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April 2001

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Dugald Stermer SEE ALSO: Alphabet PDF IMAGES
6-11	Letters/Department Letters On The Palestinian question, from January 2001: Letter By Maria Birkett Letter By Michael Antman On The Countess of Stanlein restored, from January 2001: Letter By Gordon Epperson Letter By Evan Johnson On Shoals of time, from January 2001: Letter By Randy Olson Letter By Martin Willison On Where the bee sucks, from January 2001: Letter By Sam Lightman Letter By Elizabeth White Letter By Christian Hecimovic Letter By Elizabeth Nickson PDF IMAGES
12-15	Notebook/Article Mirror, mirror on the wall By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Clinton, Bill; Ethics; Clinton, Hillary Rodham; 2001-; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Agriculture; Gore, Al; Alaska; Animals; Clinton, Bill; Great Britain; Business; Central Intelligence Agency; Canada; Charity; Diet; Education; Energy; Entertainment; Family; Folly; Food; Bush, George W. (George Walker); Israel; Judaism; Starr, Kenneth; Medicine; Monsanto; Music; New York City; North Dakota; Nuclear Energy; Oil; Pakistan; U.S. Department of Defense; Religion; Russia; San Francisco; Sex; Milosevic, Slobodan; Taxes; Television; Tennessee; Transportation; United States; Vietnam; War PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
19-26	Readings/Article Human nature and human rights By Robin Fox SEE ALSO: Human rights; Social contract PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Experience required By Delores Hamilton SEE ALSO: Drug use; Selection and appointment; Teachers PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Art/illustration Kinder transport By Glenn Brown PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Itemized abductions By George Baker SEE ALSO: Income tax; Kidnapping PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Art/illustration Hot pink macaroons By Nancy Lamb SEE ALSO: Cocktail parties PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Bodies of water SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto; Chile; Corrections; New York times; Newspapers; Sections, columns, etc.; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Conspiracy theory SEE ALSO: Chile; 1969-1974; 1970-1973; Records and correspondence; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES
27-32	Readings/Article Whatever we did is no good SEE ALSO: Aircraft accidents; Emergency maneuvers (Aeronautics) PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Art/illustration Whisk By Jim Nutt PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Article Broken arrow SEE ALSO: Accidents; Experience as victim of nuclear weapons accident; Interviews; Nuclear weapons; South Carolina; Gregg, Walter PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article Welcome to the foam age SEE ALSO: Building materials PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
34	Readings/Article Building a better sandwich SEE ALSO: Inventions; Sandwiches PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Art/illustration Nancy (desire) By Pamela Crimmins SEE ALSO: Swimmers PDF IMAGES Readings/Poetry Puppy doggs PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Article Empty cages By Robert Vivian SEE ALSO: Homelessness; Shopping carts PDF IMAGES
39-58	Article Tense present: Democracy, English, and the wars over usage By David Foster Wallace SEE ALSO: A dictionary of modern American usage (Book); A dictionary of modern English usage (Book); Garner, Bryan A.; Dictionaries; Gilman, E.W.; Partridge, Eric; Errors of usage; Fowler, H.W. (Henry Watson); Lexicography; Gove, Philip Babcock; Steven Pinker; The language instinct: how the mind creates language (Book); Usage; Usage and abusage: a guide to good English (Book); Webster's dictionary of English usage (Book); Webster's third new international dictionary of the English language (Book) PDF IMAGES
59-68	Article Star of justice: On the job with America's toughest sheriff By Barry Graham SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Arizona; Career as sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.; Jails; Arpaio, Joe; Management; Police brutality; Prisoners; Sheriffs PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
69-75	Article Bad sports: Or By Paul Roberts SEE ALSO: Sport utility vehicles PDF IMAGES
76-77	Article Broken homepage: Putting a happy interface on foster-child adoption By Peggy J. Farber SEE ALSO: Adoption; Foster home care; Internet PDF IMAGES
78-81	Review Paris is boring: Claiming France for the new homebodies By Cristina Nehring SEE ALSO: Gopnik, Adam; Paris (France); Paris to the moon (Book) PDF IMAGES
82-85	Review Out of print: Publishing's future, seen from the inside By Michael Korda SEE ALSO: Schiffrin, André; Book business (Book); Epstein, Jason; Publishers and publishing; The business of books (Book) PDF IMAGES
86-94	Fiction Curly Red By Joyce Carol Oates PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Sixes and sevens—revisited By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Article A sure thing SEE ALSO: Caribbean Area; Maps PDF IMAGES

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