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December 2007

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	Illustration Oil painting (detail) By Bo Bartlett and Karen Mauch (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Fires and fire prevention; Oil fields; Petroleum workers PDF IMAGES
8-12	Letters/Department Letters On The big enchilada, from August 2007: Letter By Aimee Loiselle On The summer of our discontent, from September 2007: Letter By Matt Buffett On Specific Suggestion: General Strike, from October 2007: Letter By Jeffrey S. Denning Letter By Tyler Jenich On Disaster capitalism, from October 2007: Letter By Nelson Smith Letter By Naomi Klein PDF IMAGES
13-15	Notebook/Article Hot air gods By Curtis White SEE ALSO: Belief and doubt; Capitalism; Political culture; Social values; Spirituality PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-22	Readings/Article The mental kitchen By W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden and Richard Howard (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Criticism; Evaluation; Motion pictures PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article The heart of the matter By Nigel Lewis SEE ALSO: Good and evil; Greene, Graham; Interviews; Novelists, English; Wishes PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Cowboys in the clearing By Michael Harrington SEE ALSO: Aged men; Cowboys; Overweight men PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Collection Readings By Geoffrey Hill PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem An emblem By Geoffrey Hill PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Lyric fragment By Geoffrey Hill PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Nachwort By Geoffrey Hill PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Blast furnace By Alessandro Papetti SEE ALSO: Blast furnaces PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A tsar is born SEE ALSO: Zhdanov, Andrei; Career as actor; Career as film director; Censorship; Ivan IV, Czar of Russia; Drama; Historical films; Stalin, Joseph; Motion pictures; Cherkasov, Nikolai Konstantinovich; Eisenstein, Sergei; Views on historical films; Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Guantanamo baywatch By Edward M. Bush and Clive A. Stafford Smith SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Cuba; Guantánamo Bay; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Legal assistance to prisoners; Legal status, laws, etc.; Military law; Prisoners; Underwear; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration Tanker sans titre By Stéphane Joannes SEE ALSO: Tankers PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article My Orc problem—and ours By James P. Pinkerton SEE ALSO: East and West; Islam and world politics; Tolkien, J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel); The Middle East; 2001-; Parodies, imitations, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article No fun allowed SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Aircraft accidents; Blackwater USA; Casualties; Death and burial; Miller, Harley; Human factors; Hammer, Loren; Rowe, Melvin; English, Noel PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article And lead us not By David K. Lewis and Philip Kitcher SEE ALSO: Christianity; Good and evil; Hell; Misanthropy; Salvation PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Tort reformation By Ernie Chambers SEE ALSO: Disasters; Chambers, Ernie; Gods; Injunctions; Natural disasters; Nebraska; Omniscience; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Photo Sky lift By Anthony Goicolea (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Lonesome doves SEE ALSO: Career as president of Iraq; Corrupt practices; Iraq; Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991; Connally, John Bowden; Wyatt, Oscar S., Jr.; 1989-1993; Petroleum industry and trade; Hussein, Saddam; Trials, litigation, etc.; Views on Iraq-Kuwait Crisis, 1990-1991 PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article The omnivore's dilemma By John Mackey SEE ALSO: Blogs; Chief executive officers; Mackey, John; Natural foods industry; Philosophy PDF IMAGES
34-35	Readings/Fiction Tape measure By Nadine Gordimer PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Whoppers SEE ALSO: McDonald's Corporation; Meat hygiene; Public Relations; Questions and answers; Restaurants PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Collection Readings By Sandow Birk PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Obsession By Sandow Birk SEE ALSO: Compulsive behavior; Military policy; Recruiting, enlistment, etc.; War PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Investigation By Sandow Birk SEE ALSO: Legislative hearings; Military policy; Politics and war; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Invasion By Sandow Birk SEE ALSO: Military policy; Tank warfare; War PDF IMAGES
37-50	Article The Black Box: Inside Iraq’s oil machine: Inside Iraq's oil machine By Luke Mitchell SEE ALSO: Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Oil fields; Petroleum industry and trade PDF TEXT IMAGES
52-64	Article The atrocity files: Deciphering the archives of Guatemala's dirty war By Kate Doyle SEE ALSO: Archival resources; Atrocities; Career as archivist; Villagrán García, Carla; Criminal investigation; Disappeared persons; Guatemala; Meoño, Gustavo; Pictorial works; Political atrocities; State-sponsored terrorism; Peterson, Trudy Huskamp PDF IMAGES
65-76	Article Of men and mice: How a twenty-gram rodent conquered the world of science By Greg Critser SEE ALSO: Animal welfare; Career in laboratory mice; Little, Clarence C. (Clarence Cook); Genetic engineering; Genetics; Gile, Joe; Mice; Mice as laboratory animals PDF IMAGES
77-93	Fiction Enter the Ford: Lost chapters from A Death in the Family By James Agee PDF IMAGES
95-96	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: A life of Picasso: the triumphant years, 1917-1932 (Book); Bamboo: essays and criticism (Book); Biography; Criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Vendler, Helen Hennessy; Richardson, John; Our secret discipline: Yeats and lyric form (Book); Picasso, Pablo; Greeman, Richard; The unforgiving years (Book); Turning back the clock: hot wars and media populism (Book); Eco, Umberto; Serge, Victor; Yeats, W.B. (William Butler); Boyd, William PDF IMAGES
97-101	Review Among the reviewers: John Updike and the book-review bugaboo: John Updike and the book-review bugaboo By Wyatt Mason SEE ALSO: Criticism; Due considerations (Book); Updike, John PDF TEXT IMAGES
101-106	Review Hungarian reflections: A tragic history of a divided people By John Lukacs SEE ALSO: Hungary; Cartledge, Bryan, Sir; The will to survive: a history of Hungary (Book) PDF IMAGES
107	Puzzle/Department Body parts By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
108	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Dec 18
Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	Dec 4
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Dec 11
Yearly Review	Dec 31

By Ken Silverstein

Pakistan: First Reaction from Wayne White	12:19 PM Dec 27
The Apocalypse PAC: Congressman McCotter leads crusade against Islam, Commies, and Democrats	2:28 PM Dec 19
Bush Investigations Overload	2:36 PM Dec 18
“He’s a Liar”: October email to National Review Exposed Smith’s fictional writing from Lebanon	8:47 PM Dec 2
Bhutto: A short break from the hagiography	11:23 AM Dec 28
What’s driving the movement for Ron Paul? A conversation with Republican consultant Tom Edmonds	11:26 AM Dec 7
Alert to Charities and Political Campaigns: Watch Out for CDG	10:25 PM Dec 12
More on SEIU’s Stern Gang	10:37 AM Dec 3
Fascist Dictator Chavez Wins Sham Vote Extending Powers!	9:11 AM Dec 3
Washington Post: Four Government Probes of Iraq Special Inspector Whistleblower allegations prompt investigations; Stuart Bowen Jr., U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, placed under a microsocope	10:06 AM Dec 14
Who Killed Bhutto: Alternative theories	2:34 PM Dec 28
NRO and TNR’s Bogus Bloggers	9:40 AM Dec 3
Troubles Mount for Former Congressman Weldon: Are feds examining Weldon’s ties to shady Russians?	12:14 PM Dec 5
On the Hunt: Bush backer seeks $1 billion for Peru project	2:34 PM Dec 18
Support for Taliban Missing from Bhutto Obits	10:22 AM Dec 29
More From Allbritton	12:45 PM Dec 4
Questions for Pollster John Zogby About the 2008 Campaign	12:30 PM Dec 1
Who Killed Bhutto? Conspiracy Theories Already Thriving	4:31 PM Dec 27
Christmas Special on GOP Influence	8:36 AM Dec 24
New Theory Uncovered in Commerce Secretary Gutierrez’s waiting room: Darwin, not Saddam, behind 9/11 Administration Mulling Air Strikes on HMS Beagle; CIA still trying to pin down craft’s location	10:35 AM Dec 6
How Much American Support for Turkish Air Strike?	11:48 AM Dec 17
Where is Jose Rodriguez? [CORRECTION]	2:31 PM Dec 8
Commerce Department: Creationism book display a decorating error, not an endorsement	11:58 AM Dec 7

By Scott Horton

Siegelman Update	7:29 AM Dec 14
Undermining Military Justice	8:07 AM Dec 11
Goethe’s ‘Zauberlehrling’	12:05 AM Dec 3
The Ten Most Preposterous Bushie Legal Arguments of 2007	10:28 AM Dec 31
Politics in a Pennsylvania Courtroom	1:41 AM Dec 31
Jonas on the Duty to Subsequent Generations	7:28 AM Dec 18
Merton on the Morning Star’s Promise	Dec 25
What Difference Would It Make?	8:26 PM Dec 10
Einstein on the Need for Commitment to Justice	Dec 5
Remember Those in Need	11:26 AM Dec 25
A Nation That Tortures	11:22 AM Dec 1
Roosevelt on Human Rights in the Small Places	Dec 22
Blake’s ‘Tyger’	7:34 AM Dec 27
The Modern Sorcerer	10:34 PM Dec 1
Just Another Day for the Department of Justice	8:23 AM Dec 20
Six Questions for Fritz Stern, Author of ‘Five Germanys I Have Known’	12:12 AM Dec 5
The Terrible Fourth Day of Christmas	12:02 AM Dec 28
The Best Justice Money Can Buy	1:24 PM Dec 13
Xenophon on the Use of Force	Dec 14
Dickinson, ‘Liquor Never Brewed’	12:30 AM Dec 7
Voltaire on the Modern Sorcery	8:52 AM Dec 1
Who Killed Alisher Saipov?	10:17 AM Dec 3
Austen on the Novel	Dec 3
Obligations Ignored	8:32 AM Dec 18
Adams on Government by Fear	Dec 29
A Strong President Says No to Torture	8:45 AM Dec 13
All the King’s Men, Reloaded	11:14 AM Dec 29
Punishing the Victims	12:30 AM Dec 4
Kant on the Origins of Right and Wrong	Dec 30
de Tocqueville on the War in Algeria	Dec 10
Madison on Containing the War Power and War Spending	Dec 4
Bush Assails the JAG Corps	10:33 AM Dec 16
Rumi on the Purpose-Laden Life	Dec 16
Forget Shag-Gate	12:29 AM Dec 4
The Roll-Out Goes Flat	2:35 PM Dec 3
Austen: When a Woman Must Conceal Her Knowledge	Dec 20
Cicero on the Meaning of Friendship	Dec 31
Watch Out for Left Hook: Six Questions for Oregon Senatorial Candidate Steve Novick	2:13 PM Dec 12
Blake’s ‘Proverbs of Hell’	6:57 AM Dec 19
From Canto IV of Lord Byron’s ‘Childe Harold’	7:40 AM Dec 13
Hazlitt on Byron, the Slaves of Power and the Forces of Liberty	Dec 13
Kérenyi on Words and Thought	12:15 AM Dec 12
Günther’s Christmas Ode	7:30 AM Dec 25
James and the World of Creation	Dec 17
Washington Irving’s Legend of the Arabian Astrologer	1:02 PM Dec 14
General Clark Excoriates Justice Department Over Siegelman Case	8:45 AM Dec 2
Judgment and Torture	11:59 AM Dec 30
Obstruction of Justice at the CIA	5:46 PM Dec 6
Sakharov on Humanity’s Challenge	Dec 11
More on the Lawyerless Utopia	12:01 AM Dec 28
Siegelman Accuser Released	5:12 PM Dec 21
In the Holiday News. . .	9:11 AM Dec 27
Department of Poorly Coordinated and Unbelievable Cover Stories	12:08 AM Dec 5
The President-Tyrant	10:44 AM Dec 9
Stevens’s ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’	7:46 AM Dec 17
Blake on Knowledge Through Experience	Dec 19
Secret Torture Memos Disclosed on Floor of Senate	1:39 PM Dec 7
Swift on the Mighty Evading the Law	Dec 7
Eckehart and the Naked Babe	Dec 24
Dickens on the Common Business of Humankind	Dec 23
A Question of Impeachment	1:51 AM Dec 16
The President’s Coming-Out Party	10:10 AM Dec 15
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice	9:29 PM Dec 3
Vico’s New Science	Dec 6
Voltaire on the Danger of Being Right When Those in Authority Are Wrong	Dec 21
The Scapegoat	10:57 AM Dec 8
Frost’s ‘Into My Own’	7:33 AM Dec 23
Watch the Ad that Fox Won’t Let You See	7:30 PM Dec 3
Vladimir Putin: Person of the Year	7:56 AM Dec 21
Jefferson on the Tyrannical President	Dec 9
‘Is Barack a Vegetarian,’ ‘Rumsfeld on Chávez’ and Other Stories from a Newspaper in Decline	4:44 PM Dec 1
Heine’s ‘Silesian Weavers’	12:10 AM Dec 5
Report from the Recording Angel	7:55 AM Dec 12
Six Questions for Barney Rubin on the Current Crisis in Pakistan	12:08 AM Dec 29
Collateral Damage: Is Mississippi Judge Wes Teel the Victim of a Political Prosecution?	12:01 PM Dec 26
Paz: A Poet Lost in Time	Dec 15
When Does an FBI Investigation Look Like Omertà?	11:33 AM Dec 21
Hamilton on the Art of Political Prosecution	Dec 27
Tashkent Paging… Curt Weldon	11:22 PM Dec 4
Bush League Justice	10:35 PM Dec 10
Eckehart’s Just Man	Dec 2
Opitz’s Poem of Consolation in Time of War	1:18 AM Dec 31
Lermontov’s ‘Dream’	12:06 AM Dec 29
The Nature of the Jungian Archetype	Dec 26
Krauthammer’s Pseudo-Science	8:24 AM Dec 4
Rumi’s ‘The Snake-Catcher’s Tale’	8:27 AM Dec 9
The Neocons Meet Their Match	11:33 AM Dec 24
Paz—‘Motion/Movimiento’	7:32 AM Dec 15
Remembering December 7	1:03 AM Dec 7
The Forgotten Bicentennial	9:26 AM Dec 31
Media Alert	11:32 AM Dec 12
Klopstock’s No Wars of Aggression!	7:00 AM Dec 21
Another Milestone on the Road to Serfdom	12:31 PM Dec 17
Blok’s ‘Night. City Calmed Down’	7:11 AM Dec 11
An Update on the Trial of Bilal Hussein	9:30 AM Dec 23
It Happened in New Hampshire	7:43 PM Dec 22
The Justice Department’s On-Going ‘State Secrets’ Charade	10:02 AM Dec 2
Lott’s Lament	1:08 PM Dec 11
Media Alert	10:12 AM Dec 10
Livy on the Rise of the Republic and of Civic Liberty	Dec 8
Karl Rove, William Canary, and the Siegelman Case	5:26 PM Dec 17
Imperial Hubris	11:34 AM Dec 5
What the Jamie Leigh Jones Case Teaches Us	12:52 PM Dec 19
Kidnapping Not a Crime, Claims Bush Justice Department	11:01 AM Dec 2
Justice in Mississippi: The Judge’s Dilemma	12:02 AM Dec 28