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September 2010

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Matt Vincent SEE ALSO: Bouncers; Congresses; Pictorial works; Psychotherapy; Freud, Sigmund PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On The food bubble, from July 2010: Letter By Steve Strongin Letter By Larry Karp Letter By Frederick Kaufman PDF TEXT IMAGES
6-9	Notebook/Article Why dogs go after mail carriers By Garret Keizer SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Communication and technology; Labor unions; Letter writing; Postal service; Privacy, Right of; Socialism; United States Postal Service PDF TEXT IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article Los malos By David Noriega (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Drug traffic; Mexican-American Border Region; Monterrey; Monterrey (Mexico); Murder; Organized crime; Violence PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Collection Readings By Andrew Sendor PDF IMAGES Readings/Art/illustration The Arganzuela family By Andrew Sendor PDF IMAGES Readings/Art/illustration Jacques and Jacqueline By Andrew Sendor SEE ALSO: Monkeys PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Fiction The orphan lamb By Amy Hempel PDF IMAGES Readings/Article I want my life back SEE ALSO: Accident investigation; Accidents; Evaluation; Industrial safety; Management; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum refineries; Prevention; Safety measures; Texas City PDF IMAGES
17-18	Readings/Article Pop science By Eben Klemm SEE ALSO: Alcoholic beverages; Carbonated beverages; Career in culinary technology; Arnold, David; Interviews; Physiological effect; Taste PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article Critique of pure semen By Frédéric Pagés and Wes Enzinna (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Kant, Immanuel; Masturbation; Perspiration; Views on bodily fluids—Humor PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Art/illustration Nitrogen cycle/10 Reds By Leslie Shows PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Trouble helix SEE ALSO: Diagnosis; Human chromosome abnormalities PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Red squares SEE ALSO: Espionage, Russian; Intelligence service; Russia (Federation); Spies PDF IMAGES
22-23	Readings/Fiction Sad lieutenant By Stanley A. McChrystal PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Plight simulator SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Computer games; Dallas; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Public relations; War and society PDF IMAGES
23-25	Readings/Fiction A new examiner By David Foster Wallace PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article The nukes of hazard SEE ALSO: Civil rights; Management; Memphis; Memphis (Tenn.); Race discrimination; Radioactive waste disposal; Safety measures PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Art/illustration Ready to fly By Pang-Chieh Hsu SEE ALSO: Paper PDF IMAGES
27-35	Article The war on unhappiness: Goodbye Freud, hello positive thinking By Gary Greenberg SEE ALSO: Anaheim; Congresses; Meichenbaum, Donald; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm; Iraq War, 2003-; Journeys—United States; Seligman, Martin E.P.; Military life; Positive psychology; Psychotherapy; Freud, Sigmund; Veterans; Views on cognitive therapy; Views on positive psychology; Views on psychoanalysis; Views on the Übermensch PDF TEXT IMAGES
36-48	Article Straight man's burden: The American roots of Uganda's anti-gay persecutions By Jeff Sharlet SEE ALSO: Capital punishment; Bahati, David; Homophobia; Homosexuality; Influence; Ssempa, Martin; Kyazze, Michael; Religious fundamentalism; Warren, Richard; Uganda; Views on homosexuality in Uganda PDF TEXT IMAGES
49-52	Collection Black sea: paintings from the Gulf Coast By Steve Mumford PDF IMAGES Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010; Marinas; Mexico, Gulf of; Oil spills; Venice PDF IMAGES
50	Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010; Boats and boating; Mexico, Gulf of; Oil spills; Reporters and reporting; Venice PDF IMAGES Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010; Cleanup; Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions; Fort Jackson; Fort Jackson (La.); Oil spills; Oil spills and wildlife; Pelicans PDF IMAGES
51	Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010; Cleanup; Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions; Fort Jackson; Fort Jackson (La.); Oil spills; Oil spills and wildlife; Pelicans PDF IMAGES Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010; Mexico, Gulf of; Oil spills; Press conferences; Reporters and reporting; Venice PDF IMAGES
52	Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010; Cleanup; Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions; Grand Isle (La.); Oil spills PDF IMAGES Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010; Barataria Bay; Barataria Bay (La.); Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions; Oil spills PDF IMAGES
54-55	Article Weapons of mass distraction: Object lessons from the cyber-mythology By Daniel Fromson SEE ALSO: Career in cyber-security; Cyberterrorism; Government policy; Schmidt, Howard A.; 2009-; Prevention PDF IMAGES
56-62	Article Paralyzed: Learning to live in polio's shadow By Roxana Robinson SEE ALSO: Family; Family relationships; Patients; Poliomyelitis; Robinson, Roxana PDF TEXT IMAGES
63-66	Fiction A brush By John Berger PDF TEXT IMAGES
67-68	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: A life like other people's (Book); Bennett, Alan; Charlie Chan: the untold story of the honorable detective and his rendezvous with American history (Book); Diaghilev (Book); Scheijen, Sjeng; Huang, Yunte PDF TEXT IMAGES
68-73	Review Speed of light in a vacuum: Tom McCarthy's historical avant-garde By Jonathan Dee SEE ALSO: C (Book); McCarthy, Tom PDF TEXT IMAGES
74-78	Review The white side of history: Sketches of a Caucasian past By Eric Foner SEE ALSO: Painter, Nell Irvin; The history of white people (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
79	Puzzle/Department Foursomes 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 CARTOONS
LINKS
J R M PUBLISHERS NOTE
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By J Gabriel Boylan	Sep 7
Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Sep 14
Weekly Review By Margaret Cordi	Sep 21
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Sep 28

By Ken Silverstein

Chelsea’s Wedding and the Political Class	9:41 AM Sep 6
Plumbing the Depths: A review of Megan McCain’s new book	4:31 PM Sep 14
Signing Out	11:37 AM Sep 29
Broder and Woodward Still on Lecture Circuit	10:51 AM Sep 22
Incumbency: The Democrats’ Best Hope	8:24 AM Sep 21
With Congress, Charity Begins at Home	9:43 AM Sep 6
American Inequality: The making of a Banana Republic	7:36 AM Sep 9

By Scott Horton

Operation Silence Shaffer	2:01 PM Sep 14
America’s Corruption Policy in Central Asia in Flux	3:52 PM Sep 8
Inside C Street–Six Questions for Jeff Sharlet	2:41 PM Sep 29
Ashoka—The Universal Elements of Religion	6:13 AM Sep 4
Oxford—My Mind to Me A Kingdom Is	10:00 AM Sep 26
My Trip to Al Qaeda: Six Questions for Lawrence Wright	6:51 AM Sep 6
State Secrecy and Official Criminality	3:24 PM Sep 13
Misconceptions Behind the Immigrant Scare	12:33 PM Sep 3
Our Century: A Dialogue with Helmut Schmidt and Fritz Stern (IV)	10:34 AM Sep 24
Smith—The Perfection of Human Nature	7:40 AM Sep 25
Eileen Nearne and the Times Torture Policy	5:17 PM Sep 22
The Obama Administration and the War on Terror: Public Event in Springfield, Mass.	1:42 PM Sep 17
Hawthorne—The Celestial Railroad	6:06 AM Sep 18
Rahm Emanuel’s Competence Test	3:26 PM Sep 7
No Federal Court Hearing in Camp No “Suicides” Case	3:57 PM Sep 30
When Is Offering a Drink of Water a Crime?	3:38 PM Sep 3
Reconsidering Nietzsche–Six Questions for Julian Young	2:31 PM Sep 15
An Ethics Meltdown at the Justice Department	4:15 PM Sep 24
Glenn Beck’s 12-Step Plan	4:07 PM Sep 1
Lawfare!	12:24 PM Sep 9
Black Ops for Hire	3:16 PM Sep 16
Misconduct at DOJ: Who Pays the Bill?	12:53 PM Sep 29
A Failing Grade for Contractor Oversight	4:06 PM Sep 16
The Torturer’s Reward	4:38 PM Sep 8
Lying for One’s Country	11:22 AM Sep 8
Obama and the Khadr Case	4:30 PM Sep 20
The FBI vs. Greenpeace	1:32 PM Sep 21
Sandburg—Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before Daylight	6:01 AM Sep 5
Hafiz—The River of Wine	5:04 AM Sep 19
Secrets in Plain Sight	2:36 PM Sep 20
Otunbayeva, Obama to Discuss Fuel Contracts	2:05 PM Sep 22

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	8:56 AM Sep 16
A Cartoon	9:44 AM Sep 9
A Cartoon	8:36 AM Sep 2
A Cartoon	10:13 PM Sep 29

Links	8:42 AM Sep 23
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Jimmy Breslin on the National Mood By Jimmy Breslin	2:11 PM Sep 2
Talking with Tom Bissell By Donovan Hohn	6:14 PM Sep 21

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