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June 2003

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Teun Hocks SEE ALSO: Burglars PDF IMAGES
4-86	Letters/Department Letters On The posthuman condition, from April 2003: Letter By James M. Unger On Cause for dissent, from April 2003: Letter By Robert P. Bolles Letter By Lewis Akenji On No more unto the breach, from April 2003: Letter By Kaveh Soroush Letter By Ed Finn Letter By Eugene Spake Letter By Charles H. Anderson On Speak of the devil, from April 2003: Letter By Noah Silbert Letter By Brendan I. Koerner On Estranged brothers, from April 2003: Letter By Bernard Avishai Letter By Marat Grinberg Letter By Jason R. Cherniak On I spy, from May 2003: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article The demonstration effect By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Causes; Iraq War, 2003-; Military policy; 2001- PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Bears; Business; California; Canada; Cancer; Colombia; Democracy; Disease; Dwarves; Energy; Entertainment; Bush, George W.; Iraq; Israel; Labor; London; Medicine; Michigan; Minnesota; Monkeys; Oil; Palestine; U.S. Department of Defense; Pollution; Hussein, Saddam; Saudi Arabia; Television PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article This happens every day By Rachel Corrie SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Gaza Strip; Israel; Women political activists PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Poem Awhile By Wislawa Szymborska, Rick Hilles (Trans.), and Maja Jablonska (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Gymnasium in a WPA-built school in Wheatland, eastern New Mexico, July 17, 1992 By Steve Fitch (Photog.) SEE ALSO: New Mexico PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Shlock and awe SEE ALSO: Iraq War, 2003-; Trademarks PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Illustration Train to Jungfrau By William Wegman SEE ALSO: Jungfrau; Scenic railways; Switzerland PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Fiction The hotel By Robert Walser and Dominic Le Fave (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Fear itself By Michael Bernard Loggins SEE ALSO: Fear PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article The difficult poem By Charles Bernstein SEE ALSO: Explication PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Untitled (scientist at table) By Kojo Griffin SEE ALSO: Scientists PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Poem Straight outta Tikrit PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Poem The waste land By Hart Seely PDF IMAGES
27-31	Readings/Article After the riots By James Agee SEE ALSO: Detroit; Riots PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Sticky wicket By Scott Murray SEE ALSO: Cricket matches; Job stress; Sportscasters PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration Venice notebook 2001, #11 By Richard Serra PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article The dead kid stays in the picture By Taylor Donahue SEE ALSO: Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Motion picture locations; Motion pictures and the war PDF TEXT IMAGES
32	Readings/Illustration Page 80, paragraph 7 By Robert Rauschenberg SEE ALSO: Chairs PDF IMAGES
33-42	Article Get rich or get out: Attempted robbery with a loaded federal budget By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Budget deficits; Government spending policy; Political ethics; Taxation PDF IMAGES
43-51	Article The last Americans: Environmental collapse and the end of civilization By Jared M. Diamond SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Environmental degradation; Errors, inventions, etc.; Mayas PDF IMAGES
52-53	Article One-act farce: Deregulation by disputation By Bryant Urstadt SEE ALSO: Administrative agencies; Deregulation; Lobbying; Quality of products; Rules and practice PDF IMAGES
55-57	Article Home fires burning: Around the wartime capital By Wayne Biddle SEE ALSO: Iraq War, 2003-; 2001-; Politics and war PDF IMAGES
58-62	Article Bluebells: When war was in bloom By Paul West SEE ALSO: Biography; West, Paul; Veterans PDF IMAGES
63-70	Fiction Grace By Paula Fox PDF IMAGES
71-72	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: American massacre: the tragedy of Mountain Meadows (Book); Biography; Johnson, Charles Richard; Darwin and the barnacle (Book); Spurling, Hilary; Stott, Rebecca; Denton, Sally; Orwell, Sonia; The girl from the Fiction Department: a portrait of Sonia Orwell (Book); Turning the wheel: essays on Buddhism and writing (Book) PDF IMAGES
73-80	Review The man who knew too much: Stephen Jay Gould's opus posthumous By David Quammen SEE ALSO: Evolution (Biology); Pictorial works; Gould, Stephen Jay; The structure of evolutionary theory (Book) PDF IMAGES
80-84	Review The maximalist: Rediscovering Edward Whittemore's epic invention By David Cozy SEE ALSO: Whittemore, Edward; Jericho mosaic (Book); Jerusalem poker (Book); The Middle East; Nile shadows (Book); Sinai tapestry (Book) PDF IMAGES
87	Puzzle/Department Save one for me By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
88	Quiz/Department I do knots PDF IMAGES

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