Harper's Magazine: February 2007

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February 2007

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tavis Coburn SEE ALSO: Automation; Military applications; Military art and science; Robotics PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Hysterical scientism, from November 2006: Letter By Rossana Lhota Letter By Matthew J. Medina Letter By Bo Curry On Loaded, from December 2006: Letter By Saul Cornell Letter By Shawn Cote Letter By Joan Burbick Letter By Garret Keizer On Clash of the time lords, from December 2006: Letter By L.E. Bagshawe PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Pathologies of hope By Barbara Ehrenreich SEE ALSO: Cancer; Hope; Patients; Self-actualization (Psychology); Self-help techniques PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article You, screws By Breyten Breytenbach SEE ALSO: Breytenbach, Breyten; Ex-convicts; Imprisonment; Netherlands; Prison psychology; Prison wardens; South Africa PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Personal account SEE ALSO: Age discrimination in employment; Franklin County; Social Security; Bowers, Timothy; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Robbery) PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration MMK By Tim Eitel SEE ALSO: Art museum attendance PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Dr. Maybe SEE ALSO: Anesthesiologists; Executions and executioners; Legal status, laws, etc.; Taylor, Michael; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article Stet offensive SEE ALSO: Grammar; Questions and answers; Web sites PDF IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article Thank less By Ian Jack SEE ALSO: Collaboration; Creative writing; Gratitude PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Paper jam SEE ALSO: Automation; Congresses; Intelligent agents (Computer software); Packaging PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Writers' bloc By Serge2 Mikha3lovich Tret'iakov and Devin Fore (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Collaboration; Communism and literature; Soviet literature PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo Terminal mirage #261-12 By David Maisel (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Hazardous wastes PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Fiction Addis Ababa, 1977 By Dinaw Mengestu PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Photo Limbo 5, 2004 By Bianca Brunner (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Limbo PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Jamais encore SEE ALSO: Algeria; Counterinsurgency; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Military interrogation; Revolution, 1954-1962; Torture PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A dunk in the water By Henri Alleg SEE ALSO: Algeria; Personal narratives, French; Political prisoners; Revolution, 1954-1962; Torture; Waterboarding PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article The firm SEE ALSO: Thompson, Donald; Indecent exposure; Oklahoma; Sexual behavior; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Obscenity) PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article If I did it SEE ALSO: Hess, Charles; Colorado; Correspondence; Death and burial; Church, Heather Dawn; Prisoners' writings, American; Browne, Robert Charles PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration Hang over By Fred Tomaselli SEE ALSO: Decoration and ornament; Trees PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem In memoriam: Gillian Rose By Geoffrey Hill PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Collection Readings By Hentie van der Merwe PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Transvaal Scottish (8th Infantry), Sergeant (1945-1951) By Hentie van der Merwe (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Military uniforms; Uniforms PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Cape Mounted Rifles (Dukes), Bandsman (1913-1926) By Hentie van der Merwe (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Military uniforms; Uniforms PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo State President's Guard (formed 1967-deactivated 1990), Riflemen By Hentie van der Merwe (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Military uniforms; South Africa. Army; Uniforms PDF IMAGES Photo Parade uniform (1967-1990) By Hentie van der Merwe (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Military uniforms; South Africa. Army; Uniforms PDF IMAGES
33-42	Article Dead end: Counterinsurgency warfare as military malpractice By Edward Luttwak SEE ALSO: Commando operations; Counterinsurgency; Patraeus, David H.; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Mattis, James N.; Military intelligence; Military policy; Special operations (Military science); Views on counterinsurgency PDF TEXT IMAGES
43-52	Article The coming robot army: Introducing America's future fighting machines By Steve Featherstone SEE ALSO: Automation; Electronics in military engineering; Military applications; Military art and science; Robotics; War PDF IMAGES
53-58	Article On the rights of Molotov Man: Appropriation and the art of context By Susan Meiselas and Joy Garnet SEE ALSO: Career as artist; Copyright; Iraq War, 2003-; Garnett, Joy; Nicaragua; Arauz, Pablo; Pictorial works; Piracy (Copyright); Protest movements; Revolution, 1979; Meiselas, Susan PDF IMAGES
59-71	Article The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism By Jonathan Lethem SEE ALSO: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Intellectual Property; Plagiarism PDF TEXT IMAGES
73-84	Fiction Child's play By Alice Munro PDF IMAGES
85-86	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Hirsi Ali, Ayaan; Alarcón, Daniel; Ghosts of Spain: travels through Spain and its secret past (Book); Tremlett, Giles; Infidel (Book); Lost city radio (Book); Mailer, Norman; The castle in the forest (Book) PDF IMAGES
87-92	Review The devoted: Susan Sontag's self-corrections By Robert Boyers SEE ALSO: Jump, Anne; At the same time (Book); Criticism and interpretation; Dilonardo, Paolo; Pictorial works; Sontag, Susan PDF IMAGES
92-98	Review Flaming bitumen: Romancing the Algerian war By Sam Stark SEE ALSO: Algeria; Horne, Alistair; Revolution, 1954-1962; Savage war of peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (Book) PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Theme and variations By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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