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June 2007

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	Photo [Cover art] By Win McNamee (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cowboy hats; Bush, George W.; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Terror alerts, from March 2007: Letter By Wilson Karaman Letter By Audrey Quirk On Whoever speaks ill of us, from April 2007: Letter By Carol Delaney On The mirror of life, from April 2007: Letter By Charles Baylor On Literary entrails, from April 2007: Letter By Arthur Krystal Letter By Walton Muyumba PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Climate, class, and claptrap By Garret Keizer SEE ALSO: Emissions trading; Global Warming; Social participation PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-18	Readings/Article Imagine Africa By Breyten Breytenbach SEE ALSO: Africa; Congresses; Imagination; Pan-Africanism PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Richard Greaves and Mario Del Curto (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Installations (Art); Litter (Trash); Salvage (Waste, etc.) PDF IMAGES
18-19	Readings/Poem The sea By Sophocles PDF IMAGES
19-23	Readings/Article Pure product By Binyavanga Wainaina SEE ALSO: Africa; Wainaina, Binyavanga; Biography; Economic assistance; Humanitarian assistance; Non-governmental organizations PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article The U.N. must be crazy SEE ALSO: Folk literature, African PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Illustration Discarded appliances By Valeri Larko PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article The invisible hand SEE ALSO: Task, Aaron; Interviews; Cramer, Jim; Truthfulness and falsehood PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Peer pressure By Conrad Black SEE ALSO: Black, Conrad; Directors of corporations; Trials (Fraud); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Oliver Street Survey (pile 01) By Ben Polsky SEE ALSO: Construction and demolition debris PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Terminix By James Tate PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Everybody's got something to hide SEE ALSO: Airports; Monkeys; Security measures; Transportation PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The language of war is killing SEE ALSO: Combatants and noncombatants (International law); Islamic countries; Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh; Language & Linguistics; Military interrogation; Qaida (Organization); September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Terrorists; Views on war; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article What was ours SEE ALSO: Career in U.S. Army; Drill and tactics; Iraq War, 2003-; Owens, Joshua; McCully, Paul; Personal narratives, American; United States. Army. Infantry PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Move the job By Eric Beck SEE ALSO: Construction and demolition debris; Dead bodies (Law); Refuse and refuse disposal; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; World Trade Center (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The revisionist By Miranda F. Mellis PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration Germinal By Matthew Ritchie SEE ALSO: Cosmology PDF IMAGES
33-42	Article Endgame: Meditations on a diminishing world By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Effect of human beings on; Environmental conditions; Environmental degradation; Nature; Nature (Aesthetics) PDF IMAGES
43-61	Collection Undoing Bush: how to repair eight years of sabotage, bungling, and neglect PDF IMAGES
44-45	Article The Constitution By David Cole SEE ALSO: Gonzales, Alberto; Constitutional law; Executive power; Bush, George W.; Influence; 2001-; Privacy; Nixon, Richard; Separation of powers; United States. Constitution PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
45-47	Article The courts By Dahlia Lithwick SEE ALSO: Attorneys general; Executive power; Bush, George W.; Influence; Judicial discretion; 2001-; Political questions and judicial power; Selection and appointment PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
47-48	Article Civil service By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Attorneys general; Civil service; Coalition Provisional Authority; Discipline; Bush, George W.; Influence; 2001-; Officials and employees; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Science and state; Selection and appointment PDF TEXT IMAGES
48-50	Article The environment By Bill McKibben SEE ALSO: Air quality; Climatic changes; Environmental policy; Bush, George W.; Global Warming; Government policy; Influence; 2001-; Officials and employees; Selection and appointment; Standards PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
50-52	Article Science By Chris (Chris C.) Mooney SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; Global Warming; Government policy; Influence; 2001-; Officials and employees; Science and state; Selection and appointment PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
52-54	Article The economy By Dean Baker SEE ALSO: Budget deficits; Fiscal policy; Bush, George W.; Housing policy; Influence; Monetary policy; 2001- PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
54-55	Article The marketplace of ideas By Jack Hitt SEE ALSO: Freedom of the press; Bush, George W.; Government and the press; Influence; Mass media policy; 2001- PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
55-56	Article Intelligence By James Bamford SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; Influence; Intelligence service; Iraq War, 2003-; Military intelligence; 2001-; Officials and employees; Selection and appointment; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
57-58	Article The military By Edward Luttwak SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; Influence; Iraq War, 2003-; Military policy; 2001-; Operational readiness; Special operations (Military science); United States. Marine Corps; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
58-60	Article Diplomacy By Anne-Marie Slaughter SEE ALSO: Diplomatic history; Bush, George W.; Global Warming; Government policy; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Influence; International Criminal Court; Iraq War, 2003-; 2001-; Nuclear nonproliferation; United Nations. Security Council; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
60-61	Article The national character By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: Bombardment, 1945; Fear; Bush, George W.; Good and evil; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Influence; 2001-; Nagasaki-shi (Japan); September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Weapons of mass destruction PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
62-63	Article High space: An online interactive psycho-pharmacopoeia By Ryan Grim SEE ALSO: Shulgin, Alexander T. (Alexander Theodore); Career as inventor of Blue Mystic (Hallucinogenic drug); Psychotropic drugs; Web sites PDF IMAGES
64-74	Article Chemo world: Surviving the cancer unit By Sallie Tisdale SEE ALSO: Cancer; Chemotherapy; Nursing; Oregon; Portland PDF IMAGES
75-80	Fiction From the desk of Daniel Varsky By Nicole Krauss PDF IMAGES
81-82	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: A crack in the earth: a journey up Israel's Rift Valley (Book); Weizman, Eyal; Watzman, Haim; Hollow land: Israel's architecture of occupation (Book); Israel-Arab conflicts; Cypel, Sylvain; Walled: Israeli society at an impasse (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-87	Review Little big wars: The metamorphosis of conflict By John Gray SEE ALSO: Van Creveld, Martin; Ferguson, Niall; Smith, Rupert; The changing face of war: lessons of combat from the Marne to Iraq (Book); The utility of force: the art of war in the modern world (Book); The war of the world: twentieth-century conflict and the descent of the West (Book); War PDF IMAGES
88-94	Review A delicious torment: The friendship of Wordsworth and Coleridge By Evelyn Toynton SEE ALSO: Sisman, Adam; Biography; Lake poets; Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; The friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge (Book); Wordsworth, William PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Upwardly mobile By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Jun 19
Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi	Jun 5
Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	Jun 26
Weekly Review By Theodore Ross	Jun 12

By Ken Silverstein

Lobby Shops for Turkmenistan: Will lie for money	10:40 PM Jun 24
One Lump or Two? Uzbek dictator’s daughter wipes out competing tea firm with “brain” and “muscle”	11:41 AM Jun 6
The Fall of “Dollar” Bill Jefferson	4:57 PM Jun 5
The Martyr of Manchester	11:24 AM Jun 4
A “Grassroots” Anecdote	1:10 PM Jun 29
Kurtz on Undercover Journalism: “The horror!”	5:34 PM Jun 25
Media Alert—Bill Moyers Journal	10:01 AM Jun 22
Media Alert—NPR's Talk of the Nation	6:05 PM Jun 18
Six Questions for Mark Perry on the Conflict in Palestine	6:01 PM Jun 17
Is “Smothers Brothers” Diplomacy the Way Out of Iraq?	12:53 PM Jun 14
About that CIA Rumor	9:49 AM Jun 15
Six Questions for David Ignatius about “Body of Lies”	5:58 PM Jun 20

By Scott Horton

Delivering a Verdict on a Corrupt Prosecution	9:03 AM Jun 30
Siegelman Sentenced; Riley Rushes to Washington	10:06 PM Jun 28
Prosecution Continues to Disintegrate in Siegelman Case	11:45 PM Jun 26
Republicans Want Justice, Too	4:09 PM Jun 26
Rove Whistles Dixie	6:19 PM Jun 25
Justice in Alabama	6:54 AM Jun 24
Write Congress to Right Justice	8:22 AM Jun 21
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Birmingham and Montgomery	3:46 PM Jun 17
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Birmingham	9:59 AM Jun 14
Abramoff and “Justice” in the Heart of Dixie	6:39 PM Jun 9
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Birmingham and Montgomery	10:09 AM Jun 7
U.S. Attorney’s Scandal—Birmingham and Montgomery	7:57 AM Jun 5
U.S. Attorney Scandal—Birmingham, Cont’d	7:38 PM Jun 1
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Birmingham	5:23 PM Jun 1
The Lost Legacy of Ludwig Börne	11:25 AM Jun 30
Justice Department Continues to Lie About FOIA	7:59 AM Jun 27
Main Justice: McNulty Says He Knew Nothing…	12:58 AM Jun 22
Brad Schlozman’s “Good Americans”	12:54 AM Jun 22
Of Missing Emails and 18-Minute Gaps	4:56 PM Jun 18
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Milwaukee	3:45 PM Jun 17
Mr. Omertà Resigns	8:30 AM Jun 16
U.S. Attorneys Scandal – Little Rock: All Roads Lead to Rove	1:24 PM Jun 13
The Cost of Rogue Prosecutors	10:32 AM Jun 13
David Broder Grapples With Reality	6:53 PM Jun 10
A Swarm in Anger	6:35 PM Jun 9
Karl Rove Works His Magic	9:27 AM Jun 8
The Federalist Society, the U.S. Attorneys Scandal, and Mary Walker	9:59 AM Jun 7
Cheney and the Corruption of the Justice Department	9:56 AM Jun 7
Resegregation	12:05 AM Jun 29
Resignation Friday	7:59 PM Jun 29
Gonzales’s Death Cult	10:14 AM Jun 28
Fredo the Fraidy Cat	2:44 PM Jun 27
The Cheney Shogunate	6:52 PM Jun 25
Cheney’s National Security State	1:04 AM Jun 22
Re-open the Abu Ghraib Investigation	8:15 AM Jun 21
Spakovsky Can’t Remember Either	12:45 AM Jun 15
Gonzales Subject of Perjury, Obstruction Probe	5:45 PM Jun 14
“Civil Rights” in the Gonzales Justice Department	10:01 AM Jun 14
No Confidence in Fredo	9:05 AM Jun 12
Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls, It Tolls for Fredo	6:35 PM Jun 9
The Gavel of Liberty Falls Again	9:22 AM Jun 6
Why Dickens Matters	11:42 AM Jun 3
Wonkette on America’s Favorite Marine	10:55 AM Jun 2
Bush and the Lord of the Steppe	11:30 AM Jun 27
Torturing an American Citizen	6:54 PM Jun 25
Mercer Evades Testimony in Justice Probe	10:10 PM Jun 22
U.S. Attorneys Scandal – Minneapolis	12:56 AM Jun 22
Letter to the Editor	12:30 AM Jun 22
Providing Accountability for Private Military Contractors: Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on June 19, 2007	4:00 PM Jun 19
Fallout from Politicization of U.S. Attorneys in the Courts	8:27 AM Jun 18
Gonzales Plans to Plow Ahead With Politicization of U.S. Attorneys	8:26 AM Jun 18
The Report from Cloudcuckooland	9:29 AM Jun 8
The Ship of Fools Flounders On	9:28 AM Jun 8
A Blow for Justice at Gitmo	7:58 AM Jun 5
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Kansas City	7:57 AM Jun 5
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—San Diego	7:57 AM Jun 5
Department of Headless Chickens	8:05 AM Jun 4
U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Little Rock and Kansas City	12:48 PM Jun 1
Cultivating Our Garden	5:37 PM Jun 20
The African Front	6:07 PM Jun 6
Their Men in Washington	9:54 AM Jun 23
The 41 per cent Dilemma	6:53 PM Jun 25
The Rise of a New Mercenary Industry	8:39 AM Jun 16
A Return to ‘The Age of Scandal’	7:12 AM Jun 1
Dr. Johnson and Slavery	11:48 AM Jun 21
Cheney and the National Security Secrets Fraud	11:24 AM Jun 26
Students Demand that Bush Stop Torture	11:19 AM Jun 26
Defund Dick Cheney	11:16 AM Jun 26
The “Enemy Combatant” Fraud	10:08 PM Jun 22
The Imperial Presidency and the Law	8:54 AM Jun 21
The Hostage Drama in Iran and Iraq	8:31 AM Jun 21
Contracting for Torture	8:16 AM Jun 21
The Unitary Executive	7:45 AM Jun 19
Nino Scalia: Hollywood’s Justice	4:21 PM Jun 18
In Britain, a New Chapter in the Torture Scandal	10:57 AM Jun 17
The War Inside: The Meltdown in the Military’s Mental Healthcare System	10:56 AM Jun 17
The General Speaks	9:22 PM Jun 16
Romero on Torture	Jun 16
Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them	1:00 PM Jun 15
Now Top This, George Orwell	10:29 AM Jun 13
A Vindication of the Constitution	9:06 AM Jun 12
Colin Powell: Close Gitmo, Restore Habeas	12:59 PM Jun 10
From Days to Come	12:58 PM Jun 10
Mr. Beria, Let Me Introduce Your Friend, Mr. Cheney	8:05 AM Jun 4
We have met the enemy...	12:49 PM Jun 1
Intelligent Oversight	9:45 AM Jun 1
Setting the Stage for the Next War	12:23 PM Jun 23
The Firefighters and Rudy Giuliani	10:31 AM Jun 18
VFW Decries Harassment of Iraq Vet	10:53 AM Jun 2
The Rise of the Mercenary	10:54 AM Jun 2
Rumsfeld’s China Policy	10:55 AM Jun 2
Lessons Learned	12:59 PM Jun 10
The Gay Bomb	10:43 AM Jun 12
General Pace Acknowledges He Was Forced Out	3:46 PM Jun 15
Garner Points to Disintegration in Iraq	8:30 AM Jun 18
No Blood, No Foul	8:07 AM Jun 19
Johnson on Hope and Fear	Jun 12
Mandeville's Bees	Jun 9
Sacchetti on Messaging	Jun 2
Garrick's Prologue to “A School for Scandal”	Jun 5
Strachey on History	Jun 6
Arendt on Tyranny	Jun 14
Einstein on Freedom of Will	Jun 7
Twain on Satan	Jun 10
A Humiliation for Morocco	10:43 AM Jun 19
Another Cold Wave on the Way	5:15 PM Jun 4
American Higher Education and Foreign Policy	1:58 AM Jun 15
Palace Fit for a Viceroy	11:49 AM Jun 21
What Exactly Don’t the Republicans Like About McCain?	3:20 PM Jun 16
Media Alert: NPR's All Things Considered	9:49 AM Jun 23
Self-Transcendence, Education, and the Thinking Machine	1:07 AM Jun 22
Hoffmann on Fantasy and Life	Jun 22
Travels with My Booshy	2:05 AM Jun 15
Distrust	1:27 AM Jun 28
The Soulmates	9:01 AM Jun 5
French Lessons	10:27 AM Jun 13
A D-Day Lesson	9:30 AM Jun 8
What Does Putin Want?	12:51 AM Jun 22
Peggy Noonan Awakes	7:39 PM Jun 1
The Rhetoric-Major President	9:44 AM Jun 1
Chekhov on Politics	Jun 25
Pope on Partisan Strife	Jun 18
The Unwanted Immigrant	6:46 PM Jun 10
A Conservative Voice	9:21 AM Jun 12
Bush’s Lamentable Summitry Skills	9:56 AM Jun 7
Rice v. Cheney	8:06 AM Jun 4
The Painful Truth in Colombia	8:29 AM Jun 18
Bush Greets Pontifex Maximus, “Texas Style”	12:23 AM Jun 10
The Talented Mr. Cheney	4:55 PM Jun 29
Media Alert—CBS Evening News	3:27 PM Jun 7
A Vice President Above the Law	8:07 AM Jun 4
Come September	11:07 AM Jun 21
Harper Lee on the Integrity of Courts	Jun 24
Chateaubriand on the Degeneration of Aristocracy	12:00 PM Jun 30
Zalmay Khalilzad—Man of the Hour at the U.N.	11:13 AM Jun 6
Iran and the Taliban--Less Than Meets the Eye?	9:30 AM Jun 8
Roger Ailes Speaks the Truth	5:33 PM Jun 6
Troubles in U.S. Dealings With Pakistan, and Cheney in Charge	10:56 AM Jun 17
Now we Know	11:20 AM Jun 6
Bush in the Mid-Twenties	12:59 AM Jun 22
Johnson on the Humane Treatment of Prisoners	Jun 21
Börne on Segregation	12:01 AM Jun 29
The American Media and Global Warming	5:13 PM Jun 4
Casting for the Brad Schlozman Story	9:35 AM Jun 6
Exposing a Farce in the Middle East	1:26 PM Jun 13
Retired Army General Critiques Bush’s Handling of Iraq	2:39 PM Jun 6
Iran on 26 Gallons a Month	5:07 PM Jun 27
Listening Recommendation	10:14 AM Jun 3
Coping With the Consequences of Blind Fear	8:39 AM Jun 4
Lautréamont on Plagiarism	Jun 27
France on the Majesty of Law	Jun 20
Defending Enhanced Interrogation Techniques	2:03 AM Jun 15
Mr. Tulkinghorn on the Bench	8:09 AM Jun 4
Summer Target Practice	8:39 AM Jun 4