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February 2010

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tim Bower SEE ALSO: Carbon offsetting; Emissions trading PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On The General Electric superfraud, from December 2009: Letter By Ann R. Klee Letter By Andy Mele Letter By Jusith A. Enck Letter By Robert J. Goldstein Letter By David Gargill PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-11	Notebook/Article The mendacity of hope By Roger D. Hodge SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Bomb power: the modern presidency and the national security state (Book); Executive power; Wills, Garry; Military leadership; 2009-; National security; Politics and war PDF TEXT IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Article The serfdom of crowds By Jaron Lanier SEE ALSO: Information technology; The Internet; Social networks; Technological innovations PDF TEXT IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Lecture on prolonging the interim By Mary Anne Kluth SEE ALSO: Art and science; Scientists PDF IMAGES
18-19	Readings/Poem Their faces shall be as flames By George Calvin Waldrep PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article Let's roll SEE ALSO: Casualties; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Trials, litigation, etc.; Truck drivers PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Fashionably late By Brian Maka SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Iraq War, 2003-; Peace; Lukach, Terri PDF TEXT IMAGES
22	Readings/Illustration Reservoir/year's end/Setesdal/helicopter I By Per Fronth SEE ALSO: Norway; Reservoirs PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article Potus blossom By Colin Jones (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Foreign public opinion, Chinese; Journeys—China; Questions and answers PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Poem February fourteenth By Saw Wei PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article 69 across SEE ALSO: Computer programs; Crossword puzzles; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Pornography; Scatology; Terminology PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Purple prose SEE ALSO: Walcott, Derek; Interviews PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Photo Seaweed picture no. 22 By Alyson Denny (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article The votes are out there SEE ALSO: Colorado; Denver; Government policy; Human-alien encounters; Referendum PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Fiction One, two, three, and four rabbits By Ezra E. Fitz (Trans.) and Aura Estrada PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo Sun #23, negative version By Claus Stolz (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Sun PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Collection Readings By Sam Easterson (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Chick cam By Sam Easterson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Chickens; Remote sensing PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Lamb cam By Sam Easterson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Remote sensing; Sheep PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Duck cam By Sam Easterson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Ducks; Remote sensing PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Wolf cam By Sam Easterson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Remote sensing; Wolves PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Pheasant cam By Sam Easterson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Pheasants; Remote sensing PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Armadillo cam By Sam Easterson (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Armadillos; Remote sensing PDF IMAGES
31-39	Article Conning the climate: Inside the carbon-trading shell game By Mark Schapiro SEE ALSO: Carbon offsetting; Climatic changes; Emissions trading; Environmental aspects; Government policy; International cooperation; International trade; Measurement; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 Dec. 11 PDF TEXT IMAGES
40-43	Article The company of drawings: For Marie-Claude By John Berger SEE ALSO: Artists' models; Biography; Chiapas; Drawing; Muñoz, María; Pictorial works; Technique; Marcos, subcomandante PDF TEXT IMAGES
44-49	Article Persian Gulf view: House hunting and geopolitics in Baluchistan By Shahan Mufti SEE ALSO: Pakistan; Real estate development; Real estate investment; Mufti, Shahan; Travel—Pakistan—Gwadar PDF TEXT IMAGES
50-53	Collection Enter the quail By Seamus Murphy (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Seamus Murphy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Hunting; Quail fighting PDF IMAGES
51	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Seamus Murphy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Quail fighting; Quails; Training PDF IMAGES
52-53	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Seamus Murphy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Gambling; Quail fighting; Sports spectators PDF IMAGES
55-60	Article Lonely hearts club: A star-crossed obsession with As The World Turns By Darryl Pinckney SEE ALSO: Career as television actor; Fans (Persons); Silbermann, Jake; Television actors and actresses; Hansis, Van PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
61-66	Fiction Once an empire By Rivka Galchen PDF TEXT IMAGES
67-68	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: A revolution of the mind: radical Enlightenment and the origins of modern democracy (Book); Israel, Jonathan I. (Jonathan Irvine); Adams, Lorraine; Amsterdam, Steven K.; The room and the chair (Book); Things we didn't see coming (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
69-73	Review The untamed: Joshua Ferris's restless-novel syndrome By Wyatt Mason SEE ALSO: Ferris, Joshua; The unnamed (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
74-78	Review Our heart: Love and the later Maupassant By Lorin Stein SEE ALSO: Alien hearts (Book); Maupassant, Guy de; Pictorial works; Howard, Richard PDF TEXT IMAGES
79	Puzzle/Department Hearts and embraces By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
80	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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

Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith	Feb 16
Weekly Review By Rafe Bartholomew	Feb 2
Weekly Review By Margaret Cordi	Feb 23
Weekly Review By Theodore Ross	Feb 9

By Ken Silverstein

Bad Weather Lightening Pockets of Congress Members	3:46 PM Feb 9
Senate report details stretch Hummers, skirt-chasing attorneys, shrink-wrapped cash!	11:47 AM Feb 4
Electorate already lost faith in democracy, Supreme Court finishes things off	3:37 PM Feb 9
Bottoms Up: Lobbyists win big for foreign rum maker	3:47 PM Feb 3
The Upside of Guinea Massacre	3:10 PM Feb 22
Where Art Thou, Esme?	10:18 AM Feb 1
Congressman Issa’s Joke: Dictatorship in Kazakhstan, and Washington D.C.	3:39 PM Feb 3
David Broder Loves Sarah Palin…And Dan Quayle	11:21 AM Feb 11
Health Care Lobbying: There goes the GDP of Grenada	10:11 AM Feb 1
Sally Quinn Taken Out Back And Shot (or at least her column was)	9:41 AM Feb 25
Stop The Presses (no starch)!: Cosmo skewers the senate	10:14 AM Feb 1
Washington Babylon on Break	9:43 AM Feb 15
Cronyism: The other surge in Afghanistan	10:51 AM Feb 22
Health Care and Meat Inspectors: Obama at the Health Care Summit	11:51 AM Feb 26
Obama: The Last to Catch On	4:28 PM Feb 9
Sting’s Lame Alibi: Why I did show in torture-loving Uzbekistan	2:09 PM Feb 22
GOP Fiscal Discipline Hits Hawaii	2:17 PM Feb 10
In Aftermath of Court Ruling, McCain Facing Tough Re-election Challenge	11:45 AM Feb 4

Pushkin—Winter’s Morning	7:06 AM Feb 7
Schopenhauer—Music Before the Dawn	6:00 AM Feb 20
Wieseltier contra Sullivan	1:52 PM Feb 12
A Convergence of Extremes	1:41 PM Feb 17
Lincoln–Right Makes Might	10:10 AM Feb 12
Justice: Six Questions for Michael Sandel	5:21 PM Feb 12
DOD Contradicts DOD: Seton Hall responds	12:51 PM Feb 5
What to Do With a Captured Taliban Commander?	12:08 PM Feb 16
The Margolis Memo	10:49 AM Feb 24
More Investigations for the Torture Lawyers	6:14 PM Feb 25
Trouble in North Korea	2:15 PM Feb 5
Mill—The Essence of Judgment	8:17 AM Feb 13
The Blackest Sort of Secrets	3:07 PM Feb 15
Wordsworth—London, 1802	6:56 AM Feb 14
Thiessen’s Catechism of Torture	12:08 PM Feb 18
A Judge Keeps His Promise	4:25 PM Feb 19
Roberts’s Idea of Oversight	12:20 PM Feb 24
Where are the Yoo and Philbin Emails?	1:45 PM Feb 26
The All-Powerful Lindsey Graham and the Principle of Freedom	10:54 AM Feb 17
Ahmadinejad and Friends	11:04 AM Feb 11
Quid Pro Quo	3:28 PM Feb 22
The Cost of Conscience: The hidden challenges of dissent in the workplace	11:25 AM Feb 3
Six Questions for Dr. Michael Baden: The Guantánamo autopsies	4:12 PM Feb 4
Holder at Bay	10:42 AM Feb 15
Unredacting the OPR Report	12:09 PM Feb 22
Holder on Trial	12:58 PM Feb 5
Sullivan on Gitmo “Suicides”	11:18 AM Feb 8
The President’s Power to Exterminate Villages	12:43 PM Feb 22
Detainee Affairs Post Goes to Lietzau	2:19 PM Feb 9
Talking with the Enemy	10:51 AM Feb 8
Dr. Johnson–Dishonesty and the Craft of Lawyers	6:38 PM Feb 27
Goethe/Schubert—An den Mond	10:26 AM Feb 21
Does Dick Cheney Want to Be Prosecuted?	4:21 PM Feb 15
Tear Down This Myth: Six Questions for Will Bunch	1:59 PM Feb 19
Tolstoy—The Renunciation of Violence	7:56 AM Feb 6
Hersh in Syria	1:12 PM Feb 4
Deconfliction	11:27 AM Feb 2
Court Dismisses Suit Over Gitmo Deaths	11:50 AM Feb 17
Justice, Texas Style	10:56 AM Feb 23
Exposing the G.O.P. Myths about Military Commissions	12:19 PM Feb 12
Borges—The Conjectural Poem	6:58 AM Feb 28
A Triumph for the DOJ Roach Motel	10:38 AM Feb 22
Seeding Torture	1:44 PM Feb 10
British Appeals Court Forces Release of Torture Details	10:50 AM Feb 11
Six Questions for Rachid Mesli: The missing throats	10:31 AM Feb 3
Poland Discloses Collaboration on CIA Black Site	2:02 PM Feb 22
The Holder-McConnell Letter	11:12 AM Feb 4
Margolis Moves to Exonerate Yoo and Bybee, as Criminal Investigation Opens in Spain	11:14 AM Feb 1

By Mr. Fish

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