Harper's Magazine: December 2006

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December 2006

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Christopher Serra SEE ALSO: Biblical teaching; Church and state PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On First-person shooters, from September 2006: Letter By Glenn B. Rogers On American gulag, from September 2006: Letter By Shama Zaidi On The next war, from October 2006: Letter By Mich Lyon Letter By O. Antonio Reyes On The poor man's air force, from October 2006: Letter By John Morrall On The way out of war, from October 2006: Letter By Sally Sordinas Letter By Michael Moore On The border is wide, from October 2006: Letter By Jonette Christian PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Loaded By Garret Keizer SEE ALSO: Civil disobedience; Firearms; Gun control PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; United States Army; Great Britain; United States Congress; Cuba; Democracy; Education; Folly; Bush, George W.; Holidays; Homosexuality; Hunger; India; Iraq; Israel; Jesus Christ; Kazakhstan; Medicine; Mexico; Obesity; Pakistan; Palestine; Propaganda; Russia; Sex; Sport; Superstition; Technology; Television; Terrorism; Texas; Torture PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-18	Readings/Article The riven atom By George Weller SEE ALSO: Atomic bomb victims; Bombardment, 1945; Journalists; Nagasaki-shi (Japan); Personal narratives, American PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article The greatest generation By John Mench SEE ALSO: Atomic bomb; Career as director of Manhattan Project; Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Los Alamos National Laboratory; New Mexico PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Hulahula-Okpilak delta By Sabhankar Banerjee (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska) PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article The boys from Brazil By Arnaldo Jabor and Valeria Mogilevich (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Brazil; Cocaine industry; Imprisonment; Herbas Camacho, Marcos Willians; Prison riots; Prisoners PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Blowback By James, Jr. Sanders SEE ALSO: Cocaine habit; Name PDF TEXT IMAGES
21-23	Readings/Article Our home and native brand SEE ALSO: Okulitch, A.V.; Bureaucracy; Civil service; Correspondence; Itzkovitch, Irwin; Officials and employees; Personnel management PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article I approved this message By Ferenc Gyurcsány SEE ALSO: Hungary; Misconduct in office; Political and social views; Political ethics; Prime ministers PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Illustration Illusion II: Explosion project By Guo-Qiang Cai and Hiro Ihara (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Berlin; Explosions PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article How high? SEE ALSO: Questions and answers; University of Cambridge; University of Oxford PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The don treader By H.R.(Hugh Redwald) Trevor-Roper SEE ALSO: Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples); Correspondence; Faculty; Friends and associates; University of Oxford; Notestein, Wallace PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Dinner table By Mary Henderson PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Ironed maidens By Sabri Ben-Achour (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Breast; Cameroon; Care and hygiene; Sex customs PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Can't live without 'em By Benjamin Harvey (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Evidences, authority, etc.; Muslim women; Turkey PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article Spirit in the bush By Sam Farmar SEE ALSO: Career as Uganda president; Children and war; Insurgency; Interviews; Kony, Joseph; Lord's Resistance Army; 1979-; Spirits; Uganda; War criminals; Museveni, Yoweri PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Fiction Self defense By Matt Charman PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration Distance breeds enchantment By Steve Gouthro SEE ALSO: Industrial buildings; Steel-works PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Ask not By Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy SEE ALSO: Family; Kennedy, John F.; Wishes PDF IMAGES
33-43	Article Through a glass, darkly: How the Christian right is reimagining U.S. history By Jeff Sharlet SEE ALSO: Biblical teaching; Christianity; Christianity and politics; Church and education; Church and state; Church renewal; Fundamentalism; Bush, George W.; Home schooling; Protestant churches; Providence and government of God; Religion PDF TEXT IMAGES
44-45	Article String theory: Building a 4,000-acre house in Manhattan By Theodore Ross SEE ALSO: Customs and practices; Households; Judaism; Religious life and customs PDF TEXT IMAGES
46-56	Article Clash of the time lords: Who will own the measure of our days? By Michelle Stacey SEE ALSO: Space and time; Systems and standards; Time; Time measurements PDF IMAGES
57-68	Article The magic mountain: Trickle-down economics in a Philippine garbage dump By Matthew Power SEE ALSO: Philippines; Ragpickers; Refuse and refuse disposal; Waste disposal sites PDF TEXT IMAGES
69-78	Article The secret mainstream: Contemplating the mirages of Werner Herzog By Tom Bissell SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Independent filmmakers; Motion picture producers and directors; Herzog, Werner PDF TEXT IMAGES
79-84	Fiction Kinderscenen By John Updike PDF IMAGES
85-86	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Grayling, A.C.; Biography; Descartes: the life and times of a genius (Book); Davenport, Guy; Guy Davenport and James Laughlin: selected letters (Book); Homes and haunts—France—Arles; Laughlin, James; Gayford, Martin; Gauguin, Paul; Descartes, René; The book of Dave (Book); The yellow house: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and nine turbulent weeks in Arles (Book); Gogh, Vincent van; Bamberger, W.C.; Self, Will PDF IMAGES
87-92	Review Darwin's conundrum: Two worldviews, one writer By David Quammen SEE ALSO: Darwin, Charles; Darwin: the indelible stamp (Book); Wilson, Edward Osborne; Evolution (Biology); From so simple a beginning: the four great books of Charles Darwin (Book); Watson, James D. PDF IMAGES
92-98	Review On the lower frequencies: Rethinking the Black Power movement By Scott Saul SEE ALSO: Black power; Joseph, Peniel E.; Shames, Stephen; The Black Panthers: photographs by Stephen Shames (Book); Waiting 'til the midnight hour: a narrative history of Black Power in America (Book) PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Morphology By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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