Harper's Magazine: August 2006

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August 2006

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	Illustration Inferno (detail) By Sandow Birk SEE ALSO: Hell PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The spirit of disobedience, from April 2006: Letter By Len Gougeon On Congo's daily blood, from April 2006: Letter By Daniel Mains On Swine of the times, from May 2006: Letter By Sheila Peck On On simple human decency, from June 2006: Letter By John O'Brien Letter By Jeffrey W. Cubley Letter By Caleb King On Drawing blood, from June 2006: Letter By John Goldbach Letter By John G. Warne On Letters, from July 2006: Letter By Martin Delaney PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article God mode By Luke Mitchell SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Cuba; Guantánamo Bay; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Hunger strikes; Liberty; Medical ethics; Prisoners; Video games PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: Africa; United States Air Force; Animal; Arizona; California; Cancer; Colombia; United States Congress; Democracy; Entertainment; Excretion; Fashion; Folly; Gambling; Genetics; Georgia; Homosexuality; Iraq; Israel; Forms of Justice; Labor; Louisiana; Missouri; North Carolina; Oil; Palestine; U.S. Department of Defense; Pollution; Race; Sport; Telecommunications; Texas PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article Did somebody say genocide? By Gérard Prunier SEE ALSO: Civil War, 1983-; Darfur; Darfur (Sudan); Genocide; Sudan; United Nations; World politics PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article General Tso's diction SEE ALSO: Conversation and phrase books; Conversation and phrase books (for soldiers, etc.) PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Storm over a marsh By James Lahey SEE ALSO: Marshes; Storms PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By David Rathman SEE ALSO: Boxing matches PDF IMAGES
20-23	Readings/Article We have killed your God SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Civil War, 1983-; Darfur; Darfur (Sudan); Refugees, Political; Sudan PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Rotations of the cross By Matthew W. Maslen and Piers D. Mitchell SEE ALSO: Crucifixion; Jesus Christ PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article The rhythm and the damage done By Luc Bovens SEE ALSO: Birth control; Pro-life movement PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Bright young things SEE ALSO: Alumni and alumnae; Obituaries PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Illustration Bar By Kirsten Everberg SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article That's entertainment SEE ALSO: Eppolito, Lou; Mafia trials; Motion picture industry; Police corruption; Screenwriters; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Pale fire PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Poem Barbados By Frederick Seidel PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] By Alekos Hofstetter SEE ALSO: Abandonment; Housing PDF IMAGES
28-29	Readings/Article Right off the end forever By Spalding Gray SEE ALSO: Actors; Biography; Death and burial; Gray, Spalding PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration Mis-Communicated By Nicola López PDF IMAGES
31-40	Article Imagine there's no oil: Scenes from a liberal apocalypse By Bryant Urstadt SEE ALSO: Congresses; Energy conservation; Energy policy; Forecasting; Models; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum reserves; Power resources; Renewable energy sources PDF IMAGES
41-58	Fiction Happyland (part II) By J. Robert Lennon PDF IMAGES
59-66	Article It's not easy being green: Are weed-killers turning frogs into hermaphrodites? By William Souder SEE ALSO: Abnormalities; Career as biologist; Environmental policy; Frogs; Rules and practice; Hayes, Tyrone; United States. Environmental Protection Agency PDF IMAGES
67-73	Article The minister of civil war: Bayan Jabr, Paul Bremer, and the rise of the Iraqi death squads By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Jabr, Bayan; Career as Coalition Provisional Authority administrator; Career as Iraqi interior minister; Coalition Provisional Authority; Collaborationists; Death squads; Insurgency; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Bremer, L. Paul; 2003-; Officials and employees; Political corruption; Postwar reconstruction; Shiites PDF TEXT IMAGES
74-77	Article A paper trail of tears: How casino-rich tribes are dealing members out By Vince Beiser SEE ALSO: Family; Gambling; Gomez, John, Jr.; Tribal citizenship PDF IMAGES
79-82	Fiction August By Mark Slouka PDF IMAGES
83-84	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob); Humboldt, Alexander von; Wilentz, Amy; An episode in the life of a landscape painter (Book); Biography; Aira, César; I feel earthquakes more often than they happen: coming to California in the age of Schwarzenegger (Book); Rugendas, Johann Moritz; Pictorial works; The Humboldt current: nineteenth-century exploration and the roots of American environmentalism (Book) PDF IMAGES
85-94	Review Half a man, half a metaphor: The unknown Kafka By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Kafka, Franz; Kafka: the decisive years (Book); Stach, Reiner; Frisch, Shelley Laura PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Vicious circles By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

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Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Aug 22

By Ken Silverstein

Six Questions for Gordon Adams on the Real Cost of the “War on Terror”	Aug 3
The Bush Administration and Godwin's Law	Aug 31
Obiang's Banking Again: State Department and Washington insiders help a dictator get what he wants	Aug 9
Invested Interests: Analyzing Rep. Jeb Bradley's Portfolio	Aug 28
AIPAC Points to Legion of Doom in Bekaa Valley	Aug 10
Ethiopian Generals and Somali Warlords	Aug 2
Six Questions for Michael Scheuer on National Security	Aug 23
Followup: Senate Passes National Intelligence Estimate Amendment	Aug 4
Israel's March of Folly	Aug 7
Inward Bound: Rep. Jeb Bradley's kids found work with their dad	Aug 29
Six Questions for Senator Edward Kennedy on the Iraq “Civil War” and the Democrats	Aug 31