Harper's Magazine: September 2003

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September 2003

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	Illustration School of Balthus (detail) By George Deem SEE ALSO: Classroom environment PDF IMAGES
4-90	Letters/Department Letters On The economics of empire, from May 2003: Letter By Gerry Rice On Social hygiene, from July 2003: Letter By Thomas R. Frieden Letter By Avrom Blumberg Letter By Steve Heilig Letter By Jim St. John On Protocols of the consultants of Zion, from July 2003: Letter By Larry S. Moses On I'd like to teach the world to spell, from July 2003: Letter By Rebecca Dexter On Labor pains, from August 2003: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Wild west show By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Business ethics; Career as U.S. president; Bush, George W.; 2001-; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Great Britain; Canada; Cheney, Richard; Diet; Disease; Rumsfeld, Donald; Drugs; Environmental Protection Agency; Entertainment; Ethiopia; Feminism; Fish and Other Aquatic Life; Bush, George W.; Global Warming; The Gulf War; Halliburton; Harry Potter; Dean, Howard; India; Iran; Iraq; Language & Linguistics; Liberia; Literature; Mendacity; Nuclear Energy; Oil; bin Laden, Osama; Palestine; Pollution; Sport; Thurmond, Strom; Suicide; Television; Thailand; Transportation; Vice; War PDF TEXT IMAGES
13-17	Readings/Fiction Clause 21 By Oz Shelach PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration Today is yesterday tomorrow By Mamma Andersson SEE ALSO: Time perception PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article E.T. block call SEE ALSO: Interstellar communication PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Early buds #1 By Judith Belzer PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article You can run but you can't hide By Sheng'an Wang SEE ALSO: Conversation and phrase books (for police) PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article I fought the law By Cal Norman (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Due process of law; Police patrol PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Expecting to fly By Fred Tomaselli SEE ALSO: Body, Human; Flight PDF IMAGES
22-26	Readings/Article Oak wood is strong By Wardog SEE ALSO: Early memories; Prisoners' writings, American PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Hotel on Baltic, hourly rates By Stefania Heim (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Board games; Prostitutes PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Outrun memory By Jenny Scobel PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Tattoos By Rafael Pérez Estrada and Steven J. Stewart (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Tattooing PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article This is my body, have seconds By Lionel Poilâne and Donovan Hohn (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Correspondence; French language; Gluttony; Gourmets; John Paul II, Pope; Translating PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Poem Prayer to the aardwolf By Christopher Janke PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Beware of Dogg By Ninjaforkian PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Photo Chair and Cup By Phillip Toledano (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bankruptcy; Office furniture PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Oh Canada! Oh! SEE ALSO: Sex instruction for teenagers; Sexual abstinence PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Fiction Family statement By Alison Bundy PDF IMAGES
33-38	Article Against school: How public education cripples our kids, and why By John Taylor Gatto SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Inglis, Alexander James; Education, Secondary; Politics and education; Principles of secondary education (Book); Public schools; Social conflict PDF IMAGES
41-53	Article A masterpiece of loathing: Goya paints a political dynasty By Evan S. Connell SEE ALSO: Artists; Criticism and interpretation; Goya, Francisco PDF IMAGES
54-55	Article On the frontiers of fund-raising By Nancy Watzman and Micah L. Sifry SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Career as fund raiser; Fund raisers (Persons); Fund raising; Bush, George W.; 2004 PDF IMAGES
57-65	Article Where the Taliban roam: Dodging the jihad in Pakistan's tribal lands By Eliza Griswold SEE ALSO: Pakistan; Qaida (Organization); The Taliban PDF IMAGES
67-70	Article As though truth were a fool: Innovations in government fabrication By Wayne Biddle SEE ALSO: Political ethics; Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES
72-75	Fiction The moment they were waiting for By Ken Kalfus PDF IMAGES
77-78	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: A hundred little Hitlers: the death of a black man, the trial of a white racist, and the rise of the neo-Nazi movement in America (Book); Mayor, Adrienne; Garrels, Anne; Langer, Elinor; Greek fire, poison arrows & scorpion bombs: biological and chemical warfare in the ancient world (Book); Didion, Joan; Kingston, Maxine Hong; Naked in Baghdad (Book); The fifth book of peace (Book); Where I was from (Book) PDF IMAGES
79-84	Review A mind so fine: The contradictions of V.S. Naipaul By Terry Eagleton SEE ALSO: Barnouw, Dagmar; Literary occasions: essays (Book); Naipaul's strangers (Book); Mishra, Pankaj; Pictorial works; Politics and literature; Naipaul, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) PDF IMAGES
84-88	Review Sounds and sweet airs: The Norton Anthology may be bigger, but is it any better? By Daniel Anderson SEE ALSO: Collections; Ramazani, Jahan; Poetry, Modern; Ellmann, Richard; O'Clair, Robert; The Norton anthology of modern and contemporary poetry (Book) PDF IMAGES
91	Puzzle/Department Dedicated dodecahedron By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
92	Quiz/Department Playing around PDF IMAGES

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