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April 2002

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	Photo 99 cent By Andreas Gursky (Photog.) SEE ALSO: 21th century; Self-service stores; Supermarkets PDF IMAGES
4-93	Letters/Department Letters On American jihad, from January 2002: Letter By Edan Denkel On The trillion-dollar hustle, from January 2002: Letter By Andrew G. Biggs Letter By Benjamin W. Dooley Letter By George M. Perry Letter By Thomas Fran On The fifties, from January 2002: Letter By Campbell Craig Note/correction On Worlds enough, from January 2002: Letter By Wallace Matson PDF IMAGES
7-11	Notebook/Article Leviathan By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: International economic relations; 2001-; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Argentina; Sharon, Ariel; The Axis of Evil; Clinton, Bill; Business; Cambodia; Canada; China; Colorado; United States Congress; Crime; Democracy; Diet; Drugs; Economics; Education; Enron; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Finance; Bush, George H. W.; Bush, George W.; Gnomes; Kissinger, Henry; Israel; Japan; Forms of Justice; Missouri; Nevada; Nuclear Energy; Oil; bin Laden, Osama; U.S. Department of Defense; Science; The Taliban; Taxes; United States of America; Utah; Washington, D.C. PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article The idea of a local economy By Wendell Berry SEE ALSO: Economic development; Environmental aspects; International economic relations; Social ecology PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Asbury Park, New Jersey By Andrew Lenaghan SEE ALSO: Abandonment of property; Asbury Park; Asbury Park (N.J.) PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Poem Litany By Billy Collins PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article Compensations of philosophy By Roger Scruton SEE ALSO: Career in Japanese tobacco industry; Public Relations; Public relations consultants; Browell, Quentin; Tobacco industry PDF IMAGES
21-23	Readings/Article Hamburger helpless SEE ALSO: Ownership; Prize contests in advertising PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Photo For doomed youth SEE ALSO: Cigarettes; Foreign service; Operational rations (Military supplies); Posters PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Photo Ser Modelo(To Be a Model) By Martín Weber (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Achievement motivation in children; Circus performers PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Judicial review By David Hurd SEE ALSO: Starobin, Christina; Desperation (Book); Plagiarism; King, Stephen; Trials, litigation, etc.; Verdicts PDF IMAGES
24-27	Readings/Article No exit By Uri Blau and Tal Haran (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Guard duty; Israel; Israel. Army PDF TEXT IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration Witch's head By August Natterer SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Witches PDF IMAGES
27-31	Readings/Article The limit By Christian Wiman SEE ALSO: Family violence; Hunting accidents PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Reach out and crush someone SEE ALSO: Dial-a-message telephone calls; Rejection (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration Three dumpsters By Valeri Larko SEE ALSO: Refuse and refuse disposal PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article The numbing of the American mind: Culture as anesthetic By Thomas de Zengotita SEE ALSO: Popular culture; Postmodernism; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 PDF IMAGES
41-56	Article Eternal winter: Lessons of the Aral Sea disaster By Tom Bissell SEE ALSO: Effect of human beings on; Environmental conditions; Environmental degradation; Nature; Uzbekistan PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article Perfect sound forever: The birth of the blues, stamped in black shellac By Eddie Dean SEE ALSO: Collection and preservation PDF IMAGES
60-70	Article Over there: Afghanistan, after the fall By Scott Carrier SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Journeys—Afghanistan; 2001-; Personal narratives, American; Carrier, Scott; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
71-72	New books/Review New books By Guy Davenport SEE ALSO: Stille, Alexander; American essays; Davidson, Avram; Darwin's Audubon: science and the liberal imagination (Book); Bauman, Deron; Weissmann, Gerald; Farmelo, Graham; Davis, Grania; Wessells, Henry; It must be beautiful: great equations of modern science (Book); Mockingbird (Book); Holmes, Richard; Sidetracks: explorations of a romantic biographer (Book); The future of the past (Book); The other nineteenth century: a story collection (Book); The other nineteenth century (Book) PDF IMAGES
72-76	Review Ashes of centuries: Czeslaw Milosz's epic lyricism By Helen Hennessy Vendler SEE ALSO: Milosz, Czeslaw; New and collected poems 1931-2001 (Book); Portraits; To begin where I am: selected essays (Book); Translations into English PDF IMAGES
77-82	Review There died a myriad: What was the Great War for again? By Nicholas Fraser SEE ALSO: Causes; Dallas, Gregor; 1918: war and peace (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-91	Fiction Visiting hours By Judy Budnitz PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Mine, all mine By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Quiz/Department Lost horizons PDF IMAGES

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