Harper's Magazine: July 2006

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July 2006

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	Illustration Barndance (detail) By Martin Mull SEE ALSO: Ballroom dancing PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from December 2005: Letter By Joseph A. Dimasi On American coup d'etat, from April 2006: Letter By Lee R. Pools Letter By Richard H. Kohn On Trickling down, from April 2006: Letter By Michael Cox On The new road to serfdom, from May 2006: Letter By Myron J. Gordon On Antenna of the universe, from May 2006: Letter By Gerry Cechony On A man so various, from May 2006: Letter By William Burke Letter By Catherine Atherton PDF IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Class act By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Civil disobedience; Death and burial; Democratic Party (U.S.); Platforms; Political activists; Coffin, William Sloane PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Brazil; Great Britain; Bush Administration; Business; Children; Economics; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Folly; Food; Bush, George W.; Insects; Ireland; Mexico; Obesity; Oil; Peru; The Republican Party; Sport; Superstition; Telecommunications; Television; Transportation PDF TEXT IMAGES
13-15	Readings/Article Godot for it By Stephen Brown SEE ALSO: Creative ability in business; Marketing; Philosophy; Beckett, Samuel; Success in business PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Book 'em By Sophia Kishkovsky (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Culture; Police psychology PDF IMAGES
15-17	Readings/Article Hitting the bottom line SEE ALSO: Corporal punishment; Fresno; Orlando, Janet; Security systems; Selling; Sex role in the work environment; Sexual harassment of women; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Photo Alamo Square By Liz Hickok (Photog.) SEE ALSO: San Francisco (Calif.) PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article One flu over the cuckoo's nest By Clay Johnson SEE ALSO: Civil service; Megalomania; 2001-; Personnel management PDF TEXT IMAGES
17-18	Readings/Article Assault and batteries SEE ALSO: Police brutality PDF TEXT IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration Weak end 4a By Christine Weber SEE ALSO: Aged; Crimes against PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Hell or high water SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Juvenile delinquents; New Orleans PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article Sentimental journey By Matt Goulding (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Illegal aliens; Mexican-American Border Region; Simulation methods; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Poem To the world's end By Sappho, M.L. (Martin Litchfield) West (Trans.), and Jim Powell (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Hallowed be your name By Marilynne Robinson SEE ALSO: Fundamentalism; Historiography; Liberalism (Religion); Protestant churches PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article The family line SEE ALSO: Biography—History and criticism; Cairo; Christianity; Egypt; Errors, inventions, etc.; Family; Bush, George; Bush, George W.; Islam; Islam and politics; Muhammad, Prophet; Relations; The life of Mohammed: founder of the religion of Islam, and of the empire of the Saracens (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration Scheune By David Schnell SEE ALSO: Barns PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Final markdown By Jessica Mitford SEE ALSO: Coffins; Correspondence; Costs; Death and burial; Mitford, Jessica; Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, Robert F.; Treuhaft, Robert; The American way of death (Book); Undertakers and undertaking; Views on funeral costs PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Illustration Almost through and up By David Alexander SEE ALSO: Growth; Trees PDF IMAGES
29-36	Article Breaking the chain: The antitrust case against Wal-Mart By Barry C. Lynn SEE ALSO: Antitrust law; Consumption (Economics); Free enterprise; Wal-Mart (Firm) PDF TEXT IMAGES
37-56	Fiction Happyland (part I) By J. Robert Lennon PDF IMAGES
57-63	Article Under the olive trees: Waiting for the war in Iran By Christopher De Bellaigue SEE ALSO: Iran; 1997-; 2001-; Nuclear facilities PDF IMAGES
64-68	Collection Life and limb: drawings from Brooke Army Medical Center By Steve Mumford PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Casualties; Fort Sam Houston; Iraq War, 2003-; Physical therapy; Pictorial works; Rehabilitation; Leonard, Robert; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES
65	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Casualties; Fort Sam Houston; Iraq War, 2003-; Parker, Matthew; Tuufuli, Maverick; Physical therapy; Pictorial works; Rehabilitation; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Santellana, Bacillio; Casualties; Fort Sam Houston; Iraq War, 2003-; Antwi, Kofi; Myers, Patrick; Physical therapy; Pictorial works; Rehabilitation; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES
66-67	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Casualties; Fort Sam Houston; Iraq War, 2003-; Jones, John; Physical therapy; Pictorial works; Rehabilitation; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES
67	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Casualties; Fort Sam Houston; Iraq War, 2003-; Rice, Leondrae; Physical therapy; Pictorial works; Rehabilitation; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Soule, Andy; Archery; Dale, Brandon; Casualties; Fort Sam Houston; Iraq War, 2003-; Tuufuli, Maverick; Physical therapy; Pictorial works; Rehabilitation; Training; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES
68	Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Hilliard, Amy; Casualties; Fort Sam Houston; Iraq War, 2003-; Physical therapy; Pictorial works; Rehabilitation; Veterans, Disabled; Bondarenko, Yegor PDF IMAGES Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Steve Mumford SEE ALSO: Casualties; Fort Sam Houston; Iraq War, 2003-; Physical therapy; Pictorial works; Rehabilitation; Leonard, Robert; Veterans, Disabled PDF IMAGES
70-80	Article Highway run: Touring Mexico in a death-race revival By Jake Silverstein SEE ALSO: Automobile racing; Career in automobile racing; Silverstein, Jake; Personal narratives PDF IMAGES
81-82	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Biography; Diop, Boubacar Boris; Guène, Faïza; Greeley, Horace; Horace Greeley: champion of American freedom (Book); Kiffe kiffe tomorrow (Book); Murambi, the book of bones (Book); Williams, Robert Chadwell; Greenfield, Robert; Timothy Leary; Timothy Leary: a biography (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-88	Review Master of the convincing lie: Nathanael West's brilliant distortions By David Gargill SEE ALSO: A cool million and the dream life of Balso Snell (Book); West, Nathanael; Novelists, American; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
89-94	Review A fanatical mind: The novelist and the terrorist By Robert Boyers SEE ALSO: Updike, John; Terrorist (Book); Terrorists PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department It's a toss-up By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Weekly Review By Paul Ford	Jul 18
Weekly Review By Theodore Ross	Jul 25
Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge	Jul 11
Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi	Jul 4

By Ken Silverstein

We Fight Why?	Jul 17
Could U.S. Troops End Up in Lebanon?	Jul 26
Another Trip to the Curt Weldon Employment Agency	Jul 25
A Corrupt, Brutal Dictator in the White House? Maybe just for a visit	Jul 14
Sources: Negroponte Blocks CIA Analysis of Iraq “Civil War”	Jul 21
Congressman Tom Feeney: An Appreciation	Jul 12
Six Questions for Augustus Richard Norton on Lebanon	Jul 19
“I Was a Mouthpiece for the American Military”	Jul 7
Up the River with (Howard) Kurtz	Jul 24
The Al Qaeda Clubhouse: Members lacking	Jul 5
Six Senators to Negroponte: Produce a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq Now	Jul 26
Six Questions for Wayne White on the Bush Administration and the Middle East Crisis	Jul 23
“A Statue to Reason”	Jul 13
Silver Linings and a Cross of Gold	Jul 18
Six Questions for Eli Flyer on Military Recruiting and Abuses in Iraq	Jul 27
Down the Memory Hole: Kostiw latest victim of post-Goss purge	Jul 17