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February 2012

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Steven Salerno SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Monopolistic Competition; Overweight men PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On The accidental universe, from December 2011: Letter By Daniel C. Dennett Letter By Owen Gingerich On Abraham's children, from December 2011: Letter By Joseph Dana Letter By Aram Ayalon Letter By Bernard Avishai On Drip, Jordan, from December 2011: Letter By Joseph Dana PDF IMAGES
6-9	Easy chair/Article Act of contrition By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Autobiography; Capitol punishment (Book); Career as lobbyist; Career as U.S. president; Conspiracy theories; Free enterprise; Liddy, G. Gordon; Daugherty, H.M. (Harry Micajah); In retrospect (Book); Abramoff, Jack; Lobbyists; 2001-2009; North, Oliver; Repentance; Baker, Robert Gene; McNamara, Robert S.; Scandals; The inside story of the Harding tragedy (Book); Under fire: an American story (Book); Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel); Wheeling and dealing: confessions of a capitol hill operator (Book); Will (Book) PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article The elusive American Century By Andrew J. Bacevich SEE ALSO: Americanization; Cold War; Exceptionalism; Luce, Henry Robinson; Life (American periodical); Twentieth century PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration Absence By Bing Han SEE ALSO: Exercise; Parks PDF IMAGES
16-18	Readings/Article What happened in Vegas By John D'Agata and Jim Fingal SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Essay; Las Vegas; Presley, Levi; Nevada; Objectivity; Suicide PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
17	Readings/Article Fit to sprint By Judith Matloff SEE ALSO: Journalists; Occupy Wall Street (Protest movement); Reporters and reporting; Vocational guidance PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration Motiv By Tilo Baumgärtel SEE ALSO: Artists' studios; Painting PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article Head trauma SEE ALSO: Autopsy; Brain; Career as attorney; Dead bodies (Law); Death and burial; Siracuse, George; Shipley, Jesse; Medical Examiners Law; Morgues; Preservation; Feldman, Samantha; Views on students' trip to morgue PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Solo show SEE ALSO: Art Commissions; Arts In Prisons; Prison reformers; Prisoners; Prisoners' writings, American; Prisons; Solitary confinement PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Beat to the punch By William S. Burroughs SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Capote, Truman; Burroughs, William S. PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Bad wrap SEE ALSO: Christo; Colorado; Conceptual art; Environment (Art); Environmental conditions; Installations (Art); Jeanne-Claude PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Terms and conditions By Richard Stallman SEE ALSO: Career as free-software developer; Computer programmers; Congresses; Correspondence; Stallman, Richard PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Girl with a pencil By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction A gray pottery head By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Fiction With red chair By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Black smoke By Sarah Anne Johnson SEE ALSO: Coasts; Smoke; Trees PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Fiction The leftover eye By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Head of the big man By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem January 13th By Joe Brainard PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By William Eggleston (Photog.) SEE ALSO: African American men PDF IMAGES
27-34	Article Killing the competition: How the new monopolies are destroying open markets By Barry C. Lynn SEE ALSO: Amazon.com (Firm); Beer Industry; Book industries and trade; Career as Lucasfilm software engineer; Career as poultry grower; Class actions (Civil procedure); Competition; Democracy; Lazear, Edward P.; Fear; Free enterprise; Information technology; Weaver, Mike; Monopolies; Monopolistic Competition; Hariharan, Siddarth; Trials, litigation, etc.; Views on competition PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
35-44	Article All politics is local: Election night in Peru's largest prison By Daniel Alarcón SEE ALSO: Democracy; Elections; Peru; Prisoners; Prisons PDF IMAGES
45-54	Article Some assembly required: Witnessing the birth of Occupy Wall Street By Nathan Schneider SEE ALSO: Demonstrations; Occupy Wall Street (Protest movement); Political activists; Protest movements; Wall Street (New York, New York); Zuccotti Park (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
55-59	Collection Vote here By Michael Mergen (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photo Precinct 10, Saugus, MA (2009) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES Photo Early voting #8, Las Vegas, NV (2010) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Las Vegas; Nevada; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES
56	Photo Early voting #4, Las Vegas, NV (2010) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Las Vegas; Nevada; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES Photo Precinct 52220, Moreno Valley, CA (2010) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES Photo Precinct 9, Shelby Township, MI (2010) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES
57	Photo Early voting #16, Reno, NV (2010) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Nevada; Reno; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES Photo Ward 64, Precinct 11, Philadelphia, PA (2008) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES
58	Photo Precinct 22016, Corona, CA (2010) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Corona; Elections; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES Photo Precinct 207, Meridian, OK (2010) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Meridian; Oklahoma; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES Photo Ward 63, Precinct 16, Philadelphia, PA (2008) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES
59	Photo Precinct 28080, Providence, RI (2010) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Providence; Rhode Island; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES Photo Early voting #10, Las Vegas, NV (2010) By Michael Mergen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Elections; Las Vegas; Nevada; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES
60-64	Fiction Old Mrs. J By Stephen Snyder (Trans.) and Yoko Ogawa PDF IMAGES
65-67	New books/Review New books By Larry McMurtry SEE ALSO: Biography; Keaton, Diane; Kennan, George F. (George Frost); George F. Kennan: an American life (Book); Frémont, John Charles; John Lewis Gaddis; Kearny's march: the epic creation of the American west, 1846-1847 (Book); Pictorial works; Kearny, Stephen Watts; Then again (Book); Groom, Winston PDF IMAGES
68-73	Review Never such innocence: The afterlives of Philip Larkin By Giles Harvey SEE ALSO: Motion, Andrew; Thwaite, Anthony; Biography; Letters to Monica (Book); Larkin, Philip; Philip Larkin: a writer's life (Book); Pictorial works; Selected letters of Philip Larkin (Book) PDF IMAGES
74-78	Review The banality of avarice: Why the finance industry never had to lie By Jennifer Szalai SEE ALSO: Stewart, James B.; Tangled webs: how false statements are undermining America: from Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff (Book) PDF IMAGES
79	Puzzle/Department Funny valentine By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
80	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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All the Missing Souls: Six Questions for David Scheffer	4:13 PM Feb 7
Franco is still dead…	4:30 PM Feb 9
Schopenhauer: Causality and Synchronicity	10:18 AM Feb 13
The Afghanistan Dilemma	9:27 AM Feb 29
Good News from Ashgabat	12:18 PM Feb 29

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	1:38 PM Feb 3
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The Uses of a Long G.O.P. Contest (for the Democrats)

By John R. MacArthur

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Feb 16

Obama’s Big Shtick By Barry C. Lynn	1:58 PM Feb 3
Web Content: The February 2012 Issue By Harper's Magazine	12:16 PM Feb 8
Correction	2:54 PM Feb 23

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June 2012

WILD THINGS
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By David Samuels

MY OLD MAN
On the road, a Life real and Imagined
By Clancy Martin

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