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February 2004

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	Photo [Cover art] By Larry Schwarm (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Grassland fires; Harvesting; Wheat PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Against school, from September 2003: Letter By Mike Heisler Letter By Alfie Kohn Letter By Buzz Bartlett Letter By Tad Michel On Stayin' alive, from November 2003: Letter By William T. Drescher Letter By the editors Letter By David S. Touretzky On Turn on, tune in, from November 2003: Letter By Scott Anderson Letter By Gene Fendt Letter By Peter Morgan Letter By Ann M. Fine Letter By Darren O'Donnell Letter By Martin Sweeney On The spinsters of eld, from December 2003: Letter By William C. Waterhouse On New books, from December 2003: Letter By Harriet Turner On War crime and punishment, from January 2004: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Bad medicine By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Health services accessibility; Medicare; 2001- PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: 20040213-470909365498; Adultery; Afghanistan; Agriculture; Schwarzenegger, Arnold; Frist, Bill; Great Britain; Business; California; Children; China; Connecticut; Corruption; Costa Rica; Democracy; Disease; Drugs; Economics; Employment; Energy; Food; Bush, George W.; Globalization; Health Care; HouseOfRepresentatives; Hunger; India; Iowa; Iraq; Islam; Italy; Japan; Judaism; Forms of Justice; Mexico; Microsoft; Nature; Palestine; Parenting; Politics; Poverty; Public Relations; Reagan, Ronald; Russia; Rwanda; Saudi Arabia; Serbia and Montenegro; Sex; Milosevic, Slobodan; Sri Lanka; Suicide Bombing; Technology; Texas; Transportation; United States of America; Utah; World Health Organization PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article Orchestrating war By Carter Burwell SEE ALSO: Music and war; Silent films; Television broadcasting of news PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Rated gee SEE ALSO: Children's films; Film festivals PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
19-22	Readings/Article Encyclopedia Americana SEE ALSO: Danville; Encyclopedias and dictionaries PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Weapon of mass deduction By Chris Thorpe SEE ALSO: 2001-; Tax deductions PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article T.G.I.F., amen SEE ALSO: Capitalists and financiers; General intercessions; Liturgy; Pastoral prayers; Prayer-books and devotions; Texts PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
22-25	Readings/Article Today I know better SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Barnett, James R.; Carpenter, Leland William; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Photo Prison, San Quentin, CA By Stephen Tourlentes (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article I never By Francisco de Pareja SEE ALSO: Franciscans; Missions PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article The little engine that dialectically must SEE ALSO: Cuba; Textbook bias PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article The painting on the wall SEE ALSO: Mural painting and decoration, American; Political correctness; Riverside PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration At the swimming pool party By Sebastiaan Bremer PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Rude Britannia SEE ALSO: Commonwealth countries; Information services; Obscene words; Parliamentary practice PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Lend me your ears By King of Swaziland Mswati III SEE ALSO: Elections PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Article Just a girl who can't say no By Simon Armitage SEE ALSO: Popular music; Sex in television; Texts PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The American absurd By Don DeLillo SEE ALSO: Assassination; Death and burial; Kennedy, John F.; Oswald, Lee Harvey; Psychology PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Illustration Suicide By Barnaby Furnas SEE ALSO: Suicide victims PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Photo Dress for eternity By Paolo Ventura (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Mummies; Palermo; Sicily PDF IMAGES
37-45	Article The oil we eat: Following the food chain back to Iraq By Richard Manning SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Environmental aspects; Food chains (Ecology) PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
47-57	Article The great Centralia coal fire: How one small mining town went up in smoke By Jeff Tietz SEE ALSO: Centralia; Coal mines and mining; Mine fires PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article Unhappy trails: A repealed Civil War-era law still threatens the wilderness By Bryant Urstadt SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Homes and haunts; National parks and reserves; Right of way; Roads; Hale, Robert PDF IMAGES
61-63	Fiction History By Nadine Gordimer PDF IMAGES
64-72	Article “It's not news”: What today's high school journalist is taught By Rich Cohen SEE ALSO: Alumni and alumnae; Biography; High schools; Cohen, Rich PDF IMAGES
73-74	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: A civilian occupation: the politics of Israeli architecture (Book); Guillermoprieto, Alma; Cid; Dancing with Cuba: a memoir of the revolution (Book); Weizman, Eyal; Pictorial works; Fletcher, R.A. (Richard A.); Segal, Rafi; The cross and the crescent: Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation (Book) PDF IMAGES
75-79	Review And then he was gone: The unfinished life of Weldon Kees By Jed Perl SEE ALSO: Biography; Reidel, James; Pictorial works; Vanished act: the life and art of Weldon Kees (Book); Kees, Weldon PDF IMAGES
79-86	Review Poet in the machine: The inexhaustible Paul Valéry By Arthur Krystal SEE ALSO: Stimpson, Brian; Cahiers=Notebooks/Paul Valéry (Book); Gifford, Paul; Valéry, Paul; Pictorial works; Poets, French; Pickering, Robert PDF IMAGES
87	Puzzle/Department Forced entry By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
88	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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