Harper's Magazine: October 2005

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October 2005

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tullio Pericoli SEE ALSO: Aerialists; Fountain pens PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Doing time, from July 2005: Letter By P. Scott Brown On Scared straight, from August 2005: Letter By David Hahn On The Christian paradox, from August 2005: Letter By Christina Stern Letter By Nancy Berneking On None dare call it stolen, from August 2005: Letter By Scott McLarty Letter By Mieke Earkens PDF IMAGES
6	Notice Subscriber alert SEE ALSO: American periodicals; Circulation; Marketing PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article On message By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Fascism; 2001-; Eco, Umberto; Views on fascism PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Africa; United States Army; Belgium; Business; California; Drugs; Economics; Entertainment; Europe; Food; Genetics; Bush, George W.; Holidays; Iraq; Literature; London; The Media; Medicine; Netherlands; U.S. Department of Defense; Prison; Race; Russia; Sex; Sexual Assault; Sudan; Telecommunications; Television; Terrorism; United Nations; United States of America; Weapons of Mass Destruction PDF TEXT IMAGES
13-17	Readings/Article The logic of disengagement By Edward Luttwak SEE ALSO: Counterinsurgency; Democracy; Influence; Insurgency; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Military policy; 2003- PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Photo Summoning the storm By Shana ParkeHarrison (Photog.) and Robert ParkeHarrison (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Meteorologists; Rainstorms; Weather control PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Article Multi-prayer game SEE ALSO: Islam; Leeds; Video games PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Representative democracy SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Elections; Functional literacy; 2001-; Signs and symbols PDF IMAGES
17-18	Readings/Article Sheena is a program manager By Dan Ward and Chris Quaid SEE ALSO: Management PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article The beat degeneration SEE ALSO: Beat generation; Health; Kerouac, Jack; Medical care; United States. Navy PDF IMAGES
20-21	Readings/Article This is just to pay By Michael Lewis SEE ALSO: Poets, American PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo Modern master By Andy Diaz Hope (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Hope, Andy Diaz; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES
22-23	Readings/Article The gamer's guide to girls SEE ALSO: Dating (Social customs); Men PDF IMAGES
23-25	Readings/Article Drawing the line SEE ALSO: Standards PDF IMAGES Readings/Article You know tit when you see it SEE ALSO: Censorship; Fairfax; Libraries PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Alone (active) By Robyn O'Neil SEE ALSO: Outdoor life; Solitude PDF IMAGES
25-28	Readings/Article The death of a chair By Doris May Lessing SEE ALSO: Cabinetmakers; Chairs PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration One picture for each page of Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow By Zak Smith SEE ALSO: Pynchon, Thomas PDF IMAGES
31-37	Article The uses of disaster: Notes on bad weather and good government By Rebecca Solnit SEE ALSO: Carnival; Community life; Interpersonal relations; Natural disasters; Revolutions PDF TEXT IMAGES
39-52	Article Why experimental fiction threatens to destroy publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and life as we know it: A correction By Ben Marcus SEE ALSO: Criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Jonathan Franzen; Literature, Experimental; Realism in literature PDF TEXT IMAGES
55-60	Article Debbie does salad: The Food Network at the frontiers of pornography By Frederick Kaufman SEE ALSO: Cookery; Pornography; Production and direction; Sex in television; Television PDF IMAGES
61-70	Article Fool at war: A mirthful and tragic tale of Kester, the English jester By Jay Kirk SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Fools and jesters; Hastings, Battle of, 1066; Historical reenactments; Historiography; Harold, King of England; William I, King of England; Military leadership; William I, 1066-1087 PDF IMAGES
72-75	Article Condemnation nation: The big business of eminent domain By Joshua Kurlantzick SEE ALSO: Eminent domain; Political questions and judicial power; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
75-77	Article Class participation: How local fund-raising promotes school inequality By Eilene Zimmerman SEE ALSO: Educational equalization; Educational fund raising; Endowments PDF IMAGES
78-80	Collection Two fictions By Margaret Eleanor Atwood PDF IMAGES Fiction Chicken Little goes too far By Margaret Eleanor Atwood PDF IMAGES
80	Fiction The tent By Margaret Eleanor Atwood PDF IMAGES
81-82	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: A man without a country (Book); Biography; Kurt Vonnegut; Mark Twain (Book); Watkins, Mel; Powers, Ron; Clemens, Samuel Langhorne; Fetchit, Stepin; Stepin Fetchit: the life and times of Lincoln Perry (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-88	Review White knees: Zadie Smith's novel problem By Wyatt Mason SEE ALSO: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); On beauty (Book); Pictorial works; Smith, Zadie PDF IMAGES
88-94	Review America: The opera By Jeffrey Mehlman SEE ALSO: A great improvisation: Franklin, France, and the birth of America (Book); Franklin, Benjamin; Biography; Pictorial works; Schiff, Stacy PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Foursomes By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES