Violence

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41-51	August 2007 Article Battling the hard man: Notes on addiction to the pornography of violence By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: Casualties; Iraq War, 2003-; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Violence PDF IMAGES
24	April 2000 Readings/Article See Dick defenestrate Jane SEE ALSO: Examinations; Study guides; Violence; Vocabulary tests PDF IMAGES
18	October 1999 Readings/Article The Falun Gong show SEE ALSO: Persecution; Violence PDF IMAGES
60-70	April 1998 Article And then there were none: On the Navajo reservation, a passion for blood sport By Debra Weyermann SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Indian reservations; La Plante, Marco; Murder; Navajo Indians; New Mexico; Violence PDF IMAGES
28-30	July 1993 Readings/Article Diary of a Belfast joyrider By Johnny McGivern SEE ALSO: Career as automobile thief; Irish Republican Army; McGivern, Johnny; Juvenile delinquents; Northern Ireland; Violence PDF IMAGES
72-74	December 1986 Article Truer than strange. Why I am not a short-story writer By Barbara La Fontaine SEE ALSO: Reality; Violence PDF IMAGES
64-68	July 1985 Article Our savage spectacle: New performers in the theater of cruelty By John P. Sisk SEE ALSO: Mazlish, Bruce; Cruelty; Cruelty in motion pictures; Delacroix, Eugène; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Motion picture : 1984); Schell, Jonathan; Laocoon (Book); Liberty leading the people (Painting); Politics and culture; Aron, Raymond; Berlin, Isaiah, Sir; The fate of the Earth (Book); The hedgehog and the fox (Book); The opium of the intellectuals (Book); The revolutionary ascetic (Book); Violence; Violence in motion pictures PDF IMAGES
28-33	September 1978 Article Against civil disarmament: On the futility of prohibiting guns By Don B. Kates SEE ALSO: Firearms ownership; Gun control; Violence PDF IMAGES
102	May 1974 Wraparound/Article How do I love thee? Let me put it on a nine-point scale By Zick Rubin SEE ALSO: Behaviorism (Psychology); Emotions; Sociological aspects; Violence PDF IMAGES
47-53	April 1970 Article The future of American violence By Richard Hofstadter SEE ALSO: New Left; Political violence; Violence PDF IMAGES
19-24	August 1968 Article America 1968: The politics of violence By Arthur Meier Schlesinger SEE ALSO: Protest movements; Violence PDF IMAGES
124-130	November 1966 Washington insight/Article The view from Africa By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Africa; Central Intelligence Agency; Foreign public opinion, African; 1960; Violence; Voice of America PDF IMAGES
16-24	January 1966 The editor's easy chair/Article Substitutes for violence By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Masculinity; Men; Violence; War PDF IMAGES
404	October 1943 Article Experimental rabbit By Thomas Hornsby Ferril SEE ALSO: Drill and tactics; Jackrabbits; Violence PDF IMAGES
331-332	August 1938 The lion's mouth/Article Philosophy of punitive action By Parke Cummings SEE ALSO: House furnishings; Punishment; Violence PDF IMAGES
384-386	February 1926 The lion's mouth/Article A sock on the jaw—French style By James Thurber SEE ALSO: Fighting (Psychology); Verbal self-defense; Violence PDF IMAGES
139	June 1864 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Iowa; Violence PDF IMAGES
279-280	January 1861 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Affray; Violence PDF IMAGES
702	October 1860 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Baltimore; Juvenile delinquents; Violence PDF IMAGES
133	June 1860 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Swine; Violence PDF IMAGES
567	March 1860 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Grocers; Violence PDF IMAGES

75-76	March 2003 New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Chase, Alston; Bizot, François; Harvard and the unabomber: the education of an American terrorist (Book); Oe, Kenzaburo; On the natural history of destruction (Book); Somersault (Book); The gate (Book); Violence; Sebald, Winfried Georg PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 819-820	April 1895 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Pirates; Pemberton, Max, Sir; The sea wolves, a novel (Book); Violence PDF IMAGES

Jan 2005	Average number of Americans injured every year by air rifles, paintball weapons, and BB guns : 22,000	Harper's Index Source: Danielle Laraque, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (N.Y.C.)
Aug 2002	Price a Las Vegas filmmaker charges through his website for a film of homeless men fighting each other: $19.95	Harper's Index Source: Extreme Entertainment (Las Vegas)
Feb 2000	Rank of assault among the top causes of injuries for which teenage boys were hospitalized in New York State in 1998: 1	Harper's Index Source: New York State Department of Health (Albany)
Oct 1998	Number of “Assault Recovery” insurance policies sold to school employees in the last year: 207	Harper's Index Source: Horace Mann Life Insurance Company (Springfield, Ill.)
May 1998	Percentage of violent offenders in state prisons whose crime was committed under the influence of alcohol alone: 21	Harper's Index Source: The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (N.Y.C.)
Apr 1998	Months after Martin Luther King Jr. publicly called the U.S. the “world's greatest purveyor of violence” that he was killed: 2	Harper's Index Source: Martin Luther King Jr. Library (Atlanta)

November 19, 2006	Researchers from Vienna and Massachusetts were studying aggression in fruit flies by crushing the heads of female fruit flies and encouraging two males to fight over the corpses.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Reuters
August 29, 2006	Researchers warned that countries with unnaturally high male-to-female population ratios, such as China and India, could foster violence, organized crime, and terrorism.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Reuters
March 7, 2006	Yanni was arrested for allegedly hitting his girlfriend.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Smoking Gun
October 28, 2004	Fistfights broke out among Christians from different sects at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which is said to be the site of Golgotha, where Jesus was crucified, and the site of his tomb. "There was a lot of hitting going on," said a witness. "Police were hit, monks were hit, there were people with bloodied faces."	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Guardian
July 10, 2004	In Shreveport, Louisiana, police arrested a man in a wheelchair for shooting a man on crutches who apparently hit the accused over the head with a crutch.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Shreveport Times
April 2, 2004	A brawl broke out at an anger-management seminar at a high school in Maryland.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Baltimore Sun
March 24, 2004	Political violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
March 18, 2004	Ethnic violence broke out in Kosovo again as Albanians drove Serbs from their homes.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Reuters
February 22, 2004	Attorney General Bill Lockyer dismissed Governor Schwarzenegger's demand as "a statement designed for consumption at the Republican convention" and said that it was "preposterous," the kind of exaggerated rhetoric that inspires hate crimes.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: San Francisco Chronicle
January 16, 2001	A naked man was walking around the Bronx stabbing people with a large pair of scissors.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

25	May 1995 Readings/Photo Triptych: Men in the cities By Robert Longo (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Businesspeople; Cities and towns; Men; Violence PDF IMAGES

17	October 2004 Readings/Illustration Graphic chemicals By Dasha Shishkin SEE ALSO: Crimes against; Violence PDF IMAGES
36	October 2000 Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Laylah Ali SEE ALSO: Hanging; Interpersonal relations; Violence PDF IMAGES

SEPTEMBER 2008

TYRANNY OF THE TEST
One Year as a Kaplan Coach in the Public Schools
By Jeremy Miller

THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR
Searching for Deadly Toys in China’s Pearl River Delta
By Donovan Hohn

WILLOWS VILLAGE
Story by Dagoberto Gilb

Also: Vivian Gornick and Francine Prose

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