Harper's Magazine: March 2012

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March 2012

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	Illustration [Cover art] By David Brinley SEE ALSO: Fasting; Health aspects; Obesity; Overweight men; Reducing diets; Starvation; Weight loss PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Stop payment! A homeowners' revolt against the banks, from January 2012: Letter By Norman Hawker On Calderón's war, from January 2012: Letter By Nik Steinberg Letter By Ioan Grillo On The long draw, from January 2012: Letter By Steven Rowan Letter By Jeremy Miller On Killing the competition, from February 2012: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
6-9	Easy chair/Article Debt, be not proud By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William); Conservatism; Debts, Public; Depressions; Financial crises; Government spending policy; Hoover, Herbert; 1929; New Deal, 1933-1939; Recessions; Paul, Ron; Views on United States economic policy PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-17	Readings/Article Same-as-that By Dale Peck SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Warhol, Andy; Biography; Career as motion picture director; Carmen (Sound recording); Correspondence; Peck, Dale; Gays; Bizet, Georges; Piserchio, Gino; Love-letters; Membership PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
14	Readings/Poem Timetable By Iain Galbraith (Trans.) and Winfried Georg Sebald PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration Dreamboat By Cecily Brown SEE ALSO: Dreams; Fantasy; Sexual fantasies PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Article Not with a bang By Xiyun Yang (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Fireworks; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Mourning customs PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Photo Water spray By Weegee (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Recreational use; Sprinklers; Water PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Blagging rights SEE ALSO: Leveson, Brian; Career as barrister; Career as Lord Justice; Cell phones; Barr, David; Eavesdropping; Impostors and imposture; Investigative reporting; Journalistic ethics; Journalists; McMullan, Paul; Priests; Reporters and reporting; Security measures; Sexual behavior; Tabloid newspapers; Trials Impostors And Imposture; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article Hail to the thief SEE ALSO: Riot Control; Riots; Violence; Youth PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article London falling SEE ALSO: Accidents; Insurance Claims; Insurance companies PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Fuss budgeting SEE ALSO: Economic forecasting; Federal Reserve banks; Monetary policy; Periodicals; Rhetoric; Rhetorical Criticism; United States. Federal Open Market Committee PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Photo Royal Netherlands Army #10 By Jeroen Hofman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Barracks; Barracks And Quarters; Netherlands PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Family history By Lorin Stein (Trans.) and Valérie Mréjen SEE ALSO: Biography; Families; Family; Grandparent and child; Mréjen, Valérie PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Anders the crusader By Julia Grønnevet (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Breivik, Anders; Capacity and disability; Mass murder; Massacres; Norway; Psychological testing; Psychology; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
27-38	Article Starving your way to vigor: The benefits of an empty stomach By Steve Hendricks SEE ALSO: Macfadden, Bernarr; Biography; Cancer; Career in cancer research; Diabetes; Epilepsy; Fasting; Health aspects; Tanner, Henry S. (Henry Samuel); Longevity; Nutritional aspects; Overweight men; Physiological aspects; Pictorial works; Reducing diets; Starvation; Hendricks, Steve; Longo, Valter; Views on fasting; Weight loss PDF IMAGES
39-44	Article The tyranny of breast-feeding: New mothers vs. La Leche League By Elisabeth Badinter SEE ALSO: Child care; Motherhood; Working mothers PDF IMAGES
45-52	Article Ivan the Recumbent, or Demjanjuk in Munich: Enduring the “last great Nazi war-crimes trial” By Lawrence Douglas SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Demjanjuk, John; Munich; Trials (Genocide); Trials, litigation, etc.; War crime trials PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
53-60	Article A civil tongue: South Sudan tries to learn English By Janine Di Giovanni SEE ALSO: Literacy; Poverty PDF IMAGES
61-64	Fiction Thief By Jess Walter PDF IMAGES
65-67	New books/Review New books By Larry McMurtry SEE ALSO: King, Clarence; Hemingway, Ernest; Aspinwall, Jane Lee; Davis, Keith F.; Pictorial works; Trogdon, Robert W.; Spanier, Sandra Whipple; The letters of Ernest Hemingway: 1907-1922 (Book); Thinking the twentieth century (Book); O'Sullivan, Timothy H.; Timothy H. O'Sullivan: the King Survey photographs (Book); Snyder, Timothy; Judt, Tony PDF IMAGES
68-72	Review Retouching the void: The WTC memorial's impossible compromises By Mark Kingwell SEE ALSO: Career as architect; Memorials; Arad, Michael; Planning; Public art; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 PDF IMAGES
73-78	Review Mammonomania: A reappraisal of Dutch Golden Age paintings By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Waiboer, Adriaan E.; Art criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Metsu, Gabriel; Gabriel Metsu (Book) PDF IMAGES
79	Puzzle/Department Alphabetical orders By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
80	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
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MR. FISH
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COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Justin Stone	7:15 PM Mar 5
Weekly Review By Ryann Liebenthal	6:26 PM Mar 12
Weekly Review By Anthony Lydgate	5:28 PM Mar 19
Weekly Review By Sara Breselor	7:20 PM Mar 26

By Scott Horton

The United States of Fear: Six Questions for Tom Engelhardt	9:07 AM Mar 2
Uzbekistan as a Values Challenge for NATO	11:48 AM Mar 5
Holder Dances the Assassination Tango	12:07 PM Mar 8
The Drone Secrecy Farce	9:48 AM Mar 13
The Drone War on Journalists	2:31 PM Mar 14
The Man Without a Face: Six Questions for Masha Gessen	11:11 AM Mar 16
What the Stevens Case Tells Us	2:52 PM Mar 19
Justice in Afghanistan	4:08 PM Mar 21
Merton: The Distortion of Dogma	2:17 PM Mar 23
First Criminal Charges Brought in Polish Probe of CIA Black Site	12:32 PM Mar 27
U.N. Official Presses Query into Gitmo Deaths	10:44 AM Mar 28
Pakistan On the Brink: A Conversation With Ahmed Rashid	9:06 AM Mar 29

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	12:43 PM Mar 2
A Cartoon	11:46 AM Mar 9
A Cartoon	9:43 AM Mar 16
A Cartoon	10:32 AM Mar 23
A Cartoon	12:01 PM Mar 30

Shredding the U.S. Labor Force Is a Bipartisan Project

By John R. MacArthur

11:25 AM

Mar 15

The Empty Stomach: Fasting to Beat Jet Lag By Steve Hendricks	1:25 PM Mar 5
Six Questions for Thomas Frank By Simone Richmond	9:51 AM Mar 12
The DOJ’s Misguided Antitrust Attack By Barry C. Lynn	1:34 PM Mar 14
John Leonard’s Reading for My Life By Jeremy Keehn	11:28 AM Mar 15
Correction: Letters, April 2012	9:40 AM Mar 19
Six Questions for Alan Lightman By Hasan Altaf	11:43 AM Mar 21

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June 2012

WILD THINGS
Animal Nature, Human Racism, and the Future of Zoos
By David Samuels

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

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