Harper's Magazine: March 2010

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March 2010

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	Photo [Cover art] By Kristen Ashburn (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cuba; Guantánamo Bay; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Watchtowers PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Understanding Obamacare, from December 2009: Note/correction On Shalom on the range, from December 2009: Letter By Aviva Cantor Letter By Theodore Ross On ¡Una Lesbiana Enamorada! The reverse bowdlerization of Susan Sontag, from December 2009: Letter By Gary Indiana On One notion, from December 2009: Letter By Gary Indiana On The church of Warren Buffett, from January 2010: Letter By Robert Eisenberg PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Consider the Germans By Thomas Geoghegan SEE ALSO: Employee participation; Exports; Industrial relations; International trade; Labor unions; Management; Socialism PDF TEXT IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article Nobody's Detroit By Philip Levine SEE ALSO: Biography; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Dwellings; Ungaretti, Giuseppe; Homes and haunts; Levine, Philip; Poets, American PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo Aurora, Detroit, 2008 By Andrew Moore (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Abandoned houses; Apartment houses; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Dwellings PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Garçon! SEE ALSO: Biography; Mitterrand, Frédéric; Gay men; Journeys—Thailand; Officials and employees; Prostitutes; Sex tourism; Thailand PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Desperation theology By Tim Jones SEE ALSO: Ex-convicts; Office; Poor; Sermons; Services for; Shoplifting; Social policy; York; York (England) PDF TEXT IMAGES
18-19	Readings/Fiction Six more considerations By Lydia Davis PDF TEXT IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration Blickpunkt 3 By Vera Ida Müller and Forian Bachmann (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Outdoor life; Picnic grounds PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article Atlas bugged SEE ALSO: Airline passenger security screening; Airports; Career as treasurer of Campaign for Liberty; Interviewing in law enforcement; Officials and employees; Security measures; St. Louis; Bierfeldt, Steven PDF TEXT IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article The sorrows of young Umar By Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab SEE ALSO: Blogs; Muslims; Nigeria; Suicide bombers; Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Protect and preserve By David Knepper SEE ALSO: Airline passenger security screening; Airports; Columbus; Journeys—Ohio—Columbus; Varma, Jyotsna; Preservation; Security measures PDF TEXT IMAGES
22-25	Readings/Fiction The history of The History of Death By Paul La Farge PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Article I, sexbot SEE ALSO: Artificial intelligence; Career as artificial-intelligence engineer; Hines, Douglas; Sex dolls PDF TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Immersed By Kristine Moran PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Collection Readings By David Maisel PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By David Maisel SEE ALSO: Head; Statues PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By David Maisel SEE ALSO: Arm; Spears; Statues PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By David Maisel SEE ALSO: Horses; Statues PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By David Maisel SEE ALSO: Head; Statues PDF IMAGES
27-37	Article The Guantanamo “suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle By Scott Horton SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Cuba; Extraordinary rendition; Guantánamo Bay; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Legal status, laws, etc.; Military interrogation; Military law; Prisoners; Suicide; Torture; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
38-47	Article The soft-kill solution: New frontiers in pain compliance By Ando Arike SEE ALSO: Anti-globalization movement; Civil rights movements; Government policy; History, Military; Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.); Nonlethal weapons; Operation Restore Hope, 1992-1993; Physiological effect; Protest movements; Riot control; Riots; Seattle; Social control; Television and politics; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989; Urban warfare; Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993; Washington (State) PDF TEXT IMAGES
48-54	Article Flatfoot agonistes: Inside the police-entertainment complex By Edward Conlon SEE ALSO: Biography; Blue blood (Book); Detective and mystery stories; Detective and mystery stories, American; Conlon, Edward; Film and video adaptations; New York (New York). Police Dept.; Police; Realism in literature PDF TEXT IMAGES
55-62	Article Mammon from heaven: The prosperity gospel in recession By Benjamin Anastas SEE ALSO: African American churches; Atlanta; Atlanta (Ga.); Career in prosperity gospel ministry; Dollar, Creflo A.; Economics; Long, Eddie; Financial crises; Pentecostal churches; Religious life and customs; Weeks, Thomas PDF TEXT IMAGES
63-67	Fiction That'll be two dollars and fifty cents please By Myla Goldberg PDF TEXT IMAGES
69-70	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Millet, Catherine; How to escape from a leper colony (Book); Buruma, Ian; Jealousy: the other life of Catherine M. (Book); Perkinson, Stephen; Taming the gods: religion and democracy on three continents (Book); The likeness of the king: a prehistory of portraiture in late medieval France (Book); Yanique, Tiphanie PDF TEXT IMAGES
71-78	Review A kink in his crock: Norway's Nobel Nazi By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Authors, Norwegian; Biography; Enigma: the life of Knut Hamsun (Book); Kolloen, Ingar Sletten; Hamsun, Knut; Knut Hamsun: dreamer and dissenter (Book); Pictorial works; Ferguson, Robert PDF TEXT IMAGES
79	Puzzle/Department Perfect settings By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
80	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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By Ken Silverstein

Is a New Wave of Foreclosures Coming?	12:23 PM Mar 12
Brooklyn Bridge For Sale In Washington: No Tie Between Campaign Money and Earmarks	9:32 AM Mar 8
Pay Day for Senator Corker’s Donors	9:07 AM Mar 11
News Flash: Republicans fail to block legislation (on student loans)	11:12 AM Mar 22
The Khost Bombing: What went wrong?	10:42 AM Mar 24
Desiree Rogers and the Danger of the Beat Sweetener	10:05 AM Mar 1
Disaster Porn: A geography lesson from Rick Sanchez	9:58 AM Mar 2
Revolving Door: Unsafe at any speed	9:33 AM Mar 9
That Acorn Sting	9:33 AM Mar 22
Senator Ensign’s Spirit of Bipartisanship	3:36 PM Mar 11
ABA Prez: Every human being entitled to legal representation — especially those paying cash	11:08 AM Mar 5
The Pelosi Pledge: Change you can’t even believe	2:55 PM Mar 12
Is Californistan Californicated?	9:00 AM Mar 25
Health Care, Waterboarding and Conspiracies	9:20 AM Mar 22
Washington Babylon on Break	7:16 AM Mar 31
Biggest Beneficiaries of the Jobs Bill? Not the jobless	12:43 PM Mar 5
A Powerpoint Guide for Dictators	12:12 PM Mar 4
Obama: The Republicans stole my lunch money	9:30 AM Mar 1
Defining Deviancy Down	10:10 AM Mar 1
PFC Schmuck	4:01 PM Mar 4
When Will The U.S. Be Leaving Afghanistan? Never! (or not anytime soon)	10:43 AM Mar 24
Six Questions for Peter Hessler about Driving in China	1:28 PM Mar 2
Liberian Justice, Brought to You by Lockheed	10:36 AM Mar 24
Is Pentagon in Bed with “Queen of the Uzbeks”?	9:57 AM Mar 25
Did Obama Advisor Resign Due to Federal Probe?	11:19 AM Mar 8
Six Questions for Richard Posner on Capitalism and Crisis	9:57 AM Mar 17
Azerbaijan’s 11-Year-Old President	11:11 AM Mar 5
Campaign Dollars and the Financial Services Reform Legislation Debate	12:31 PM Mar 17
Pork for Scandal-plagued NJ University: So much for congressional vetting of earmark requests	12:22 PM Mar 12
Congressional Spending: Whitewash is cheap	9:22 AM Mar 15
“Hate,” Immigration, and the Southern Poverty Law Center	10:53 AM Mar 22
Congress Sticks It to Main Street Again?	9:29 AM Mar 8

By Scott Horton

The Alternate Reality of Marc Thiessen	9:16 AM Mar 22
Unfair to Bradbury?	11:53 AM Mar 11
The Bloody White Baron: Six Questions for James Palmer	6:06 PM Mar 4
Slahi: Another Habeas Defeat for the Justice Department	1:17 PM Mar 29
Nietzsche—Ecce Homo	5:26 AM Mar 28
Is Torture a Leading U.S. Export?	6:05 PM Mar 11
Stuart Taylor’s Stuck Record	5:27 PM Mar 1
Outed Al Qaeda Lawyer Fesses Up	3:25 PM Mar 10
Doctors Without Morals	11:01 AM Mar 2
The Party of George Wallace?	11:05 AM Mar 1
Grotius—Conscience and Judgment	6:08 AM Mar 20
Waterboarding for Dummies	1:44 PM Mar 9
Steve Kappes, Profiled	10:32 AM Mar 31
Jason Bourne Does Waziristan	12:44 PM Mar 15
Rift in Obama Counterterrorism Policy?	3:34 PM Mar 29
Germany’s Secret Military Assistance to Uzbekistan Revealed	10:14 AM Mar 26
Why We Need a Torture Commission	4:21 PM Mar 26
Media Alert	9:03 PM Mar 31
The Alternate Reality of Karl Rove	11:32 AM Mar 10
What Does the Dreyfus Affair Mean Today?	9:55 AM Mar 30
Talking To Terrorists: Six Questions for Mark Perry	11:10 AM Mar 23
Solon—Doing the Right Thing	9:37 AM Mar 6
Rahm’s Masterstroke	11:27 AM Mar 5
A Transformation Underway in Turkey?	10:57 AM Mar 3
An Iranian Nuclear Defector	3:47 PM Mar 31
Nietzsche—Cowardice in the Face of Reality	7:07 AM Mar 27
What Frum’s Firing Tells Us About Politics Today	2:03 PM Mar 26
Wordsworth—Intimations of Immortality	9:56 AM Mar 21
The Trouble with Contractors	12:51 PM Mar 16
Schumpeter–Standing for Convictions in a Democracy	7:33 AM Mar 13
Controlling the Brand	2:38 PM Mar 12
Opening for the Defense at a War Crimes Trial	12:03 PM Mar 4
Is International Law Really Law?—Six Questions for Michael Scharf	3:51 PM Mar 15
The President’s Lawyer	2:37 PM Mar 30
CIA Attacks the John Adams Project	1:58 PM Mar 25
Glenn Beck, Explained	10:36 AM Mar 19
The Trouble With Embeds	9:41 AM Mar 24
“This is Starting to Get Dangerous”	9:12 AM Mar 15
Why Has WaPo Become the Voice of Rahm Emanuel?	5:53 PM Mar 2
Roberts’s Rules	1:19 PM Mar 11
Kapsberger—Che fai tu	7:54 AM Mar 7
The CIA’s Failed Al Qaeda Recruitment	3:04 PM Mar 22
Incompetent McCarthyism and Shared Beliefs	11:43 AM Mar 8
The Pentagon Loses a Skirmish with WikiLeaks	10:47 AM Mar 19
Pontifex Maximus Claims Head-of-State Immunity	2:15 PM Mar 31
Thiessen and the “Al Qaeda Lawyers”	2:24 PM Mar 9
Inside the Salt Pit	12:44 PM Mar 29
Lawfare Redux	12:19 PM Mar 12
Sarkozy at Columbia	1:01 PM Mar 30
Solon—Fragment 4	9:32 AM Mar 14

By Mr. Fish

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Oscar Night’s Sad Familiarity— “Like Baghdad”

By John R. MacArthur

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