self-portraits, American PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Illustration Eddie's invite By Fiona White SEE ALSO: Blacks; Men PDF IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article Satchmo's home remedy By Louis Armstrong SEE ALSO: Health; Jazz musicians; Armstrong, Louis PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article Pop! Goes the weasel By Rudolph W. Giuliani SEE ALSO: Career as radio talk show host; Ferrets as pets; Pet owners; Giuliani, Rudolph PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article It takes a village SEE ALSO: Adultery; Alibi PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Jesus Christ, superstar SEE ALSO: Television mini-series PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article E-Z filing for E-Z ladies SEE ALSO: New Zealand; Prostitutes; Taxation PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Vogue words By Hajime Kamei SEE ALSO: Beauty, Personal PDF IMAGES Readings/Article My mind's-eye camera By Studs Terkel SEE ALSO: Motion pictures; Psychology; Terkel, Studs PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration The accident By Paul Fenniak SEE ALSO: Bicycles; Cycling accidents; Cyclists PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Poem Proceed with caution By Charles Bernstein PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article My struggle By Paul Reyes (Trans.) and Hugo Chávez SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Chávez Frías, Hugo; Ramirez Sanchez, Ilich; Revolutionaries; Venezuela PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Paris isn't burning By Paco Rabanne SEE ALSO: Disasters; Forecasting PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Collection Readings By Barry Moser PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The death of Jezebel By Barry Moser SEE ALSO: Bible. O.T. PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration My life is wind By Barry Moser SEE ALSO: Bible. O.T.; Job (Biblical figure) PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration And the sea stopped raging By Barry Moser SEE ALSO: Bible. O.T.; Whales PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Before the law By Eve Conant (Trans.) and Grigory Pasko SEE ALSO: Criminal justice, Administration of; Imprisonment; Russia (Federation) PDF IMAGES
34-38	Readings/Article Black huckleberries By Henry David Thoreau PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article Archaeology of the heartland By Chad Pregracke SEE ALSO: Mississippi River; Refuse and refuse disposal PDF IMAGES
41-56	Article The kingdom of apples: Picking the fruit of immortality in Washington's laden orchards By David Guterson SEE ALSO: Apple growers; Apple industry; Apples; Harvesting; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
57-65	Article Your Constitution is killing you: A reconsideration of the right to bear arms By Daniel Lazare SEE ALSO: Amendments; Firearms; Gun control; United States. Constitution PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
66-67	Article Supply-side journalism: An all-American prescription for German unemployment By Seth Ackerman SEE ALSO: 1990-; Press coverage PDF IMAGES
68-71	Article At Walden Pond By E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White SEE ALSO: Concord; Concord (Mass.); White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks); Thoreau, Henry David; Homes and haunts—Massachusetts—Concord; Journeys—Massachusetts—Concord; Literary journeys PDF IMAGES
72-75	Review It's globalicious! Two servings, half-baked, of the new economy By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Building WEALTH: the new rules for individuals, companies, and nations in a knowledge-based economy (Book); Capitalism; International economic relations; Thurow, Lester C.; The Lexus and the olive tree: understanding globalization (Book); Friedman, Thomas PDF IMAGES
76-83	Review Eyes wide shut: What the critics failed to see in Kubrick's last film By Lee Siegel SEE ALSO: Career as motion picture director; Film criticism; Kubrick, Stanley PDF IMAGES
84-94	Fiction The fool's proxy By J. Robert Lennon PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Change for a quarter By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Article Tarnished gold SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Gold mines and mining PDF IMAGES