Harper's Magazine: December 2004

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December 2004

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	Illustration Herotown1, #1(detail) By Jason Salavon PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The fit and the dead, from September 2004: Letter By Bryant Ibbetson On Baghdad year zero, from September 2004: Letter By Elayne Greenberg On A form of incomprehension, from September 2004: Letter By P.J. Blumenthal Letter By Arthur M. Shapiro On Crowd control, from October 2004: Letter By Erica Weitzman On Whitewash as public service, from October 2004: Letter By Joe Martin On The Osama endorsement, from October 2004: Letter By Mary B. Vant Hull PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article R & D By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Combatants and noncombatants (International law); Cuba; Guantánamo Bay; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Israel; Literature and the war; Military interrogation; Military policy; 2001-; National security; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Alcohol; Bulgaria; Business; Children; Corruption; Democracy; Cheney, Richard; Disasters; Fashion; Firearms; Freedom; Iran; Iraq; Mad Cow Disease; Mendacity; Parenting; Poverty; September 11; Sexual Assault; Space; Sudan; Technology; Terrorism; United States of America; Weapons of Mass Destruction; War PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article A puppet for all seasons By Susan Watkins SEE ALSO: Career as Iraqi prime minister; Government, Resistance to; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Allawi, Iyad; 2003-; Underground movements PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Erewhon (Denniston) By Louise Wilson (Photog.) and Jane Wilson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Abandoned houses PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Coop d'etat SEE ALSO: Homing pigeons; Secret service; War use PDF TEXT IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article The telly of the beast By Gabriele Amorth and Marilyn Krieger (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Demoniac possession; Doctrines; Exorcism; Fire; Sicily PDF TEXT IMAGES
22-23	Readings/Article Original sine SEE ALSO: Bob Jones University; Christian education; Greenville; Mathematics; South Carolina; Textbooks PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Photo #42 By Christopher Bucklow (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Infants; Lighting; Video recording PDF IMAGES
23-27	Readings/Article Sister Bernadette's barking dog By Kitty Burns Florey SEE ALSO: Grammar PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article P.U. SEE ALSO: Sanitary affairs PDF TEXT IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Collection Readings By Bernard Rudofsky PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration 70 Buttons By Bernard Rudofsky SEE ALSO: Buttons; Men's clothing PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article English as a second language SEE ALSO: Conversation and phrase books PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Illustration 24 pockets By Bernard Rudofsky SEE ALSO: Men's clothing; Pockets PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Say that again! By Nicola Daly, Janet Holmes, Jonathan Newton, and Maria Stubbe SEE ALSO: Anger in the workplace; Blue collar workers; New Zealand; Swearing PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Ru12? SEE ALSO: Human factors; Robotics PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration Set By Emily Eveleth SEE ALSO: Hula hoops PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration Totem By Echo Eggebrecht SEE ALSO: Camping PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction A new world By V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett PDF IMAGES
35-42	Article Attack of the superzeroes: Why Washington, Einstein, and Madonna can't compete with you By Thomas de Zengotita SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Washington, George; Heroes; Method (Acting); Pictorial works; Virtual reality PDF IMAGES
45-56	Article Meet the new boss: Man vs. machine politics in Brooklyn By Christopher Ketcham SEE ALSO: Brooklyn (New York, New York); Career in politics; O'Hara, John; Steffens, Lincoln; Political corruption; Views on political corruption PDF IMAGES
57-65	Article War wounds: A father and son return to Vietnam By Tom Bissell SEE ALSO: Participation, American PDF IMAGES
67-70	Article The U.N. is us: Exposing Saddam Hussein's silent partner By Joy Gordon SEE ALSO: Economic sanctions; Humanitarian assistance; Iraq; Petroleum industry and trade PDF TEXT IMAGES Collection Briefings PDF IMAGES
70-72	Article Buried truth: Debunking the nuclear “bunker buster” By Benjamin Phelan SEE ALSO: Bunkers (Fortification); Deterrence (Strategy); Nuclear weapons PDF TEXT IMAGES
73-79	Article Speak, Hoyt-Schermerhorn: Doom and romance on a subway platform By Jonathan Letham SEE ALSO: Subways PDF IMAGES
80-85	Fiction Introduction to speech By Ron Carlson PDF IMAGES
87-88	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Biography; Gilead (Book); Parini, Jay; Robinson, Marilynne; Chabon, Michael; One matchless time: a life of William Faulkner (Book); Pictorial works; The final solution: a story of detection (Book); Faulkner, William PDF IMAGES
89-93	Review The right quagmire: Searching history for an imperial alibi By Greg Grandin SEE ALSO: Colossus: the price of America's empire (Book); Empire: the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power (Book); Imperialism; Boot, Max; Ferguson, Niall; The savage wars of peace: small wars and the rise of American power (Book) PDF IMAGES
93-98	Review The anti-profiler: The verbal burlesque of A.J. Liebling By Lee Siegel SEE ALSO: Liebling, A.J. (Abbott Joseph); Criticism and interpretation; Just enough Liebling: classic work by the legendary New Yorker writer (Book); Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Three's a charm By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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