Harper's Magazine: November 1999

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November 1999

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration Lunch By Teun Hocks SEE ALSO: Men; Sandwiches PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The man with the golden horde, from August 1999: Letter By Stefan D. Schindler On Dispatches from a dead war, from August 1999: Letter By David D. Grimland Letter By Hamish Nixon Letter By Alice Copeland Brown On Fowl trouble, from August 1999: Letter By Ingrid E. Newkirk On Unlikely stories, from August 1999: Letter By John Hildebrand Letter By Kathleen de Azevedo Letter By Susan DeGrane Letter By Leslie Dutcher Letter By William P. Frogameni Letter By George R. Shultz On Densified oil drums #4, from September 1999: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
12-17	Notebook/Article Asset management By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Deadly sins; Downsizing of organizations PDF IMAGES
19	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Animal; Banking; Clinton, Bill; Great Britain; Business; China; Crime; Democracy; The Democratic Party; Disease; EastTimor; Education; Entertainment; Fascism; Firearms; Folly; Health Care; Clinton, Hillary; Indonesia; The Internet; Israel; Forms of Justice; Kansas; Medicine; New York City; Policing; Poverty; Race; Religion; The Republican Party; Russia; Satan; Sport; Television; Texas; Thailand; War; Washington, D.C.; Wealth; Wisconsin PDF TEXT IMAGES
21-24	Readings/Article Give war a chance By Edward Luttwak SEE ALSO: Humanitarian assistance; Intervention (International law); War PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article A prayer for Africa By Yaguine Koita and Fodé Tourakana SEE ALSO: Africa; Guinea; 1960; Stowaways PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo 100 boots in a field By Eleanor Antin (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Boots; Rubber footwear; Trees PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Kurds to live by SEE ALSO: Government and the press; Kurds; Turkey PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article In balance, with this life, this death By Anthony Loyd SEE ALSO: Loyd, Anthony; Career as war correspondent; Chechnia; Chechnia (Russia); Civil War, 1994-1996; Russia (Federation); War correspondents; War victims PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Schoolroom, village of Shipelicki, April 1995 By David McMillan SEE ALSO: Classrooms; Human anatomy; Models; Ukraine PDF IMAGES
29-32	Readings/Article Assault and pepper By Hazel Trice Edney SEE ALSO: Cambridge; Police PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A well-regulated militia By Jim R. Schwiesow SEE ALSO: Firearms owners; Iowa; Militias PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article She's come undone SEE ALSO: Australia; Head; Malpractice; Medical errors; Medical personnel; Surgery PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article Infinite jest By Del Close SEE ALSO: Actors; Close, Del; Will; Wills PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Time to hate the donuts SEE ALSO: Consumer complaints PDF IMAGES
33-36	Readings/Article Is there a dead mule in it? By Jerry Leath Mills SEE ALSO: American literature; Death in literature; In literature; Mules PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Road kill By Harrod Blank (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Decoration; Skull PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article Aardwolves and fossas and kraits—oh my! SEE ALSO: Exotic animals; Pets PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Illustration Bad route By Miguel Calderón SEE ALSO: Masks (Sculpture); Motorcyclists PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Strange fruit SEE ALSO: American Airlines; Discrimination in employment; Racism; Troy, Richard J.; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
40-42	Readings/Article Country matters By Hayden Carruth SEE ALSO: Agoraphobia; Carruth, Hayden; Psychology; Rural poor PDF IMAGES
41	Readings/Collection Readings By John Currin PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Laughing nude By John Currin SEE ALSO: Nudity PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration The go-see By John Currin SEE ALSO: Nudity PDF IMAGES
42	Readings/Poem This is where you must live By Paul Celan, Heather McHugh (Trans.), and Nikolai Popov (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
45-51	Article In defense of the book: On the enduring pleasures of paper, type, page, and ink By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Libraries PDF IMAGES
54-68	Article The sweet hereafter: Our craving for sugar starves the Everglades and fattens politicians By Paul Roberts SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Everglades; Sugar growing; Sugar trade; Sugarcane industry PDF IMAGES
69-82	Article Rock is dead: Sex, drugs, and raw sewage at Woodstock 99 By David Samuels SEE ALSO: Outdoor concerts PDF IMAGES
83-88	Review Exile on Main Street: A Russian writer tries his hand at the Great American Novel By Jonathan Dee SEE ALSO: Authors, Russian; The new sweet style (Book); Aksenov, Vasiliæi Pavlovich PDF IMAGES
89-91	Fiction The lady in the looking-glass: A reflection By Virginia Woolf PDF IMAGES
92-100	Fiction Brownies By ZZ Packer PDF IMAGES
103	Puzzle/Department Stuff 'n' nonsense By Richard E., Jr. Maltby PDF IMAGES
104	Article 5 rms, Love Canal vu SEE ALSO: Hazardous wastes; Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, New York); Management; Maps; Niagara Falls PDF IMAGES