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March 2011

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Gary Musgrave SEE ALSO: Advertising, Outdoor; Benches; Homeless persons; Sacramento; Street life; Urban poor PDF IMAGES
6-7	Letters/Department Letters On The drunk's club, from January 2011: Letter By anonymous Letter By Bea Portinari Letter By D. Bradley Jone Letter By Clancy Martin PDF IMAGES
9-11	Easy chair/Article The confessions of Glenn Beck By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Career as conservative talk show host; Career in public relations; Conservatism and literature; Edward L. Bernays; Beck, Glenn; Paranoia; Political fiction, American; Public relations and politics; Right and left (Political science); The Overton window (Book) PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-18	Readings/Article Sounding the word By Charles Bernstein SEE ALSO: Audio adaptations; Audiobooks; Oral communication; Yeats, W.B. (William Butler); Allen, Woody; Written communication PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Dope beats SEE ALSO: High school students; Music; Music, Influence of; Oklahoma; Physiological effect; Technological innovations PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Camera obscura: View of landscape outside of Florence in room with bookcase, Italy By Abelardo Morell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bookcases; Camera obscuras; Florence; Florence (Italy); Landscapes PDF IMAGES
18-19	Readings/Article War of Southern regression SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Education, Elementary; Errors, inventions, etc.; Evaluation; Textbook bias; Textbooks PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article A raven or a writing desk? SEE ALSO: Examinations; Funds and scholarships; Oxford; Questions; Questions and answers PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Loaded questions SEE ALSO: Arizona; Assassination attempt, 2011; Computer game players; Giffords, Gabrielle D. (Gabrielle Dee); Loughner, Jared; Murderers; Psychology; Questioning; Tucson PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article Odd outscourings of the human race By Richard Selzer SEE ALSO: Diaries; Faculty; Libraries and readers; New Haven; Selzer, Richard; Surgeons PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Photo The Roman Room at the Met By Paul McDonough (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article One in the hand SEE ALSO: Sutcliffe, Anne; Career as General Medical Council lawyer; Career as nurse; Complications; Malpractice; Medical errors; Medical laws and legislation; Pritchard, Sarah; Al Hourani, Sulieman; Surgery; Testis; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The woman who felt no fear By Justin S. Feinstein SEE ALSO: Case studies; Emotions; Fear; Iowa; Iowa City; Physiological aspects; Physiology PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Feelgood, DVM By Tommy Lee SEE ALSO: Animal welfare; Artificial insemination; Correspondence; Killer whale; Orlando; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Sea World (Orlando, Fla.); Prather, Terry; Lee, Tommy; Views on animal welfare PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings By Breyten Breytenbach PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Race By Breyten Breytenbach PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Fiction Suicide I By Breyten Breytenbach PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Fiction Sense of values ho! Mannequins! By Breyten Breytenbach PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Broken ascension By Breyten Breytenbach PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Narrative 6 By Paul Guest PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Streams of random imaginary points By José Parlá PDF IMAGES
28-46	Article Homeless in Sacramento: Welcome to the new tent cities By William T. Vollmann SEE ALSO: Biography; Career as civil rights lawyer; Emergency housing; Food relief; Homeless persons; Homelessness; Humanitarian assistance; Marin, Mark; Sacramento; Shelters for the homeless; Urban poor; Vollmann, William T. PDF IMAGES
47-52	Article A pilgrimage of sin: Booze, bombs, and hookers in Islamic Thailand By Lawrence Osborne SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Bombings; Buddhism; Insurgency; Islam; Journeys—Thailand, Southern; Osborne, Lawrence; Prostitution; Relations PDF IMAGES
53-61	Article Supernumerary: Onstage with the People's Opera By Christopher R. Beha SEE ALSO: Career as director; Career as New York City Opera general manager; Career as supernumerary; Career in philanthropy; Mattaliano, Christopher; Beha, Christopher R.; Koch, David; Drama; Steel, George; Weisgall, Hugo; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York, New York); New York City Opera; Opera; Philanthropists; Esther, Queen of Persia PDF IMAGES
62-65	Fiction The miraculous discovery of Psammetichus I By Daniel (Daniel Philippe) Mason PDF IMAGES
67-69	New books/Review New books By Zadie Smith SEE ALSO: Harlem is nowhere: a journey to the Mecca of black America (Book); Marías, Javier; My prizes (Book); Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa; Bernhard, Thomas; While the women are sleeping (Book) PDF IMAGES
70-74	Review After Rhodesia: Robert Mugabe's crisis of stasis By Alexandra Fuller SEE ALSO: Holmes, Annie; Career as Zimbabwe president—Book reviews; Hope deferred: narratives of Zimbabwean lives (Book); 1980-; Godwin, Peter; Orner, Peter; Pictorial works; Mugabe, Robert Gabriel; The fear: Robert Mugabe and the martyrdom of Zimbabwe (Book); Zimbabwe PDF IMAGES
74-78	Review Bad air: The politics of malaria By Helen Epstein SEE ALSO: Malaria; Shah, Sonia; The fever: how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years (Book) PDF IMAGES
79	Puzzle/Department The story of O By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
80	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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Two New OLC Opinions on Warrantless Surveillance	12:01 PM Mar 21
America and the Arab Revolution of 2011	12:09 PM Mar 28
Qaddafi’s Dilemma	4:27 PM Mar 2
A Culture of Legal Nihilism	8:47 AM Mar 17
Inhumanity at Quantico	2:56 PM Mar 7
Spy Games	9:01 AM Mar 14
Public Events at Harvard and Duke	2:59 PM Mar 23
Capital Offense–Six Questions for Michael Hirsh	12:05 PM Mar 24

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