Harper's Magazine: October 2006

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October 2006

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	Illustration Soldiers from 1/6 Field Artillery on counter-mortar patrol on the outskirts of Baquba, August 2004 (detail) By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Campaigns; Iraq War, 2003-; Military life PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On God mode, from August 2006: Letter By Stephen N. Xenakis On Imagine there's no oil, from August 2006: Letter By Richard Heinberg Letter By Marty Hoffert On It's not easy being green, from August 2006: Letter By Aaron Colangelo PDF IMAGES
7-10	Notebook/Article The next war By Daniel Ellsberg SEE ALSO: Causes; Iran; Iraq War, 2003-; Military policy; Military relations; Political ethics; Whistle blowing PDF TEXT IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Agriculture; Alaska ; Animal; United States Army; Art; Bush Administration; Business; Drugs; Economics; Energy; Entertainment; Folly; Food; Genocide; Bush, George W.; Hezbollah; Internal Revenue Service; India; Iraq; Israel; Labor; Lebanon; Nevada; Obesity; Pennsylvania; Pollution; Rwanda; Science; United States Senate; Transportation; United States of America; War PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article The poor man's air force By Mike Davis SEE ALSO: Beirut; Career as car bomber; Destruction and pillage; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Israeli intervention, 1982-1984; Lebanon; Buda, Mario; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Urban warfare; Vehicle bombs PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Fiction Anarchists cook By Mark Binelli PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Oakland fire tricycle By Richard Misrach (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fires PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Cost of leaving SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Career as U.S. secretary of state; Rice, Condoleezza; Costs; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Hizballah (Lebanon); Lebanon; Repatriation PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo Electric thunderflash By Sarah Pickering (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Explosions PDF IMAGES
20-23	Readings/Article Band of brothers SEE ALSO: Pakistanis; Police patrol; Siraj, Shahawar Matin; Surveillance operations; Terrorists; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Carcass and driver By Clinton R. Mytych SEE ALSO: Automobile drivers; Coffins; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Patents PDF TEXT IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Yelp By Allen Ginsberg SEE ALSO: Poets, American; Young men as authors PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article Discipline and punish By Shimon Naveh SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Israel; Military policy; Nablus; Operational art (Military science); Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Watchtower 2 By Rita Duffy PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article See Spot explode By J.B. (Joseph Banks) Rhine SEE ALSO: Detection; Mines (Military explosives); Psychic aspects; War use PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Fiction Patrols By Frederick Busch PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Poem It is what it is By Paul Muldoon PDF IMAGES
28-29	Readings/Article Blue space in running clouds By Tennessee Williams SEE ALSO: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Diaries; Dramatists, American PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration Leftovers By Mamma Andersson SEE ALSO: Interior architecture; Shared housing PDF IMAGES
31-39	Article The way out of war: A blueprint for leaving Iraq now By George S. (George Stanley) McGovern and William Roe Polk SEE ALSO: Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Military policy; 2001-; 2003- PDF TEXT IMAGES
41-61	Fiction Happyland (part IV) By J. Robert Lennon PDF IMAGES
63-70	Article The border is wide: Guarding the southern flank of the American Dream By Cecilia Ballí SEE ALSO: Border patrols; Human smugglers; Illegal aliens; Mexican-American Border Region PDF TEXT IMAGES
71-78	Collection The line: photographs from the U.S.-Mexican border By Peter Turnley (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Arizona; Douglas; Mexican-American Border Region; Wire fencing PDF IMAGES
72	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border patrols; Illegal aliens; Laredo; Mexican-American Border Region PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Baja California; Fences; Mexican-American Border Region; Pictorial works; Sánchez, Ubencia PDF IMAGES
73	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Briseño, Adrian; Brownsville; Briseño, Karla; Mexican-American Border Region; Pictorial works; Trailer camps PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border patrols; Mexican-American Border Region PDF IMAGES
74	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border patrols; Illegal aliens; Laredo; Mexican-American Border Region PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Arizona; Warner, Glenn; Illegal aliens; Mexican-American Border Region; Pictorial works; Ranchers; Wire fencing PDF IMAGES
75	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Artists; Bus terminals; Rivera, Angel M., Jr.; Laredo; Mexican-American Border Region; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Illegal aliens; Mexican-American Border Region; Shelters for the homeless PDF IMAGES
76	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: García, Juan; García, María; Mexican-American Border Region; Pictorial works; Squatter settlements PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Border patrols; Illegal aliens; Laredo; Mexican-American Border Region PDF IMAGES
77	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Illegal aliens; Mexican-American Border Region; San Diego; Wire fencing PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Arizona; Cowboys; Douglas; Mexican-American Border Region PDF IMAGES
78	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter Turnley (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Baja California; Border patrols; Crosses; Fences; Illegal aliens; Memorials; Mexican-American Border Region PDF IMAGES
79-80	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Frazier, Charles; Le Carré, John; Powers, Richard; Littell, Robert; The echo maker (Book); The mission song (Book); Thirteen moons (Book); Vicious circle (Book) PDF IMAGES
81-86	Review Trivial pursuit: The fake quest for an “authentic Democrat” By Kevin Baker SEE ALSO: Democratic Party (U.S.); Klein, Joe; Beinart, Peter; Politics lost: how American democracy was trivialized by people who think you're stupid (Book); The good fight: why liberals—and only liberals—can win the War on Terror and make America great again (Book) PDF IMAGES
86-94	Review Toujours Vichy: A reckoning with disgrace By Nicholas Fraser SEE ALSO: Bad faith: a forgotten history of family, fatherland, and Vichy France (Book); Callil, Carmen; Némirovsky, Irène; Suite Française (Book) PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Matched sets By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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Booted by MSNBC, is Alterman Making a Pitch to be Obama's Press Secretary?	Oct 23
Mba's House: Bush Administration renting embassy property from known torturer	Oct 25
The Very Proactive Congressman: Curt Weldon deserves honorable mention on list of dumbest members of Congress	Oct 17
The Millionaire “Minister of Chopping Down Trees”	Oct 2
The ITERA/Weldon Link: Congressman flacked for daughter's client despite being briefed on its shady practices	Oct 24
A Recap From the World's Leading Boratologist	Oct 4
Six Questions for Jeff Smith on Why It's So Hard to Get to Washington	Oct 18
Six Questions for Frank Anderson on the Middle East	Oct 12
Posada: A Double Standard in the War on Terror	Oct 6
It's Not Only Foley in the Race to the Bottom	Oct 13
Republicans Want to Turn Over a New Page	Oct 10
A Bit More on Barack	Oct 26
Cold Comfort: the Japan Lobby Blocks Resolution on WWII Sex Slaves	Oct 5