Harper's Magazine: November 2005

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November 2005

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	Illustration Doc, Camp, and Sgt. Cliat Firing from Their 113 During the Battle for Baqubah (detail) By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Campaigns; Iraq War, 2003- PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Affirmative reaction, from May 1997: Letter By Julian Friedland Letter By Shonin Anacker Letter By David N. Gibbs On Appellation Texas contrôlée, from August 2004: Letter By David Voelker On Controlling the house, from September 2004: Letter By Martin F. Horn On House of Light III, from September 2004: Note/correction On Letters, from October 2004: Letter By Paul Ulrich On None dare call it stolen, from August 2005: Note/correction On Fighting for the Supreme Court, from September 2005: Letter By Stephen Reinhardt Letter By Joe Giarratano On Still separate, still unequal, from September 2005: Letter By Pelle Cass Letter By Avi Lipman Letter By Dave Obey PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Slum clearance By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Disaster relief; Bush, George W.; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; 2001-; Religion and politics; Views on disaster relief PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Children; Rice, Condoleezza; Connecticut; Cuba; Democracy; Cheney, Richard; Disasters; Economics; Entertainment; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Fashion; Folly; Bush, George W.; Iraq; Literature; Louisiana; The Media; Microsoft; Oil; Peru; Poverty; Saudi Arabia; Sex; Sport; United States Supreme Court; Telecommunications; Terrorism; Transportation; United States of America; Venezuela; Vietnam PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article The professional mourner By Yiwu Liao and Wen Huang (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Career as professional mourner; Li, Changgeng PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Fireside cheat By Leah Maloy SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; Political ethics; Social Security; Views on Social Security; Young adults PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Cold War entertainment By Martin Mull SEE ALSO: Cold War; Street entertainers PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article Outwit, outplay, outsource SEE ALSO: Contracting out; Developing countries; Swindlers and swindling; Virtual reality PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Absolut exodus SEE ALSO: Advertising, Outdoor; Arab-Israeli conflict; Evacuation of civilians; Internet marketing; West Bank PDF IMAGES
22-23	Readings/Article Faux Beta Kappa SEE ALSO: Diploma mills; Telemarketing PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Illustration Ambitious new plans By Jules de Balincourt SEE ALSO: Strategic planning; World politics PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Mad libs SEE ALSO: American Civil Liberties Union; Career as judge; Privacy, Right of; Security classification (Government documents); Marrero, Victor PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article A few good men By John Carr SEE ALSO: Career as military prosecutor; Corrupt practices; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; Cuba; Borch, Fred; Geneva Conventions (1949); Guantánamo Bay; Military law PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Gallows humor By Ali Al-Baghli SEE ALSO: Hanging; Kuwait PDF IMAGES Readings/Article One angry man SEE ALSO: Boredom; Career as Superior Court judge; Contempt of court; Veals, Craig E.; Jury selection; Los Angeles PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article The -U-n-i-t-e-d N-a-t-i-o-n-s- SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. ambassador to United Nations; Editing; Bolton, John R.; 2001-; Philosophy; United Nations PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Untitled (American prospects) By Marti Cormand SEE ALSO: Waste lands PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Things come together SEE ALSO: Africa PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Photo Velodrome By James Deavin (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The once and future road By Tim Brookes SEE ALSO: Rural roads PDF IMAGES
33-41	Article “Don't watch the news”: A Marine's family lives from phone call to phone call By Frederick Busch SEE ALSO: Family relationships; Iraq War, 2003-; Personal narratives, American; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES
43-49	Article The last of England: Churchill gave Londoners courage, Blair is serving them fear By Charles Glass SEE ALSO: Bombings; Britain, Battle of, 1940; National characteristics, English; Blair, Tony; Views on terrorism; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
50-56	Article What we've lost: George W. Bush and the price of torture By William Pfaff SEE ALSO: Abu Ghraib Prison; Combatants and noncombatants (International law); Geneva Conventions (1949); Bush, George W.; International law; Iraq War, 2003-; Military interrogation; Prisoners and prisons, American; Torture; Views on torture PDF IMAGES
57-64	Photo The dispossessed: Photographs from New Orleans By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Disaster victims; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; New Orleans; New Orleans (La.) PDF IMAGES
65-77	Article Valkyries over Iraq: The trouble with war movies By Lawrence Weschler SEE ALSO: Swofford, Anthony; Career as film director; Career as film editor; Career as filmmaker; Die Walküre (Sound recording); Coppola, Francis Ford; Iraq War, 2003-; Jarhead: a Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles (Book); Milius, John; Motion pictures and the conflict; Motion pictures and the war; Motion pictures in military education; Music and war; Pictorial works; Wagner, Richard; Mendes, Sam; Roosevelt, Theodore; Murch, Walter; War films PDF IMAGES
78-79	Article Subdivide and conquer: The making of Israel's suburban occupation By Hadley Ross and Paul Maliszewski SEE ALSO: Boundaries; Growth; Israel; Jewish-Arab relations; West Bank PDF IMAGES
81-88	Fiction In persuasion nation By George Saunders PDF IMAGES
89-90	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Biography; García Márquez, Gabriel; Babel', I. (Isaak); Charyn, Jerome; Memories of my melancholy whores (Book); Fox, Paula; Savage shorthand: the life and death of Isaac Babel (Book); The coldest winter: a stringer in liberated Europe (Book) PDF IMAGES
91-96	Review Grievous angel: The unruly James Agee By Dwight Garner SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Film writing and selected journalism (Book); Agee, James; James Agee: film writing and selected journalism (Book); James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, & shorter fiction (Book); Sragow, Michael; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
97-102	Review The still point of the turning world: Joan Didion and the opposite of meaning By Jennifer Szalai SEE ALSO: Didion, Joan; Novelists, American; The year of magical thinking (Book) PDF IMAGES
103	Puzzle/Department News clippings By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
104	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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