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	Illustration Melancholy (detail) By Edvard Munch and Erich Lessing (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Depression, Mental; Melancholy PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Stet offensive, from February 2007: Letter By Gray Standen On The coming robot army, from February 2007: Letter By Rob Stinson Letter By Fred Drumlevitch On The ecstasy of influence, from February 2007: Letter By David Edelstein Letter By Sherally Munshi On Parties of God, from March 2007: Letter By Mark Asch Letter By Lorna Salzman On Arms and the poet, from March 2007: Letter By Robert L. Cowdrey On Findings, from March 2007: Letter By Janie Percival Letter By John M. W. Scott Letter By W. S. Mitchell PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Time travel By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Schlesinger, Arthur Meier; Death and burial; Bush, George W.; Historians; Historiography; Military leadership PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-24	Readings/Article Just the same capitalists as you By Perry Anderson SEE ALSO: Politkovskaya, Anna; Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich; Capitalism; Career as Russian president; Death and burial; 1991-; Russia (Federation); Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Volker Steger (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Insects; Mortality PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article The spy who shoved me By George, Jr. Russell SEE ALSO: Career as martial artist; 2001-; Russia (Federation); Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Poem Bolshevescent By Peter Gizzi PDF IMAGES
24-25	Readings/Article The $50,000 question SEE ALSO: Belgium; Campaign funds; Career as candidate for U.S. president; Career as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth contributor; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Kerry, John; 2004; Fox, Sam; Selection and appointment PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Internal renovations By Jules de Balincourt SEE ALSO: Museum exhibits; Villages PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Emergency parking only By Dhiren Barot SEE ALSO: Barot, Dhiren; Prevention; Qaida (Organization); Terrorism; Trials, litigation, etc.; Vehicle bombs PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article Into the oblivion By Thomas Lynch SEE ALSO: Bereavement; Bioethics; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.; Undertakers and undertaking PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Sweet chariot By Bert Keizer SEE ALSO: Amsterdam; Bicycles; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Hearses (Vehicles); Mourning customs; Netherlands PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Death be not plush SEE ALSO: Cremation; Selling; Teddy bears PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Too much of water hast thou SEE ALSO: Contests; Death and burial; Strange, Jennifer; Radio programs; Sacramento PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Photo Homo ergaster By Hiroshi Sugimoto (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Diorama PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Fiction Family means nothing to me By Rebecca Curtis PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Article Jet blues SEE ALSO: Industrial relations; Saving and thrift; Unemployment PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The poor girl By Sigrid Nunez PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration Echoes in steel II By Paul Ching-Bor SEE ALSO: Bridges, Iron and steel PDF IMAGES
35-46	Article Manufacturing depression: A journey into the economy of melancholy By Gary Greenberg SEE ALSO: Depression, Mental; Diagnosis; Medicine, Psychosomatic; Melancholy; Placebo (Medicine); Psychiatry PDF IMAGES
47-57	Article A world in three aisles: Browsing the post-digital library By Gideon Lewis-Kraus SEE ALSO: Career as special librarian; Classification; Collection development; Copyright; Prelinger, Megan Shaw; Prelinger, Rick; San Francisco PDF IMAGES
58-66	Article The continuation of poverty: Rebranding foreign aid in Kenya By Victoria Schlesinger SEE ALSO: Career as Kenyan UN Millennium Project director; Economic assistance; Food supply; Humanitarian assistance; International cooperation; Sachs, Jeffrey; Kenya; Non-governmental organizations; Sánchez, Pedro A.; Poverty; United Nations; Views on economic assistance PDF IMAGES
67-75	Article From an ancient cloud: Getting by in Ethiopia's slums By Yohannes Edemariam SEE ALSO: Addis Ababa (Ethiopia); Ethiopia; Slums PDF IMAGES
77-79	Article Mandaeans By Eliot Weinberger SEE ALSO: Iraq; Journeys—Middle East; Mythology; Ricoldo da Montecroce PDF IMAGES
80-86	Fiction On the show By Wells Tower PDF IMAGES
87-88	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Kourouma, Ahmadou; Allah is not obliged (Book); Biography; Donne, John; John Donne: the reformed soul (Book); Stubbs, John; Englander, Nathan; Paretsky, Sara; The ministry of special cases (Book); Writing in an age of silence (Book) PDF IMAGES
89-93	Review Sentimental education: The invention of human rights By Joanna Bourke SEE ALSO: Human Rights; Inventing human rights: a history (Book); Hunt, Lynn Avery PDF IMAGES
93-98	Review Bright lights, big speeches: Ralph Ellison and the perils of publicity By Randy Boyagoda SEE ALSO: African American authors; Rampersad, Arnold; Biography; Pictorial works; Ellison, Ralph; Ralph Ellison: a biography (Book) PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Gremlins By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
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MR. FISH
PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke	May 8
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	May 15
Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz	May 29
Weekly Review By Paul Ford	May 22
Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	May 1

By Ken Silverstein

Black Helped Frum Stay in the Black	11:21 AM May 29
How Gregory Nickerson Parlayed House Job Into Lavish Estate (Illustrated)	11:22 AM May 31
Six Questions for Marcus Stern on Duke Cunningham	2:00 AM May 22
The Question of Balance: Revisiting the Missouri Election Scandal of 2004	7:23 AM May 8
Alleged Plotter in Rainbow Warrior Bombing Selling Weapons to U.S. Government	3:09 PM May 8
Blogger of the Brotherhood	2:33 PM May 30
Six Questions for Tara McKelvey on Detainee Abuse	5:13 PM May 9
SIGIR Roast	10:41 AM May 7
Donor Scorecard: Tom Loeffler	6:55 PM May 15
Washington Insiders Lend Helping Hand to “Princess of Uzbeks”	2:49 PM May 11
Missed Connection	3:09 PM May 9
Six Questions for Marc Lynch on Iraq, the “Surge,” and Al Qaeda	7:08 PM May 17
Donor Scorecard: Beth Dozoretz	9:50 AM May 3
Sex, Fraud, Sorcery?	2:00 PM May 3
Crime Pays: The Perks of Being a Disgraced Member of Congress	7:30 AM May 1
American: an Airline with Baggage	10:00 AM May 2
Hillary: Vote for Me, I was Duped Convenient truths	4:56 PM May 6
Six Questions for Laura Rozen on Iran	10:50 AM May 4

By Scott Horton

Bushies Behaving Badly	8:46 AM May 15
The Republicans and Ron Paul	12:50 PM May 20
The German Experience with Enhanced Interrogation	4:23 PM May 29
Is “American Justice” an Oxymoron?	4:25 PM May 29
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind The Curtain	8:51 AM May 10
Still More Evidence That David Broder Doesn’t Read the Washington Post	3:30 PM May 7
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Albuquerque	5:19 PM May 19
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Seattle	4:36 PM May 8
Gonzales’s Contempt of Congress	9:20 AM May 23
The Iraqi Leadership Death Watch	5:06 PM May 21
Voter Fraud in North Carolina	9:58 AM May 13
Former U.S. Attorneys Describe Disgust Over Gonzales, Predict Mass Exodus from DOJ	7:44 AM May 11
The Brooding Omnipresence of Global Warming	11:58 AM May 28
Colombia, Political Hackery, and the Washington Post	11:16 AM May 8
Picking a World Bank President	9:07 AM May 21
The Truthiness Party at Work	11:58 AM May 28
Wolfowitz on Iraq	5:51 PM May 20
Poor Sub-Par Gonzales	1:55 PM May 14
Sophocles Reborn—the Sea and the Chorus	4:03 PM May 13
New British PM to Accelerate Departure from Iraq	12:48 PM May 20
Defending the National Surveillance State: Torture, Lies and Secrecy	3:43 PM May 17
Department of Fundamental Dilemmas	1:45 PM May 14
Intelligence on Iraq	5:51 PM May 20
“Strength is Injustice”	2:42 PM May 9
Another Suicide at Guantánamo	8:02 AM May 31
More Hostages in Tehran	7:27 AM May 29
In Private Meeting with Gonzales, U.S. Attorneys Vent Concerns	12:31 PM May 19
Dick Cheney, Unindicted Co-Conspirator	8:57 AM May 30
Gen. Petraeus’s One Word Too Many	12:59 PM May 11
The Blackberry Defense	7:26 AM May 29
From the Ministry of Truth...	1:04 PM May 11
The Courage to Stand Up Against War Crimes	9:41 AM May 18
Did Gonzales Perjure Himself in FISA Testimony?	9:28 AM May 17
Scientists 1, Department of the Army 0	7:58 PM May 8
Onward, Christian Lawyers...	10:55 AM May 21
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Little Rock	9:43 AM May 18
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Kansas City	8:50 AM May 7
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Minneapolis	8:07 AM May 31
Voting Fraud, Ann Coulter, and the FBI	8:50 PM May 11
Fredo the Yes-Man	12:50 PM May 20
Condi Rice and Saddam Hussein	8:43 AM May 10
The Danger of Being Hated	11:52 AM May 27
Secret U.S. Plan to Assassinate Iraqi Leader Revealed	8:11 AM May 23
Understanding the McNulty Resignation	8:47 AM May 15
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Kansas City	11:44 AM May 14
About those e-mails . . .	5:23 PM May 10
The Washington Post and the Lawless President	9:26 AM May 17
David Hicks Returns to Australia	5:50 PM May 20
Fox News and the Iraq War	7:27 AM May 29
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—San Diego	10:12 AM May 13
Monica, Rove, and Miers	2:17 PM May 25
The Criminal Case Against Alberto Gonzales	8:01 AM May 31
Bush Administration Fails to Brief Congress on Covert Ops	8:41 AM May 10
More Partisan Harassment of the Troops	8:22 AM May 31
The Assault on Comey Begins	12:26 PM May 18
Mail from Diaz’s Counsel	12:48 PM May 20
A Poem from the Original Green Evangelical	2:52 PM May 8
Wolfowitz Out at the World Bank	9:42 AM May 18
Blackwater Succeeds in Forcing Arbitration of Employee Claims	1:31 AM May 22
Bush Blunder Brings British Broadsides	11:07 AM May 8
Musharraf Down for the Count?	1:31 AM May 22
Die Stasi ist mein Eckermann	6:19 PM May 17
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—West Virginia	11:06 AM May 12
Commander Diaz Sentenced	12:30 PM May 19
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?	1:37 PM May 9
Cheney’s Thirst for War	11:36 AM May 26
U.S. Stiffs Allies in Counter-Terrorism Efforts	8:58 AM May 30
Gonzales’s Law School Classmates Send Him a Message	8:47 AM May 16
Wolfowitz’s Tomb	11:57 AM May 28
Bush’s Monica and the Plot Against the Hatch Act	11:10 AM May 12
A Tale of Two Lawyers	12:51 PM May 20
Another Chapter in the GOP “Voting Fraud” Fraud	3:49 PM May 21
The Persecution of Lt Cmdr Diaz, Continued	7:45 PM May 17
The Creeping Senility of Bernard Lewis	9:49 AM May 18
B16 and Liberation Theology	9:13 AM May 11
Pentagon Does a Poor Job Investigating Detainee Abuse	9:20 AM May 23
Satan Lives! (In Utah)	12:05 PM May 9
Beyond Ridiculous	9:07 AM May 11
Another Rove Aide Resigns in U.S. Attorneys Scandal	9:03 AM May 30
Green Republicans and Bush Spar Over Global Warming	10:55 AM May 21
The Party of Torture vs. The Party of Lincoln	8:20 AM May 23
Gonzales Begins His Set-Up of McNulty	8:47 AM May 16
Tales from Stasiland: NYPD Spied on “Anti-GOP” Groups	9:29 AM May 17
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Little Rock	8:00 AM May 31
Tales from Stasiland: Homeland Security’s Syringe	11:21 AM May 14
Omertà: The Gonzales Angle	8:10 AM May 9
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Milwaukee	12:29 PM May 19
Comey’s Testimony—The Essential Background	9:44 AM May 18
Faulkner or a Machine Translation from German?	8:44 AM May 10
Tragedy in the Horn of Africa	5:20 PM May 19
The Happy Quarter	6:12 PM May 20
Sending in the Praetorian Guard	11:59 AM May 28
Alberto Gonzales and the Blame Game	9:34 AM May 11
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Las Vegas	9:59 AM May 13
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Minneapolis	8:51 AM May 25
Therapy for Font Sluts	11:04 AM May 31
No. 10 Downing Street Prepares for a New Tenant	11:25 AM May 12
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Guam	11:34 AM May 9
Mail Concerning the Diaz Case	1:31 AM May 22
James Dobson and the Foreign Policy of the GOP	5:53 PM May 20
Gonzales Obstructed Justice, Lied Under Oath, Senator Charges	8:50 AM May 25
Gross Human Rights Violations Charged Against Bush Administration	8:58 AM May 30
The Persecution of LtCmdr Matthew Diaz	6:49 PM May 14
Another Accountability Moment	7:20 PM May 17
Robert Gates and the Press	11:59 AM May 28
Obstructing Congress, Pentagon Edition	7:40 PM May 11
Remembering those Who Served (and Those Who Didn’t)	11:55 AM May 28
Bush at 24 Percent	8:48 AM May 16
Comey Details Gonzales’s Pressure Tactics on Surveillance Issue	8:52 AM May 16
Musharraf’s Endgame	3:11 PM May 14
Why This Scandal Matters	8:51 AM May 21
19,000 Iraqis Disappear Into U.S.-Run Prisons	6:10 PM May 13
Former Federal Prosecutors Demand Removal of Gonzales	12:29 PM May 19
Washington Post’s Colombian Snow Job, Revisited	3:17 PM May 22
The Most Corrupt Congressman in History	8:14 AM May 23
Bush to Allies: Drop Dead	9:00 AM May 30
Will Fredo Be Disbarred?	8:08 AM May 31
Habeas, Gitmo, and Bush’s War	7:42 AM May 11
Wolfowitz and the Neocon Götzendämmerung	12:49 PM May 20
Is Plan B an Invasion of Iran?	9:08 AM May 21
Invasion of the Party Snatchers	9:59 AM May 13
How the GOP Hijacked the Justice Department to Suppress Voters	8:49 AM May 21
“I’d Rather Trade Places with Jose Padilla”	5:21 PM May 19
Fredo, Monica, and the Immigration Judges	2:16 PM May 25
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Las Vegas	11:21 AM May 14
Republican Quotes KKK Grand Wizard on House Floor	2:48 PM May 8
YouTube of the Day	6:12 PM May 28
Commerce Department Employees Demand Prosecution of Inspector General	8:49 AM May 15
Targeting the Celestial Kingdom	4:19 PM May 29
The Chicago Tribune Gets It	8:48 AM May 16
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Kansas City	11:04 AM May 12
Progress? What Progress? Troops Vent at Lieberman	8:58 AM May 31
YouTube of the Day	1:30 AM May 22
Big Brother Has Free Speech Rights, Too	7:07 AM May 8
Experts Deride Bush Torture Techniques as Foolish	9:01 AM May 30
An Attorney General Without Honor	10:00 AM May 13
Meltdown at DOJ: The Story of the Immigration Judge Scam	9:00 AM May 30
The Next War	9:01 AM May 23
The Cheney that We Know and Love	2:45 PM May 9
DeLay and God’s Party	9:02 AM May 30
Defining Conservatism Up	6:05 PM May 31
Russian Secret Service Agents to be Indicted in Litvinenko Murder	1:44 AM May 22
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Minneapolis	7:50 AM May 11
Immigration Reform	5:50 PM May 20
Super Surge Me	9:34 AM May 23
The Corruption Within Justice	11:56 AM May 28
GSA Chief Lurita Doan Violated the Hatch Act	9:02 AM May 23
Military Psychiatrists and Torture	7:24 AM May 30
On Memorial Day: No Photographs of American Wounded, Please	7:28 AM May 29
White House Continues Attacks on Comey	5:22 PM May 19
The Generals Speak Out on Torture	9:30 AM May 17
What Did the President Know, and When Did He Know It?	12:29 PM May 19
When “the Post of Honour is a Private Station”	3:57 PM May 11
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—District of Columbia	8:44 AM May 8
Senior Aide to Karl Rove Takes Fifth	8:17 AM May 23
‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Think’	8:15 AM May 23
WaPo: Gonzales Sought Dismissal of 26 U.S. Attorneys	9:27 AM May 17
YouTube of the Day	2:25 PM May 30
More on Gonzales’s National Security Violations	1:31 AM May 22
The Talisman of Torture	8:21 AM May 23
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Seattle	3:46 PM May 21
Bush’s GOP: From Religious Right to “Wille zur Macht”	12:35 PM May 19
U.S. Attorneys Scandal Spreads to Colorado and Florida	9:28 AM May 17
Boeing Subsidiary Tied to Torture-by-Proxy Scheme	7:59 AM May 31
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Little Rock	7:05 AM May 8
Matthew Diaz and the Rule of Law	4:53 PM May 31
Doolittle Accuses Gonzales of Playing Politics	7:04 AM May 8
Governor Spitzer on Gonzales and the Corruption at DOJ	3:49 PM May 21
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Kansas City	11:31 AM May 9
From “Antigone”	May 13
Card and Gonzales Accused of National Security Breach in Visit to Ashcroft	9:38 AM May 18
The Torture Party	8:46 AM May 16
A Question for the Most Mendacious Attorney General Ever	8:40 AM May 10
President Carter: Bush Administration’s Foreign Policy Stewardship is “Worst in U.S. History”	10:56 AM May 20
Those Perfidious Democrats	7:40 AM May 11
Karl Rove Directed DOJ Voter Suppression Project	10:10 AM May 13
Listening Recommendation	11:58 AM May 28
The Zelikow Speech	2:21 PM May 30
The Verdict is In: Wolfowitz Found Guilty	8:48 AM May 15
Taking the Auguries on Alberto Gonzales	8:49 AM May 25
Turkey and Iraq	8:07 AM May 9
The Looming Tower on Stage	12:32 PM May 29
Sen. Ted Stevens Subject of FBI Investigation	8:02 AM May 31
Did Lord Goldsmith Authorize Detainee Abuse?	7:25 AM May 29
Bush’s Monica Speaks—and DOJ Runs for Cover	12:24 PM May 24
Bush’s Fiscal Incompetence	12:59 PM May 30
Playwright Needed	5:00 AM May 5
The Continuing Slide of Time Magazine	3:00 PM May 5
White House at 28 Percent and Pressure on Congress to Get Tough	3:00 PM May 5
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Little Rock	3:00 PM May 5
Omertà: The Finger Points to McNulty	7:08 PM May 5
The Republican Debate: Battle of the Neanderthals?	9:23 AM May 6
Chaos at Justice: When Is An Investigation Just Another Roadblock?	9:00 AM May 3
Bush Breaks His Pledge on Surveillance	9:00 AM May 3
Central Asia Today	3:40 PM May 3
Evangelical Islam	3:39 PM May 3
George Tenet, Torture, and the Truth	3:39 PM May 3
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Montana	10:30 PM May 3
Bush’s War Against Journalists	10:30 PM May 3
Murder, Voter Fraud, and Obstruction at the Department of Justice	1:34 PM May 6
Thoreau on Freedom	May 2
Happy Law Day	7:00 AM May 1
David Broder for War Czar	6:45 AM May 1
The Gleichschaltung at Justice	6:00 AM May 1
The Moral Philosophy of Michael Scheuer	6:00 AM May 1
A Passion for Prosecuting Democrats	11:00 AM May 1
Après moi, le deluge	11:00 AM May 1
A Story of People in War and Peace	11:00 AM May 1
Bill Moyers: “Buying the War”	11:00 AM May 1
Mission Accomplished: Year Four	11:00 AM May 1
U.S. Attorney Scandal—Pittsburgh	8:30 AM May 2
U.S. Attorney Scandal—Kansas City	8:30 AM May 2
Insanity and Reason at National Review	8:30 AM May 2
U.S. Attorney Scandal—Montana	2:20 PM May 2
An Accountability Moment	2:20 PM May 2
Herder and the Mormons	2:20 PM May 2
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Albuquerque and Seattle	2:20 PM May 2
Bush in a Bunker	3:30 PM May 2
Billo’s Spin-Factor	3:30 PM May 2
The Ground Commander Speaks	3:30 PM May 2
Omertà: The Story of McNulty’s Enforcer	3:30 PM May 2
Condi’s Really Bad Month (Revisited)	3:30 PM May 2
Was Comey the First Purge Victim?	9:21 AM May 6
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Kansas City	1:50 PM May 6
Heimweh auf Stasiland	1:51 PM May 6
Counterfeiting Churchill	4:31 PM May 6
Churchill on Habeas Corpus	4:31 PM May 6
Mendelssohn on Religion	May 4
Comey Takes the Oath	9:22 AM May 4
The McNulty-Rove Meeting	9:22 AM May 4
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Los Angeles	9:22 AM May 4
And the winners are . . .	10:45 AM May 4
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Seattle	10:45 AM May 4
War on the Habeas Lawyers	4:25 PM May 4
Omertà, Continued	4:14 PM May 4
They Won’t Go	4:18 PM May 4
Poem for a Day in Early May	4:14 PM May 4
Mansfield v. Mansfield	1:48 PM May 6
Jefferson on Soft Power	May 27
Voltaire on Miracles	May 9
The Hollow Men	May 20
Dostoevsky on Tyranny	May 18
Poem for Memorial Day	May 28
T.H. White on the Magic of Learning	May 30
Kafka on a Prisoner's Despair	May 29
Camus on Innocence	May 23
Schopenhauer on Pride	May 21