Harper's Magazine: July 2005

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July 2005

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Ray Bartkus SEE ALSO: Maps; Pork; Waste in government spending PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Let there be markets, from May 2005: Letter By David Latané Letter By Chuck McIntyre Letter By Risa Dickens Letter By Gordon Bigelow On Inside America's most powerful megachurch, from May 2005: Letter By Matthew C. Bladwin Letter By Steve Milligan Letter By Ryan Bailey Letter By Brad Roberts On Feeling the hate with the National Religious Broadcasters, from May 2005: Letter By Ryan Bailey On The wrath of the Lamb, from May 2005: Letter By Michael Polanyi PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Be prepared By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Corporations; Corrupt practices; Democracy; Individualism; Journalistic ethics; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Pope Benedict XVI; Frist, Bill; Great Britain; The Catholic Church; Christianity; United States Congress; Education; Energy; Entertainment; Europe; Exxon; Feminism; Florida; Founding Fathers; Germany; Global Warming; Health Care; Homosexuality; Hypocrisy; Immigration; Iraq; Jesus Christ; Literature; Medicine; NASA; Pollution; Saudi Arabia; Science; Sexual Assault; Social Security; Space; Sport; Taxes; Terrorism; Transportation; United States of America; Venezuela; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Washington, D.C. PDF TEXT IMAGES
13-15	Readings/Article The blue of distance By Rebecca Solnit SEE ALSO: Blue; Color in art; Nature (Aesthetics) PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Quel fromage! By Annlyse Rétiveau, Delores H. Chambers, and Emilien Esteve SEE ALSO: Cheese; Lexicography; Varieties PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo Summer: Blue, yellow and gray By Kim Keever (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Aquariums; Color in art; Summer PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Mother knows best By Helen Harcombe SEE ALSO: Child rearing; Last letters before death; Mothers PDF IMAGES
16-17	Readings/Article A spoonful of sugar SEE ALSO: Drugs; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Merck & Co.; Pharmaceutical industry; Sales personnel; Selling PDF TEXT IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Article Perfect suckers SEE ALSO: Cigarette smokers; Cigarettes; Target marketing; Tobacco PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Ha cappella By Edward Jessen SEE ALSO: Laughter; Songs and music PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration Five doctors from Det Norske Radiumhospital and five undertakers from T.S. Jacobsens Begravelsebyrå By Steinar Jakobsen SEE ALSO: Norway; Undertakers and undertaking PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article Or the highway SEE ALSO: Burger King Corporation; Consumer complaints; Emergency reporting systems; Orange County; Telephone PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Mao culpa By Crystyl Mo (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Career as Chinese president; Communists; Confession stories; Hu, Jintao; Plagiarism PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article Travels with Charlie By Jack Valenti SEE ALSO: Firearms; Steinbeck, John; Military weapons; Shooting, Military; Views on military weapons PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Hearts and brains SEE ALSO: Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Islamic countries; Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Alma martyr By Zaki Haidar (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Blogs; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Insurgency; Iraq; Jihad PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo Water fountain, Public School 26, Building 711 By Lisa Kereszi (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article AP English SEE ALSO: Associated Press; Style; Style manuals PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Small town By Jay Orff SEE ALSO: Architectural models; Cities and towns; Models PDF IMAGES
25-28	Readings/Fiction Young H saved from infamy By Carole Maso PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Cruel to be kind SEE ALSO: Antisocial personality disorders; Bath; Injunctions; Suicidal behavior PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration Empty stage (Westbury) By Craig McPherson SEE ALSO: Theaters PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Sockin' it to the man SEE ALSO: Editorials; Freedom of the press; Government and the press; Guerrilla warfare; Nepal; Newspapers; Socks PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Poem The narrator By Conor O'Callaghan PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Collection Readings By Richard Ross (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Salt Lake City, Utah By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fallout shelters; Salt Lake City; Utah PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Vitznau, Switzerland By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fallout shelters; Switzerland PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Greenbriar, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fallout shelters; Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.); West Virginia; White Sulphur Springs PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo San Pete County, Utah By Richard Ross (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fallout shelters; Utah PDF IMAGES
31-38	Article The great American pork barrel: Washington streamlines the means of corruption By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Lobbyists; Political corruption; United States. Congress; Waste in government spending PDF TEXT IMAGES
39-55	Article Mighty white of you: Racial preferences color America's oldest skulls and bones By Jack Hitt SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Archaeology; Black Hawk; Ca-Ta-He-Cas-Sa-Black Hoof; Caucasian race; Creation; Charlemagne, Emperor; Washington-Williams, Essie Mae; Ethnic identity; Mythology; Paleo-Indians; Ewing, Patrick Aloysius; Pictorial works; Racism; Terry, Wanda; Washington (State); Whirling Thunder PDF IMAGES
56-57	Article The last supper: Living by one-handed food alone By Jon Mooallem SEE ALSO: Campbell Soup Company; Convenience foods PDF IMAGES
59-62	Article A war of disabilities: Iraq's hidden costs are coming home By Ronald J. Glasser SEE ALSO: Casualties; Iraq War, 2003-; Medical care; Medicine, Military; Rehabilitation; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES
62-64	Article Trading down: The U.S. shortchanges its outsourced workers By Erika Kinetz SEE ALSO: Contracting out; Occupational retraining PDF IMAGES
65-72	Article Doing time: My years in the creative-writing gulag By Lynn Freed SEE ALSO: Biography; Creative writing (Higher education); Freed, Lynn; Women authors PDF IMAGES
73-77	Article Sparks: Eric Hoffer and the art of the notebook By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Hoffer, Eric; Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.; Philosophy PDF IMAGES
78-84	Fiction Chance traveler By Haruki Murakami and J. Philip Gabriel (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
85-86	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Blinding light (Book); Kostova, Elizabeth; Empires of the word: a language history of the world (Book); Schwartz, Lynn Sharon; Ostler, Nicholas; Theroux, Paul; Pictorial works; Se-Quo-Yah; The historian (Book); The mysterious flame of Queen Loana (Book); The writing on the wall (Book); Eco, Umberto PDF IMAGES
87-92	Review A world unto himself: The reward of waiting for a debut novel By Wyatt Mason SEE ALSO: Chadwick, Charles; It's all right now (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-98	Review Grace of accuracy: Robert Lowell's revealing letters By Nicholas Fraser SEE ALSO: Gewanter, Davie; Bidart, Frank; Pictorial works; Poets, American; Lowell, Robert; Robert Lowell: collected poems (Book); Hamilton, Saskia; The letters of Robert Lowell (Book) PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Sixes and sevens By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge SEE ALSO: Science-21st century PDF IMAGES