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April 2011

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Jeffrey Smith SEE ALSO: Twain, Mark; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Can Madison Avenue make us love our government?, from February 2011: Letter By John F. Kerridge Letter By Glenn B. Rogers On Undelivered, from February 2011: Letter By Annan Ben Abdullah On Tug of war, from February 2011: Letter By Sara Rhodin PDF IMAGES
7-9	Easy chair/Article Check it yourself By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Franklin, Benjamin; Career as conservative talk show host; Errors, inventions, etc.; Founding Fathers of the United States; Beck, Glenn; Historiography; Quotations; Signers; Tea Party movement; The Overton window (Book); Jefferson, Thomas; United States. Constitution; United States. Declaration of Independence PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article Tact in the age of Wikileaks By Slavoj Zizek SEE ALSO: Career as WikiLeaks' organizer; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Democracy; Diplomatic etiquette; Diplomatic history; Elite (Social sciences); Freedom of information; Investigative reporting; Iraq War, 2003-; Assange, Julian; Marx, Karl; Strauss, Leo; Portugal; Power (Philosophy); Records and correspondence; Tact; Truthfulness and falsehood; United States. Dept. of State; Views on the necessary lie; WikiLeaks (Organization) PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Poem Blood in our headlights, car wrecked, the boar dead By Jim Moore PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo Cooling plant, Dubai By Bas Princen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc.; Cooling towers; Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); United Arab Emirates PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Bad intelligence SEE ALSO: United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A man of a certain age By Anthony Lydgate (Trans.) and Anna Lai (Trans.) SEE ALSO: 1994-; Scandals; Sex; Sexual behavior; Berlusconi, Silvio PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article Blank generation By Zeynep Arsel and Craig J. Thompson SEE ALSO: Consumer behavior; Consumers PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article Liberty or undeath SEE ALSO: Artificial legs; Complaints against; Detention of persons; False arrest; Sternberg, Jacob; Minneapolis; Minnesota; Police; Police misconduct; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Police misconduct); Zombies PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] SEE ALSO: Postcards PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article Deus ex vomica By Anthony Lydgate (Trans.), Gabriele Amorth, and Marco Tosatti SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Demoniac possession; Doctrines; Exorcism PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Hut made of outdoors By Annie Lapin PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Life in three houses By Jan Steyn (Trans.) and Edouard Levé PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Smokescreening SEE ALSO: Advertising and children; Belmont; Cigarettes; Prevention; School children; Tobacco use; United States. Food and Drug Administration PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Photo Stars 1 By Ariko Inaoka (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Stars PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Collection Readings By Michael Wolf (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Michael Wolf (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Commuters; Subways; Tokyo; Tokyo (Japan); Urban density PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Michael Wolf (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Commuters; Subways; Tokyo; Tokyo (Japan); Urban density PDF IMAGES
30-37	Article Democracy 101: Mark Twain's farewell address By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Biography; Democracy; Intellect; Twain, Mark; Pictorial works; Views on democracy PDF TEXT IMAGES
38-44	Article Spoils of war: Excavating the underground trade in Buddhist antiquities By Shahan Mufti SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Antique dealers; Antiquities; Archaeological thefts; Destruction and pillage; Forgery of antiquities; Pakistan PDF IMAGES
45-50	Article Seeing through lies: Jean-Michel Basquiat By John Berger SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Basquiat, Jean Michel PDF IMAGES
51-57	Article Unbuilt Jerusalem: Reimagining the Hurva synagogue By James Lasdun SEE ALSO: Architecture; Buildings, structures, etc.; Career as Jerusalem mayor; Career in architecture; Lasdun, Denys; Family; Israel; Lasdun, James; Jerusalem; Jewish Quarter (Jerusalem); Land settlement; Kahn, Louis I.; Meltzer, Nahum; Synagogues; Kollek, Teddy; Temple Mount (Jerusalem) PDF IMAGES
59-67	Fiction Pride By Alice Munro PDF IMAGES
69-71	New books/Review New Books By Zadie Smith SEE ALSO: Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish, Duchess of; Gray, John; The immortalization commission: science and the strange quest to cheat death (Book); Wait for me! (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
72-78	Review A roller coaster, dropping: Lynd Ward's Depression visions By Luc Sante SEE ALSO: Spiegelman, Art; Depressions; Ward, Lynd; 1929; Six novels in woodcuts (Book) PDF IMAGES
78-82	Review Video ergo sum: Oliver Sacks and the plasticity of perception By Israel Rosenfield SEE ALSO: Sacks, Oliver; The mind's eye (Book) PDF IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Plus fours By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Justin Stone	Apr 12
Weekly Review By Rafe Bartholomew	Apr 26
Weekly Review By Emily Stokes	Apr 19
Weekly Review By J. Gabriel Boylan	Apr 5

By Scott Horton

Justice Goes to Not-War	12:10 PM Apr 12
The Mosaic Philosophy at Gitmo	10:16 AM Apr 28
The Times’s Guantánamo Skew	10:30 AM Apr 26
Johnson—The Vanity of Human Wishes	5:39 AM Apr 24
Madison, Corporations, and the National Security State	4:18 PM Apr 18
The Supreme Court Stands Tall for Misbehaving Prosecutors	2:53 PM Apr 1
Constant—The Faulty Judgment of the Powerful	9:18 AM Apr 2
Stiglitz on the One Percent Nation	1:33 PM Apr 4
Tomorrow Night: Who Killed Natasha?	2:39 PM Apr 12
Barth—Standing with the Downtrodden	9:23 AM Apr 23
One Nation Under Contract–Six Questions for Allison Stanger	12:49 PM Apr 22
Al-Shabi—To the Tyrants of the World	7:15 AM Apr 3
More on JSOC’s Secret Prisons in Afghanistan	2:54 PM Apr 8
Public Events in Tuscaloosa and Madison	1:54 PM Apr 13

By Mr. Fish

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