Harper's Magazine: September 2006

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September 2006

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	Illustration The teacher (sub a) (detail) By Marlene Dumas SEE ALSO: Teachers PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Stabbed in the back! The past and future of a right-wing myth, from June 2006: Letter By Tony Hiss Letter By Al Rodbell On A foreign affair, from June 2006: Letter By Terese Wills On Breaking the chain, from July 2006: Letter By Uwe E. Reinhardt Letter By Mona Williams PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Lionhearts By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; 2001-; Profiteering PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index SEE ALSO: AIDS; Alcohol; Animal; Arkansas; Australia; California; China; Democracy; The Democratic Party; Dogs; Economics; Education; Genetics; Homosexuality; Idaho; Immigration; India; Forms of Justice; The Media; Medicine; Mendacity; Mexico; U.S. Department of Defense; Poverty; Privacy; Profanity; Prostitutes; Race; The Republican Party; Sex; Sexual Assault; Technology; Telecommunications; United Nations; United States of America; Virginia PDF TEXT IMAGES
15-16	Readings/Article The light of Muhammad By Eliot Weinberger SEE ALSO: Birth; Creation (Islam); Muhammad, Prophet PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Mark's twang SEE ALSO: Humorists, American; Twain, Mark; Oratory PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration Inscape: Pine By Shona Macdonald SEE ALSO: Pine PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Gendered like Beckham By Christopher Glazek (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Career as soccer player; Celebrities; Beckham, David; Interviews; National characteristics, German; Sloterdijk, Peter; Soccer PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Poem Colonoscopy By John Updike PDF IMAGES
19-22	Readings/Article First-person shooters By Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris SEE ALSO: Colorado; Columbine High School (Littleton, Colo.); Littleton; Teenagers' writings, American PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Illustration In reticence, a thousand voices By Morgan Craig SEE ALSO: Abandonment of property; Industrial buildings PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Yarn burning By William Faulkner SEE ALSO: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Article His prerogative By Kola Boof SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Biography; Boof, Kola; Morocco; bin Laden, Osama; Sexual behavior; Terrorists; Houston, Whitney PDF TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Mission accomplished SEE ALSO: Zarqawi, Abu Mus`ab; Death and burial; Insurgency; Iran; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; 1997-; 2001-; Qaida (Organization); War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem My Iraq war By Lynn Chu PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Casualty Fridays SEE ALSO: Baghdad; Baghdad (Iraq); Career as U.S. secretary of state; Civilian relief; Rice, Condoleezza; Insurgency; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Militia movements; Records and correspondence PDF TEXT IMAGES
26-29	Readings/Article Spook memory By Christopher S. Stewart SEE ALSO: Assassination attempts; Hijacking of aircraft; Interviews; Tito, Josip Broz; Kavaja, Nikola; Officials and employees; Serbia and Montenegro; Terrorists; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Illustration Au matin By Bo Bartlett SEE ALSO: Doors PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Collection Readings By Jill Greenberg (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Haughty By Jill Greenberg (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Monkeys PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Regal By Jill Greenberg (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Monkeys PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Worried By Jill Greenberg (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Monkeys PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Dude By Jill Greenberg (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Monkeys PDF IMAGES
31-39	Article Grand theft education: Literacy in the age of video games By Thomas de Zengotita, Jane Avrich, Raph Koster, and Steven Johnson SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Simulation methods PDF IMAGES
41-50	Article American gulag: Prisoners' tales from the War on Terror By Eliza Griswold SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Afghanistan; Career as attorney for Center for Constitutional Rights; Cuba; Guantánamo Bay; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Legal assistance to prisoners; Military interrogation; Prisoners; Foster, Tina Monshipour; Yemen PDF IMAGES
51-59	Article Misinformation intern: My summer as a military propagandist in Iraq By Willem Marx SEE ALSO: Career as summer intern in Iraq; Internship programs; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Press and propaganda; Propaganda; Marx, Willem PDF TEXT IMAGES
61-76	Fiction Happyland (part III) By J. Robert Lennon PDF IMAGES
77-84	Article Let's go, country: The new Latin left comes to Peru By Daniel Alarcón SEE ALSO: Career in Peruvian politics; Corrupt practices; Elections; New Left; Humala, Ollanta; Peru; Political participation PDF IMAGES
85-86	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: A woman in Jerusalem (Book); Yehoshua, Abraham B.; Back to Bologna (Book); Biography; Lazarus, Emma; Emma Lazarus (Book); Schor, Esther H.; I feel bad about my neck and other thoughts on being a woman (Book); Mao's last revolution (Book); Pessl, Marisha; Dibdin, Michael; Schoenhals, Michael; Freudenberger, Nell; Ephron, Nora; Pictorial works; MacFarquhar, Roderick; Special topics in calamity physics (Book); The dissident (Book); Mao, Tse-tung PDF IMAGES
87-92	Review Ballad for Americans: The stories of Edward P. Jones By Wyatt Mason SEE ALSO: All Aunt Hagar's children (Book); Jones, Edward P.; Lost in the city (Book); The known world (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
93-98	Review Magic and greed: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's new novel By Randy Boyagoda SEE ALSO: Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Wizard of the crow (Book) PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Trivia spelling bee By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
100	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

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Made for TV: Bill Clinton's Flawed Record on Terrorism	Sep 11
Kosovo: Mission Accomplished?	Sep 15
Old News from New Hampshire	Sep 5
Revolving Door to Blackwater Causes Alarm at CIA	Sep 12
Six Questions for Dr. Emile A. Nakhleh on the CIA and the Iraq War	Sep 20
Six Questions on the American “Gulag” for Historian Kate Brown	Sep 22
Six Questions for Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten on the Midterm Elections	Sep 28
Six Questions for Robert Young Pelton	Sep 7
The Patty Roe Story: the interesting ethics of Congressman Rick Renzi	Sep 14
Meet the Counterterrorism-Industrial Complex	Sep 19
Suppressed UN Document: war criminals—not “freedom fighters”—hold some top posts in Afghanistan	Sep 6