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	Illustration [Cover art] By Steve Brodner SEE ALSO: Pictorial works; Giuliani, Rudolph W. PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Literary entrails, from April 2007: Letter By Wyatt Mason On Climate, class, and claptrap, from June 2007: Letter By Lorna Salzman Letter By Rafael Cohen On Endgame, from June 2007: Letter By Michael Teters On Undoing Bush: The Constitution, from June 2007: Letter By Ian Alterman On Undoing Bush: Science, from June 2007: Letter By Mary Wooley On Undoing Bush: The Economy, from June 2007: Letter By D. Eric Schansberg On Undoing Bush: Intelligence, from June 2007: Letter By Joseph DiBenedetto PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article The big enchilada By Jonathan Kozol SEE ALSO: Education and state; Privatization in education; United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-18	Readings/Article The idols of environmentalism By Curtis White SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Environmentalism; Nature; Philosophy; Religion and science; Transcendence (Philosophy) PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Poem Eden By Ina Rousseau and J.M. Coetzee (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo Gletscherzunge, Island, 1999 By Olaf Otto Becker (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Glaciers; Iceland PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Muledeer By Alison Elizabeth Taylor SEE ALSO: Forest animals; Mule deer; Smoking; Urban women PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article Meet the author! By Werner Wögerbauer and Nicholas Grindell (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Authors, Austrian; Interviews; Philosophy; Bernhard, Thomas PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Poem Go ask Alva By Thomas A. (Thomas Alva) Edison PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Iran, 1946 By Lawrence Gipe SEE ALSO: Iran; Nomads; War horses PDF IMAGES Readings/Article All the chief of staff's men SEE ALSO: Career as judge; Executive departments; Libby, Lewis; Officials and employees; Walton, Reggie B.; Staff; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Perjury) PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Purgatorio By Stefania Heim (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Capital punishment; Correspondence; Death row inmates; Napolitano, Giorgio; Prison psychology PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Rough guide SEE ALSO: Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Life skills guides; Prison psychology; Prisoners; San Diego; Slang PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Poem She's so cold By Jerry Hall PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Working grrls By Aphrodite Phoenix SEE ALSO: Prostitutes; Sex discrimination against women PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Memory Almost Full By Gregory R. Todd SEE ALSO: McCormack, Andrew; Beatles; Montana; Popular music; Sentences (Criminal procedure); Texts; Trials (Larceny); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Summa cum laude By Murat Aydemir SEE ALSO: Meaning (Philosophy); Narration (Rhetoric) PDF IMAGES
25-29	Readings/Fiction Self-portrait with beach By Frederic Tuten PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Bathing place By Lucy Williams SEE ALSO: Swimming pools PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Collection Readings By Laurie Hogin PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration I can't believe it's not butter By Laurie Hogin SEE ALSO: Brand name products; Margarine; Marketing; Monkeys PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration NPR By Laurie Hogin SEE ALSO: Brand name products; Marketing; Monkeys; Public radio PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Starbucks organic fair trade decaf coffee By Laurie Hogin SEE ALSO: Brand name products; Coffee; Marketing; Monkeys PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Palmolive lavender aromatherapy dishwashing liquid By Laurie Hogin SEE ALSO: Brand name products; Marketing; Monkeys PDF IMAGES
31-39	Article A fate worse than Bush: Rudolph Giuliani and the politics of personality By Kevin Baker SEE ALSO: Career as New York mayoral candidate; Career as U.S. presidential candidate; Civil Rights; 1951-; Giuliani, Rudolph W.; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 PDF IMAGES
41-51	Article Battling the hard man: Notes on addiction to the pornography of violence By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: Casualties; Iraq War, 2003-; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Violence PDF IMAGES
52-58	Collection Visions of excess By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Baton Rouge; By-products; Environmental degradation; Paper mills PDF IMAGES
53	Photo [Untitled Photo] By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Aluminum plants; Bauxite; By-products; Darrow; Environmental degradation PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bartow; By-products; Environmental degradation; Fertilizer industry PDF IMAGES
54	Photo [Untitled Photo] By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Aluminum plants; Bauxite; By-products; Darrow; Environmental degradation PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) SEE ALSO: By-products; Environmental degradation; Houston PDF IMAGES
55	Photo [Untitled Photo] By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) SEE ALSO: By-products; Coal mines and mining; Environmental degradation; West Virginia PDF IMAGES
56-57	Photo [Untitled Photo] By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bulldozers; By-products; Environmental degradation; Petroleum refineries PDF IMAGES
58	Photo [Untitled Photo] By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bartow; By-products; Environmental degradation; Fertilizer industry PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By J. Henry Fair (Photog.) SEE ALSO: By-products; Environmental degradation; Fertilizer industry PDF IMAGES
60-61	Collection Four poems By Frederick Seidel PDF IMAGES Poem Darkening in the dark By Frederick Seidel PDF IMAGES Poem Bipolar November By Frederick Seidel PDF IMAGES
61	Poem Italy By Frederick Seidel PDF IMAGES Poem Miami in the Arctic Circle By Frederick Seidel PDF IMAGES
62-70	Article Run Like Fire Once More: Chasing perfection at the world’s longest footrace: Chasing perfection at the world's longest footrace By Sam Shaw SEE ALSO: Buddhism; Career as footracer; Career as guru; Weston, Edward P. (Edward Payson); Schwerk, Madhupran Wolfgang; Marathon running; Queens (New York, New York); Chinmoy, Sri; Transcendence (Philosophy) PDF TEXT IMAGES
71-80	Fiction Fiction By Alice Munro PDF IMAGES
81-82	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Von Tunzelmann, Alex; Thubron, Colin; Crossing the Sierra de Gredos (Book); Lessing, Doris May; India after Gandhi: the history of the world's largest democracy (Book); Indian summer (Book); Handke, Peter; Guha, Ramachandra; Shadow of the Silk Road (Book); The cleft (Book); The last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Book); Dalrymple, William PDF IMAGES
83-88	Review It's a round world after all: India, China, and the global economy By Pankaj Mishra SEE ALSO: Amsden, Alice H. (Alice Hoffenberg); Escape from empire: the developing world's journey through heaven and hell (Book); Globalization; Meredith, Robyn; The elephant and the dragon: the rise of India and China and what it means for all of us (Book) PDF IMAGES
89-94	Review Waugh vs. Waugh: The family ties that bind By Evelyn Toynton SEE ALSO: Waugh, Alec; Waugh, Alexander; Waugh, Arthur; Biography; Waugh, Evelyn; Fathers and sons: the autobiography of a family (Book); Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department News clippings By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi	Aug 7

By Ken Silverstein

EPIC: Biometric Identification in Iraq Could Become a Tool for Ethnic Cleansing	11:32 AM Aug 15
Benjamin Barber: Qaddafi’s Riefenstahl	8:51 AM Aug 17
The Cost of Caving	2:05 PM Aug 10
Don’t Forget Egypt	4:29 PM Aug 24
Meet Giuliani’s Advisors: AIPAC’s Dream Team	6:06 PM Aug 27
Democrats Back at the Trough	8:24 AM Aug 7
Laurie Mylroie’s Song of Saddam	3:09 PM Aug 28
Doonesbury Frames Evil	9:39 AM Aug 7
Siegman on Israel	6:00 PM Aug 27
Six Questions (Without Answers) for Congressman John Conyers on Impeachment and Alberto Gonzales	11:45 AM Aug 8
Boeing and the Coast Guard Reply	7:01 PM Aug 22
A Balancing Act at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs	1:57 PM Aug 16
Pipes Joins Up With Giuliani	4:07 PM Aug 28
On Assignment	11:23 AM Aug 30
Confessions of a Defense Junketeer Goldfarb, between naps, endorses Boeing’s “Freedom Tankers”	10:09 AM Aug 14
Radioactive Hysteria: G-men raid home, seize smoke detectors	11:29 AM Aug 6
Keep Your Politics Out of My Impeachment	2:59 PM Aug 8
Dissent from the Pentagon’s Blogger Roundtables: David Axe has second thoughts about DoD effort	8:34 AM Aug 13

Æschylus on Suffering	Aug 5
The Return of Comrade Ogilvy	10:57 AM Aug 7
DOJ’s Political Landscape Briefings	6:31 AM Aug 7
The Ambiguous Quality of Brecht’s ‘Goodness’	6:09 AM Aug 4
Gottfried Benn’s ‘Little Aster’	7:34 AM Aug 14
Equal Justice for FISA Leakers	4:55 PM Aug 6
Mallarmé on the Poet and His Language	Aug 6
‘Haven’t Seen It; We Don’t Torture’	2:25 PM Aug 9
The Darkening	4:10 PM Aug 6
A YouTube Dullard	12:35 AM Aug 26
A Gonzales Weekend Round-Up	9:45 AM Aug 12
Thoreau on the Importance of Cultivating Vegetables	Aug 22
Brecht’s ‘To What End Goodness’	6:09 AM Aug 4
The Pork Barrel World of Judge Mark Fuller	5:14 PM Aug 6
Media Alert	9:21 AM Aug 28
Brentano, Death and the Dilemma of Romantic Despair	7:49 AM Aug 1
Those Thuggish Neocons	12:28 AM Aug 24
Coups ‘R Us	2:06 PM Aug 25
The O’Hanlon/Pollack Bamboozlement	1:26 PM Aug 12
Rudy’s Foreign Policy	8:15 AM Aug 17
Caesarists of America Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose But Your Brains!	3:33 PM Aug 22
Gonzales Caught in Another Lie	6:52 AM Aug 4
Brentano’s ‘A Servant’s Springtime Cry from the Deep’	7:33 AM Aug 1
Moby Dick Sighted Again	12:11 AM Aug 23
Turd Blossom: The Flower that Dare Not Speak Its Name	9:10 AM Aug 14
The Next War Draws Nearer	12:29 PM Aug 23
Media Alert	4:23 PM Aug 27
Graceful Exits… and the Other Kind	8:10 PM Aug 27
The Partisan and the Judge	5:39 PM Aug 8
Burke on the Statesman’s Duty	Aug 24
Psychologists and the Torture Question	9:49 AM Aug 28
The FISA Bamboozlement	1:17 PM Aug 7
The Pursuit of Heirloom Tomatoes	12:50 AM Aug 22
More Leaked Secrets by G.O.P. Leaders…	9:53 AM Aug 12
The Biden Option	2:19 PM Aug 10
Albertus Magnus on Justice and Politics	Aug 26
YouTube of the Day	2:20 PM Aug 12
Mutiny on the USS Justice	10:11 AM Aug 31
Rumblings of a Trade War	7:55 AM Aug 8
Bush and the Art of Breaking Human Beings	8:07 AM Aug 15
Pushkin on the Magistrate’s Mien	Aug 15
The Mandate of Heaven, Revoked	11:58 AM Aug 29
Six Questions for Wesley Morgan	11:08 AM Aug 22
A Curious Incident at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs	7:32 AM Aug 13
Siegelman Shorts	6:12 AM Aug 4
Enheduanna’s Devotional	Aug 7
Hardy’s ‘In Time of the Breaking of Nations’	7:34 AM Aug 10
Bush Loses His Brain	3:39 PM Aug 31
A Bridge Too Far	6:25 AM Aug 7
The Importance of Being Orhan	8:52 PM Aug 26
Media Alert	10:17 AM Aug 24
Tales from Stasiland: Dangerous Blogs!	1:06 PM Aug 16
Gingrich: War on Terror is Phony	9:53 AM Aug 7
A Very Republican Justice: Judge Mark Everett Fuller, Rep. Terry Everett, and others	2:35 PM Aug 1
Kant on the Primacy of Human Rights	Aug 19
The Boot is Descending	8:47 AM Aug 6
Words of Wisdom	12:11 PM Aug 21
John Donne’s ‘The Funerall’	7:46 AM Aug 23
Pamuk’s New Life	Aug 27
Two Poems by John Donne	1:11 AM Aug 17
George Eliot on Troublesome Distinctions	Aug 25
Donne on the Necessity of Laughter	Aug 17
Unaccountable Contractors	9:16 AM Aug 12
The Curious Vacuum Cleaner in Rm. 641A	11:00 AM Aug 14
Luther on the Lawyer’s Calling	Aug 12
ADL in the Wilderness	12:12 AM Aug 23
Jose Padilla and the Unfinished Business of Justice	3:53 AM Aug 19
Another DOJ Update	1:44 AM Aug 21
Media Alert	1:15 PM Aug 20
Judge Fuller and the Trial of Don Siegelman	11:16 AM Aug 3
Lieber on the Need for Rules in Wartime	Aug 11
Meng Zi on the Need for the Rule of Law	Aug 30
Coffee and Civilization	2:06 AM Aug 20
Recruiting Contract Soldiers in Latin America	6:10 AM Aug 4
Media Alert	12:10 AM Aug 23
Escape for a Day When It’s Too Damned Hot!	3:34 PM Aug 8
Balzac on the Dangers of Drinking Too Much Coffee	Aug 20
Death of a (Contract) Soldier	7:29 AM Aug 8
The Death Throes of Dick Cheney	8:07 AM Aug 2
The Weimar President	2:49 PM Aug 23
The Paranoid Style in American Politics	3:04 PM Aug 16
Two Presidents and a Wannabe Emperor	11:37 AM Aug 21
Proust on the Intellect and the Past	Aug 14
Counting Fredo’s Whoppers	2:37 PM Aug 18
Klemperer on Language as Poison	Aug 23
Another Verdict on Abu Ghraib	7:51 AM Aug 29
Beauty, Death and the Esthetic Movement	1:07 PM Aug 5
Enzensberger’s ‘The Peace Conference’	6:58 AM Aug 9
Bacon on Man’s Aspirations	Aug 28
A Change in the Offing on Iraq?	11:44 AM Aug 20
The FISA Bamboozlement	7:38 AM Aug 3
Ahmed Rashid and the Bushies	1:03 AM Aug 22
Gryphius, or the Transitory Nature of Humanity	8:43 AM Aug 11
Pakistan’s Perpetual Emergency	7:32 AM Aug 10
Two Poems by Andreas Gryphius	8:39 AM Aug 11
The FISA Bamboozlement, Continued	2:07 AM Aug 20
Soldiers Slam Pliant Media	2:29 AM Aug 20
Kelsen on the Unitary Executive	Aug 4
Debray on the West Bank Wall	2:40 PM Aug 10
Hawthorne on the Power of Truth	Aug 1
Instructions for Servicemen in Iraq	7:50 AM Aug 2
Nietzsche on the Specific Gravity of Personal Morals	Aug 3
Diogenes Laërtius on the Philosopher in Exile	Aug 13
The ‘Bama Press and a Miscarriage of Justice	1:17 PM Aug 5
Javert Suffers Another Anxiety Attack	12:36 AM Aug 30
More Departures at Justice	11:22 AM Aug 24
A Soaring Prison Population in Iraq	11:04 AM Aug 25
Hayek on a Society Based on Freedom	Aug 8
The Life of a Paqo	9:59 AM Aug 11
The Failed Presidency of Karl Rove	11:03 AM Aug 13
Meet the Author!	7:42 AM Aug 3
The Purge	12:27 AM Aug 24
This Week in Justice: a Round-Up	12:09 AM Aug 16
Dubya’s Political Sunday School	2:29 PM Aug 12
Criminality, Surveillance and the State Secrets Fraud	2:46 PM Aug 18
Looking Carl Schmitt in the Mirror	7:02 PM Aug 26
John Donne and the Outlawing of Torture	12:25 PM Aug 15
Seume on Freedom and Justice	Aug 10
Judge Fuller: A Siegelman Grudge Match?	12:24 PM Aug 2
Sévigné on the Nature of Life	Aug 18
The Bush Administration’s Not-So-Secret Secrets	6:11 AM Aug 4
Liberate General Petraeus	11:06 AM Aug 16
Poor Aster: The Expressionist’s Take on a Flower	7:44 AM Aug 14
An Interview with Legal Ethicist David Luban Regarding Judge Mark Fuller	4:54 PM Aug 7
Wharton on Time	Aug 9
‘The Economist’ on the Republican Crack-Up	3:19 PM Aug 10
Irving on the Mutability of Literature	12:05 AM Aug 16
The Drug-Enhanced Justice of Alberto Gonzales	8:18 AM Aug 1
The Shelby-Fuller Connection	1:59 PM Aug 14
Ken Starr’s Little Secret	8:08 AM Aug 8
Paul Celan’s ‘Todtnauberg’	12:28 AM Aug 24
Mises on the Struggle for Freedom as a Struggle Against Those in Power	Aug 2
The Impeachment Dilemma	7:06 AM Aug 2
Moral Courage and the Officer Corps in Rumsfeld’s Pentagon	4:59 PM Aug 26
Seneca on Man’s Moral Purpose	Aug 29
YouTube of the Day: Cramer in Meltdown	6:56 AM Aug 9
Nietzsche on the Manipulation of Prejudice	Aug 31
The Gonzometer Moves to “Gone”	8:31 AM Aug 27
The Professions Strike Back	6:55 AM Aug 15
The Conspiracy to Violate FISA	10:49 AM Aug 23
Race to the Top of the World!	10:00 AM Aug 12
Assessing the Mess in Afghanistan	11:47 AM Aug 12
The FISA Court Strikes Again	5:32 PM Aug 17
John Donne: Against the Abomination of Torture	8:21 AM Aug 15
Military Misgivings Mount over Bush Torture Order	1:28 PM Aug 25
Don’t Look at the Man Behind that Curtain!	8:22 AM Aug 30
A Decision in the Triple Canopy Case	7:40 AM Aug 3
The ‘Farewell to Fredo’ Awards	3:43 PM Aug 29
Donne’s Poem of Love… and Torture	1:14 AM Aug 17
The Michael Gerson Story	4:18 PM Aug 11
Paul Celan: Return to the Cabin in the Woods	12:29 AM Aug 24
The Departure of Karl Rove	7:50 AM Aug 13
Villon’s Snows of Times Past	Aug 21
On the Use and Abuse of History	3:41 PM Aug 25
Media Alert	2:26 PM Aug 29
Remembering I.F. Stone	11:38 AM Aug 10
Karl Rove’s Unfinished Business (the Trail Leads, Yet Again, to Alabama)	4:28 PM Aug 13
Bai Juyi’s ‘The Prisoner’	12:20 AM Aug 30
Visualizing the Law	6:57 AM Aug 9
The Art of Political Prosecution	9:06 AM Aug 6

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	11:11 AM Aug 24
A Cartoon	2:00 PM Aug 10
A Cartoon	9:29 AM Aug 3
A Cartoon	12:36 PM Aug 17

Zimring: Giuliani’s Crimefighting is Overrated By Bernie Becker	3:48 PM Aug 9
The Ongoing Medicalization of Torture By Luke Mitchell	2:01 PM Aug 1

Immigration	6:03 PM Aug 9
Rupert Murdoch	3:36 PM Aug 1
The Wall Street Journal In happier days	3:20 PM Aug 1

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