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July 2002

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	Illustration The extraction of the stone of folly By Hieronymus Bosch SEE ALSO: Folly; Intellectuals; Learning and scholarship PDF IMAGES
4-90	Letters/Department Letters On Ex-con game, from March 2002: Letter By Katherine Harris Letter By Greg Palast On Leviathan, from April 2002: Letter By Chris Sorochin On The numbing of the American mind, from April 2002: Letter By Chuck Lewis On Eternal winter, from April 2002: Letter By Kevin Gilligan On Over there, from April 2002: Letter By Akhar Andkhoi On The corrections, from June 2002: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Uncommon sense By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Historiography; 1783-1815; Revolutionaries; Paine, Thomas PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Animal Rights; Clinton, Bill; Great Britain; California; United States Congress; Death Penalty; Democracy; Egypt; Energy; Entertainment; Food and Drug Administration; Fish and Other Aquatic Life; Florida; Folly; Freedom; Bush, George H. W.; Bush, George W.; Chávez, Hugo; Hunting; Illinois; Iraq; Israel; Japan; Ashcroft, John; Forms of Justice; Missouri; Nevada; Nuclear Energy; Palestine; Pollution; Pornography; Propaganda; Regulation; Religion; Russia; Science; Suicide Bombing; Syria; Television; Terrorism; Venezuela; War PDF TEXT IMAGES
13-17	Readings/Article The poverty of unbelief By Jonathan Rée SEE ALSO: Belief and doubt; Christianity and atheism; Philosophy PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article The root of all evil SEE ALSO: Baptists; Ethiopia; Evangelicalism PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo Northern Lake, Minnesota, 1995 By Koichiro Kurita (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Lakes; Minnesota PDF IMAGES
17-18	Readings/Article Stations of the boss SEE ALSO: Career in journalism; Dismissal of; Backus, Marty, Jr.; Personnel management; Religion in the workplace PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article The Lord's pager SEE ALSO: Lord's prayer; Parodies, imitations, etc. PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article Extrasensory deception SEE ALSO: Psychics; Telephone selling; Training of PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Death and the salesman By Tom Mabe SEE ALSO: Cemetery lots; Louisville; Selling; Suicidal behavior; Telemarketing PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Useful illusions By Durs Grünbein and Daniel Slager (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Diorama; Natural history; Natural history museums; Technique PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration I know who you are, I know what you've done By James Barsness SEE ALSO: Animals, Mythical PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Begun this clone war has SEE ALSO: Names; Onomasiology PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photo Dyke By Edwin Zwakman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Architectural models; Dikes (Engineering) PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Edgar Lissel (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bunkers (Fortification) PDF IMAGES
25-28	Readings/Article Pipe dreams By Lucas Helder SEE ALSO: Bombings; Mailboxes; Middle West; Terrorists PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Pay, Dick, pay By Marina Makanova (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Juvenile literature; 1991-; Russia (Federation); Tax evasion PDF IMAGES
28-30	Readings/Article Bill Gates is . . . SEE ALSO: Gates, Bill; Career as Microsoft chairman; Chief executive officers; Microsoft Corporation; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Illustration American landscape #37 By Rafael Sottolichio SEE ALSO: Express highways PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Have a Huang and a smile SEE ALSO: Brand name products; Coca-Cola Company PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Collection Readings By Alexis Rockman PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration German cockroaches By Alexis Rockman SEE ALSO: Cockroaches PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Little brown bat By Alexis Rockman PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Trash traders By Jane Avrich PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article Postmodern warfare: The ignorance of our warrior intellectuals By Stanley Eugene Fish SEE ALSO: Postmodernism; Views on ethics; War on Terrorism, 2001-; William J. Bennett PDF IMAGES
41-56	Article The forest primeval: A month in Congo's wildest jungle By Peter Canby SEE ALSO: Congo (Brazzaville); Journeys—Congo (Brazzaville); Knowledge—African elephant; Canby, Peter; Blake, Stephen; Wildlife conservation PDF IMAGES
57-63	Article In praise of imitation: On the sincerest form of flattery By Nicholas Delbanco SEE ALSO: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Imitation; Rhetoric PDF IMAGES
64-65	Article Through the perilous fight: When Americans suit up in the flag By Rob Whiteside SEE ALSO: Flags; Patriotism PDF IMAGES
67-68	New books/Review New books By Guy Davenport SEE ALSO: Brilliant orange: the neurotic genius of Dutch soccer (Book); By the hand of Mormon: the American scripture that launched a new world religion (Book); Winner, David; Lapatin, Kenneth D.S.; Mysteries of the snake goddess: art, desire, and the forging of history (Book); Givens, Terryl PDF IMAGES
69-74	Review Impossible histories: Why the many Islams cannot be simplified By Edward W. Said SEE ALSO: Lewis, Bernard; Islam; Islam: a short history (Book); Armstrong, Karen; What went wrong? Western impact and Middle Eastern response (Book) PDF IMAGES
74-81	Review Last the night: The abiding genius of Edna St. Vincent Millay By Cristina Nehring SEE ALSO: Biography; Epstein, Daniel Mark; Millay, Edna St. Vincent; Milford, Nancy; Savage beauty: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Book); What lips my lips have kissed: the loves and love poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Book); Women poets, American PDF IMAGES
82-87	Fiction Big Bear, California By Rebecca Curtis PDF IMAGES
91	Puzzle/Department Hidden hint By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
92	Quiz/Department America the mutable PDF IMAGES

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