Theodore P. Friend
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The Divestment Wonder-Drug
T HERE'S a chic new drug on college campuses. Its prescription name is MDA, but it's more commonly known as
Hunt, Helms Held Hostage
T HE NORTH CAROLINA Senatorial contest between Republican incumbent Jesse Helms, 63, and two-term Democratic Governor Jim Hunt, 47, has
Moon's Financial Rise and Fall
A FIFTY-FOUR YEAR OLD Korean immigrant is currently swabbing trays and loading dishes into washers at a federal prison in
Anytown, U.S.A.
I N THE MIDDLE of the night of March 28, a cold, snowy evening, a procession of moving vans crept
HARPER'S: Not So Bizarre
L ONG BEFORE America's oldest monthly changed its look and format, there were long faces and knowing smiles in the
In Loco Parentis?
T HIRTEEN THOUSAND dollars is a lot of money to pay for a year's education. But the University's financial wizards
Anatomy of an Anatomy
A BOB FOSSE FILM is a little like a steel fragmentation grenade shiny, precise, and efficient--but not something one wants
Comme-ci, Comme-ca
D EEP IN THE BOWELS of Lowell House, in a cramped room riddled with steam pipes and sighing ventilator shafts.
Book of the Bleak
W HEN JOHN UPDIKE was at Harvard last year for an informal question and answer session, he was asked who