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April 2009

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tim Bower SEE ALSO: Bankers; Capitalists and financiers; Debt; Usury PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Mandela's smile, from December 2008: Letter By Khadija Sharife Letter By Brent Meersman Letter By Achmat Dangor On By chance, of course, from February 2009: Letter By Gene Twaronite Letter By David Dunlap PDF TEXT IMAGES
9-12	Notebook/Article Shine, perishing Republicans By Garret Keizer SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Religion and politics; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Right and left (Political science); Self-reliance; Social contract PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Fiction The quarrel in the strong-box By Mark Twain PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Spillable hours By Jeff Murphrey SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Markland, Dale; Fees; Houston PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo Cimicifuga By Giovanni Castell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Endangered species PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article High threat count SEE ALSO: Beds; Dwellings; Security measures PDF IMAGES Readings/Article It is better to die from bullets SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Atrocities; Gaza Strip; Palestinian Arabs PDF TEXT IMAGES
21	Readings/Article 1 is down By Ariel Babinsky (Trans.) and Carl Wurtzel (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Gaza Strip; Graffiti; Military life PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Weapons of mass percussion SEE ALSO: Civil defense warning systems; National security; Cohen, Robert S.; Songs and music PDF TEXT IMAGES
24-25	Readings/Article Seventy brides for seven brothers SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Bigamy; Child sexual abuse; Christianity; Evangelists; Sex; Sexual behavior; Alamo, Tony; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Sex crimes) PDF TEXT IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Texas manhandle SEE ALSO: African American girls; Children and violence; Crimes against; Roark, David; Milburn, Dymond; Milburn, Emily; Galveston; Gomez, Gilbert; Popovich, Justin; Police brutality; Stewart, Sean; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Police misconduct) PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article No more whorehouses By Nelson Algren SEE ALSO: Career as New York mayor; Koch, Ed; Algren, Nelson; Prostitution; Relations with women PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo Pyramides in Iceland, 2004 By Henrik Saxgren (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Iceland; Tents PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article Beer hall tush SEE ALSO: Berlin; Berlin (Germany); Names; Prostitutes PDF IMAGES
28-29	Readings/Photo Untitled (Sawtooth Valley, Idaho) By Laura McPhee (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Forests and forestry; Idaho; Trees PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem The cloud corporation By Timothy Donnelly PDF TEXT IMAGES
31-39	Article Infinite debt: How unlimited interest rates destroyed the economy By Thomas Geoghegan SEE ALSO: Banks and banking; Consumer credit; Debt; Financial services industry; Interest; Interest rates; Labor movement; Manufacturing industries; Usury PDF TEXT IMAGES
41-48	Article Usury country: Welcome to the birthplace of payday lending By Daniel Brook SEE ALSO: Career in payday lending; Eaton, James; Usury; Jones, W. Allan PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
49-53	Collection Graveyard of ships: photographs from Staten Island By Len Jenshel (Photog.) and Diane Cook (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Len Jenshel (Photog.) and Diane Cook (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Arthur Kill (N.J. and New York); Shipwrecks PDF IMAGES
50	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Len Jenshel (Photog.) and Diane Cook (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Arthur Kill (N.J. and New York); Shipwrecks PDF IMAGES
51	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Len Jenshel (Photog.) and Diane Cook (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Arthur Kill (N.J. and New York); Shipwrecks PDF IMAGES
52	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Len Jenshel (Photog.) and Diane Cook (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Arthur Kill (N.J. and New York); Shipwrecks PDF IMAGES
53	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Len Jenshel (Photog.) and Diane Cook (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Arthur Kill (N.J. and New York); Shipwrecks PDF IMAGES
54-57	Article Interior depredation: How the government fritters away our oil riches By Bryant Urstadt SEE ALSO: Fees; Oil and gas leases; Petroleum industry and trade; Political corruption; Public lands PDF IMAGES
58-66	Article Cambodia's wandering dead: The ghosts of genocide pay penance for Western guilt By Ben Ehrenreich SEE ALSO: Cambodia; Genocide; Kang, Kech Ieu; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
67-70	Fiction The blade By David Means PDF IMAGES
71-76	Review Suburban ghetto: John Cheever, misread and misunderstood By Jonathan Dee SEE ALSO: Biography; Bailey, Blake; Cheever: a life (Book); Collected stories and other writings (Book); Collected stories and other writings/John Cheever (Book); Complete novels (Book); Cheever, John; John Cheever: complete novels (Book); Pictorial works PDF TEXT IMAGES
77-82	Review The critic as partisan: William Hazlitt's radical imagination By Terry Eagleton SEE ALSO: Biography; Wu, Duncan; Pictorial works; Hazlitt, William; William Hazlitt: the first modern man (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Sixes and sevens By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF TEXT IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
SENTENCES
NO COMMENT
MR. FISH
LINKS
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Apr 7
Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith	Apr 14
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Apr 21
Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Apr 28

By Ken Silverstein

MIA: $300 Million worth of helicopters	12:48 PM Apr 1
Lobbyists Hit Bailout Gold	7:02 AM Apr 2
Republican Math	7:17 AM Apr 2
The Politics of Reconciliation: How to count to $15 trillion	7:30 AM Apr 2
Why are Gun Sales Up?	9:26 AM Apr 3
Katrina Contractor On Board at FEMA	9:30 AM Apr 3
Geithner and Citibank: Helping a friend in need	9:36 AM Apr 3
First of the Alleged UBS Tax Cheats Charged	9:41 AM Apr 3
Losing May Be Winning for Norm Coleman	10:09 AM Apr 3
Investigative Reporting Panel at Berkeley	10:24 AM Apr 3
Where’s the Financial Transparency Obama Promised?	11:17 AM Apr 3
Congressman Joe Barton’s Favorite Charitable Cause: Joe Barton	9:01 AM Apr 6
Feds Exploring Congressman Visclosky’s Ties to Controversial Lobby Shop	9:24 AM Apr 6
Potato Chips: Now with real potatoes!	7:09 AM Apr 7
More on $1 Billion Murtha-Connected Biodefense Facility	7:53 AM Apr 7
Louis Freeh: What some people will do for money	9:02 AM Apr 7
Politicians, Hookers and the Weekly Standard	12:26 PM Apr 7
The Red Cross Report and Manadel al-Jamadi	6:57 AM Apr 9
Britain’s Counterterror Chief: Quick but not swift	7:56 AM Apr 9
Pirates and the CIA: What would Thomas Jefferson have done?	8:27 AM Apr 9
Congressman Joe Barton’s Campaign Investment Strategy	8:18 AM Apr 10
Top Secret Plans, Get Yer Top Secret Plans Right Here	8:24 AM Apr 10
Corrupt Former Congressman Rested and Ready	10:49 AM Apr 13
Lobbying: More profitable, by far, than the cocaine trade	12:41 PM Apr 13
Why Cutting Weapons Programs Won’t Be Easy	10:14 AM Apr 14
State of Play: Congressional investigations	8:30 AM Apr 16
Oil Über Alles	10:07 AM Apr 16
More Reasons to Hate AIG	9:10 AM Apr 17
Federal Raid on Lobby Shop Leaves Democrats Cash-Strapped	9:17 AM Apr 17
Wolcott on the Media: The tweet smell of success	8:21 AM Apr 20
Congresswoman Harman and AIPAC: “This conversation doesn’t exist”	8:24 AM Apr 20
The Chavez Uproar: Open Veins and Closed Minds	8:48 AM Apr 21
Behind the “Clean Coal” Blitz	8:54 AM Apr 21
A Kinder, Gentler Torture	9:16 AM Apr 21
The World is Flatter	12:07 PM Apr 21
To New York With Love	12:08 PM Apr 21
Torture and the War on Terror	3:09 PM Apr 22
Dianne Feinstein’s Husband Hits Jackpot: with help from the senator	3:17 PM Apr 22
Financial Journalism’s Failure	9:27 AM Apr 24
Washington Lobbyists Cash In On War in Sri Lanka	11:28 AM Apr 24
Swine and Flu	12:08 PM Apr 29
The Pope and the Dictator’s Son	7:59 AM Apr 30
How you get to be dean of the Washington press corps	8:32 AM Apr 30
The GOP’s New Big Tent	10:52 AM Apr 30

By Wyatt Mason

The Evil Thoughts of Man	4:52 PM Apr 1
Weekend Read: “He wanted the overtones as well”	3:32 PM Apr 3
Tricks of Demeanor and Speech	5:28 PM Apr 6
My Book is a Painting	6:18 PM Apr 8
Weekend Read: Frederick Seidel, “A Poet of Great Innocence”	7:05 PM Apr 10
Lodged Within the Heart	5:35 PM Apr 13
Our Idleness, Pride, and Folly	3:40 PM Apr 15
Weekend Read: “Sure as the stars return again”	3:25 PM Apr 17
Woefully Too Small	3:04 PM Apr 21
Currents from the Moor	4:53 PM Apr 23
Weekend Read: «Cliquez ici pour visualiser le séquence!»	2:30 PM Apr 24
It’s Very Childlike	5:07 PM Apr 27
A Certain, Wandering Light	4:12 PM Apr 29

By Scott Horton

Justice on Stevens	10:50 AM Apr 1
Maddow, Powell, and the Need for a Torture Commission	7:12 AM Apr 3
Universal Jurisdiction Blues	1:32 PM Apr 3
The Report of My Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated	3:20 PM Apr 3
Mill on Coleridge	5:11 AM Apr 4
Na Zdorovie	3:27 PM Apr 4
Eichendorff–im Abendrot	5:54 AM Apr 5
In Brennan, Cheney has a Friend	9:51 AM Apr 5
Civil Liberties Villain of the Week	8:04 AM Apr 6
“Investigate and Punish the Perpetrators”	8:31 PM Apr 6
The Torture Doctors	9:51 AM Apr 7
Lock ‘Em Up	9:55 AM Apr 7
Stevens Case Dismissed, Prosecutors Rebuked Again	11:29 AM Apr 7
Obama’s National Security State	9:18 AM Apr 8
Presidential Accountability	9:19 AM Apr 8
Left Behind	9:22 AM Apr 8
Thursday Lamentations	5:28 AM Apr 9
Lapsed Ethics at Justice	7:25 AM Apr 9
Inside the AT&T–NSA “Secret” Relationship	7:34 AM Apr 9
Music for Passion Friday	5:54 AM Apr 10
Licensed to Kill	8:43 AM Apr 10
Obama’s Got a Secret	10:03 AM Apr 10
The Crucifixion	12:20 PM Apr 10
Brillat-Savarin’s Gastronomic Reconciliation	5:20 AM Apr 11
Mason on Seidel	9:57 AM Apr 11
Herbert’s Easter Wings	6:08 AM Apr 12
Upholding the Red Cross	9:18 AM Apr 12
The News Anchor	10:29 AM Apr 13
Karl Rove’s G.O.P.	10:46 AM Apr 13
Bush Six to be Indicted	6:37 AM Apr 14
Obama Wavering on Torture	9:28 AM Apr 15
Kudos for the Dark Side and “Torturing Democracy”	9:32 AM Apr 15
Polybius on State and Religion	5:39 AM Apr 18
The New Torture Memos	7:27 AM Apr 18
Revealing the Secrets in Room 101	10:35 PM Apr 18
García Lorca’s Little Viennese Waltz	6:11 AM Apr 19
The Harman-AIPAC-Gonzales Triangle	9:35 AM Apr 20
The Torture Tango	9:49 AM Apr 20
Impeach Jay Bybee	1:49 PM Apr 20
A Government of Monsters	3:46 PM Apr 20
Impeaching Bybee—A Rocky Road	8:35 AM Apr 21
NATO Allies Preparing to Go After Bush Officials on Torture	9:06 AM Apr 22
Inside the White House Press Corpse	9:18 AM Apr 22
Behind the Obama About-Face on Prosecuting Torture	9:18 AM Apr 22
AGs Demand Siegelman Review	3:43 PM Apr 22
Accountability for Heads of State	9:22 AM Apr 23
Straight to the Top	8:54 AM Apr 24
“Honest Policy Differences” and Other Lies	9:24 AM Apr 24
Keller–Clothes Make the Man	7:39 AM Apr 25
Opitz—Jetzund kömpt die Nacht herbey	8:25 AM Apr 26
The Nudge	10:12 AM Apr 27
Broder for the Defense	10:17 AM Apr 27
The Jay Bybee Problem	3:34 PM Apr 27
Correction	3:07 PM Apr 28
Jackson for the Day	4:29 PM Apr 28
Bybee Weighs In	8:49 AM Apr 29
Torture Lawyer Probe Back on Track in Spain	11:57 AM Apr 29
Byron York’s Demographics	8:56 AM Apr 30

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	2:38 PM Apr 3
A Cartoon	9:44 AM Apr 10
A Cartoon	1:06 PM Apr 17
A Cartoon	9:50 AM Apr 24

Links	4:38 PM Apr 27
Links	11:02 AM Apr 28
Links	8:54 AM Apr 29
Links	8:59 AM Apr 30

Wall Street Sharks Circle the UAW By John R. MacArthur	9:34 AM Apr 15
Panel: Liberalism, imperialism and the politics of human rights By John R. MacArthur	10:51 AM Apr 16

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