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January 2002

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tullio Pericoli SEE ALSO: Gambling; Swindlers and swindling PDF IMAGES
4-90	Letters/Department Letters On Harper's index, from November 2001: Note/correction On Understanding ovation, from October 2001: Letter By Dean Thompson On Dinosaur dreams, from October 2001: Letter By Michael Rossi Letter By Jennifer Riedl Cross On Death in slow motion, from October 2001: Letter By Felisa F. Finn Letter By Barbara Zeller Letter By Harry Hefty On A Gaza diary, from October 2001: Letter By Mark Sonnenklar Letter By Joan O. Rothberg Letter By David William Tyler Letter By Matthew Budman Letter By David Shortbaun Letter By Duane Carr PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article American jihad By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Bush, George W.; Military policy; 2001-; Press and politics; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Social policy PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Al Qaeda; Anthrax; Crime; Democracy; Food; Freedom; Department of Homeland Security; Iraq; Forms of Justice; Language & Linguistics; Massachusetts; The Media; New York City; U.S. Department of Defense; Religion; Saudi Arabia; Science; September 11; Suicide; Superstition; Technology; Television; Terrorism; Transportation PDF TEXT IMAGES
13-18	Readings/Article Stumbling into battle By Michael Eliot Howard SEE ALSO: Career as terrorist leader; Islamic countries; Military policy; 2001-; bin Laden, Osama; Terrorists PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Burying the bodies By Ray Glenn SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Editing; Press coverage; War on Terrorism, 2001-; War victims PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Illustration Oil By Lee Stoetzel SEE ALSO: Petroleum; Storage PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article It's morning in Afghanistan By Ronald Reagan SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; 1975-1985; Soviet occupation, 1979-1989; World politics PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Swap the violence By Heesoon Yin (Photog.), Adel Hana (Photog.), and Doug Mills (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Blood donors; Rumsfeld, Donald; Pataki, George E.; Bush, George W.; Palestine; Pictorial works; Giuliani, Rudolph W.; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Special forces (Military science); Trading cards; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Arafat, Yasir PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration Camp David By Dexter Dalwood PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Our two cents SEE ALSO: Coins; Collectors and collecting; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article The ego and the id SEE ALSO: Identification cards; Security measures; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 PDF TEXT IMAGES
20-25	Readings/Article My big adventure By Omar Sheikh SEE ALSO: Career as terrorist; Hostage negotiations; Kidnapping; Muslims; Sheikh, Omar PDF TEXT IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Oh, the humanities SEE ALSO: Curricula; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; University of California, Los Angeles PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration The Capri Motel By Jane Fisher SEE ALSO: Bedrooms; Male friendship; Motels PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Words of the war SEE ALSO: Lexicology; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
25-27	Readings/Article Into the rising sun By Yoshitaro Yonetsu, Masahisa Uemura, Furukawa Takao, Fumikazu Kishi, and Nicholas Voge (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Bomber pilots; Kamikaze airplanes PDF TEXT IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration Bright birch, deep winter By Kesler E. Woodward SEE ALSO: Birch; Winter PDF IMAGES
27-29	Readings/Article No step By Nicholson Baker SEE ALSO: Air travel; Airplanes; Wings PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Poem Opposed glimpse By Anne Carson PDF IMAGES
31-38	Article The trillion-dollar hustle: Hello Wall Street, goodbye social security By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Capitalists and financiers; 2001-; Privatization; Social Security; Social security taxes; Working class PDF IMAGES
39-52	Article Browsing for gold: Adventures in the rare-book trade By Guy Lesser SEE ALSO: Rosenbach, A.S.W. (Abraham Simon Wolf); Antiquarian booksellers; Book collecting; Career as antiquarian bookseller; Stevens, Henry; Illustrations; Tolkien, J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel); Carroll, Lewis; Pictorial works; Rare books; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
53-62	Article On message: A theater of war at the Pentagon By David Samuels SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. secretary of defense; Rumsfeld, Donald; Pentagon (Va.); Press coverage; Reporters and reporting; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
63-64	New books/Review New books By Guy Davenport SEE ALSO: Carson, Anne Conover; Biography; Cattle; Cattle: an informal social history (Book); Pound, Ezra; Carlson, Laurie M.; Howard, Luke; Meteorology; Rudge, Olga; Olga Rudge and Ezra Pound: “What thou lovest well . . .” (Book); Poets, American; Hamblyn, Richard; The invention of clouds: how an amateur meteorologist forged the language of the skies (Book) PDF IMAGES
64-70	Review The fifties: Another view By John Lukacs SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Cold War; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Eisenhower and Churchill: the partnership that saved the world (Book); Harry and Ike: the partnership that remade the postwar world (Book); Ike's spies: Eisenhower and the espionage establishment (Book); Influence; Humes, James C.; 1953-1961; Nineteen fifties; Churchill, Winston, Sir; Ambrose, Stephen E.; Neal, Steve PDF IMAGES
70-78	Review Worlds enough: Travels in an adolescent genre By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis SEE ALSO: Banvard's folly : thirteen tales of renowned obscurity, famous anonymity, and rotten luck (Book); Darwin's radio (Book); Errors, Scientific; Frankenstein (Book); Bear, Greg; Verne, Jules; Literature and science; Mary Shelley (Book); Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Seymour, Miranda; Collins, Paul; Science fiction; The mysterious island (Book); Young adult fiction PDF IMAGES
79-83	Article Arms and the man: Saturday night in West Virginia By Kathy Dobie SEE ALSO: Boxing; West Virginia PDF IMAGES
84-87	Fiction The new female head By Ben Marcus PDF IMAGES
91	Puzzle/Department Every which way By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
92	Article Small world SEE ALSO: Foreign news; Television broadcasting of news PDF IMAGES

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