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December 2002

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tullio Pericoli SEE ALSO: Separation of powers; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES
6-90	Letters/Department Letters On Mad Thai, from September 2002: Letter By Matthew Smith On A year later, from September 2002: Letter By Mark Carr Letter By Joe Ferullo Letter By John Doherty On Le Divorce, from September 2002: Letter By James Dolan Letter By Jonathan Foster Letter By Richard Benert On Consuming culture, from September 2002: Letter By Stephen Frick Letter By Mark Rosenblatt On Power plays, from November 2002: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Hail Caesar! By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; Military leadership; 2001-; War and emergency legislation; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Australia; Banking; Central Intelligence Agency; California; Colombia; Democracy; Rumsfeld, Donald; Drugs; Environmental Protection Agency; Education; Energy; Food; Freedom; Bush, George W.; Holidays; Iraq; Israel; London; New York City; Nuclear Energy; bin Laden, Osama; U.S. Department of Defense; Pollution; Population Control; Science; Space; Suicide; Terrorism; Transportation; Turkey; United Nations; United States of America; War PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article The course of empire By David C. Hendrickson SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; Military leadership; Military policy; 2001-; Preemptive attack (Military science); War on Terrorism, 2001-; World politics PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Oil Fields #2, Belridge, California By Edward Burtynsky (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Oil fields PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article ¡Somos idiotas! SEE ALSO: College student newspapers and periodicals; Corrections; Plagiarism; Sections, columns, etc.; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Anti-Americanism; Eyewitness identification PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article Do not waste your life lightly SEE ALSO: Bomber pilots; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Kamikaze airplanes; Suicide victims PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Illustration Untitled (Black Pipe) By Robert Longo SEE ALSO: Smoke PDF IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article Death be not proud SEE ALSO: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Undertakers and undertaking PDF TEXT IMAGES
22-26	Readings/Article Memoria ex machina By Marshall Fisher SEE ALSO: Autobiographical memory; Sociological aspects PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Poem The hewers By Les A. Murray PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Chinati, east concrete building interior, 1998 By Rackstraw Downes SEE ALSO: Concrete construction; Marfa PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Before you die, you hear the ring SEE ALSO: Qaida (Organization); Swindlers and swindling; Telemarketing PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Get on your bikes and ride SEE ALSO: Bicycles; Cyclists; Gender identity PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Arm's length By Jane Fisher SEE ALSO: Wrestlers PDF IMAGES
30-31	Readings/Article Humans and other animals SEE ALSO: Animal welfare PDF IMAGES
31-34	Readings/Fiction 1917 By Mary Swan PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Photo Escuela de Ballet By Andrew Moore (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Centers for the performing arts; Cuba; Havana PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Article The troops are dissembling SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Foreign service; Mass media and the war; Truthfulness and falsehood; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF TEXT IMAGES
37-42	Article The case for liberalism: A defense of the future against the past By George S. (George Stanley) McGovern SEE ALSO: International relations; Liberalism; 2001-; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
43-55	Article Remember the Gulf: Scenes from the last war with Iraq By Anthony Swofford SEE ALSO: Swofford, Anthony; Career in U.S. Marines; Foreign service; Iraq; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Personal narratives, American; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES
56-57	Article The almighty hedge: Fundamentalist Islam meets capitalism halfway By Daniel Brook SEE ALSO: Banks and banking; Islam PDF IMAGES
59-65	Article Wooden dollar: The undiscovered Sacajawea By Ben Metcalf SEE ALSO: Biography; Errors, inventions, etc.; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Sacagawea PDF IMAGES
67-79	Article My father weightless: Reflections on the gravity of war By Paul West SEE ALSO: Veterans PDF IMAGES
71-73	Fiction All the trimmings By Mark Richard PDF IMAGES
75-76	New books/Review New books By Eric Porter SEE ALSO: Against the machine: the hidden Luddite tradition in literature, art, and individual lives (Book); Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron; Biography; Byron: life and legend (Book); MacCarthy, Fiona; Fox, Nicols PDF IMAGES
76-81	Review Comfort cult: On the honest unloveliness of William Trevor's world By Francine Prose SEE ALSO: Sebold, Alice; Criticism and interpretation; The lovely bones (Book); The story of Lucy Gault (Book); Trevor, William PDF IMAGES
82-88	Review Against type? What the writing machine has wrought By Arthur Krystal SEE ALSO: Mechanical typewriters: their history, value, and legacy (Book); Auster, Paul; Messer, Sam; The story of my typewriter (Book); Russo, Thomas A.; Typewriters PDF IMAGES
91	Puzzle/Department Quo vadis? By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
92	Quiz/Department Season's reasons PDF IMAGES

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