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October 2007

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	Illustration Saint Walburga and the miracle of the ship (detail) By Peter Paul, Sir Rubens SEE ALSO: Disasters; Miracles; Pictorial works; Walburga, Saint; Shipwrecks PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The big enchilada, from August 2007: Letter By Geoffrey Hall Letter By Stuart Margulies Letter By Paul Stephens Letter By Tunya Audain On The idols of environmentalism, from August 2007: Letter By Brigid Philbin Letter By David Moser Letter By Jamie Wimberly Letter By Michael A. Livermore PDF IMAGES
9-12	Notebook/Article Specific Suggestion: General Strike: General strike By Garret Keizer SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Despair; Bush, George W.; 2001-; Political participation PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-22	Readings/Article Vivoleum SEE ALSO: Alberta; Calgary; Cannibalism; Climatic changes; Congresses; Impostors and imposture; Petroleum industry and trade; Renewable energy sources PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration Eld By Karin Mamma Andersson SEE ALSO: Dwellings; Fire and fire prevention; Fires PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Slight of the living dead By Amir Vehabovic and Michael Leidig (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Friendship; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Impostors and imposture PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Red beard By Ignacio Ramonet and Andrew Hurley (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Beard; Cuba; Castro, Fidel; Heads of state; Interviews; Revolution, 1959 PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The spy who came in and was cold SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. representative; Dana Rohrabacher; Markey, Edward J.; Government policy; Jeff Flake; Legislative hearings; Scheuer, Michael; Officials and employees; Terrorism; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Congress. House; Views on extraordinary rendition; Delahunt, William PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration Stars and stripes By Ben Grasso SEE ALSO: Air warfare; Explosions; Flags; Projectiles, Aerial PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Constituent outreach By Michael D. Polensek SEE ALSO: Winston, Arsenio; Career as narcotics dealer; City council members; Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio); Narcotics dealers PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article Take my knife, please! SEE ALSO: Aeronautics, Commercial; Airports; False alarms; Passenger traffic; Security measures PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The dangerous book for boys By Mohammed Irman SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Bombings; Hamas; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Jihad; The Middle East; Terrorists PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article No shoes, no service SEE ALSO: Larson, Dawn; McDonald's Corporation; Rockford; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Elbows By Tiziano Scarpa and Gregory Conti (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article To the Bat Closet SEE ALSO: Comic strip characters; Heroes in mass media PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Tooth and consequences By James M. Johnson SEE ALSO: Dentists; Malpractice; Practical jokes; Woo, Robert C.; Alberts, Tina; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Malpractice); Washington (State) PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Heroes SEE ALSO: Fire fighters; Gay men; San Diego PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Casualties; Democracy; Fighter planes; Iraq War, 2003- PDF IMAGES Readings/Article God has been cloned! By Enrique Valiente Noailles and Chris Turner (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Apocalypse; Cloning; Genetic code; Interviews; Baudrillard, Jean PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Article Kinder, gentler By George Bush SEE ALSO: Bush, Barbara; Correspondence PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Photo Book/nest By Rosamond Wolff Purcell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Birds; Nests PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Notes for the time of ultimate candor By Laura (Riding) Jackson PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Collection Readings By Breyten Breytenbach PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Rimbaud's journey By Breyten Breytenbach PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem The communist remembers By Breyten Breytenbach PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Illustration Bird and egg By Wade Schuman SEE ALSO: Blue jay; Eggs PDF IMAGES
47-58	Article Disaster capitalism: The new economy of catastrophe By Naomi Klein SEE ALSO: Capitalism; Career as U.S. president; Civil defense; Contracting out; Disasters; Bush, George W.; Globalization; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Iraq War, 2003-; 2001-; Privatization; Social status; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
59-72	Article The river is a road: Searching for peace in Congo By Bryan Mealer SEE ALSO: Congo (Democratic Republic); Congo River; Elections; River life PDF IMAGES
74-77	Article Contract with America: Hard terms for the soldier of fortune By Daphne Eviatar SEE ALSO: Blackwater USA; Civil Rights; Contracting out; Death and burial; Defense contracts; Mercenary troops; Privatization; Helvenston, Scott; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
78-83	Article Toxic Inaction: Why poisonous, unregulated chemicals end up in our blood: Why poisonous, unregulated chemicals end up in our blood By Mark Schapiro SEE ALSO: Environmental conditions; Environmental policy; European Union; European Union countries; Hazardous substances; Health aspects; Reporting; Risk assessment; Toxicology PDF TEXT IMAGES
84-91	Article A curious attraction: On the quest for antigravity By Jon Mooallem SEE ALSO: Cosmology; General relativity (Physics); Chiao, Raymond Y.; Babson, Roger Ward; Views on gravitational waves; Views on gravity PDF IMAGES
92-102	Fiction Admiral By T. Coraghessan Boyle PDF IMAGES
103-104	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Weitz, Eric D.; Goldman, Francisco; Wills, Garry; Robb, Graham; Head and heart: American Christianities (Book); The art of political murder: who killed the bishop? (Book); The discovery of France (Book); Weimar Germany: promise and tragedy (Book) PDF IMAGES
105-110	Review I buried a novelist: Philip Roth and the end of Zuckerman By Wyatt Mason SEE ALSO: Exit ghost (Book); Roth, Philip; Pictorial works; Zuckerman bound: a trilogy and epilogue (Book) PDF IMAGES
110-118	Review A rawness of seeing: Denis Johnson writes the big novel By John Jeremiah Sullivan SEE ALSO: Johnson, Denis; Pictorial works; Tree of smoke (Book) PDF IMAGES
119	Puzzle/Department More split personalities By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
120	Findings/Article Findings By Roger D. Hodge PDF IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
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MR. FISH
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Oct 30
Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Oct 16
Weekly Review By Paul Gleason	Oct 23
Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	Oct 9
Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz	Oct 2

By Ken Silverstein

Still the E Street Band	10:39 AM Oct 4
Alert: A mega-scandal in the making	6:02 PM Oct 25
Mea Culpa: Haste Makes Mistake	8:03 AM Oct 25
Event Alert: God talk	12:56 PM Oct 22
Selling Toothpaste and Candidates	10:33 AM Oct 29
Enron Haunts Taxpayers from Beyond the Grave	9:45 AM Oct 26
Britney Spears and the Holocaust	1:07 PM Oct 3
History Rewritten at the Washington Post	9:39 AM Oct 31
Mo’ Bhutto Blues	2:08 PM Oct 24
Sources: CIA legal official quit in protest over “enhanced interrogations”	11:59 AM Oct 12
The Hitler Beetle, and Other Lessons from the British Press	2:26 PM Oct 5
Report: Kurtz Blog Induces Coma-Like State	11:11 AM Oct 20
Bonker’s for APCO	10:33 AM Oct 17
Rummy in Paris: Democracy is like riding a bike	11:26 AM Oct 26
Rod Shealy: South Carolina’s shrewdest political consultant?	2:56 AM Oct 16
Romney, Giuliani, and Bob Jones	1:51 PM Oct 22
Facts and Darfur	9:44 AM Oct 9
Media Alert	11:47 AM Oct 15
A Lobbyist Downsizes: Jeffrey Shockey goes from insider to soccer dad	12:09 PM Oct 10
Six Questions for Bob Drogin on Curveball and the Iraq War	11:34 PM Oct 14
Mitt Romney Buys Some Love	9:52 AM Oct 24
South Carolina as Ground Zero	10:15 AM Oct 30
Washington, Post-Ethics Reform: Come out and party tonight	1:16 PM Oct 3
The JIN Debacle: Still a few kinks to work out	5:44 PM Oct 2
Six Questions for Will Folks on South Carolina Politics and Dirty Tricks	7:19 AM Oct 17
Don’t Mess with Darfur’s Defenders	10:49 AM Oct 22
Meet the New Boss: Bruce Springsteen & the K Street Band?	3:46 PM Oct 3
APCO, Paragon of Ethics, Representing Kazakh Regime: Can Turkmenistan be far behind?	12:52 PM Oct 16
More on Giuliani’s Advisors	4:16 PM Oct 30
Bipartisan Stenography: David Broder Strikes Again	12:48 PM Oct 9
Bob Menendez and Larry Craig: A tale of two senators	3:51 PM Oct 25
Liberal-loathing Partisan Joins “Neutral” Blogger Outreach Program	10:47 AM Oct 4
Mine’s Bigger: How do you measure up against Paul Allen?	10:45 AM Oct 22
Beating a Dead Kurtz	8:46 AM Oct 13
Homeland Security, Death Cab for Cutie, Fuzzy Llamas, and the Square Root of Stupidity	9:27 AM Oct 19

By Scott Horton

Press Alert	9:30 AM Oct 14
Grotius on Pre-emptive War	Oct 1
Æschylus on the Tyrant’s Blindness	Oct 4
Aristotle on the Phony Religiocity of Tyrants	Oct 16
Media Alert	11:42 AM Oct 16
Dante on Divine Justice	Oct 7
Qwest: Another Political Prosecution?	8:05 AM Oct 14
Emerson on the Ravages of Time	Oct 25
Dumas on the Art of Finding the Culprit	9:10 AM Oct 3
The Persecution of Lt. Cmdr. Diaz	7:46 AM Oct 23
Lavengro, or the Value of Learning Languages	10:59 AM Oct 28
Camus on the Values Worth Fighting For	Oct 11
The Roll-Out Presses On	7:45 AM Oct 22
Orwell on Delusional Political Thinking	Oct 5
Cervantes’s Golden Age	6:29 AM Oct 9
Milton’s ‘On Time’	2:36 AM Oct 30
Lagerlöf’s Legend of the Soul and the Flame	Oct 13
Schweitzer on Cruelity and Humanity	Oct 10
Another Conflicted Prosecutor in the Siegelman Case	11:12 AM Oct 24
Dereliction of Duty	8:59 AM Oct 13
Whitman’s ‘Beat! Beat! Drums!’	12:03 AM Oct 25
More from the ‘Bama Press	8:46 AM Oct 10
The Secrecy Game	10:54 AM Oct 27
A Minor Injustice	9:11 AM Oct 3
Boethius on the Rewards of Virtue	Oct 30
Javert’s Wailings Grow Louder	4:29 PM Oct 6
Searching for Meaning in the ‘B’ham News’	10:27 AM Oct 14
More Responses to Javert	11:06 AM Oct 7
Iraq Purports to Revoke Contractor Immunity	3:42 PM Oct 24
Machiavelli on the Mercenary	Oct 2
A Further Ethics Assessment on Judge Fuller and the Siegelman Case from Prof. Luban	12:27 AM Oct 22
Saadi on the Bonds of Humanity	Oct 21
Auden’s ‘Let History Be My Judge’	12:14 AM Oct 2
2003 Affidavit Raises More Serious Questions About Siegelman Judge	12:26 PM Oct 16
Hopkins’s ‘Duns Scotus’s Oxford’	12:51 AM Oct 28
Rumi’s ‘Laziest Son’	Oct 18
Military Lawyers and the Gitmo Commissions	2:53 AM Oct 30
Chicago Court Orders Discovery of DOJ Political Prosecutions	8:16 AM Oct 13
AFJ Questions Conduct of Siegelman Judge	12:41 PM Oct 23
Riley Protests Too Much	7:49 AM Oct 27
Speaking Truth to Torturers	7:40 AM Oct 12
Nietzsche’s Cosmos	Oct 19
Cicero on the Duty to Stand Against Injustice	Oct 24
Sappho’s ‘Supreme Sight on the Black Earth’	6:52 AM Oct 14
TIME Reports on the Political Prosecutions in Alabama	12:39 AM Oct 5
The Justice Department Raises a Rebel Yell: The Strange Prosecution of Charles Walker	7:55 AM Oct 20
Doubting Thomas	8:29 AM Oct 2
Karl Rove Linked to Siegelman Prosecution	7:52 AM Oct 11
Six Questions for Valerie Plame	9:20 AM Oct 25
Media Alert	2:08 PM Oct 23
Media Alert	3:30 PM Oct 18
Media Alert	2:35 PM Oct 12
Justice in the Cradle of the Confederacy	10:13 AM Oct 20
Former AG Thornburgh Says Prosecution Was Political	11:56 AM Oct 19
A Rumination on the ‘Laziest Son’	7:10 AM Oct 18
Dickinson’s ‘To Fight Aloud’	12:38 AM Oct 5
Of Foxes, Camels and Unlawful Combatants	3:38 AM Oct 31
Neruda’s ‘Enigmas’	7:40 AM Oct 23
FISA, the Next Round	10:19 AM Oct 17
‘We Do Not Torture’	2:51 AM Oct 8
Duns Scotus’s Principle of Individuation	Oct 28
More from the ‘Bama Press	10:52 PM Oct 22
Diego Garcia and the Mukasey Nomination	11:10 AM Oct 19
Criminal Charges Being Prepared Against Gonzales?	7:43 AM Oct 22
The Dilemma of the Moor’s Return	7:31 AM Oct 10
For Justice: A Light at the End of the Tunnel?	10:31 AM Oct 18
Rilke’s ‘Komm Du. . .’	12:48 AM Oct 21
Beating the Drums for the Next War	1:34 PM Oct 1
Lippmann on Honor	Oct 26
Merton on Justice and Sanity	Oct 23
Gandhi-ji’s Seven Blunders	Oct 17
Rilke’s Last Encounter With an Angel	12:49 AM Oct 21
A New Task Order from the Ministry of Love	11:26 AM Oct 4
Speaking Truth to Torturers, Cont’d	10:30 PM Oct 15
Before there was Blackwater. . .	12:18 AM Oct 26
Rethinking the War on Terror	3:38 AM Oct 31
A Minor Injustice: Why Paul Minor?	12:40 AM Oct 5
Abd al-Rahman’s Palm Tree	2:50 AM Oct 8
Macbeth for the Age of Bush	7:03 AM Oct 4
Jefferson on the Inevitable Failure of Injustice	Oct 29
Kames on Law and Human Sentiment	Oct 14
Mme. de Staël on Wit	Oct 20
Jaspers on Faith and Globalization	Oct 15
A Nation is What It Tolerates	Oct 22
Media Alert	12:19 PM Oct 15
Imaginationland	12:17 AM Oct 26
Levi on Denying Man’s Humanity	Oct 8
Herzen on the Persistence of Torture	Oct 12
Stevens’s ‘After the Final No’	7:18 AM Oct 16
Licensed to Kill	3:04 AM Oct 6
Listening Recommendation	12:21 AM Oct 22
‘Deliverance,’ Reloaded	7:41 AM Oct 23
Walter Lippmann, Remembered	12:18 AM Oct 26
Cervantes on Why History is Like Buñuelos	Oct 9
When Critics Are Really Pumpkins	3:23 PM Oct 13
Wollstonecraft on the Rights of Women	Oct 27
A Primer in Political Persecution	8:05 AM Oct 24
WaPo’s Continuing Editorial Slide	8:36 AM Oct 12
Death of a Journalist	12:04 AM Oct 25
Warren’s ‘In the Turpitude of Time’	6:09 AM Oct 11
One of Nizami’s Pearls	Oct 6
Shelley on Dramatic Purpose	3:36 AM Oct 31
Career Prosecutors Opposed Siegelman Case	12:04 AM Oct 29
At Gitmo, No Room for Justice	12:22 AM Oct 22
More Siegelman Updates	12:59 AM Oct 12

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	1:46 PM Oct 19
A Cartoon	6:40 PM Oct 26
A Cartoon	8:29 AM Oct 5
A Cartoon	10:51 AM Oct 12

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