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Archive: 1998

A tortoise for the queen of Tonga

by Julia Whitty,

Nice couple boys

by Tony Hendra,

A sentimental education in stand-up comedy

Scent of a Woman’s Ink

by Francine Prose,

Are women writers really inferior?

A Hundred Rivers Run Through It

by Wade Graham,

California floats its future on a market for water

Global roulette

Edited by Ted C. Fishman,

In a volatile world economy, can everyone lose?

If there’s a God

by Gregory Orr,

My life and the beautiful game

Readings

by Patrick Cariou,

The Tao wave

by Michael Laskey,

Thanks from the man in black

by Harper’s Staff,

The Spielberg formula

by Harper’s Staff,

Aesop, uncensored

Translated by Olivia Temple, Robert Temple,

Tolstoy takes on tobacco

by Leo graf Tolstoy,

Readings

by Victor Balaban,

Halfway house

by Peter DeFazio,

The bull-market bug

by Thomas J. Penn,

City of rhythm

Art by David W. FeBland,

The sham of saving social security first

by Robert B. Reich,

The HMS Fluffy

by Harper’s Staff,

Uncle Sam, loose cannon

by Harper’s Staff,

Country drinkers

Art by Chia-nan Wang,

Readings

by Alex Webb,

Stabilizing foreign markets

by Megawati Soekarnoputri,

Our prudent, incoherent China policy

by Edward Luttwak,

Harper’s index

by Harper’s Staff,

Swiss pastry

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Harper’s Staff,

Sixes and sevens (and twelves)–II

by Harper’s Staff,

No. 184

by Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton,

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