Harper's Magazine: January 2004

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January 2004

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	Illustration Los papagayos (detail) By Beatriz González SEE ALSO: Armies; Witnesses PDF IMAGES
6-86	Letters/Department Letters On Sick on the inside, from August 2003: Letter By Louis C. Tripoli Letter By Wil S. Hylton On The golden horde, from October 2003: Letter By Kevin Murray Letter By Marc Valdez On The consolation of philosophy, from October 2003: Letter By Giovanna Borradori On We're in the army now, from October 2003: Letter By Alan Howard Letter By George Goldberg Letter By Preston Enright Letter By Kevin Cahill Letter By Rob Colter PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Revised text By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Political correctness; Production and direction; Television programs PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: AIDS; Abortion; Afghanistan; Alaska ; Business; California; Colombia; Democracy; Disease; Drugs; Economics; Education; Elvis; Entertainment; Folly; France; Bush, George W.; Global Warming; Health Care; Iraq; Department of Justice; Medicine; Mexico; Michigan; New York City; Oil; U.S. Department of Defense; Peru; Policing; Public Relations; Sport; Taxes; United Nations; Uzbekistan; Vanity; War PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
15-18	Readings/Article The indispensable nation By Donovan Hohn (Trans.), Benjamin Storey (Trans.), and Régis Debray SEE ALSO: Causes; Imperialism; Iraq War, 2003-; Military policy; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Millions and millions SEE ALSO: Career as radio talk show host; Norquist, Grover Glenn; 2001-; Political correctness; Gross, Terry; Views on estate tax PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Map Room, Soviet Military Base in Former East Germany By Brian McKee (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Germany (East); Maps; Military bases, Soviet PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article We come in peace SEE ALSO: Charitable contributions; Charities; Iraq; Sex oriented businesses PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article Arse amatoria By Bård Torgersen SEE ALSO: Muslim women; Norway; Pakistanis; Seduction; Sexual behavior PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Chronicle of a death foretold SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Filicide; Yones, Heshu; Women, Kurdish PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Son of Mr. Green Jeans By Dinty W. Moore SEE ALSO: Career in television; Beaumont, Hugh; Inheritance of acquired characters; Brannum, Lumpy; Parental behavior in animals; Young, Robert; Television and family PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Plateau By Forrest Williams SEE ALSO: Men PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article An army of one SEE ALSO: Military life; Suicidal behavior PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Study for a problem By Becket Bowes PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article Hanging on the telephone SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Emergency reporting systems; Wagner, Jim; Memphis; Telephone PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article No contest SEE ALSO: Actions and defenses; Cases PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Scapegoat By Hugo Hamilton SEE ALSO: Biography; Hamilton, Hugo; Scapegoat PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration Vulkan By Neo Rauch SEE ALSO: Volcanoes PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Article Torch thong By Aaron Bergh SEE ALSO: Scholfield, Andrew; Burglary; Trials, litigation, etc.; Underwear; Warrants (Law) PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
35	Readings/Illustration Rust abstract By Gil Mares PDF IMAGES
37-52	Article War crime and punishment: What the United States could learn from the Milosevic trial By Guy Lesser SEE ALSO: Hague; Netherlands; Pictorial works; Milosevic, Slobodan; Trials (Crimes against humanity); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
56-66	Article Mine of stones: With and without the spirits along the Cordon de l'Ouest By Madison Smartt Bell SEE ALSO: Career as Haiti president; Career as Haitian revolutionary; Haiti; Aristide, Jean-Bertrand; Revolutionaries; Toussaint Louverture; Voodooism PDF IMAGES
67-70	Article The world's biggest tab: Banqueting upon borrowing in the nation's capital By Wayne Biddle SEE ALSO: Budget deficits; Iraq War, 2003-; 2001- PDF IMAGES
71-73	Fiction The criminal mastermind is confined By Peter Ho Davies PDF IMAGES
75-76	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Absolute friends (Book); After such knowledge: memory, history, and the legacy of the Holocaust (Book); American sucker (Book); Denby, David; Hoffman, Eva; Robb, Graham; Le Carré, John; Strangers: homosexual love in the 19th century (Book) PDF IMAGES
77-84	Review On evil: The ragged core of a sweet apple By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy (Book); Philosophy; Neiman, Susan PDF IMAGES
87	Puzzle/Department Strip mining By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
88	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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