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January 2010

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Steve Brodner SEE ALSO: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.; Capitalists and financiers; Congresses; Nebraska; Omaha; Pictorial works; Stockholders; Buffett, Warren PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Final edition, from November 2009: Letter By Joseph Warda Letter By Donald J. Bingle On The intelligence factory, from November 2009: Letter By Jamil Dakwar On Voodoo academics, from November 2009: Letter By Peter B. French Letter By Christopher R. Beha PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Up from globalism By Alan Tonelson SEE ALSO: Financial crises; Foreign economic relations; Foreign trade and employment; Free trade; Globalization; International trade; Manufacturing industries; Unemployment PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-18	Readings/Article The wisdom of rats By Charles Bowden SEE ALSO: Boundaries; Effect of human beings on; Human ecology; Human geography; Hummingbirds; Mexican-American Border Region; Natural history; Nature; Rats; Southwest, New PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
14	Readings/Poem A vision of now By Hayden Carruth PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo Ferris wheel By Suzy Poling (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Ferris wheels; Reproduction; Trees PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Tough Luqman SEE ALSO: Detroit; Domestic terrorism; Islamic fundamentalism; Abdullah, Luqman Ameen; Psychology; Records and correspondence; Terrorists; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
19	Readings/Article On the shoulders of giants By Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (Trans.) and Héctor Alvarez Castillo SEE ALSO: Argentina; Authors, Argentine; Collaboration; Interviews—Humor; Borges, Jorge Luis PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Spare the rod SEE ALSO: British Columbia; Career as white supremacist; Child abuse; Circumcision; Parent and child; Hoskins, Richard PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
20	Readings/Illustration Untitled, 2008/19 By Karin Kneffel SEE ALSO: Television viewers; Voyeurism; Windows PDF IMAGES
21-25	Readings/Fiction Peckerwood By Ralph Ellison PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Boston brahmin SEE ALSO: Alumni and alumnae; Cambridge; Forms of address; Harvard University PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Photo Plastic flowers By Andrew Miksys (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Windows PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo Ohne titel (DK) By Nina Pohl (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Tree houses PDF IMAGES
27-35	Article The church of Warren Buffett: Faith and fundamentals in Omaha By Mattathias Schwartz SEE ALSO: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.; Capitalists and financiers; Congresses; Decision-making; Finance, Personal; Investments; Nebraska; Omaha; Stockholders; Buffett, Warren PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
36-44	Article Shopping for sweat: The human cost of a two-dollar T-shirt By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Cambodia; Clothing trade; Foreign economic relations; Industrial relations; International labor activities; Labor laws and legislation; Sweatshops; Textile industry PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
45-47	Collection Epilogue By Thomas Allen (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo Pine (Remembering Andrew Sie) By Thomas Allen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cowboys in literature; Monuments; Paperbacks; Overholser, Wayne D. PDF IMAGES
46	Photo Unreachable By Thomas Allen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Communication in literature; Man-woman relationships in literature; Paperbacks PDF IMAGES Photo Cornered By Thomas Allen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cowboys in literature; Paperbacks PDF IMAGES
47	Photo Floored (self portrait) By Thomas Allen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Man-woman relationships in literature; Murder in literature; Paperbacks; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES
48-56	Article The silver lining: How you can profit from the coming monetary apocalypse! By Sam Shaw SEE ALSO: NotHaus, Bernard von; Counterfeiters; Currency question; Money; Silver coins; Views on currency question PDF TEXT IMAGES
57-64	Fiction My pain is worse than your pain By T. Coraghessan Boyle PDF IMAGES
65-66	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: A common pornography (Book); A gambling man: Charles II's Restoration game (Book); Biography; For the soul of France: culture wars in the age of Dreyfus (Book); Brown, Frederick; Uglow, Jennifer S.; Sampsell, Kevin; Charles II, King of England; Boon, Louis Paul; My little war (Book); Pictorial works PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
67-73	Review You got eyes: Robert Frank imagines America By Francine Prose SEE ALSO: Looking in: Robert Frank's The Americans (Book); Frank, Robert; Greenough, Sarah; The Americans (Book) PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
73-78	Review Lines of occupation: The post-Zionist poetics of Yitzhak Laor By Joshua Cohen SEE ALSO: The myths of liberal Zionism (Book); Laor, Yitzchak PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
79	Puzzle/Department Sixes and sevens (and twelves) By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
80	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha	Jan 12
Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Jan 26
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Jan 19
Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith	Jan 5

By Ken Silverstein

Yemen: A primer	2:25 PM Jan 4
Google, Paper Tiger	2:33 PM Jan 13
Hitler: There’s an app for that	2:18 PM Jan 28
Six Questions for Gregory Johnsen on Yemen	2:31 PM Jan 7
Bernanke-gate! What’s in those memos?	4:50 AM Jan 28
Photos From Haiti	12:33 PM Jan 14
Al Qaeda: The Pentagon’s official historian	11:35 AM Jan 26
The White House Party Crasher: My Neighbor	10:36 AM Jan 5
Obama Administration Blushing: Shades of Bush	4:25 PM Jan 4
They’re Back!!!! A Neocon Resurrection?	12:21 PM Jan 26
Senate Race in Massachusetts: K Street vs. “The World’s Sexiest Man”	11:25 AM Jan 13
Haiti: A trip down memory lane	2:35 PM Jan 13
The Pillars of Afghanistan’s Economy: Drugs and bribes	2:15 PM Jan 21
The Real State of the Union	2:13 PM Jan 28
Obama, Year One	2:59 PM Jan 20
Follow The Money, If You Can: Healthcare Reform	12:25 PM Jan 7
Haiti: Media provides sanitized history for American audiences	12:32 PM Jan 14
Industry: Failure of health-care reform means less money for us	2:15 PM Jan 21
Waterboarding Zubaydah: It didn’t work so well after all	2:00 PM Jan 27
Glenn and Sarah: A love story	11:05 AM Jan 15
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Peter Orszag But Didn’t Care Enough to Ask	11:43 AM Jan 11
Chasing The Two-Dollar T-shirt	11:20 AM Jan 15
More on Haiti’s History	11:07 AM Jan 15
What the End of Democratic Rule Really Means	1:47 PM Jan 19
How Could They Let Him Fly on a One-Way Ticket? They didn’t	11:15 AM Jan 11

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By Scott Horton

Military Justice and the Fear Game	11:15 AM Jan 12
Celano’s Judgment	8:42 AM Jan 3
Going to War in Iraq	11:40 AM Jan 29
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle	9:00 AM Jan 18
Auden—The Shield of Achilles	7:28 AM Jan 24
A Marine Biologist Scopes Out “Camp No”	4:54 PM Jan 29
Time for a Special Prosecutor	11:20 AM Jan 21
Syllabus for the Court	11:47 AM Jan 22
Kiriakou Recants	2:15 PM Jan 27
Rinuccini/Monteverdi—Lamento della ninfa	12:37 AM Jan 31
A New Scandal for OLC?	11:30 AM Jan 25
Machiavelli—The Eternal Contest of Parties	7:44 AM Jan 30
Judge Dismisses Charges Against Blackwater Employees in Nisoor Square Killings	4:27 PM Jan 4
Remembering Freya and Helmuth James von Moltke	11:40 AM Jan 11
Balzac–Prosecutors and the Public Trust	8:57 AM Jan 2
Rapp for the Defense	11:43 AM Jan 26
Learning from Peru	2:45 PM Jan 25
Adam Smith—The Foolish Admiration of Wealth	2:03 PM Jan 9
The Official Response Begins	3:14 PM Jan 19
Unaccountable Mercenaries	1:59 PM Jan 11
Merton—The Value of Essential Works	7:19 AM Jan 23
Obama’s Secret Afghan Prisons	4:18 PM Jan 29
Martin Luther King–Letting Justice Run Down Like Water	11:07 AM Jan 17
Chickenhawk Thiessen	12:15 PM Jan 22

By Mr. Fish

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