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April 2007

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	Illustration Shakespeare striding through a storm-ridden landscape (detail) By Giovanni Battista Cipriani SEE ALSO: Pictorial works; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On Catching out, from January 2007: Letter By Helen M. Sramek On Pathologies of hope, from February 2007: Letter By David N. Miller Letter By Mark Fine Letter By Linda Bulloch Letter By Carl Briggs Letter By Steve Salerno Letter By Edward Korczinski Letter By Phil Davis On Jamais encore, from February 2007: Letter By Jean-Pierre Émond On Dead end, from February 2007: Letter By Ron Robin Letter By Edward Luttwak On On the rights of Molotov Man, from February 2007: Letter By Henry Jacobson Letter By Jon Jonakin Letter By Geoff Hart Letter By Gloria Good Letter By Marc Antony Alexis Letter By Carina Gunnerson On The ecstasy of influence, from February 2007: Letter By Lawrence Lessig Letter By Mark Polizzotti Letter By Dave Madden Letter By Jonathan Lethem PDF IMAGES
13-15	Notebook/Article Driverless By Bernard Avishai SEE ALSO: Career as Israeli prime minister; Career as Palestinian president; Olmert, Ehud; Israel; Jewish-Arab relations; Abbas, Mahmoud; The Middle East; 1993-; 2001-; Palestinian Arabs PDF IMAGES
17	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
19-23	Readings/Article The uncontained war By Zbigniew Brzezinski SEE ALSO: Diplomatic history; Iraq War, 2003-; Jewish-Arab relations; The Middle East; Military policy; 2001- PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article The lion of Kabul By Lawrence Wright SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Animal welfare; Kabul; Kabul (Afghanistan); Lions; The Taliban; Zoo animals PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo Drift By Anne Hardy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Leaves PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Sound off By William O. Odom SEE ALSO: Iran; Iraq War, 2003-; Logistics; Military policy; Syria PDF IMAGES
23-24	Readings/Article Ctrl-alt-deceit SEE ALSO: Class actions (Civil procedure); Iowa; Microsoft Corporation; Monopolistic competition; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Rooked SEE ALSO: Computer chess; Corrupt practices; Elections; Netherlands; Reliability; Voting-machines PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Photo Hansaviertel °03, Berlin By Marc Räder (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Balconies; Berlin; High-rise apartment buildings PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Conan and the barbarians SEE ALSO: Schwarzenegger, Arnold; Emigration and immigration; Mexicans; Views on immigration PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Article The long arm of the law By Sue Clark SEE ALSO: International travel regulations; Surgery PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article The great white north By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Emigration and immigration; Ethnic attitudes; Sex discrimination PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Whoever speaks ill of us By Josh Bergen (Trans.) SEE ALSO: America; Christianity; Columbus, Christopher; Converts; Indigenous peoples; 16th century; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration Tuch By Matthias Weischer SEE ALSO: Interior decoration; Statues PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Take back the night By Eric Hunt SEE ALSO: Assaults against; Wiesel, Elie; Hunt, Eric; Holocaust survivors; Night (Book); San Francisco; Trials (Assault and battery); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Fiction Colin Kelly's kids By Stanley Elkin PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration Shadow x 4 By Katrina Huston SEE ALSO: Bicycles; Shades and shadows PDF IMAGES
32-35	Readings/Article They call me Mr. Difficult By Tom LeClair SEE ALSO: Interviews; Novelists, American; Gaddis, William PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Poem Scenes of hell By Billy Collins PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Fiction Wolf whistle By John Edgar Wideman PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Illustration Bristlecones on the balcony By Olive Madora Ayhens SEE ALSO: Balconies; Urban ecology PDF IMAGES
37-46	Article The mirror of life: How Shakespeare conquered the world By Jonathan Bate SEE ALSO: Biography; Characters; Contemporary England; Garrick, David; Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Elizabeth, 1558-1603; English drama; Pictorial works; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
47-62	Illustration Down! Up! You're in the Iraqi army now By Joe Sacco SEE ALSO: Basic training (Military education); Comic books, strips, etc.; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Physical training; United States. Marine Corps PDF IMAGES
64-65	Article Dietary-industrial complex: Giving the Muslim world a taste of America By Jen Banbury SEE ALSO: Dietary laws; Food; Independent contractors; Iraq; Islam; Meals Ready to Eat (MREs); Muslims PDF IMAGES
67-75	Article Literary entrails: The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin By Cynthia Ozick SEE ALSO: Marcus, Ben; Book reviewing; Criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Jonathan Franzen; Literature, Experimental; Novelists, American; Popular culture; Realism in literature PDF IMAGES
76-88	Fiction The wizard of West Orange By Steven Millhauser PDF IMAGES
89-90	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: A political education: coming of age in Paris and New York (Book); Alexis de Tocqueville: a life (Book); Schiffrin, André; Brogan, Hugh; Lerman, Leo; The grand surprise: the journals of Leo Lerman (Book) PDF IMAGES
91-99	Review Berlin stories: The caustic energy of Weimar art By Francine Prose SEE ALSO: Schad, Christian; Wollheim, Gert H.; Gliter and doom: German portraits from the 1920s (Book); Stadelmann, Heinrich; Lücken, Iwar von; Herrmann-Neisse, Leni; Herrmann-Neisse, Max; Pictorial works; Portrait painting, German; Rewald, Sabine PDF IMAGES
99-106	Review The wandering years: Roberto Bolaño's nomadic fiction By Siddhartha Deb SEE ALSO: Amulet (Book); By night in Chile (Book); Andrews, Chris; Distant star (Book); Last evenings on Earth (Book); Wimmer, Natasha; Bolaño, Roberto; The savage detectives (Book) PDF IMAGES
107	Puzzle/Department Quo vadis? By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
108	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
NO COMMENT
MR. FISH
PUBLISHER'S NOTE

Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Apr 24
Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi	Apr 3
Weekly Review By Theodore Ross	Apr 10
Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	Apr 17

By Ken Silverstein

Donor Scorecard: God, Pizza and Sam Brownback	10:40 AM Apr 25
Tangled Webs	2:19 PM Apr 9
Lying Circus This is a dead eagle!	10:55 AM Apr 2
Missed Appointments: The CIA Responds	1:50 AM Apr 16
Donor Scorecard: Alan Solomont #1 in a weekly series that follows the money on the campaign trail	5:00 PM Apr 16
Diehl’s Deal: The Post’s Wannabe Broder	3:00 PM Apr 29
Myths of Iraq 101	10:25 AM Apr 6
Netanyahu's White House Visit	10:27 AM Apr 6
The JIN: Too good to be true	4:00 PM Apr 4
Democrats Getting Paid	1:35 AM Apr 22
Strategic Peril	11:56 AM Apr 3
“The Grave Dancer”	5:35 PM Apr 3
No Refuge An Iraqi in exile struggles to find asylum	4:00 PM Apr 11
The World Bank: Worse than Wolfowitz	6:35 PM Apr 23
The Gore Question	12:35 PM Apr 24
Own the Beachfront Home of Your Dreams! Just Call John Murtha	12:00 PM Apr 12
Thinktank to White House: Iran War Would Push Oil Prices Through the Roof	6:00 PM Apr 12
David Broder’s Golden Anniversary: Commemorating a Quarter-century of Hackery	12:10 PM Apr 30
Six Questions for Walker Todd on Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank	9:30 AM Apr 27
Sex and the C.I.A.	10:00 AM Apr 17
Meet Gregory Nickerson	8:40 PM Apr 17
Six Questions for Nicholas Shaxson on African Oil and American Foreign Policy	11:49 AM Apr 20

By Bertrolt Brecht

Brecht's Poem from the Life of Others	Apr 25
The Life of Others	9:00 AM Apr 25
The Culture of Lies at Rumsfeld's Pentagon	10:40 AM Apr 25
Firing of U.S. Attorney in Arizona Again Tied to Renzi Probe	10:40 AM Apr 25
Secrecy, Lies, and the Covert War on the Constitution	4:40 PM Apr 25
All Roads Lead to Rove	4:40 PM Apr 25
Is It Fascism Yet?	6:40 PM Apr 25
How to Break a Terrorist	8:00 AM Apr 9
On Fear: The South in Labor	8:00 AM Apr 9
The Guns of April, Revisited	9:00 AM Apr 9
Tales from Stasiland: Making the No-Fly List	9:00 AM Apr 9
Ethiopia and North Korea: Do the Right Thing	9:00 AM Apr 9
Fredo Fails Spring Training	9:00 AM Apr 9
More on Wisconsin U.S. Attorney Biskupic, a "Loyal Bushie"?	9:00 AM Apr 9
Karl Rove Faces More Inquiries About those emails . . .	6:00 PM Apr 9
Harold Hongju Koh on Human Rights	Apr 2
Troubles in the Land of Enchantment	2:15 PM Apr 2
Colonel with a Conscience	6:25 PM Apr 2
Timed Out	6:25 PM Apr 2
Credibility and the Department of Justice	6:25 PM Apr 2
Carol Lam, Dick Cheney and Mitchell Wade	6:25 PM Apr 2
Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner	6:25 PM Apr 2
The Torture Transcripts	6:25 PM Apr 2
The Plea Bargain of David Hicks	6:55 PM Apr 2
Before there was Purgegate	6:25 PM Apr 2
Petraeus' Secret Briefing, and Growing Rumors of GOP Unrest Over Iraq	4:25 PM Apr 2
The Era of Rove	6:25 PM Apr 2
Gingrich: ¿Español—lingua del Bario?	6:25 PM Apr 2
Listening Suggestion	6:25 PM Apr 2
Department of Injustice	6:50 PM Apr 2
Invasion of the Party Snatchers	11:45 AM Apr 2
George Washington on Justice	Apr 17
The Talented Mr. Griffin	2:00 PM Apr 18
Tony Blair to Succeed Wolfowitz?	2:00 PM Apr 18
The Real Sodomites	2:00 PM Apr 18
RNC Asserts Executive Privilege	2:00 PM Apr 18
Democrats Need Not Apply	2:50 PM Apr 18
British Court Proceedings Establish Bush Threatened to Bomb Al Jazeera	8:00 AM Apr 19
Rep. Doolittle’s House is Raided by FBI	8:30 AM Apr 19
Justice Department Ran Massive Campaign to Suppress Vote	8:50 AM Apr 19
The Tragedy at Virginia Tech, Viewed From Abroad	9:00 AM Apr 19
The Gonzales Testimony, A.M. Edition	2:30 PM Apr 19
Gonzales is a Disaster	3:50 PM Apr 19
Gonzales: It Depends On What the Meaning of “Improper” Is	4:00 PM Apr 19
The New Herostratus	4:40 PM Apr 19
George Orwell on War	Apr 16
Learning from Ike	1:30 AM Apr 16
The “Nothing Improper” Attorney General	1:30 AM Apr 16
Former Deputy Attorney General Heymann on U.S. Attorney Scandal	1:30 AM Apr 16
November 1972: Vonnegut vs. the Republicans	9:35 AM Apr 16
U.S. Attorney Scandal in New Mexico Deepens: The President Did It	10:00 AM Apr 16
Leading Conservatives Demand that Gonzales Go	2:00 PM Apr 16
Turkey and Iraq	2:00 PM Apr 16
Of Republicans and Banana-Republicans	2:00 PM Apr 16
Tales from Stasiland: The Bubbleboy President	2:00 PM Apr 16
Fredo’s Big Day	2:00 PM Apr 16
The Problem with Mercenaries	2:00 PM Apr 16
Montaigne on Belief	Apr 1
The Guns of April Revisiting Barbara Tuchman as sabers rattle in the Persian Gulf	Apr 1
No Comment Steinmeier survives, and tyranny gets a cheerleader	10:12 AM Apr 1
No Comment Is Syria the new Cuba? Is Afghanistan lost?	2:30 PM Apr 1
Heinrich Heine on Forgiveness	Apr 10
The Guantánamo Follies	9:00 AM Apr 6
President Carter: Bush Ordered Me Not to Go to Damascus	10:45 AM Apr 6
Meltdown at U.S. Attorney's Office in Minneapolis	11:00 AM Apr 6
U.S. Attorney in Wisconsin in the Hotseat	4:20 PM Apr 6
Heated Exchange Over Bilal Hussein at Museum of Television & Radio	10:00 AM Apr 24
U.S. Attorneys Scandal: The Pittsburgh to Anchorage Axis	10:00 AM Apr 24
U.S. Attorney Scandal Spreads to Los Angeles	5:00 PM Apr 24
U.S. Attorney Scandal Spreads to Kansas City	5:00 PM Apr 24
10 Steps to Fascism	5:00 PM Apr 24
Halberstam and the Duty of the Press	5:05 PM Apr 24
Follow the Yellowcake Road	1:20 PM Apr 10
A Nuclear Threat in the Persian Gulf	1:20 PM Apr 10
Confidence in Congress Rises	1:20 PM Apr 10
Bearing Candy and Flowers?	1:20 PM Apr 10
Another Biopsy for the Department of Justice	3:50 PM Apr 10
Torture and Mind Games: the Takes in London and Tehran	3:50 PM Apr 10
The Washington Post and War Crimes	5:00 PM Apr 10
The Secret War against Iran	9:30 AM Apr 4
The Easter Vacation Squabble	9:30 AM Apr 4
A Hostage Swap?	12:00 PM Apr 4
Fox-in-the-henhouse Government	1:00 PM Apr 4
Interim U.S. Attorney in Little Rock Accused of Résumé Inflation	1:00 PM Apr 4
American FBI Alumnus Goes Missing in Iran	1:00 PM Apr 4
Karl Rove's Danse macabre	1:00 PM Apr 4
Outsourcing Gitmo: The Ethiopian Camps	5:48 PM Apr 4
An Illegal Plea Bargain?	5:56 PM Apr 4
Emerson on Friends	Apr 3
Persian Gulf Hostage Crisis Provoked by Failed U.S. Raid	9:30 AM Apr 3
The Inspector General	12:01 PM Apr 3
Misc. Items Mitchell, Rove, and more Rove	2:40 PM Apr 3
Tales from Stasiland: The Perils of Wearing Black	4:40 PM Apr 3
Zimbardo Discusses Accountability for Torture	7:40 PM Apr 3
Orwell at Guantánamo	7:40 PM Apr 3
A Preposterous Prosecution	9:00 AM Apr 21
Wolfowitz: The Final Days	10:00 AM Apr 21
The Plot Against the First Amendment	10:30 AM Apr 21
The Renzi Corruption Investigation	10:00 AM Apr 21
Dean: Gonzales Will Stay On	11:30 AM Apr 21
Hegel on History as a Force	Apr 22
Hegel and the Eternal Struggle for Freedom	10:30 AM Apr 22
Bernard Rougier Looks at Life in a Refugee Camp	11:59 AM Apr 22
Recommended Listening	12:22 PM Apr 22
Karl Rove, Voter Suppression and the Cashiered U.S. Attorneys	8:20 AM Apr 11
Obstruction at Justice	8:20 AM Apr 11
Why the Media Failed	8:20 AM Apr 11
The Fisking of David Brooks	8:20 AM Apr 11
Were the Problems at Walter Reed identified in 2004?	1:40 PM Apr 11
A Fraudulent Report on Voter Fraud	1:40 PM Apr 11
A Taste of Texas Justice?	4:00 PM Apr 11
A New Chief of Staff for Gonzales	4:00 PM Apr 11
Cheney in Charge	4:00 PM Apr 11
Round 2: Sarko vs. Ségo	12:37 PM Apr 23
Broder Bumbles Again	4:10 PM Apr 23
Bush Reviews Fredo: A Tale from Bizarro World	7:10 PM Apr 23
Thomas Mann on Democracy	Apr 5
Andrew McCarthy Discovers the Geneva Conventions	9:00 AM Apr 5
Raban on The Conservative Soul	8:45 AM Apr 5
Spring Training for Fredo	12:20 PM Apr 5
The New Monica	12:20 PM Apr 5
A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to Damascus	12:20 PM Apr 5
White House Destroys Emails Sought by Congressional Investigators	3:00 AM Apr 12
Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist Completes One Year in U.S. Military Custody in Iraq	3:00 AM Apr 12
The FBI's Criminal Enforcement is Gutted; Con Artists Flourish	3:00 AM Apr 12
The “Voting Fraud” Fraud	11:44 AM Apr 12
How Britain Came to this Sorry Pass	5:10 PM Apr 12
The Role of Alcoholism in Human Evolution	5:35 PM Apr 12
American Bar Association Joins in Criticism of Justice Department	8:00 AM Apr 30
Gonzales Heckled at Harvard Reunion	8:10 AM Apr 30
Wittgenstein for Monday Morning	8:20 AM Apr 30
“Like Ordering Pizza”	8:20 AM Apr 30
U.S. Attorney Scandal—Kansas City	8:30 AM Apr 30
The Gonzales Eleven	10:00 AM Apr 27
Renzi to Resign	10:00 AM Apr 27
The Courtmartial of Colonel Steele	10:00 AM Apr 27
Broder Exposed, Again	10:20 AM Apr 27
Independent Internal Review Concludes Wolfowitz Should Be Fired	11:20 AM Apr 27
Justice Department Continues Obstruction of Congressional Inquiry	1:30 PM Apr 27
Continuing Meltdown at the Department of Justice	9:30 PM Apr 27
Bar Association Criticizes Conduct of Justice Department	9:50 PM Apr 27
Deputy Secretary of State Resigns in Sex Scandal	2:00 AM Apr 28
Swiss Intelligence Confirms CIA Blacksites in Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria	9:30 AM Apr 28
DOD Claim of Capture of “Senior Al-Qaeda Figure” Draws Questions	8:30 PM Apr 28
The Department of Justice and “that curious word, Honor”	8:30 PM Apr 28
A Decent Respect: What does international law mean to us today?	8:35 PM Apr 28
Listening Suggestion	3:35 PM Apr 29
Otto Ludwig on Fortune	Apr 29
David Halberstam, “The Very Expensive Education of McGeorge Bundy”	9:00 PM Apr 29
Tenet on 60 Minutes	9:00 PM Apr 29
Condi’s Really Bad Month	9:40 PM Apr 29
Gonzales Chief-of-Staff Trapped in More Misrepresentations; Suspicions Mount About Milwaukee U.S. Attorney Biskupic	12:58 AM Apr 14
Torture, Secrecy, and the Bush Administration	12:58 PM Apr 14
The New Nomenklatura	12:58 PM Apr 14
Meltdown at the Department of Justice	9:30 AM Apr 15
Rachel L. Brand: Portrait of one of Rove's Political Prosecutors	8:10 PM Apr 15
New U.S. Attorney in San Francisco Under Open Attack from Federal Court	8:10 PM Apr 15
Five Hostages Left Behind, and One G-Man Unaccounted For	8:10 PM Apr 15
Invitation: Taxi to the Dark Side	9:05 PM Apr 17
Media Alert: Following Fredo's Big Day	7:05 PM Apr 17
A Pulitzer for Charlie Savage	7:00 PM Apr 17
The Meltdown at Justice, Continued	7:00 PM Apr 17
Speaker Pelosi's Popularity Rises, as Does Confidence in Congress	7:00 PM Apr 17
Promoting Democracy, Bush Style	7:00 PM Apr 17
FBI Raids Business of Rep. Rick Renzi – Linked to Dismissal of Arizona U.S. Attorney Charlton	11:40 AM Apr 19
The “Voting Fraud” Fraud: Missouri Division	9:40 AM Apr 20
Gonzales Assessed	9:45 AM Apr 20
Halliburton and the War in Iraq	9:50 AM Apr 20
Is Fredo's Resignation Enough?	1:00 AM Apr 20
Guantánamo and Medical Ethics	12:37 PM Apr 20
The Political Corruption of the Prosecutorial Function	4:00 PM Apr 20
U.S. Attorney Scandal—Kansas City: Only Republican Activists Need Apply	8:00 AM Apr 26
Fredo’s Follow-Up	8:00 AM Apr 26
Senators Pryor, Specter and Leahy Doubt Gonzales’s “Memory Failure,” McCain Calls for Gonzales’s Departure	8:00 AM Apr 26
Gonzales’s Justice Department Obstructed Investigation of Republican Congressmen	8:00 AM Apr 26
Rep. Renzi and the U.S. Attorney Purge	8:00 AM Apr 26
Department of Injustice—Gitmo Edition	8:00 AM Apr 26
Bush Support Tanking	2:20 PM Apr 26
David Broder Embarrasses Himself, Again	2:20 PM Apr 26
Dismissed U.S. Attorney Lam Named “Outstanding Lawyer of the Year”	2:20 PM Apr 26
Congress Requires Presidential Accounting on Iraq, Plus: Newsflash from Ministry of Truth	2:20 PM Apr 26
The One-Party State	6:20 PM Apr 26
Bertolt Brecht on the Dilemma of Unpopular Government	Apr 13
The One-Party State of Fred Fielding	9:30 AM Apr 13
Political Profiling: The Smoking Gun	3:30 PM Apr 13
More Accusations Raised Against Milwaukee U.S. Attorney	3:30 PM Apr 13
Rove's Lawyer: He Didn't Intend to Delete Emails	5:50 PM Apr 13
Wolfowitz's Dilemma	5:50 PM Apr 13
Heinrich Heine on Forgiveness	Apr 8
Joe Klein Parts Company with Bush	12:00 PM Apr 8
The Wall Street Journal and Criminal Intent	12:00 PM Apr 8
Syria's Line to Houston	12:00 PM Apr 8
The Times on the Meltdown in the Mini-Apple	12:00 PM Apr 8
Monica Bids Farewell	3:30 PM Apr 8
Notes on Gonzales	3:30 PM Apr 8
An Easter Sermon	3:30 PM Apr 8
Training Tomorrow's Terrorists	3:30 PM Apr 8
A Portrait of Bush's Monica	5:00 PM Apr 8