Harper's Magazine: December 1999

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December 1999

CONTENTS
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	Illustration Waldorf Restaurant By Ralph Goings SEE ALSO: Aged men; Storefronts; Streets PDF IMAGES
6-116	Letters/Department Letters On Why Johnny can't fail, from September 1999: Letter By David Bouchier Letter By Mike Bollhorst On How to peel a poem, from September 1999: Letter By Robert B. Wait Letter By R.T. Castleberry Letter By Chris Smith Letter By James Scofield On I know why the caged bird cannot read, from September 1999: Letter By John Appling Letter By Kirk G. Daddow Letter By Andrew Lechner Letter By Karl Wenclas Letter By Matthew Chingos Letter By William J. Savage Jr. Letter By Wendell Ricketts On Thus spoke Jedediah, from September 1999: Letter By D.C. Burton Letter By Ben Lipscomb On The future of English, from September 1999: Letter By Ellen Rees On Harper's index, from October 1999: Letter By Alan Baycroft On Eyes wide shut, from October 1999: Letter By M. Kellner Letter By John Burghardt Letter By Anthony Giardina Letter By Joshua Klein Letter By Lauren Hancock PDF IMAGES
12-17	Notebook/Article Performance art By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Art and state; Censorship; Giuliani, Rudolph W.; Views on art PDF IMAGES
19	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Gore, Al; Alabama; Apocalypse; Australia; Clinton, Bill; China; United States Congress; Cuba; Death; Democracy; Dogs; Education; Energy; Food; Bush, George W.; Health Care; Holidays; Indonesia; Israel; Forms of Justice; Kosovo; Law; The Media; Money; NATO; New York City; Nuclear Energy; Palestine; Parenting; U.S. Department of Defense; Pollution; Poverty; Prostitutes; Race; United States Senate; Serbia and Montenegro; Syria; Texas; Transportation; United Nations; Vice; Arafat, Yasir PDF TEXT IMAGES
21-26	Readings/Article Satanic beauty By Crispin Sartwell SEE ALSO: Aesthetics, American; Art, American; Sheeler, Charles; Criticism and interpretation PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration 125th Street By Stephen Dolmatch SEE ALSO: Streets PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Poem The swarm By Jorie Graham PDF IMAGES
26-30	Readings/Article The future of cinema By Adam Heimlich SEE ALSO: Hand-to-hand fighting; Korine, Harmony; Interviews; Motion picture producers and directors PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo New York, 1998 By Michael Ackerman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Pedestrians; Pigeons; Streets PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Reach out and whack someone SEE ALSO: Crime; Prisoners; Telephone PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article The customer is always right SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Firearms industry and trade; Gun control; Undercover operations PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article Muzzle tov! By R. Mermelstein SEE ALSO: Firearms owners; Jews PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article Study oppression abroad SEE ALSO: Indonesia; Kopassus (Indonesia : Special forces); Military assistance, American; Military education; Special operations (Military science) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Apt pupils SEE ALSO: Guerrilla warfare; Indonesia; Kopassus (Indonesia : Special forces) PDF IMAGES
36-38	Readings/Article Let the gifts begin SEE ALSO: Atlanta; Bribery; Membership PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Photo Big cow By Steve Simon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cows; Sculpture, American; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
39-42	Readings/Article My humble self By Lewis Nordan SEE ALSO: Beat generation; Childhood and youth; Hotels; Journeys—New York (State)—New York; Nordan, Lewis; Southerners; Teenage boys PDF IMAGES
41	Readings/Collection Readings By Thomas Woodruff PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Lil' Hotstuff and guardian angel By Thomas Woodruff SEE ALSO: Devil; Fantastic, The; Midgets; Rockets (Aeronautics) PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Rocket boy By Thomas Woodruff SEE ALSO: Fantastic, The; Rockets (Aeronautics) PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Caveman shaman By Thomas Woodruff SEE ALSO: Fantastic, The; Rockets (Aeronautics); Shamans PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Stinky blast off By Thomas Woodruff SEE ALSO: Cabbage; Fantastic, The; Skunks PDF IMAGES
44-56	Article Soldiers of great fortune: Is America's military training warriors or humanitarians? By Bob Shacochis SEE ALSO: Balkan Peninsula; Intervention (International law); Military life; Military policy PDF IMAGES
57-62	Article This is your Bill of Rights, on drugs: How we the people became the enemy By Jack Hitt and Graham Boyd SEE ALSO: Amendments; Civil Rights; Constitution; 1st-10th; Narcotics, Control of PDF IMAGES
66-82	Article Down and out at the Hotel Providence: Scenes from a Bowery flophouse By Guy Lawson SEE ALSO: Bowery (New York, New York : Street); Housing; Lodging-houses; Poor men PDF IMAGES
83-90	Article The end of empire: Inside the revolving door of dreams By Pico Iyer SEE ALSO: East Indians; Ethnic relations PDF IMAGES
91-96	Article America's medieval women By Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker) Buck SEE ALSO: Sex role PDF IMAGES
97-101	Review Urban philosopher: A walking tour of Lewis Mumford By Michael Lind SEE ALSO: Architectural criticism; Mumford, Lewis; Portraits; Sidewalk critic: Lewis Mumford's writings on New York (Book) PDF IMAGES
104-112	Fiction Green world By Greg Hrbek PDF IMAGES
117	Puzzle/Department Christmas game By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
118	Article Space, the cluttered frontier SEE ALSO: Artificial satellites PDF IMAGES