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November 2011

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tim O'Brien PDF IMAGES
6-7	Department [Untitled Department] PDF IMAGES
8-13	Easy chair/Article The Bleakness Stakes By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Coal mines and mining; Labor unions; Manufacturing industries; 2009-; Public opinion polls; Technological innovations; West Virginia PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-22	Readings/Article Will oil drown the Arab Spring? By Michael Ross SEE ALSO: Arab countries; Arab Spring; Authoritarianism; Career as Iraqi dictator; Career as Libyan dictator; Democracy; Developing countries; Energy policy; Government, Resistance to; Qaddafi, Muammar; Petroleum industry and trade; Hussein, Saddam PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Cruise control By Ryan Healey (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Automobile driving; Saudi Arabia; Women automobile drivers; Women's rights PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration Neither day or night By Jules de Balincourt and Ellen Labenski (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Entertaining PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Endgame By Alexei Osin and Irina Vorobieva SEE ALSO: Career as president of World Chess Federation; Chess players; Civil war; Diplomacy; Homes and haunts; Journeys—Libya; Ilyumzhinov, Kirsan; Libya; Qaddafi, Muammar; Tripoli PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo Manning the rail, USS Tortuga, Java Sea By An-My Lê (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Indonesia; Java Sea; United States. Navy PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Merry on, Jeeves By P.G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse SEE ALSO: English wit and humor; Humor; Imprisonment; Wodehouse, P.G. (Pelham Grenville); Prisoners and prisons, German; Prisoners of war; Radio programs PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article Services rendered SEE ALSO: Airplanes, Company; Career as attorney; Career as co-owner of Liverpool Football Club; Career as judge; Career as president of Richmor Aviation; Extraordinary rendition; Hudson; Heller, Jeffrey; Richards, Mahlon; Czajka, Paul; Morse, Phillip; Private planes; Trials, litigation, etc.; Ryan, William PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Wild world By Christopher Cook SEE ALSO: Tunnels PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article Tut to the chase By Anna Della Subin SEE ALSO: Mohammed, Ahmed; Cairo; Cairo (Egypt); Career as museum guide; Destruction and pillage; Egypt; Interviews; Museums; Pillage; Revolutions; Russians; Tourism; Tutankhamen, King of Egypt PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Counter revolutionaries SEE ALSO: Macy's (Department store); Offenses against property; Radicals; Records and correspondence; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Vandalism; Youth PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article The pet food room By Timothy Pachirat SEE ALSO: Cattle; Meat industry and trade; Nebraska; Omaha; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Sez Ner By Donal McLaughlin (Trans.) and Arno Camenisch PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration Night guest By Karin Mamma Andersson SEE ALSO: Dwellings; Entertaining; Haiti; Night PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Poem When monkeys sing By Theodore William Goossen (Trans.) and Masayo Koike PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Illustration Sketch to know guilt By Hugo Lugo SEE ALSO: Deer; Forest animals; Forests and forestry; Guilt; Notebooks PDF IMAGES
34-41	Article Broken Britain: Nothing is left of the family silver By Ed Vulliamy SEE ALSO: Banks and banking; Biography; Vulliamy, Ed; Financial crises; Pillage; Privatization; Riots; Vandalism PDF IMAGES
42-48	Article From Eden to Eton: One boy's transatlantic education By Pico Iyer SEE ALSO: Biography; Eton College; Iyer, Pico; Santa Barbara; Santa Barbara (Calif.); Schoolboys PDF IMAGES
49-51	Collection Yan' Guan Town By Xiaodong Liu PDF IMAGES Illustration The grandpa By Xiaodong Liu SEE ALSO: Christians; Grandfathers; Religious life and customs; Yan' Guan; Yan' Guan (China) PDF IMAGES Illustration Apple tree By Xiaodong Liu SEE ALSO: Apples; Yan' Guan; Yan' Guan (China) PDF IMAGES Illustration The only son By Xiaodong Liu SEE ALSO: Religious life and customs; Sons; Yan' Guan; Yan' Guan (China) PDF IMAGES
50	Illustration Z's family By Xiaodong Liu SEE ALSO: Christians; Donkeys; Families; Religious life and customs; Yan' Guan; Yan' Guan (China) PDF IMAGES
51	Illustration H's family By Xiaodong Liu SEE ALSO: Families; Muslims; Religious life and customs; Yan' Guan; Yan' Guan (China) PDF IMAGES
52-61	Article I walked with a zombie: Travels among the undead By Hamilton Morris SEE ALSO: Career as Voodoo priest; Haiti; Morris, Hamilton; Journeys—Haiti; Beauvoir, Max; Physiological effect; Quacks and quackery; Religious life and customs; The serpent and the rainbow (Book); Views on zombiism; Voodooism; Davis, Wade; Zombiism PDF IMAGES
62-70	Article Conjectural damage: A history of bombing By Daniel Swift SEE ALSO: Aerial operations, American; Aeronautics, Military; Afghan War, 2001-; Air warfare; Bombing, Aerial; Drone aircraft; Dyson, Freeman J.; Geneva Conventions (1949); Military applications; Robotics; Strategic bombers; Views on bombing; War; War and society PDF IMAGES
71-77	Article Search and destroy: The Pentagon's losing battle against IEDs By Andrew Cockburn SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Appropriations and expenditures; Career as explosive ordnance technician; Casualties; Detection; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Pentagon (Va.); Prevention; Rules and practice; Chavez, Tanos; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
78-79	Fiction Snake By Rebecca Evanhoe PDF IMAGES
81-83	New books/Review New books By Larry McMurtry SEE ALSO: Biography; Chanel, Coco; Coco Chanel: an intimate life (Book); Criticism and interpretation; Vaughan, Hal; Sullivan, John Jeremiah; Chaney, Lisa; Dirda, Michael; Jackson, Michael; On Conan Doyle (Book); Pictorial works; Pulphead (Book); Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir; Sleeping with the enemy (Book) PDF IMAGES
84-90	Review Voyagers: The restless genius of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Bruce Chatwin By Robert Macfarlane SEE ALSO: A time of gifts (Book); Between the woods and the water (Book); Chatwin, Bruce; Chatwin, Elizabeth; Shakespeare, Nicholas; Fermor, Patrick Leigh; Pictorial works; The traveller's tree: a journey through the Caribbean Islands (Book); Travel writing; Under the sun: the letters of Bruce Chatwin (Book) PDF IMAGES
90-94	Review La doublure: The singular fabrications of Raymond Roussel By Ben Marcus SEE ALSO: Authors, French; Criticism and interpretation; How I wrote certain of my books (Book); Impressions of Africa (Book); Ford, Mark; Mark Polizzotti; Roussel, Raymond; Raymond Roussel and the republic of dreams (Book); Raymond Roussel/How I wrote certain of my books (Book); Winkfield, Trevor PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Taking steps By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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Innocence Is No Defense	10:36 AM Nov 4
“Dryboarding” and Three Unexplained Deaths at Guantánamo	1:05 PM Nov 9
The Rizzo Investigation	6:17 PM Nov 11
Abramoff 2.0	11:57 AM Nov 16
Leopardi: The Eve of the Feast Day	4:43 PM Nov 18
The Justice Cascade: Six Questions for Kathryn Sikkink	2:15 PM Nov 21
Propagandastan	1:52 PM Nov 22
Quesnay: The Despotism of Natural Law	11:42 AM Nov 23
The DSK Affair Unravels?	4:40 PM Nov 28
A Club of Liars, Demagogues, and Fools	11:12 AM Nov 30

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