Harper's Magazine: September 2004

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September 2004

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Dugald Stermer SEE ALSO: Octopus PDF IMAGES
4-98	Letters/Department Letters On Invitation to a crucifixion, from June 2004: Letter By John Kienker Letter By Cameron Stallones Letter By Mark Carr Letter By Stanislao G. Publiese Letter By Leon Zitzer On Letters, from July 2004: Letter By Michael Grella On Chasing the pot, from July 2004: Letter By Jeremy Matthews On Small silences, from July 2004: Letter By Dick Jones Letter By Aaron Aday On Our own anthrax, from July 2004: Letter By David Isenberg Letter By Jack Cunniff On Blood for oil, from July 2004: Letter By Francisco Parra PDF IMAGES
9	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Clinton, Bill; Business; Children; Corruption; Democracy; Education; Entertainment; Bush, George W.; Human Rights; Iraq; Jordan; Forms of Justice; Murder; New York City; Religion; Russia; September 11; Terrorism; Weapons of Mass Destruction PDF TEXT IMAGES
11-16	Readings/Article The fit and the dead By Mark Greif SEE ALSO: Mind and body; Physical fitness PDF IMAGES
12	Readings/Article If you build it . . . By Sam Frank SEE ALSO: Baseball; Baseball players; Physical fitness; Training PDF IMAGES
13	Readings/Illustration Waiting By Sean Yelland SEE ALSO: Time management PDF IMAGES
16-19	Readings/Article Controlling the house By Susan Hampstead SEE ALSO: Correctional institutions; Correctional personnel; Interviews; Steele, Lorenzo; Prison violence PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Untitled tower By Mark Shetabi SEE ALSO: Commercial buildings PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article The FBI story SEE ALSO: Abuse of administrative power; Officials and employees; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation PDF TEXT IMAGES
19	Readings/Article In cold blood By Derek Brunet SEE ALSO: Animal welfare PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Exterminate the brutes SEE ALSO: British; Career as southern Africa correspondent; Career as Zimbabwe president; Land reform; 1980-; Johnson, R.W.; Mugabe, Robert Gabriel; Zimbabwe PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Photo Rosignano Solvay, Sea 2 By Massimo Vitali (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Beaches; Nuclear power plants PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Not necessarily the news By John Moody SEE ALSO: Objectivity; Press and propaganda; Television broadcasting of news PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Clucking points SEE ALSO: Television advertising; Voice-overs PDF TEXT IMAGES
22	Readings/Article House of the dead SEE ALSO: Abu Ghraib Prison; Abuse of; Taguba, Antonio M.; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Prisoners and prisons, American; Rape; Views on Abu Ghraib Prison abuses; Women political prisoners PDF IMAGES
24-25	Readings/Article Rag time By E.L. Doctorow SEE ALSO: Iraq War, 2003-; Military policy PDF IMAGES Readings/Article This vote's for you By Melissa Denton SEE ALSO: Bribery; Corrupt practices; Elections; Family; Denton, Mike PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article If music and sweet poetry agree SEE ALSO: Popular culture PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article You will never understand By Tony Kushner SEE ALSO: Homebody/Kabul (Play); Refugees, Political; Kushner, Tony PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The irresistible beauty of all things By Federico García Lorca and Christopher Maurer (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Imagination; Poetics PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration House of Light III By Frank Brunner SEE ALSO: Lighting, Architectural and decorative PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration Scale the production By Daniel Heimbinder SEE ALSO: Escalators; Pedestrians; Stairs PDF IMAGES
31-41	Article Tentacles of rage: The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Propaganda; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) PDF IMAGES
43-53	Article Baghdad year zero: Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia By Naomi Klein SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Military policy; Postwar reconstruction; Privatization PDF TEXT IMAGES
54-55	Article Chain of fools: In chain emails, the right has found its natural medium By Jon Lackman SEE ALSO: Electronic mail messages; Mass media; 2004; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) PDF IMAGES
57-61	Article In defiance of gravity: Writing, wisdom, and the Fabulous Club Gemini By Tom Robbins SEE ALSO: Play in literature; Play (Philosophy) PDF IMAGES
62-70	Article The influence of anxiety: What's the problem with young adult novels? By Frances FitzGerald SEE ALSO: Young adult fiction PDF IMAGES
71-77	Fiction Commission By Tim Winton PDF IMAGES
79-84	Collection Briefings: at issue in the 2004 election PDF IMAGES Article The Republican Democrat? Even some opponents credit Bush with “democratic idealism.” They are mistaken. By Joshua Kurlantzick SEE ALSO: Democracy; International relations; 2004 PDF IMAGES
81-83	Article Defining deviancy down: The administration's case for legalizing war crimes By Elisabeth Eaves SEE ALSO: Geneva Conventions (1949); International Criminal Court; International law; Military policy; 2004; War crimes PDF IMAGES
83-84	Article Risk management: The FDA's deference to drug companies is bad for America's health By Alicia Mundy SEE ALSO: Drugs; 2004; Pharmaceutical industry; Testing; United States. Food and Drug Administration; Whistle blowing PDF IMAGES
85-86	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Feinstein, Adam; Biography; Kafka, Franz; Kafka (Book); Murray, Nicholas; Neruda, Pablo; Pablo Neruda: a passion for life (Book); Greenblatt, Stephen; Will in the world: how Shakespeare became Shakespeare (Book); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
87-90	Review A form of incomprehension: The curious phenomenon of Borges By Guy Davenport SEE ALSO: Biography; Borges: a life (Book); Williamson, Edwin; Borges, Jorge Luis; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
91-96	Review Anywhere out of this world: On why all writing is travel writing By Nicholas Delbanco SEE ALSO: A taste for travel: an anthology (Book); Norwich, John Julius; Iyer, Pico; Sun after dark (Book); Travel writing PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Split personalities By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES