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November 2008

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Ray Bartkus SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Flags PDF IMAGES
6	Notice In memoriam SEE ALSO: Wallace, David Foster; Death and burial PDF TEXT IMAGES Letters/Department Letters On D-Day cup, from August 2008: Letter By Helene Smith On The wrecking crew, from August 2008: Letter By Karl Rove Letter By Paula Bienenfeld On Tyranny of the test, from September 2008: Letter By Sari Factor Letter By Sarah M. Fine On The long goodbye, from October 2008: Letter By John R. Coyne Jr. PDF TEXT IMAGES
11-13	Notebook/Article Creative destruction By Roger D. Hodge SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Campaign for U.S. president, 2008; Democratic Party (U.S.); 2008; Politics, Practical PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper’s Index PDF TEXT IMAGES
17-20	Readings/Article The American void By Simon Critchley SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Loneliness; Psychology; Religion and politics PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Death and the maiden By Mark Greif SEE ALSO: Campaign for U.S. president, 2008; Campaign for U.S. vice-president, 2008; McCain, John; 2008; Patriotism; Palin, Sarah; Vice-Presidential candidates; Women and death PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Art/illustration 4504 Van Nuys Boulevard By Marc Trujillo SEE ALSO: Fast food restaurants; Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Art/illustration Winter was hard 9 By Mara Korkola SEE ALSO: Airports; Winter PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Without feathers SEE ALSO: Animal welfare; Birds, Protection of; Offenses against the environment PDF IMAGES
23-25	Readings/Fiction The only sane man in a nuthouse By William S. Burroughs PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Kafka, Esq. By Franz Kafka, Ruth Hein (Trans.), and Eric Patton (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Career as lawyer; Czech Republic; Kafka, Franz; Legal briefs; Prague PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Art/illustration Jimmy Hoffa Bar By Michele Zalopany SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Detroit PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article The imprisoner's dilemma By James M. Olson SEE ALSO: Ethics; Intelligence service; Study and teaching (Higher); War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article Love is a battlefield By Momin Khawaja and Zeba Khan SEE ALSO: Terrorists; Trials (Terrorism) PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Beat her like a lady By Muhammad al-'Arifi SEE ALSO: Marriage counseling; Saudi Arabia; Wife abuse PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Art/illustration No place like home By Alyssa Monks SEE ALSO: Farm life; Home; Rural youth PDF IMAGES Readings/Article It all gets quite tricky By David Foster Wallace SEE ALSO: Authors and readers; Creative writing (Higher education); Narration (Rhetoric); Study and teaching (Higher) PDF IMAGES
35-46	Collection How to Save Capitalism: Fundamental fixes for a collapsing system PDF TEXT IMAGES
36-37	Article Realign the interests of Wall Street By Joseph E. Stiglitz SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Executives; Financial crises; Financial services industry; Foreclosure; Housing; Incentives in industry; Mortgage loans; Risk management; Stock options PDF TEXT IMAGES
37-38	Article Abolish stock options By Barry C. Lynn SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Corporations; Executives; Financial crises; Investor relations; Stock options; Stockholders PDF TEXT IMAGES
39-40	Article Protect financial consumers By Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Consumer credit; Credit cards; Financial crises; Financial institutions; Foreclosure; Mortgage loans PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
40-42	Article Tax the land By Michael Hudson SEE ALSO: Capital gains tax; Capitalism; Financial crises; Income tax; Infrastructure (Economics); Interest; Taxation PDF IMAGES
42-43	Article Plan By James K. Galbraith SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Climatic changes; Energy industries; Energy policy; Environmental policy; Financial crises; Mixed economy; Planning PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
43-45	Article Reindustrialize By Eric Janszen SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Financial crises; Financial services industry; Infrastructure (Economics); Insurance companies; Public-private sector cooperation; Real estate business; Risk management; Subsidies PDF TEXT IMAGES
45-46	Article Localize By Bill McKibben SEE ALSO: Alternative agriculture; Capitalism; Energy policy; Farmers' markets; Financial crises; Food industry and trade PDF TEXT IMAGES
47-49	Advertising supplement Glide through Heathrow Terminal 5 PDF IMAGES
50-57	Article Useful amateurs: How the smearing of Barack Obama got crowd-sourced By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Advertising, Political; Obama, Barack; Campaign for U.S. president, 2008; Career as political operative; Computer network resources; Mitchell, Jason; 2008; Political participation; Politics, Practical PDF TEXT IMAGES
58-59	Article Dreaming XXL: For the African-American market, bootleg shirts stretch Obama's image By Jake Austen SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Campaign for U.S. president, 2008; 2008; Political participation; T-shirts PDF IMAGES
60-68	Article The activist: Alex de Waal among the war criminals By Nick McDonell SEE ALSO: De Waal, Alexander; Career as northeast Africa expert; Career as Sudan president; Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Darfur (Sudan); Militia movements; al-Bashir, Omar Hassan; Sudan PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
69-75	Collection Life and death By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Africa; Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Darfur (Sudan); Fires; Peacekeeping forces; Sudan; United Nations PDF IMAGES
70	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Khartoum; Khartoum (Sudan); Prayer; Religious life and customs; Sudan PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Khartoum; Khartoum (Sudan); Sudan; Valentine's Day PDF IMAGES
71	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Dance parties; Darfur; Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Darfur (Sudan); Refugee camps; Sudan; Weddings PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Khartoum; Khartoum (Sudan); Restaurants; Sudan PDF IMAGES
72	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Celebration; Mass; Religious life and customs; Sudan PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Darfur (Sudan); Fires; Sudan PDF IMAGES
73	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Darfur; Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Malnutrition in children; Sudan PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Darfur (Sudan); Koran; Refugee camps; Religious life and customs; Sudan PDF IMAGES
74	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Sudan PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Pillage; Refugees; Sudan PDF IMAGES
75	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Militia movements; Sudan PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Lynsey Addario (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Fires; Sudan PDF IMAGES
76-81	Fiction The botch By David Means PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
83-84	New books/Review New Books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: A mercy (Book); Biography; Grossman, David; Bishop, Elizabeth; French, Patrick; Lowell, Robert; Hamilton, Saskia; The world is what it is: the authorized biography of V.S. Naipaul (Book); Travisano, Thomas J.; Morrison, Toni; Naipaul, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad); Words in air (Book); Writing in the dark (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
85-94	Review Unknown bards: The blues becomes transparent about itself By John Jeremiah Sullivan SEE ALSO: Blues (Music); Wald, Elijah; Escaping the delta: Robert Johnson and the invention of the blues (Book); In search of the blues: the white invention of black music (Book); Hamilton, Marybeth PDF TEXT IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Sesquipedalianism By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF TEXT IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith	Nov 25
Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	Nov 18
Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Nov 4
Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha	Nov 11

By Ken Silverstein

Bush Pardons: Texas S&L Swindlers Need Apply	10:27 AM Nov 25
Rathergate or CBS-gate?	9:39 AM Nov 17
McCaffrey’s War	10:45 AM Nov 30
Voter-Fraud Meme, Minnesota Edition	10:55 AM Nov 13
Accountability, There and Here	12:22 PM Nov 30
Second Lawsuit Filed Against Senator Coleman’s Friend	10:55 AM Nov 1
Summers and Hedge Funds	11:51 AM Nov 28
Democrats On K Street: How supply and demand works in Washington	11:54 AM Nov 25
The Washington Post’s Principled Stand on Private vs. Public Schools	10:42 AM Nov 15
Punditry Made Easy	9:15 PM Nov 3
Dick Morris Triangulates Reverend Wright	1:11 PM Nov 25
Martin Eisenstadt: America’s Best Pundit	9:43 AM Nov 13
Governor Palin, I’ve Got I.P. Freely On The Line For You	4:30 PM Nov 1
Press Bubble: How the media covered Citicorp’s fatal 1998 merger	1:54 PM Nov 25
Who Should Obama Name As Intelligence Chief? (And, more importantly, does it matter?)	10:45 AM Nov 13
Who Got That $2 Trillion? Fed Won’t Tell	12:22 PM Nov 11
Ken Silverstein is on assignment	4:00 PM Nov 19
“He wanted to become a billionaire, and he wanted to do it in Kurdistan.” Meet Shlomi Michaels	8:06 PM Nov 17
Familiar Faces Come on Board: Fannie Mae veteran on State Department transition team	12:36 PM Nov 13
On Obama, Without Cynicism	9:42 AM Nov 5
Former International Republican Institute President: McCain Supported Grants to Khalidi’s Group	4:06 PM Nov 2
Defeating Nazis, Stopping Holocaust, Cost Less Than Wall Street Bailout	10:14 AM Nov 26
Bailing Out Failure: The American way	4:54 PM Nov 11
The Great Oz Predicts	10:38 PM Nov 17
Six Questions for David Hendrickson on the Obama Administration, Banana Republics and Foreign Policy	7:20 AM Nov 12
Letter from Obama Supporter	10:50 AM Nov 5
Add another $140 billion to bailout cost	8:19 AM Nov 10
Palin and Africa	9:29 AM Nov 7
Bailout Was Urgent, Oversight Not So Much	7:21 PM Nov 11
Five Reasons Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Secretary of State	9:32 AM Nov 17
What To Look For Tuesday Night: The evidence should be in early	9:48 AM Nov 3
Rangel’s Tax Policy: Help Thyself	11:39 AM Nov 25
Bill Kristol: The columnist as campaign operative	1:47 PM Nov 7
How Many More Crooks In Congress?	9:55 AM Nov 28
News in Review: Uh-oh	10:32 AM Nov 7
Potheads for Change	8:36 AM Nov 12
Seventy-Six and Climbing: How high can Bush go?	12:57 PM Nov 10
Biden’s “Intern” Nabs Lobbying Contract: Washington adjusts to the Obama Era	1:46 PM Nov 14
How Obama Won North Carolina	10:41 AM Nov 7

By Wyatt Mason

Weekend Read: “The work that gave me trouble inspires a kind of grudge in me”	4:08 PM Nov 21
Weekend Read: “He is in angry mourning for the millions of books gone forever”	7:56 PM Nov 7
United Voice of Persons in Publick Prayer	10:22 AM Nov 3
Trivialities Difficult to Surpass	12:32 PM Nov 17
Maybe We Should Just Change It All	5:46 PM Nov 12
Girded Loins	6:54 PM Nov 19
Knowingly and Winkingly	5:33 PM Nov 24
Admirables Poetas Troyanos	7:41 PM Nov 26
Fundamentalism	3:58 PM Nov 5
Weekend Read: “On the profound fatuity of twenty-first-century bourgeois existence”	12:01 PM Nov 14
Harrumph of the Month	2:48 PM Nov 10

This Morning, Change Beckons	7:59 AM Nov 4
Go Vote!	10:17 AM Nov 3
Let Us Be Thankful	12:15 PM Nov 28
Something’s Odd in Alaska	3:15 PM Nov 7
In Praise of a Prosecutor	11:25 AM Nov 15
Let Justice Take Its Course	11:45 PM Nov 6
Hold Everything! The endorsement that will turn this election around	3:35 PM Nov 1
Schiller’s Rules of Engagement	12:25 AM Nov 8
Schurz: The True Americanism	8:09 AM Nov 1
Justice ♡ Orwell	7:18 PM Nov 17
The Southern Strategy Comes of Age	1:06 PM Nov 4
Sandburg’s Chicago	1:10 AM Nov 2
The Bush Pardons	3:22 PM Nov 22
Schiller—Freedom’s Hymn	12:14 AM Nov 9
Herrick—To Music, to becalm his Fever	1:14 AM Nov 16
A Ticket to The Hague for Dick Cheney?	5:13 PM Nov 13
Know Hope	7:58 AM Nov 4
Grading Gates	12:18 PM Nov 20
Another Black Eye for the Bush Administration’s Detention Policy	4:17 PM Nov 20
Bacon on the Roads to Power and Knowledge	8:13 AM Nov 15
AP: Obama Will Not Prosecute War Crimes	1:12 PM Nov 18
Pico della Mirandola and the Divine Gift to Humankind	9:39 AM Nov 29
Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts	12:02 AM Nov 30
Day Dispels the Dark Night	10:16 AM Nov 2
William Carlos Williams ‘The Dance’	9:37 AM Nov 23
One of the Siegelman Prosecution Team Comes in From the Cold	1:32 PM Nov 14
AP: Cheney and Gonzales Indicted for Prisoner Abuse	9:41 PM Nov 18
Best of the ’08 Campaign: The effective use of history	10:12 AM Nov 3
English Judge Says Invasion of Iraq by U.S. and U.K. Unlawful	10:26 AM Nov 19
The 43rd President’s Dark Legacy	9:41 AM Nov 17
Plato on the Punishment of the Unjust	9:55 AM Nov 22
John Brennan for CIA? Think Again	10:08 PM Nov 24

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	8:10 PM Nov 14
Cartoons	11:50 PM Nov 6
A Cartoon	10:28 PM Nov 20
A Cartoon	10:22 PM Nov 27

Rahm Emanuel’s Political Pirouettes

By John R. MacArthur

11:07 AM

Nov 19

John Leonard	5:26 PM Nov 6
After Torture: A Forum on justice in the post-Bush era (December 4)	2:56 PM Nov 19

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