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Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

On the run with Manuel Noriega

by Harper’s Staff,

Massachusetts miracle

by Harper’s Staff,

Touchy Topics in the Gulf

From “Customs and Culture,” a chapter in the troop-information pamphlet distributed by the U.S. Central Command to all U.S. armed forces in Saudi Arabia. Soldiers are encouraged to keep this…

Accentuate the negative

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

by Keri Pickett,

Telling foreign truths

by David Rieff,

The sacred and the profane

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

by James Balog,

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by James Balog,

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by James Balog,

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by James Balog,

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by James Balog,

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by James Balog,

Wild at heart

by Harper’s Staff,

Going

by August Kleinzahler,

Pavlov’s pager

Drawn by P.S. Mueller,

King

by John Edgar Wideman,

One evening

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

San Francisco, 1969

by Mark Helprin,

Professors, students, and sex

by Jeffrey Kittay,

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Art by Paul Kuhrman,

Readings

Art by Paul Kuhrman,

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by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

Art by Kim Moser,

Intimidation, Thornburgh style

by Joseph E. Clarkson,

No more seventh-inning sex

by Harper’s Staff,

Al Ruzzo’s brainstorm

by Al Ruzzo,

S&Ls

by Stanley E. Adams,

The final frontier

Saddam Hussein

by Harper’s Staff,

The old tack

Readings

Excerpts from the best and most bizarre new books, testimonies, government documents, journals, news reports, speeches, and letters.

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On the run with Manuel Noriega

Massachusetts miracle

Touchy Topics in the Gulf

Accentuate the negative

Readings

Telling foreign truths

The sacred and the profane

Readings

Readings

Readings

Readings

Readings

Readings

Wild at heart

Going

Pavlov’s pager

King

One evening

Readings

San Francisco, 1969

Professors, students, and sex

Readings

Readings

[untitled]

Readings

Intimidation, Thornburgh style

No more seventh-inning sex

Al Ruzzo’s brainstorm

S&Ls

Saddam Hussein

November 1990

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