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July 2010

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By David M. Brinley SEE ALSO: Capitalists and financiers; Harvesting; Theft; Wheat PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Doing the laundry, from May 2010: Letter By Robert Lewis On Last call, from May 2010: Letter By Ken Beck On For whom the cell tolls, from May 2010: Letter By Simone White Letter By Martin Blank and Reba Goodman PDF TEXT IMAGES
6-9	Notebook/Article Agrarian anxieties By Steven Stoll SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Climatic changes; Environmental aspects; Mexico, Gulf of; Oil spills PDF TEXT IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article How the other half heals By Teri Reynolds SEE ALSO: Emergency medical services; Health insurance; Medical care; Oakland; Public health PDF TEXT IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Pockets' red glare SEE ALSO: Accidents; Fireworks PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Readings/Photography “entrance (Beirut)” By Curtis Mann (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Beirut; Beirut (Lebanon); Lebanon; War and society PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Art/illustration Ich hab vergessen wo (I've forgotten where) By EVOL SEE ALSO: Alleys; Doorways; Street signs PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Yellow-card journalism By Chris Barron SEE ALSO: Masondo, Amos; Career as Johannesburg mayor; City planning; Interviews; Johannesburg; Johannesburg (South Africa); Mayors; Municipal government; Social policy; South Africa; Urban policy; World Cup (Soccer) PDF TEXT IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article Laugher curve SEE ALSO: Fiscal policy; Government policy; Laughter; Real estate business; Speculation PDF TEXT IMAGES
20	Readings/Art/illustration Alle cinque del pomeriggio (Almeria) By Gianluca Di Pasquale SEE ALSO: Parks PDF IMAGES
21-23	Readings/Article You only croak once By Richard Chopping SEE ALSO: Artists; Correspondence—Humor; Fleming, Ian; Howard, Michael; Toads PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article A folio whale By Julia Whitty SEE ALSO: Human-animal relationships; Pacific Ocean; Sperm whale PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Poetry Here By Wislawa Szymborska, Clare Cavanagh (Trans.), and Staníslaw Baranczak (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
23-25	Readings/Article Golden ages By Cutter Wood SEE ALSO: Conservation; Nero, 54-68; Rome; Taxation; Urine PDF TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Gas passers SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Natural gas PDF TEXT IMAGES
25	Readings/Art/illustration Tumbleweed By Ellen Altfest PDF IMAGES
27-34	Article The food bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it By Frederick Kaufman SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Commodity exchanges; Commodity futures; Food industry and trade; Food prices; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Hunger; Speculation; Wheat trade PDF TEXT IMAGES
35-42	Article Tea party in the Sonora: For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Arizona; Career in Arizona politics; Finance, Public; Financial crises; Hayworth, J.D. (John D.); McCain, John; Taxation; Tea Party movement PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
43-47	Collection Sons of the Morning Star By Simon Norfolk (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Simon Norfolk (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Crow Indians; Historical reenactments; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Little Bighorn Battlefield; Montana PDF IMAGES Photography [Untitled Photography] By Simon Norfolk (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Hardin; Hardin (Mont.); Historical reenactments; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Montana PDF IMAGES
44-45	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Simon Norfolk (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Crow Indians; Historical reenactments; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Little Bighorn Battlefield; Montana PDF IMAGES
46-47	Photography [Untitled Photography] By Simon Norfolk (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Hardin; Hardin (Mont.); Historical reenactments; Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876; Montana PDF IMAGES
48-55	Article The system of defecting: Stories from the North Korean border By Suki Kim SEE ALSO: Career as guide for North Korean defectors; Journeys—China—Yanji; Korea (North); Political activists; Yoo, Sang Joon; Kim, Seong Min; Kim, Suki PDF TEXT IMAGES
56-61	Poetry Sublimaze By Gjertrud Schnackenberg PDF TEXT IMAGES
62-66	Fiction The war between Sylvania and Freedonia By Robert Coover PDF TEXT IMAGES
67-68	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Ross, Adam; Tedlock, Dennis E.; Nevo, Eshkol; Homesick (Book); Mr. Peanut (Book); 2000 years of Mayan literature (Book); Nine lives: in search of the sacred in modern India (Book); Dalrymple, William PDF TEXT IMAGES
69-74	Review Call it sleek: The gentrification of Henry Roth By Joshua Cohen SEE ALSO: An American type (Book); Roth, Henry; Pictorial works PDF TEXT IMAGES
74-78	Review The moviegoer: Manny Farber in the cinema trenches By J. Hoberman SEE ALSO: Farber on film: the complete film writings of Manny Farber (Book); Film criticism; Farber, Manny; Polito, Robert PDF TEXT IMAGES
79	Puzzle/Department Split personalities By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
80	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Rafe Bartholomew	Jul 6
Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Jul 13
Weekly Review By Margaret Cordi	Jul 20
Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha	Jul 27

By Ken Silverstein

World Cup: Holland deserved it	12:04 PM Jul 2
World Cup: Hands of God	9:58 AM Jul 6
Media Filters: For Washington Post, Krugman not a reliable source but Wall Street analyst totally impartial	10:29 AM Jul 6
Nixon and Kissinger: The Cheech and Chong of Political Murder	10:54 AM Jul 6
Palin’s Plans: Horndog wing will not be enough to carry her across the line	10:46 AM Jul 8
What the Octavia Nasr Case Proves	10:48 AM Jul 8
Hand-to-Mouth at a Higher Level	7:02 AM Jul 9
Fellowship Travelers: State Department bars Nieman fellow as “terrorist”	7:23 AM Jul 9
World Cup: Defeat for Van Diver, Van Whiner and Van Thug	9:09 AM Jul 12
Health Care Firm Crawls Out From Under Rock: Congressman Boehner takes its money	9:33 AM Jul 12
Hole-In-One: Ethics “waivers” allow congress to keep golfing	2:20 PM Jul 12
Your Tax Dollars At Work: Paying for sexual harassment	8:39 AM Jul 13
The Democrats: Running on empty	8:07 AM Jul 14
Marlboro Kids	9:29 AM Jul 14
More on Octavia Nasr Firing: CNN reporter canned for saying the speakable	12:39 PM Jul 14
Newtie’s Big Ideas	9:01 AM Jul 19
BP’s Ticketmaster Service for California Pols	9:34 AM Jul 20
The Washington Post on the Sherrod Case: See no racism	8:41 AM Jul 21
The Latest Israeli Crime	8:54 AM Jul 22
Our Federal Government: Job training program for energy lobbyists	8:59 AM Jul 22
Spotty Record on Oil Rig Safety	9:01 AM Jul 22
Journolist Uproar: Pot, meet kettle	12:33 PM Jul 22
Class: The unspoken word of the Shirley Sherrod affair	8:40 AM Jul 26
Your Stimulus Dollars at Work	8:54 AM Jul 28
Cheery Economic News to Get Your Week Started	8:55 AM Jul 28

By Scott Horton

The ‘Torture’ Hypocrisy of the New York Times	11:29 AM Jul 1
Judiciary Committee Winners and Losers	4:13 PM Jul 1
Dalrymple’s Glum Forecast on Afghanistan	2:19 PM Jul 2
Kennedy—The Ripple of Hope	6:50 AM Jul 3
Blake—America, a Prophecy	2:45 PM Jul 4
Another Habeas Defeat for Holder’s Justice Department	1:15 PM Jul 6
The Case Against Kissinger Deepens, Continued	4:31 PM Jul 6
Gitmo Shrinks Face License Challenge	4:03 PM Jul 8
Britain Investigates Torture	4:50 PM Jul 8
None of Us Were Like This Before: Six Questions for Joshua Phillips	3:11 PM Jul 9
Kazakhgate Limps Along	4:07 PM Jul 16
Tolstoy—The Human River	7:13 AM Jul 17
Tchaikovsky/Khomyakov—Heroism	8:04 AM Jul 18
Bill Keller’s Political Correctness	2:58 PM Jul 19
From the Department of Pre-Crime	4:28 PM Jul 19
Top-Secret America	4:05 PM Jul 20
Non, je ne regrette rien	5:23 PM Jul 20
Tales from Stasiland: The policeman’s right not to be on YouTube	3:13 PM Jul 21
Another Audacious Whitewash at DOJ	11:01 AM Jul 22
Tales from Stasiland: Send us a FOIA request, and we’ll investigate you	2:20 PM Jul 22
Get Your Latest Kafka	4:45 PM Jul 22
Those Slippery Fuel Contracts	1:56 PM Jul 23
Our Century: A Dialogue with Helmut Schmidt and Fritz Stern (II)	5:16 PM Jul 23
More on the Latest DOJ Whitewash	3:08 PM Jul 26
Letter from Batumi	5:33 PM Jul 27

By Mr. Fish

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