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September 2002

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Susan Crile SEE ALSO: Explosions PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Innocents abroad, from June 2002: Letter By Stephen Anderson Letter By John Boley Letter By Jason Sohigian On Illiteracy campaign, from June 2002: Letter By Kathryn Kasch On Unmade in America, from June 2002: Letter By Glenn Cheney Letter By Craig Addison Letter By David Creelman On Teachings of Don Fernando, from June 2002: Letter By Michael L. Gray On The boys of winter, from June 2002: Letter By Lewis Rice On The last refuge, from June 2002: Letter By René Ouellette On Impossible histories, from July 2002: Letter By Paul Kennedy Letter By Andrew Tallis On Cold and sweet, from August 2002: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Compass bearings By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Business ethics; Corporations; Corrupt practices; Bush, George W.; Oratory PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Sharon, Ariel; Clinton, Bill; Bolivia; Great Britain; Business; California; Canada; United States Congress; Democracy; Diet; Disasters; Disease; Education; France; Bush, George W.; Israel; Judaism; Labor; The Media; Monkeys; NATO; Nevada; Nuclear Energy; Palestine; Religion; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Science; September 11; Sport; Television; Terrorism; United States of America; War; Zimbabwe PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-17	Readings/Article Universal compassion By Natalia Ginzburg and Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Cultural relativism; Sympathy PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article It could happen to you SEE ALSO: Bombings; Book-making (Betting); Israel PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Nuria (1997-2000) By Euan Uglow SEE ALSO: Female nude in art PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Prisoners' dilemmas By Vered Levy-Barzilai SEE ALSO: Ahmed, Arin; Ben-Eliezer, Benjamin; Bombings; Career as Israeli defense minister; Career as Palestinian suicide bomber; Israel; Palestinian Arabs; Stiti, Rasan PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Photo Wind, Golan By Neil Folberg (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Golan Heights; Trees; Winds PDF IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article Bad and badder SEE ALSO: 1969-; Northern Ireland PDF IMAGES
22-27	Readings/Fiction Baudolino tries his hand at writing By Umberto Eco PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration Mesokingdom twelve (panorama) By Carroll Dunham PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article The verbs of Boro By Mark Abley SEE ALSO: Verb PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Saven sie Deutsch SEE ALSO: Foreign words and phrases; German language; Language purism PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration Study for summer By Verne Dawson SEE ALSO: Nature; Summer PDF IMAGES
27-29	Readings/Article Mad Thai SEE ALSO: Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand; Public opinion; Thailand PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article The kryptonite ceiling By Gail Simone SEE ALSO: Comic strip characters; Heroines in literature PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Vote no hoo-ha SEE ALSO: Australia; Election law; Name; Political candidates; Political parties PDF IMAGES
30-33	Readings/Article Yes By Brian Doyle SEE ALSO: Etymology; Gaelic language; Parenting PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration Christmas—apples By Andrei Zadorine PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Illustration Sensations of an infant heart By Walton Ford PDF IMAGES
35-43	Article A year later: Notes of America's intimations of mortality By Mark Slouka SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Christianity and culture; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 PDF IMAGES
47-55	Article A frontier fable of gun control and federal justice By Terry Ike Clanton and Wyatt Earp SEE ALSO: Arizona; Career as gunfighter; Gun control; Historiography; Clanton, Ike; Holliday, John Henry; Law enforcement; Outlaws; Portraits; Tombstone; Tombstone (Ariz.); Earp, Wyatt PDF IMAGES Collection Big brother at the OK Corral PDF IMAGES
50	Article The parable of Tombstone: A timeline By Jack Hitt SEE ALSO: Chronology; Tombstone (Ariz.) PDF IMAGES
53	Article Wyatt Earp: A brief history of an icon By Jack Hitt SEE ALSO: Arizona; Biography; Literature and history; Tombstone; Tombstone (Ariz.); Earp, Wyatt PDF IMAGES
56-57	Article A prince among thieves? Smugglers, forgers, and a Mesoamerican mystery By Adam Davidson SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Craniology; Stegmeier, Frank; Indians of Central America; Oaxaca; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
58-65	Article Le Divorce: Do Europe and America have irreconcilable differences? By Nicholas Fraser SEE ALSO: Anti-Americanism; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 PDF IMAGES
66-72	Fiction Something for nothing By Tim Gautreaux PDF IMAGES
73-74	New books/Review New books By Guy Davenport SEE ALSO: Anger; Mussolini, Benito; Keizer, Garret; Magness, Jodi; Mussolini (Book); Pictorial works; Bosworth, R.J.B.; Restraining rage: the ideology of anger control in classical antiquity (Book); The archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Book); The enigma of anger: essays on a sometimes deadly sin (Book); Harris, William V. (William Vernon) PDF IMAGES
75-80	Review Consuming culture: When our critics won't turn off the TV By Lee Siegel SEE ALSO: Sullivan, Andrew; Criticism and interpretation; Fuzzy math: the essential guide to the Bush tax plan (Book); Mass media criticism; Krugman, Paul R.; Goldstein, Richard; Sontag, Susan; The attack queers: liberal society and the gay right (Book) PDF IMAGES
81-84	Review A white man's burden: Rudyard Kipling's pathos and prescience By Geoffrey Wheatcroft SEE ALSO: Biography; Gilmour, David; Pictorial works; Kipling, Rudyard; The long recessional: the imperial life of Rudyard Kipling (Book) PDF IMAGES
87	Puzzle/Department Triplets By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
88	Quiz/Department Southern exposure PDF IMAGES

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