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Excerpted from an article by E. Wade Davis in the November 1983 issue of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. A fuller account of Davis’s search for the Haitian zombie poison was…

From Washington

by Wolf Blitzer,

End of the world news

by Harper’s Staff,

From New York

Art by Richard Bosman,

For body parts

by Harper’s Staff,

Two Cheers for Dictatorship

by Alexander Meigs Haig,

From Moscow

by Harper’s Staff,

For nuclear weapons

by William Walter Hoover,

How to recognise a European (through American eyes)

by Harper’s Staff,

Markets

by Harper’s Staff,

For punishment

by Kevin Krajick,

Black ops, 1963 to 1983

by Tom Gervasi,

The trouble with commissions

by Paul E. Peterson,

Washington

by Harper’s Staff,

Tale of two cities

by Harper’s Staff,

New York

by Harper’s Staff,

The real world

by Barbara Martin,

Why U.S. industry is coming home

by Wassily W. Leontief,

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Those who are not moderates we will make moderates

Central America, chapter and verse

What do we mean when we talk about irony?

Love among the geisha

The third voice

The media’s media

Trickle down

Bowdlerizing the Saturday cartoon

Your tax dollars at work in El Salvador

In the shadows of superpowers

Disinformation

In the White House, they are rehearsing again for a show of peace

The Pharmacology of Zombies

From Washington

End of the world news

From New York

For body parts

Two Cheers for Dictatorship

From Moscow

For nuclear weapons

How to recognise a European (through American eyes)

Markets

For punishment

Black ops, 1963 to 1983

The trouble with commissions

Washington

Tale of two cities

New York

The real world

Why U.S. industry is coming home

May 1984

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