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August 2004

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tullio Pericoli SEE ALSO: Dueling; Liberalism PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Lie down for America, from April 2004: Letter By David J. Fromm Letter By Thomas Frank On Imitation of art, from May 2004: Letter By Leslie Dutcher On Ignoble liars, from June 2004: Letter By Kermit Snelson Letter By H.N. Burdett Letter By David Stein Letter By Peter Fedynsky Letter By Frederick G. Rogers Letter By Richard M. Wright PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Bedtime for Bonzo By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Death and burial; 1981-1989; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Animal; Great Britain; Business; Chile; Democracy; Drugs; Bush, George W.; Insects; Iraq; Journalism; Medicare; Murder; Oil; Policing; Prison; Reagan, Ronald; September 11; Spain; Weather PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
13-17	Readings/Article The tyranny of petty coercion By Marilynne Robinson SEE ALSO: Courage; Liberalism; Political culture PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Looking out for #1 SEE ALSO: Heads of state; Korea (North); Propaganda; Railroad accidents PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration Megalopolis By Daniel Dove SEE ALSO: Metropolitan areas; Waste lands PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article This atrocity thing SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Kissinger, Henry; Laird, Melvin R.; My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968; Views on atrocities PDF IMAGES
17-20	Readings/Article California reamin' SEE ALSO: Electric power failures; Energy industries; Enron Corp. PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration Trial By Amy Cutler SEE ALSO: Kites; Women prisoners PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article The Communist evolution By Fidel Castro SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Childhood and youth; Communism; Correspondence; Cuba; Dictators; Castro, Fidel; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano); 1933-1959 PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Bless this mess By Joyti De-Laurey SEE ALSO: Christianity; Embezzlement; Gods; Letter writing; Worship and love PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Avoid the weasel SEE ALSO: Quotations, maxims, etc. PDF IMAGES
22-23	Readings/Article Midnight's children SEE ALSO: Abduction; Career as Uganda president; Children and war; Crimes against; Lord's Resistance Army; 1979-; Uganda; Museveni, Yoweri PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Collection Readings By Paolo Ventura PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Kitchen of the Belloni Family By Paolo Ventura SEE ALSO: Bombardment, 1940-1945; Destruction and pillage; Dollhouses; Milan; Milan (Italy) PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Bedroom of Signora Invernizzi By Paolo Ventura SEE ALSO: Bombardment, 1940-1945; Destruction and pillage; Dollhouses; Milan; Milan (Italy) PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Living Room of Signora Clara By Paolo Ventura SEE ALSO: Bombardment, 1940-1945; Destruction and pillage; Dollhouses; Milan; Milan (Italy) PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Sticks and stones SEE ALSO: Children's songs PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The girl in the shiny boots By Richard Wollheim SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Wollheim, Richard PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Poem Against the American grain By Charles Wright PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Like a sex machine By Friday Goldman SEE ALSO: Telephone sex PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo Kids, Omaha Beach By Nathalie Grenzhaeuser (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Normandy; Normandy (France) PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Collection Readings By Sandow Birk PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Canto XVIII, 111-113: At the Edge of Malebolge By Sandow Birk SEE ALSO: Dante Alighieri; Waste disposal sites PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Canto XXVI, 31-33: Above the Eighth Circle By Sandow Birk SEE ALSO: Dante Alighieri PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Canto XXXII, 23-24: The Lake of Ice By Sandow Birk SEE ALSO: Dante Alighieri; Ice on rivers, lakes, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Canto XXXIV, 28-30: Lucifer By Sandow Birk SEE ALSO: Dante Alighieri; Devil PDF IMAGES
31-38	Article Liberalism regained: Building the next progressive majority SEE ALSO: Democratic Party (U.S.); Foner, Eric; Piven, Frances Fox; Phillips, Kevin P.; Lapham, Lewis H.; Liberalism; 2001-; Progressivism (United States politics); Nader, Ralph; Daniels, Ron; Views on liberalism PDF IMAGES
39-42	Article Et in Arcadia ego By John Berger SEE ALSO: Friends and associates; Friendship; Berger, John; Scandinavia; Stockholm; Sweden PDF IMAGES
43-50	Photo The bereaved: Mourning the dead, in America and Iraq By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Hassn, Abedal; Bereavement; Casualties; Death and burial—Pictorial works; Patterson, Esau G.; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Rubalcava, Isela; Brinlee, Kyle A.; Haidar, Saddam Mohammed; Samh-Safeq; Nasiaf, Worood PDF IMAGES
51-61	Article The poison stream: Sacrificing India's poor on the altar of modernity By Matthew Power SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Environmental health; Offenses against the environment PDF IMAGES
63-67	Fiction Sault Ste. Marie By David Means PDF IMAGES
69-74	Collection Briefings: at issue in the 2004 elections PDF IMAGES Article Changing of the guard: Feeling betrayed in Iraq, part-time U.S. soldiers may mutiny at the polls By Daniel Glick SEE ALSO: Iraq War, 2003-; Military life; Military policy; National Guard; Reserves PDF IMAGES
71-72	Article Last stop gas: Cheap oil, the only oil that matters, is just about gone By Paul Roberts SEE ALSO: Petroleum products; Petroleum reserves; Prices PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
73-74	Article Refining graft: The oil industry may yet dodge the cleanup of MTBE By Jamie Lincoln Kitman SEE ALSO: Additives; Energy policy; Environmental aspects; Environmental health; Gasoline; Petroleum industry and trade PDF IMAGES
75-76	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: An unfinished season (Book); Howard, Maureen; Pamuk, Orhan; Snow (Book); The silver screen (Book); Just, Ward S. PDF IMAGES
77-83	Review Flying up and flying down: The rise and fall of the American superhero By Wyatt Mason SEE ALSO: Schumer, Arlen; Kidd, Chip; Comic books, strips, etc.; Spear, Geoff; Give our regards to the atomsmashers! Writers on comics (Book); Mythology: the DC Comics art of Alex Ross (Book); Howe, Sean; The silver age of comic book art (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-90	Review Appellation Texas contrôlée: The bloody history of the Lone Star State By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Brands, H.W.; Lone Star nation: how a ragged army of volunteers won the battle for Texas independence—and changed America (Book); Lone Star rising: the revolutionary birth of the Texas Republic (Book); Davis, William C. PDF IMAGES
91	Puzzle/Department Foursomes By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
92	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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