Harper's Magazine: June 2000

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June 2000

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	Photo [Cover art] By Jacques Lowe (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Twain, Mark; Portraits; Wolfe, Tom PDF IMAGES
1	Article [Untitled Article] By Bill Clinton SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Clinton, Bill; Correspondence PDF IMAGES
5	Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc. PDF IMAGES
10-181	Letters/Department Letters On Onan the magnificent, from March 2000: Letter By Christian Sidor Letter By Roger Hodge On Stupor mundi, from April 2000: Letter By John R. Coyne Jr. Letter By Robert C. Tillman Letter By J.R. Beall Letter By Blair Wyman Letter By Steve Gray On Harper's index, from April 2000: Letter By Elizabeth Loudon Letter By Michael A. Gerzanics On Hindsight into the future, from April 2000: Letter By James McCalla On Crossing the bikini line, from April 2000: Letter By Ingrid E. Newkirk Letter By Felicity Devlin On Maid to order, from April 2000: Letter By Pamela Hunt Shoemaker Letter By Jennifer T. Grainger Letter By Brooke Stauffer Letter By Elizabeth Bernstein Letter By Selma James and Phoebe Jones Schellenberg Letter By Barry Stoller Letter By Daniel J. Bishop Letter By K.J. Walters Letter By Karin Payson Letter By Eric Bourland Letter By Christopher C. Heard Letter By Kristen Haas Letter By Moira McAuliffe On Trekking the city of light, from April 2000: Letter By Alice Godfrey Letter By Sarah O'Brien On Revising Vietnam, again, from April 2000: Letter By David Kaiser Letter By James A. Bill PDF IMAGES
23	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Lincoln, Abraham; Agriculture; Animal; Art; Great Britain; Business; California; China; Congo; Cookery; Cuba; Democracy; Diet; Dolly the Sheep; Drugs; Energy; Folly; Holidays; Illinois; Immigration; Imperialism; India; The Internet; Iraq; Ireland; Japan; Labor; Marriage; The Media; New York; New York City; Oil; Peru; Piracy; Population Control; Poverty; Propaganda; Race; Religion; Russia; Science; Slavery; Taxes; Texas; Uganda PDF TEXT IMAGES
25-30	Readings/Article In praise of illiteracy By Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Michael Lipson (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Literacy PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Oedipus, king of the road By Daniel Nussbaum SEE ALSO: Oedipus (Tale); Parodies, imitations, etc.; Personalized license plates PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo Renaissance mouse By Keith Carter (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Architecture, Renaissance; Masks; Mickey Mouse (Fictitious character); Stairs PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article A punt is a pass is a kick By William Lundell SEE ALSO: Football; Stein, Gertrude; Interviews; Views on football; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration Self-portrait as Infanta with fish By Julie Heffernan SEE ALSO: Velázquez, Diego; Fishes; Heffernan, Julie; Landscape; Parodies, imitations, etc.; Portraits; Self-portraits, American; Women artists PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article Tell me what fish do SEE ALSO: Fishes; Nursing home patients PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Sources agree rock swoon has no past By Barry Hannah PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Illustration Be-bop By Nicky Hoberman SEE ALSO: Cats PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Stumping for democracy By Darrell Yates Rist SEE ALSO: Reagan, Nancy; Oratory; Presidents' spouses PDF IMAGES
35-36	Readings/Article The Ayatollah's book of etiquette By Ruhollah Khomeini and J. Borujerdi (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Iran; Muslims; Religion; Khomeini, Ruhollah PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Casual wear By James Ingram Merrill PDF IMAGES
36-38	Readings/Article Interrogator and detainee By Breyten Breytenbach SEE ALSO: Police questioning; Political prisoners; South Africa PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Article Lessons of darkness By Peter Jennings SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Atomic bomb; Bombardment, 1945; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Press coverage PDF IMAGES
38-42	Readings/Article Confessions of a state terrorist By Mónica González SEE ALSO: Valenzuela Morales, Andrés; Chile; Interviews; Secret service; State-sponsored terrorism PDF IMAGES
40	Readings/Article Chernobyl: The gourmet angle By Patricia Wells SEE ALSO: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986; Europe, Eastern; Exports PDF IMAGES
41	Readings/Illustration Temma on earth By Tim Lowly SEE ALSO: Earth; Lying down position; Surface PDF IMAGES
42-44	Readings/Article Glenn Gould on the menace of art By Glenn Gould SEE ALSO: Aesthetics; Art and morals; Gould, Glenn; Pianists; Views on aesthetics PDF IMAGES
44-45	Readings/Article Touch of ego SEE ALSO: Actors; Career in television advertising; Welles, Orson; Television advertising; Voice-overs PDF IMAGES
45-46	Readings/Article A presidential candidate By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: Political ethics PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The nutty promoters SEE ALSO: Broadcast advertising; Martin, Dean; Lewis, Jerry; Language & Linguistics; Motion pictures; Obscene words; Swearing; The caddy (Motion picture : 1953) PDF IMAGES
46	Readings/Article Massachusetts miracle SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Appropriations and expenditures; Corrections; Errata; Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Word perfect By Howard Rheingold SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Translating and interpreting PDF IMAGES
47	Readings/Illustration The discovery of painting By Attila Richard Lukacs SEE ALSO: Allegories; Men; Monkeys; Painting PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Children of the wind By Primo Levi, Simon Rees (Trans.), and Antonio Tanca (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
50	Readings/Illustration Melon series #16 By Dennis Wojtkiewicz SEE ALSO: Melons PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The white bird By John Berger SEE ALSO: Aesthetics; Folk art; Nature (Aesthetics); Philosophy; Switzerland PDF IMAGES
51	Readings/Article A writer's gift By George Plimpton SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Welty, Eudora; Miller, Henry; Hospitality; Interviews; Jackson; Psychiatric hospitals; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
54	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Sally Mann (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Landscape; Trees; Walls PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction A museum of secret affinities By Jorge Luis Borges and Anthony Kerrigan (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
55	Readings/Poem Preparation By Czeslaw Milosz PDF IMAGES
57-72	Article Hazards of new fortune: Harper's Magazine, then and now By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: American periodicals PDF IMAGES
73-82	Article In the land of the rococo Marxists: Why no one is celebrating the second American century By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Intellectuals; Radicalism PDF IMAGES
83-88	Article Who will tell the people? On waiting, still, for the great Creole-American novel By Russell Banks SEE ALSO: Group identity; Multiculturalism; Race in literature; Racism PDF IMAGES
89-96	Article Blood on the tracks: Does senseless death reveal God, or His absence? By Mark Slouka SEE ALSO: Accidents; Death and burial; Toledo, Julia; 1960; Railroad accidents PDF IMAGES
97-136	Collection Dispatches from 1850: a sesquicentennial symposium PDF IMAGES Article Introduction By Robert Stone SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; 1783-1865 PDF IMAGES
99-102	Fiction Reflections of Titus Basfield, April 1850 By James Alan McPherson PDF IMAGES
101	Article To the editor of the London Times By Frederick Douglass SEE ALSO: Racism PDF IMAGES
102-106	Fiction The Taiping leaders By Ha Jin PDF IMAGES
104	Article Soldiers of the liberating expedition of Cuba! By Narciso Lopez SEE ALSO: Cuba; Filibusters PDF IMAGES
106-110	Fiction Overheard the night of March 21, 1850 By Joanna Scott PDF IMAGES
107	Article Feminism's first minutes SEE ALSO: Feminism; Women's rights PDF IMAGES
110-114	Fiction Small blue thing By Madison Smartt Bell PDF IMAGES
112	Article Neologisms SEE ALSO: New words PDF IMAGES
114-118	Article P.T. Barnum and my great-great-granddad's slaves By Allan Gurganus SEE ALSO: Gurganus, Allan; Circus; Family; Barnum, P.T. (Phineas Taylor); Performances—North Carolina; Slaveholders; Slavery PDF IMAGES
115	Article A northerner's reply By James G. Birney SEE ALSO: Abolitionists; Brothers and sisters; Cincinnati; Louisville; Slaveholders PDF IMAGES
118	Article Mademoiselle Jenny Lind visits the Herald SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Lind, Jenny; Visit to the offices of the New York Herald; Women singers PDF IMAGES
119-122	Article The last year By Eavan Boland SEE ALSO: Emigration and immigration; Famine, 1845-1852 PDF IMAGES
120	Article Between two fires By Queen of Great Britain Victoria SEE ALSO: Correspondence; 1848-1871; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain; Queens PDF IMAGES
122-126	Article Two dreams of California By Cecelia Holland SEE ALSO: Career in business; Career in California politics; Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe; 1846-1850; Portraits; Brannan, Sam PDF IMAGES
124	Article The cost of conquest SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Government relations; 1789-1869 PDF IMAGES
126-134	Poem The improved man By Kevin Baker PDF IMAGES
128	Article An advertisement SEE ALSO: Purification; Water PDF IMAGES
134-136	Article An expedition map By Annie Proulx SEE ALSO: Maps PDF IMAGES
137-141	Article How the West was lost: A road trip in search of the Oregon Trail By Tom Chaffin SEE ALSO: Frémont, John Charles; Journeys—West (U.S.); Maps; Oregon Trail; Chaffin, Tom PDF IMAGES
143-149	Article American futures, remembered and foretold: Cartoonists sketch the world to come SEE ALSO: Social prediction PDF IMAGES
151-159	Article Why marriage? Matrimony at the millennium offers solace to capitalism By Jane Smiley SEE ALSO: Smiley, Jane; Relations with men PDF IMAGES
161-168	Article Last rites: When the existential becomes the retail By Thomas Lynch SEE ALSO: Career as undertaker; Funeral homes; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Lynch, Thomas; Undertakers and undertaking PDF IMAGES
169-176	Review A life in the maze: Tim Hilton's new book on John Ruskin completes the two-volume biography of a Victorian giant By Guy Davenport SEE ALSO: Biography—Book reviews; Ruskin, John; John Ruskin: the later years (Book); Portraits; Hilton, Tim PDF IMAGES
183	Puzzle/Department High honors By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
184	Article Trading up SEE ALSO: Commerce; Exports; Imports; Maps PDF IMAGES