Harper's Magazine: April 2006

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April 2006

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	Illustration The threshold of liberty (detail) By René Magritte SEE ALSO: Clouds; Ordnance; Windows PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On We are the champions, from January 2006: Letter By Peter Morris On United they fall, from January 2006: Letter By John R. Mathiason On See, memory, from January 2006: Letter By John Weiss Letter By Noah Isenberg On Taking names, from February 2006: Letter By Casey J. Servais On Green dawn, from February 2006: Letter By Libby Hubbard On God or gorilla, from February 2006: Letter By Robert J. Muise Letter By Ronald Osborn PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Mute button By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Biography—History and criticism; Islam and world politics; Political cartoons; Muhammad, Prophet PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-22	Readings/Article A natural history of peace By Robert M. Sapolsky SEE ALSO: Aggressive behavior in animals; Aggressiveness (Psychology); Animal models; Evolution; Human behavior; Peace; Primates; Social behavior in animals PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article The torturer's apprentice SEE ALSO: Barbie dolls; Violence in children PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Deer and cowboys By Michael Harrington SEE ALSO: Cowboys; Deer; Diorama PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article C.H.I.M.P.S. By Sean Truelove SEE ALSO: Arizona; Mesa; Police; Primates; Urban warfare; War use PDF TEXT IMAGES
19	Readings/Article Plan eh SEE ALSO: Military planning; Military policy; 1910-1936; 1914-1945; 1929-1933 PDF TEXT IMAGES
20	Readings/Article A lard bargain By Dan Keane (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Deals; Ecuador; Huao Indians; Land tenure; Petroleum; Prospecting PDF TEXT IMAGES
22	Readings/Article The choosy people SEE ALSO: Editing; Social sciences; Textbooks PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Red all over SEE ALSO: Career as editor; Li, Datong; Freedom of the press; Government and the press PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration Silverlake revisited By Susan Logoreci SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Metropolitan areas PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Guessworker By Frauke Levin (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Discrimination; Emigration and immigration; Emigration and immigration law; Government policy; Legal status, laws, etc.; Muslims PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Shirtwaist By James Rieck PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Jacques Crow By J.A. Linard SEE ALSO: African American soldiers; African American troops; Racism PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Mission to Mars By Guy Consolmagno SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Life on other planets PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration Snake in the grass By Echo Eggebrecht SEE ALSO: Snakes; Swimming pools PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The clockmaker By Robert Louis Stevenson PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Space auditing By George Deutsch SEE ALSO: Big bang theory; Intelligent design (Teleology); Public Relations; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration PDF IMAGES
31-40	Article The spirit of disobedience: An invitation to resistance By Curtis White SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Christianity; Christianity and culture; Civil disobedience; Thoreau, Henry David; Secularism; Transcendentalism; Views on civil disobedience PDF IMAGES
43-50	Article American coup d'etat: Military thinkers discuss the unthinkable By A.J. Bacevich, Charles J., Jr. Dunlap, Richard H. Kohn, and Edward N. Luttwak SEE ALSO: Civil-military relations; Militarism; Military policy PDF TEXT IMAGES
53-66	Article Congo's daily blood: Ruminations from a failed state By Bryan Mealer SEE ALSO: Congo (Democratic Republic); Elections; Ethnic relations; Peacekeeping forces; Political atrocities; United Nations PDF IMAGES
67-73	Article High mobility: In my brother's Hummer By Colin McAdam SEE ALSO: Brothers PDF IMAGES
74-75	Article Trickling down: In an oil-rich nation, Iraqis wait for their share By Daniel Rothenberg SEE ALSO: Gasoline; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Petroleum industry and trade; Prices; Rationing PDF IMAGES
76-78	Article A box of books: An exchange, on matters literary and postal, with Hunter S. Thompson By William Kennedy SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Thompson, Hunter S.; Kennedy, William PDF IMAGES
79-82	Fiction The gulch By David Means PDF IMAGES
83-84	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna; Anna of all the Russias: the life of Anna Akhmatova (Book); Biography; Ugresic, Dubravka; White, Edmund; Feinstein, Elaine; My lives: an autobiography (Book); Pictorial works; The ministry of pain (Book) PDF IMAGES
85-89	Review The fraternal corrections: Opus Dei and the Catholic Church By Terry Eagleton SEE ALSO: Allen, John L.; Opus Dei: an objective look behind the myths and reality of the most controversial force in the Catholic Church (Book) PDF IMAGES
89-94	Review Bleakness: The implacable politics of José Saramago By Randy Boyagoda SEE ALSO: Saramago, José; Costa, Margaret Jull; Pictorial works; Seeing (Book) PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Crazy quilt By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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The Curt Weldon Employment Agency	Apr 20
Red Lights on Capitol Hill?	Apr 27
Response: Aron Cramer	Apr 25
A Few Words on Irresponsibility	Apr 28
Inappropriate Appropriations	Apr 26
The Making of a Lobbyist	Apr 17
Our Friend Teodoro	Apr 18
Thank You For Lobbying	Apr 21
Libya and Justice for All	Apr 25
The CIA “Wehrmacht”	Apr 19