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September 2011

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	Photo [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Apples; Classrooms; Elementary school teachers; School children PDF IMAGES
6-9	Letters/Department Letters On The language of work, from July 2011: Letter By Terrence O'Keefe Letter By Doug Sherr On Gold faithful, from July 2011: Letter By Ronnie Hawkins Letter By Keith M. Barron Letter By Nikolaus Maier Letter By Thomas Frank On When is a movie great? The perils of medium and magic, from July 2011: Letter By Neil D. Isaacs On Inside the snow globe, from July 2011: Letter By Anders T. Ourom PDF IMAGES
10-13	Easy chair/Article A letter to Barack Obama By George S. (George Stanley) McGovern SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Appropriations and expenditures; Obama, Barack; Career as U.S. president; Debts, Public; Expenditures, Public; Financial crises; Government spending policy; Health care reform; Income tax; 2009-; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-20	Readings/Article The pirate economy By Robert Neuwirth SEE ALSO: Mandeville, Bernard; Cell phones; Clocks and watches; Commerce; Computer programs; Counterfeits and counterfeiting; Alarcón, Daniel; Ethics; Marketing; Peru; Piracy (Copyright); Pirated editions; Publishers; Views on book piracy; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration SoHo neighborhood By Olive Madora Ayhens SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc.; Soho (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Filthy lucre SEE ALSO: Cell phones; Bauer, Garrett; Insider trading in securities; Kluger, Matthew; Money laundering; Trials, litigation, etc.—Humor; Wiretapping PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The undeleted SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Career as governor of Alaska; Correspondence; Executive privilege (Government information); Governors; Official secrets; Palin, Sarah PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article Doctor's orders By John Cutler SEE ALSO: Career as researcher of medical ethics; Career as researcher of sexually transmitted diseases; Ethics; Guatemalans; Human experimentation in medicine; Involuntary treatment; Cutler, John; Legal status, laws, etc.; Medical ethics; Sexually transmitted diseases; Reverby, Susan; Syphilis PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Guten morgen Deutschland By Katrin Heichel SEE ALSO: Blue collar workers; Coffee shops PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Six feet over SEE ALSO: Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.); Burial; Cemeteries; Soldiers' bodies, Disposition of PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Thy parishioner's wife SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Brennan, Peadar; Priests; San Diego; Sexual behavior; Sexual misconduct by clergy PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration String study 4: Inwood Hill Park By Lisa Lozano SEE ALSO: Parks PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Eye for an I By Ross Diskin SEE ALSO: Accident law; Arizona; Career as motivational speaker; Interviews; Ray, James A.; Reinkens, Kurt; Negligence; Responsibility; Sedona PDF IMAGES
27-30	Readings/Article Learning from Sting By Ariel Dorfman SEE ALSO: Argentina; Dorfman, Ariel; Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto; Biography; Career as Chile president; Celebrities; Chile; Reeve, Christopher; Exile; Human rights advocacy; Journeys—Chile; 1973-1988; Performances—Argentina—Mendoza; Sting (Musician) PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Heel, Hitler By Natascha Hoffmeyer (Trans.), Reiner Kreutzwald, and Willy Erkelenz SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Finland; Military ceremonies, honors, and salutes; 1917-1945; Name; Names; Borg, Tor; Views on Hitler PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Photo Untitled 11, cinema play house By Nandita Raman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Motion picture theaters; Theaters PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration Notes from Elmina IV By Radcliffe Bailey SEE ALSO: Ghana; Slave-trade PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article Getting schooled: The re-education of an American teacher By Garret Keizer SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Biography; Education, Rural; Education, Secondary; Keizer, Garret; High school students; High school teachers; Parenting; Writing PDF IMAGES
42-50	Article Deep in the bowl: Memory of a shrinking city By Darryl Pinckney SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Civil Rights; Pinckney, Darryl; Family; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; New Orleans; New Orleans (La.) PDF IMAGES
51-53	Collection Parade's end By Bruce Jr. Davenport PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Bruce Jr. Davenport SEE ALSO: High schools; Marching bands; New Orleans PDF IMAGES
52	Illustration Some serious business pt. 2 By Bruce Jr. Davenport SEE ALSO: High schools; Marching bands; New Orleans PDF IMAGES
53	Illustration Candy lady grandbaby (Andrew J. Bell Jr. H.S. Crusaders marching band) By Bruce Jr. Davenport SEE ALSO: High schools; Marching bands; New Orleans PDF IMAGES
55-65	Article A divine comedy: Among the Danteans of Florence By Elif Batuman SEE ALSO: Biography; Career as forensic paleontologist; Dante Alighieri; Death and burial; Family; Florence; Florence (Italy); Mallegni, Francesco; Homes and haunts; Human remains (Archaeology); In literature; Inferno (Book); La vita nuova (Book); Serego Alighieri, Massimilla; Oral interpretation of poetry; Serego Alighieri, Pieralvise; Pisa; Purgatorio (Book); Verona; Wine and wine making; Ugolino, della Gherardesca, conte di Donoratico PDF IMAGES
66-67	Article Conduct unbecoming: The military's sexual-assault problem By Anthony Lydgate SEE ALSO: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; Crimes against; Military offenses; Offenses against the person; Rape; Women soldiers PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
69-72	Fiction My chivalric fiasco By George Saunders PDF IMAGES
73-76	New books/Review New books By Zadie Smith SEE ALSO: Thompson, Craig; Senna, Danzy; Habibi (Book); Thomson, Ian; The dead yard: a story of modern Jamaica (Book); You are free (Book) PDF IMAGES
77-80	Review The pretender: Dana Spiotta's persuasive performances By Jonathan Dee SEE ALSO: Spiotta, Dana; Stone Arabia (Book) PDF IMAGES
81-86	Review Apocalypse, now what? Climate change comeuppance By Gary Greenberg SEE ALSO: McKibben, Bill; Climatic changes; Eaarth: making a life on a tough new planet (Book); Future ethics: climate change and apocalyptic imagination (Book); Mastrandrea, Michael D.; Preparing for climate change (Book); Skrimshire, Stefan; Schneider, Stephen Henry PDF IMAGES
87	Puzzle/Department Fill in the blanks By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
88	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Jeremy Keehn	Sep 6
Weekly Review By J. Gabriel Boylan	Sep 13
Weekly Review By Justin Stone	Sep 20
Weekly Review By Anthony Lydgate	Sep 27

By Scott Horton

Putting the Question to Dick Cheney	2:56 PM Sep 1
Shakespeare/Morley — “O Mistress Mine”	12:39 PM Sep 2
An Army in the Shadows	4:55 PM Sep 2
“The Illusion of Free Markets”: Six Questions for Bernard Harcourt	9:53 AM Sep 8
Good-bye to All That	2:35 PM Sep 8
The 9/11 Effect	2:19 PM Sep 15
Brennan Does Yemen	3:21 PM Sep 20
Injudicious Judge	2:53 PM Sep 23
When Prosecution Becomes Persecution	4:00 PM Sep 27

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	8:17 AM Sep 2
A Cartoon	9:45 AM Sep 9
A Cartoon	9:15 AM Sep 16
A Cartoon	10:09 AM Sep 23
A Cartoon	12:35 PM Sep 30

The Sad Legacy of Sept. 11 By John R. MacArthur	4:04 PM Sep 10
The Hangover By John R. MacArthur	8:24 AM Sep 12
Some Liberals Finally On To Obama’s Betrayal of Liberalism By John R. MacArthur	9:04 AM Sep 14

September Issue Links By Harper's Magazine	9:38 AM Sep 1
Harper’s Magazine Presents: The 9/11 Effect By Harper's Magazine	9:06 AM Sep 14
Harper’s Contributors at the Ransom Center By Harper's Magazine	11:55 AM Sep 5
9/11: The Decennial Review	1:26 PM Sep 9
In Focus: Juvenile Injustice By Richard Ross	10:02 AM Sep 26
An Excerpt from “Getting Schooled: The re-education of an American teacher” By Garret Keizer	10:41 PM Sep 26
Pro Patria Vivere: The Lure of the Libyan Front By Patrick Graham	9:33 AM Sep 28

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