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Archive: 1997

Silence, please

by Sallie Tisdale,

The public library as entertainment center

The knife thrower

by Steven Millhauser,

K Street schadenfreude

by Ken Silverstein,

One lobbyist's attempt to transmute despair into dollars

There goes the neighborhood

by David L. Kirp,

After the Berkeley fire, an architectural disaster

Cold Comfort

by Gretel Ehrlich,

Looking for the sun in Greenland’s endless night

Legend

by W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin,

Floral arrangements

by Roe Ethridge,

The basement war

by Jonathan Franzen,

Surroundsound

by Graham Nash,

The blues

Art by Peter Wegner,

A room with too much view

by Michael Pollan,

Laugher curve

by Kenneth H. Craik,

Readings

Art by Aaron Hsu-Flanders,

Geniuses with back hair

by A.G. Alias,

Readings

by Andrew Bordwin,

The root of Yeltsin’s troubles?

by R. Sivulev,Translated by Sarah Brown,

The gospel according to Greenspan

by Edward Luttwak,

Lou

Art by Melvin Leipzig,

A sheriff for Toon Town

by Linda Shima-Tsuno,

Write-offs

by Harper’s Staff,

The priestess of Obaluwaye Shrine

by Phyllis Galembo,

The bombs the Times forgot

by Jim Naureckas,

The good news

by Michael Perry,

Wicoun pinkte maka kin ta wicokunze oyake pelo (“They said treaties shall be the law of the land”)

Art by Francis Yellow,

A tough new environmental policy

by Michael G. McKenna,

The elusive goal of war trials

by Michael Ignatieff,

Harper’s index

by Harper’s Staff,

Alms for oblivion

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Galen A. Rowell,

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