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May 2004

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Penny Gentieu and Joe McDonald (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bald eagle PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The little engine that dialectically must, from February 2004: Letter By Sheyla Hirshon On The oil we eat, from February 2004: Letter By Aubrey Nealon Letter By Richard Manning On Dar al-Harb, from March 2004: Letter By Nelson Marans Letter By Anders I. Ourom On Harper's index, from March 2004: Note/correction On Voting democracy off the island, from March 2004: Letter By Keith Peters Letter By Milosz Meller Letter By Jimmy Chen Letter By Jessica Lott Letter By Edward Collister Letter By John F. Kerridge On A fistful of peanuts, from March 2004: Letter By Franklin L. Runge On A run on terror, from March 2004: Letter By Yoram Gat Letter By John Greer Letter By Glenn Gale On The fog of self, from April 2004: Letter By Garth Rogers PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Buffalo dances By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Errors, Scientific; 2001-; Records and correspondence; Science and state PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Great Britain; Business; Cattle; Christianity; Crime; Cuba; Democracy; Education; Fashion; Firearms; Florida; France; Bush, George W.; Haiti; Homosexuality; Iraq; Islam; Italy; Forms of Justice; Kosovo; Labor; Marriage; Nature; North Carolina; bin Laden, Osama; Parenting; U.S. Department of Defense; Race; Russia; Hussein, Saddam; Sex; Sexual Assault; Tennessee; Texas; Venezuela; Vermont PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article Acts of resistance By Elaine Scarry SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Constitutional law; Federal government; Freedom of information; Local government; State governments PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Negative capability SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Bush, George W.; Messages PDF TEXT IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse By Britta Lumer PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Camera obscura SEE ALSO: Educational publishing PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article We're here, we're peers By Robert Washington, Earl Ferrers SEE ALSO: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords; Sex change PDF TEXT IMAGES
22-25	Readings/Article Out of mind SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Career as BBC reporter; Cuba; Guantánamo Bay; Prisoners; Prisoners and prisons; White, Vivian; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Butcher of the Badlands SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Cleveland; Cleveland plain dealer (American newspaper); Corrections; Mistaken identity; Oratory; Hussein, Saddam; Sections, columns, etc.; Daschle, Thomas PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo Tule Fish By Roman Loranc (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fish and Other Aquatic Life PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article By the book SEE ALSO: Career as movie director; Gibson, Mel; Motion pictures and children; Passion of the Christ (Motion picture : 2004); Religion in motion pictures; Violence in motion pictures PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article A place under the sun SEE ALSO: Career as real estate agent for moon lots; Corrupt practices; Hope, Dennis; Bush, George W.; Real estate development; Views on space exploration PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article White House effect By Myron Ebell SEE ALSO: Whitman, Christine Todd; Conspiracies; Correspondence; Bush, George W.; Global Warming; Officials and employees; Cooney, Phil; Resignation from office; United States. Environmental Protection Agency; Views on global warming PDF IMAGES
26-29	Readings/Article Apocalypse now SEE ALSO: Climatic changes; National security PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo Tree Rings, Yosemite National Park, California, 1994 By Jeff Mermelstein (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Tree-rings; Yosemite National Park (Calif.) PDF IMAGES
29-32	Readings/Article Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks By Michael T. Taussig SEE ALSO: Knowledge—Weather; Weather; Dampier, William PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Wee, Sleekit, Cowrin PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Photo Blast, #5707 By Naoya Hatakeyama (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Article Battling the elements SEE ALSO: Tactical nuclear weapons PDF TEXT IMAGES
32	Readings/Poem Erratics By Robert Saxton PDF IMAGES
35-44	Article What democracy? The case for abolishing the United States Senate By Richard N. Rosenfeld SEE ALSO: Democracy; Federal government; Great Britain. Parliament; 1783-1789; Representative government and representation; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
45-54	Article In the valley of the gun: A massacre unfolds in eastern Congo By Bryan Mealer SEE ALSO: Biography; Mealer, Bryan; Congo (Democratic Republic); Ethnic relations; Peacekeeping forces; Political atrocities; United Nations PDF IMAGES
55-64	Article To BBC or not to BBC: Independent journalism suffers an identity crisis By Nicholas Fraser SEE ALSO: British Broadcasting Corporation; Kelly, David; Death and burial; Freedom of the press; Government and the press; Public broadcasting; Blair, Tony; Views on BBC PDF IMAGES
65-68	Article The passion of the Rumsfeld: Congress stages an ordeal by rubber stamp By Wayne Biddle SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Career as U.S. secretary of defense; Rumsfeld, Donald; Military policy; 2001-; United States. Congress; United States. Dept. of Defense; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
69-77	Fiction Natasha By David Bezmozgis PDF IMAGES
79-84	Collection Briefings: at issue in the 2004 election PDF IMAGES Article Neil, prince of Bush: Why the latest outrage by a president's brother has provoked so little outrage By Kevin P. Phillips SEE ALSO: Brothers and sisters; Capitalists and financiers; Career as capitalist; Family; Family relationships; Bush, George W.; 2001-; 2004; Bush, Neil PDF IMAGES
81-83	Article A four-year plague: President Bush's anti-environmental agenda has succeeded not in leaps but in inches By Bryant Urstadt SEE ALSO: Anti-environmentalism; Environmental policy; Bush, George W.; 2004; Views on environmental policy PDF IMAGES
83-84	Article Carbon nation: From coast to coast, federally funded scientists race to capture CO<2> By Jennifer Kahn SEE ALSO: Energy policy; Bush, George W.; Global Warming; 2004; Views on global warming PDF IMAGES
85-86	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Biography; Seligman, Craig; Criticism and interpretation; Kudrova, I.V.; Stalin, Joseph; Tsvetaeva, Marina; Kael, Pauline; Pictorial works; Montefiore, Sebag; Sontag & Kael: opposites attract me (Book); Stalin: the court of the red tsar (Book); Sontag, Susan; The death of a poet: the last days of Marina Tsvetaeva (Book) PDF IMAGES
87-91	Review Imitation of art: John Currin's sleight of hand By Lance Esplund SEE ALSO: John Currin (Book); Rosenblum, Robert; Steiner, Rochelle; Boris, Staci PDF IMAGES
92-98	Review The infinite's jest: Stanley Elkin imagines the life after life By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Future life; Elkin, Stanley; The living end (Book) PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Getting your bearings By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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