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May 2006

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Teun Hocks SEE ALSO: Homeowners; Housing; Serfdom PDF IMAGES
6-13	Letters/Department Letters On Out of control, from March 2006: Letter By Rebecca Culshaw Letter By Mark A. Biernbaum Letter By Larry Kramer Letter By Richard Marlink and Catherine Wilfert Letter By Rubie King Letter By Paul Bellman Letter By Robert C. Gallo Letter By Celia Farber PDF IMAGES
15-17	Notebook/Article Blue guitar By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as Harper's editor; Lapham, Lewis H.; Press and politics; Truth (Aesthetics) PDF IMAGES
19	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Africa; Al Qaeda; Alcohol; United States Army; Great Britain; Bush Administration; California; China; Christianity; Communism; United States Congress; Democracy; Economics; Education; Entertainment; Fashion; Food; Bush, George W.; Georgia; Hamas; Clinton, Hillary; Immigration; Iraq; Islam; Jesus Christ; Law; Literature; Mississippi; North Korea; Oklahoma; Palestine; Hussein, Saddam; Science; Sexual Assault; Slavery; South Korea; Sport; Starbucks; Technology; Telecommunications; Terrorism; Texas; Uganda; United States of America; Wal-Mart PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
21-26	Readings/Article A carnivore's credo By Roger Scruton SEE ALSO: Animal industry; Animal welfare; Food habits; Vegetarianism PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article The cagey bee SEE ALSO: Insects; Research grants; United States. Dept. of Defense; War use PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo Monument Diner By Marcus Doyle (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Diners (Restaurants) PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article A banana in the sun By Robert S. Poydasheff SEE ALSO: Bananas; Civil Rights; Civil rights demonstrations; Columbus; Correspondence; Stewart, Gwen; Police PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article Fire away SEE ALSO: Customs and practices; Islam; Jihad; Kandahar; Pakistan; Qaida (Organization); Questions and answers; Recruiting, enlistment, etc. PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo Port of Okha, Sakhalin Island 2003 By Andrew Moore (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Abandonment; Freight-cars; Sakhalin (Russia) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Highly effective Messiah By Gregg F. Martin SEE ALSO: Christianity; Command of troops; Jesus Christ; Leadership PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article I'm still here SEE ALSO: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; Cuba; Guantánamo Bay; Military interrogation; Prisoners PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Texas barbecue SEE ALSO: Capitalists and financiers; Enron Corp.; Houston; Insider trading in securities; Skilling, Jeff; Trials (Fraud); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article Dude, where's my theory? By Howard Eiland (Trans.) and Fritz Fränkel SEE ALSO: Authors, German; Drug use; Hashish; Benjamin, Walter PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration Der Siebenschlafer By Jörg Lozek SEE ALSO: Attics; Sleep PDF IMAGES
32-36	Readings/Article Into the quotidian By John Burnside SEE ALSO: Kansas; Life skills; Lyric poetry; Rural roads; Travel in literature PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Poem Improvisations for Hart Crane By Geoffrey Hill PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Photo Deep in the woods we're undiscovered By Alex Hartley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Forests and forestry; Tree houses PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Illustration North Sea fishing village By Mototaka Takano SEE ALSO: Fishing villages; North Sea PDF IMAGES
39-46	Article The new road to serfdom: An illustrated guide to the coming real estate collapse By Michael Hudson SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Homeowners; Housing; 2001-; Serfdom PDF IMAGES
47-56	Article Swine of the times: The making of the modern pig By Nathanael Johnson SEE ALSO: Genetic engineering; Pork industry and trade; Swine; Swine breeders PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
57-64	Collection Between two worlds: photographs from Bolivia PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Families; Motorcyclists PDF IMAGES
58	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Coca industry; Rural women PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Chapare; Coca industry PDF IMAGES
59	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Men; Societies and clubs PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Models (Persons) PDF IMAGES
60	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Chapare; Morales, Evo; Journeys; Pictorial works; Political participation PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Miners PDF IMAGES
61	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Fruit trade; Rural children; Trucking PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; La Paz; Married people; Walking PDF IMAGES
62	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; El Alto (La Paz, Bolivia); Farmers' markets; La Paz; Marketing; Potatoes; Rural women PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Picnicking; Ranches; Santa Cruz PDF IMAGES
63	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bolivia; Floor traders (Finance); Stock exchanges PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bathing customs; Bolivia PDF IMAGES
64	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Amusement parks; Bolivia; El Alto (La Paz, Bolivia); La Paz PDF IMAGES
65-74	Article Antenna of the universe: Grandpa had a thing about good reception By Don Wallace SEE ALSO: Amateur radio stations; Grandparent and child; Los Angeles PDF IMAGES
75-77	Fiction A change of fashion By Steven Millhauser PDF IMAGES
79-80	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Spinoza, Benedictus de; Berlin childhood around 1900 (Book); Betraying Spinoza (Book); Everyman (Book); Roth, Philip; Portraits; Goldstein, Rebecca; Beckett, Samuel; Samuel Beckett: the Grove centenary edition (Book); Benjamin, Walter PDF IMAGES
81-86	Review The fog of Europe: A history of triumph and unease By Nicholas Fraser SEE ALSO: Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945 (Book); Judt, Tony PDF IMAGES
86-94	Review A man so various: The misappropriated Winston Churchill By Geoffrey Wheatcroft SEE ALSO: Biography; Churchill and America (Book); Churchill: the unexpected hero (Book); Reynolds, David; In command of history: Churchill fighting and writing the Second World War (Book); Gilbert, Martin; Addison, Paul; Pictorial works; Prime ministers; Churchill, Winston PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Triplets By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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By Ken Silverstein

Richard Cohen: a Scientific Inquiry	May 15
More Hot Air Over the Arctic	May 11
“Fairy Tales”	May 18
The Professor of Repression	May 24
Paved With Good Intentions	May 22
Follow-up 1: Red Lights on Capitol Hill	May 1
Follow-up 2: Red Lights on Capitol Hill	May 3
Academics for Hire	May 30
Rep. William Jefferson: One More Reason for the High Price of Gas	May 10
Gosslings, Bacon, and a Kobe Beef Cow	May 26
Dick Cheney, Dove	May 17
Dusty Abroad	May 13
The Loss of Goss	May 8
How Do You Handle a Hungry Man?	May 4
A Step Backwards	May 24
“Nine Fingers” and the Third Man	May 9