Harper's Magazine: June 2006

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June 2006

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Art Spiegelman SEE ALSO: World politics PDF IMAGES
4-6	Department [Untitled Department] PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article On simple human decency By Ben Metcalf SEE ALSO: Assassination attempts; Assassination attempts—Humor; Freedom of speech; Bush, George W.; Rhetoric; Threats PDF TEXT IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Abortion; Clinton, Bill; Central Intelligence Agency; Cancer; China; Civil Rights; Economics; Education; Fashion; Florida; Food; France; Bush, George W.; Immigration; Iraq; Ireland; Forms of Justice; Law; Massachusetts; The Media; Mendacity; Mexico; New York City; Obesity; Oil; Pennsylvania; Prison; Profanity; Religion; Saudi Arabia; Sport; Technology; Telecommunications; Television; Terrorism; Torture; Transportation; United States of America; Washington, D.C. PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-19	Readings/Fiction Darkness at seven By Will Eno PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Song 911 is a joke By Scott Wolfson SEE ALSO: Songs and music; United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Self-portrait as fireworks By Julie Heffernan SEE ALSO: Fireworks; Heffernan, Julie; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article For future reference SEE ALSO: Subject headings, Library of Congress PDF TEXT IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration The deception of matter By Allison Cortson SEE ALSO: Antique and classic cars; Teenage automobile drivers PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article We know Jack SEE ALSO: Abramoff, Jack; Legal correspondence; Trials (Fraud); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Duck and cover By Jonathan Trouern-Trend SEE ALSO: Bird watching; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Military life; Personal narratives, American PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Square one SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Board games; Juvenile literature; United Nations PDF TEXT IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article Green zone SEE ALSO: Coalition Provisional Authority; Correspondence; Corrupt practices; Iraq War, 2003-; Philip Bloom; Political corruption; Reconstruction; Stein, Robert J.; Trials (Burglary); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Hard times By Nathalia Bernhard (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Indonesia; Poor; Subsistence economy PDF TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Photo East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1997 By Justin Kimball (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Vacations PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The American boyfriend By Hwawon Lim and Young-nan Yu (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Life sentences SEE ALSO: Citizenship; Examinations, questions, etc; Naturalization PDF TEXT IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article Dearest bug By Martha Gellhorn SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Hemingway, Ernest; Novelists, American; War correspondents PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Check them out SEE ALSO: Directories; Prejudices; Stereotype (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article The good news SEE ALSO: Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Journalistic ethics; Objectivity; Propaganda; Public Relations PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Tom and Jewry By Hassan Bolkhari SEE ALSO: Iran PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration The incredulity of Saint Thomas By William Daniels SEE ALSO: Art; Jesus Christ; Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da; Parodies, imitations, etc.; Resurrection; Thomas, Apostle, Saint PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Within rigid limits By Christian Bök PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration Untitled (Cedars of Lebanon, 1968, #5) By John Jurayj SEE ALSO: Cedar of Lebanon PDF IMAGES
31-42	Article Stabbed in the back! The past and future of a right-wing myth By Kevin Baker SEE ALSO: Bush, George W.; History, Military; Military leadership; Mythology; 2001-; Wagner, Richard; Right and left (Political science); Right-wing extremists; Symbolism; War; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Yalta Conference (1945) PDF TEXT IMAGES
43-52	Article Drawing blood: Outrageous cartoons and the art of outrage By Art Spiegelman SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Denmark; Editorial cartoons; Islam; Muslims; Muhammad, Prophet; World politics PDF IMAGES
53-65	Article The blind man and the elephant: Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, and thousands of overweight teenagers party in the ruins of Detroit for Super Bowl XL By David Samuels SEE ALSO: Detroit; Football; Musicians; Performances—Michigan—Detroit; Rolling Stones (Rock group); Wonder, Stevie PDF IMAGES
66-67	Article Heavy hitter: The end of cheap oil and the rise of the House of Chávez By Gregory Palast SEE ALSO: Balance of trade; Career as Venezuelan president; Energy policy; Chávez Frias, Hugo; Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; Petroleum products; Petroleum reserves; Prices; Venezuela PDF IMAGES
69-77	Article A foreign affair: On the great Ukrainian bride hunt By Kristoffer A. Garin SEE ALSO: Mail order brides; Marriage brokerage; Sex tourism; Single women; Ukraine PDF TEXT IMAGES
78-84	Fiction The little boy By Mary Gaitskill PDF IMAGES
85-86	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: A woman of uncertain character (Book); Biography; Sigal, Clancy; Galeano, Eduardo H.; Let me finish (Book); Proust, Marcel; Proust at the Majestic: the last days of the author whose book changed Paris (Book); Davenport-Hines, R.P.T. (Richard Peter Treadwell); Angell, Roger; Voices of time: a life in stories (Book) PDF IMAGES
87-92	Review Fallen boundaries: Deborah Eisenberg's big short stories By Jonathan Dee SEE ALSO: Eisenberg, Deborah; Short stories, American; Twilight of the superheroes (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-98	Review A culture of concealment: The artful warnings of Nadezhda Mandelstam By Francine Prose SEE ALSO: Hope against hope: a memoir (Book); Mandel'shtam, Nadezhda; Poets, Russian PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Diametricode By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
MR. FISH
PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Weekly Review By Paul Ford	Jun 20
Weekly Review By Theodore Ross	Jun 27
Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge	Jun 13
Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi	Jun 6
Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	Jun 26

By Ken Silverstein

Politics Makes Strange Homeowners	Jun 6
House for Sale: more on Letitia White and Trident Systems	Jun 9
Baeriana: a chat with Robert Baer	Jun 21
Archie Jefferson: read his pitch to São Tomé	Jun 28
Creating the Inevitable	Jun 5
Meet William Jefferson's Political Supporters	Jun 14
Goldberg's War	Jun 30
The Companies They Keep: Congressman Jefferson, family, and friends	Jun 19
Report from Guantánamo	Jun 29
Dark Days at the CIA	Jun 23
Insurance by the Mile	Jun 1
The Cunningham–Shirlington Connection	Jun 15
William Jefferson: Tollbooth Operator on the Road to Africa	Jun 7