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January 2008

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	Illustration Moses and the burning bush (detail) SEE ALSO: Moses (Biblical leader) PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On Disaster capitalism, from October 2007: Letter By Diana Fassino and p. 10). On A lie that tells the truth, from November 2007: Letter By Paul West Letter By Tom Wolfe Letter By Luc Sante Letter By Lee Gutkind Letter By Lauren Slater PDF IMAGES
11-13	Notebook/Article Hearts of gold By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Democracy; Janklow, Mort; 2008; Representative government and representation PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-20	Readings/Fiction My Fanon project By John Edgar Wideman PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration D.48 The garden at Vaucluse House, Sydney By Gary Carsley SEE ALSO: Australia; Gardens PDF IMAGES
20-23	Readings/Article Nightmare on 53rd Street SEE ALSO: Art and the war; Exhibitions; Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Little-read book SEE ALSO: Books and reading; Campbell Soup Company; Capitalism; Capitalists and financiers; Coca-Cola Company; Collection development; Imperialism; Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (Book); International business enterprises; Records and correspondence; Lenin, Vladimir Ily`ich; Fiks, Yevgeniy PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration Arrangement of salts and metals by property By Leslie Shows SEE ALSO: Biodegradation; Environmental aspects; Metals; Mineral industries PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The great talent By Damion Searls (Trans.) and Robert Walser PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article The budget stripped bare SEE ALSO: Büchel, Christoph; Copyright; Correspondence; Exhibitions; Installations (Art); North Adams PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Collection Readings By Fahamu Pecou PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Surviving Basquiat By Fahamu Pecou SEE ALSO: Pecou, Fahamu; Basquiat, Jean Michel; Magazine covers; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Rethinking Andy Warhol By Fahamu Pecou SEE ALSO: Warhol, Andy; Artists' models; Artists' studios; Pecou, Fahamu; Magazine covers; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Tasting freedom SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Food habits; Meals Ready to Eat (MREs); Military life PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article The second time as FARC By Geoffrey Garrison (Trans.), Wies Ubags (Trans.), and Tanja Nijmeijer SEE ALSO: Colombia; Diaries; Dutch; Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia; Guerrilla warfare; Women guerrillas PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Scare trade By Kevin Casas Zamora and Fernando Sánchez SEE ALSO: Commerce; Correspondence; Costa Rica; Free trade; Arias Sánchez, Oscar; Political corruption; Referendum; Arias, Rodrigo PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article My dinner with antrophagus By Jina Moore (Trans.), Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, and Armin Meiwes SEE ALSO: Meiwes, Armin; Brandes, Bernd-Jürgen; Cannibalism; Death and burial; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Murder) PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Lust in translation By George Steiner SEE ALSO: Language and languages; Language and sex; Sex differences PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article Prisoners of sex SEE ALSO: Sex customs; Sexual behavior surveys PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Poem I met a seducer By Grace Paley PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Collection Readings By Liang Shen PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Beijing Opera 11-1 By Liang Shen SEE ALSO: Beijing; Operas, Chinese PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Beijing Opera 11-16 By Liang Shen SEE ALSO: Beijing; Operas, Chinese PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Illustration Self portrait as post script By Julie Heffernan SEE ALSO: Animals; Clothing and dress; Heffernan, Julie; Mortality; Self-portraits PDF IMAGES
35-46	Article The god of the desert: Jerusalem and the ecology of monotheism By Richard Rodriguez SEE ALSO: Abraham (Biblical patriarch); Antiquities; Buildings, structures, etc.; Deserts; Historical geography; Israel; Jerusalem; Monotheism; Temple Mount (Jerusalem); Western Wall (Jerusalem) PDF IMAGES
47-53	Collection Gone home: visions of the High Plains By Peter (Peter T.) Brown (Photog.) and Kent Haruf PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter (Peter T.) Brown (Photog.) and Kent Haruf SEE ALSO: High Plains (U.S.); Prairies PDF IMAGES
48-49	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter (Peter T.) Brown (Photog.) and Kent Haruf SEE ALSO: Farms; Hailstorms; High Plains (U.S.); Thunderstorms PDF IMAGES
50	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter (Peter T.) Brown (Photog.) and Kent Haruf SEE ALSO: High Plains (U.S.); Taverns (Inns) PDF IMAGES
51	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter (Peter T.) Brown (Photog.) and Kent Haruf SEE ALSO: Aged men; High Plains (U.S.) PDF IMAGES Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter (Peter T.) Brown (Photog.) and Kent Haruf SEE ALSO: Billboards; High Plains (U.S.); Motels PDF IMAGES
52-53	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Peter (Peter T.) Brown (Photog.) and Kent Haruf SEE ALSO: Abandoned farms; High Plains (U.S.); Prairies PDF IMAGES
54-63	Article The mummy's curse: An archaeological dispute By Gregory Jaynes SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Archaeologists; Career as archaeologist; Career as secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities; Egypt; Excavations (Archaeology); Corcoran, Lorelei Hilda; Schaden, Otto; Tombs; Valley of the Kings (Egypt); Hawass, Zahi A. PDF IMAGES
64-65	Archive/Article Everyone's gone nuts: The exaggerated threat of food allergies By Meredith Broussard SEE ALSO: Muñoz-Furlong, Anne; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Pharmaceutical industry; Views on food allergy in children PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
67-74	Article Cemetery of hope: Brasília at fifty By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Architecture; Brazil; Buildings, structures, etc.; Monuments PDF IMAGES
75-82	Fiction A failure of concern By Ben Marcus PDF IMAGES
83-84	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Manguel, Alberto; Pérez-Reverte, Arturo; Lewis, David Levering; Diary of a bad year (Book); God's crucible: Islam and the making of Europe, 570-1215 (Book); Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: a biography (Book); Coetzee, J.M.; The painter of battles (Book) PDF IMAGES
85-89	Review Faith in reason: Secular fantasies of a godless age By John Gray SEE ALSO: A secular age (Book); Taylor, Charles; Holoch, George; Lilla, Mark; Roy, Olivier; Secularism; Secularism confronts Islam (Book); The stillborn god: religion, politics, and the modern West (Book) PDF IMAGES
89-94	Review Unsteady as she goes: Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Lowry, Malcolm; Hofmann, Michael; The voyage that never ends: fictions, poems, fragments, letters (Book) PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Chain letter By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
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MR. FISH

Weekly Review By Paul Ford	Jan 22
Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke	Jan 15
Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Jan 29

By Ken Silverstein

Tom DeLay: Get this man a dictionary	10:01 AM Jan 11
Obama vs. Huckabee?	2:38 PM Jan 4
New Hampshire: Media Fallout Continues	11:22 AM Jan 11
Twofer: How Congressman Kline helped UPS and raised money for his new PAC	1:13 PM Jan 24
Linda Chavez: Fundraising, Anew, for “Conservative Values”	10:25 AM Jan 8
What is 8433, LLC, and Why is it Contributing Money to Congressman Connie Mack?	6:30 PM Jan 31
Steak vs. Organic Chicken: The Clinton-Obama fault line?	10:26 AM Jan 21
Would Louis Farrakhan Exist Without Richard Cohen?	2:07 PM Jan 15
Chavez Family Folds Up Fundraising Operations	10:09 AM Jan 29
Romney Consultant: McCain Supports Legal Protections for Terrorists	2:39 PM Jan 16
F-22 Ready for Action, Sort Of	10:09 PM Jan 29
Romney Survives Last Stand in Michigan: Can Rudy, with right-wing Cuban help, do the same in Florida?	2:30 PM Jan 16
Bob Woodward: Political weathervane	12:04 PM Jan 17
Romney’s Endorsement by National Review	3:46 PM Jan 18
Worst Analogy of the Day: is “Campaign Auschwitz” coming next?	8:50 PM Jan 17
The Press and the Campaign: Boosting Obama and McCain	3:13 PM Jan 7
The Post-New Hampshire Road	1:06 PM Jan 9
Mitt Romney’s Worst Nightmare	10:42 AM Jan 22
Note to Obama: Stop whining and fight back	9:18 AM Jan 25
Richard Cohen: The decider	12:58 PM Jan 17
Ethics Reform Recap: Pelosi follows in Gingrich’s footsteps	3:24 PM Jan 29
The Giuliani Campaign Spent at Least $142.83 For Each Vote	12:16 PM Jan 31

The Temptation of Christ	Jan 27
The Emails that Dick Cheney Deleted	8:26 AM Jan 22
Pound’s ‘The Return’	8:20 AM Jan 17
Lichtenberg on Observation and Human Nature	Jan 3
Mystery Solved?	12:04 AM Jan 15
Borges on the Challenge of Temporal Succession	Jan 28
Blackstone on Torture	Jan 31
Moltke on the Duty to Act in the Face of Injustice	Jan 10
Operating in the Dark	11:15 AM Jan 28
Forster’s Aristocracy	Jan 19
Here It Comes: The National Surveillance State	5:34 PM Jan 23
King’s Audacious Faith	Jan 21
Deconstructing John Yoo	9:39 AM Jan 23
Less Than Human	12:05 AM Jan 14
In Iowa, the Mending Begins	9:41 AM Jan 3
More Incommunicado Detentions in Afghanistan	7:52 AM Jan 7
Is the Bookworm an Endangered Species?	11:58 AM Jan 20
Thucydides on the Role of Justice in Conflict	Jan 17
Brecht ‘To Those Who Follow in Our Wake’	12:04 AM Jan 15
Gide on the Art of Hypocrisy	Jan 22
Prosecutorial Ethics Lite	12:12 AM Jan 12
‘Trust Us’ Government and Other Lies	12:06 PM Jan 30
Adorno—When Questions of Truth Become Questions of Power	Jan 24
935 Lies on the Way to a War	12:05 AM Jan 24
Department of Saturnine Behavior	8:58 AM Jan 31
Kingfish Agonistes	12:12 AM Jan 2
Media Alert	9:03 AM Jan 17
Will the Real Leo Strauss Please Stand Up?	5:56 PM Jan 21
Nietzsche on the Danger of Battling Monsters	Jan 16
Just Desserts?	10:20 PM Jan 8
Take a Stand Against Injustice Today	8:02 AM Jan 10
Pakistan Loses Control	1:22 PM Jan 15
King on the Importance of Conscience in Action	Jan 15
Marcus Aurelius on the Cosmology	Jan 4
The Bubble Bursts	5:36 PM Jan 27
The Magnificent Contrarian	8:21 AM Jan 14
Lorca’s Old Lizard	7:59 AM Jan 23
POTUS in the Well	9:04 AM Jan 29
Melville on the Avenues of Perception	Jan 13
Pope’s Essay on Man	12:21 AM Jan 31
Melville’s ‘Berg’	12:11 AM Jan 13
Suetonius on the Morals of Caesar’s Mistress	Jan 12
Dehmel’s ‘Transfigured Night’	5:48 AM Jan 25
Ending a Culture of Impunity for Contract Soldiers	3:22 PM Jan 16
Dürer’s Perfect Cure for the Common Headache	8:34 AM Jan 5
The Risk Horizon for 2008: Six Questions for Ian Bremmer	8:20 AM Jan 17
Novalis’s Weltschmerz	Jan 25
Six Questions for Mark Crispin Miller, Author of ‘Fooled Again’	12:14 AM Jan 24
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night	Jan 7
Six Questions for Christopher Slobogin, Author of ‘Privacy at Risk’	9:05 AM Jan 29
Will the Rhetoric Be Matched By Action?	8:23 AM Jan 21
Hughes—Stars	12:17 AM Jan 21
Burke on Terror, Ignorance and Tyranny	Jan 29
A Vow for the New Year	11:46 AM Jan 1
Wes Teel Suffers a Heart Attack	2:22 PM Jan 21
Hafez—The Angel at the Tavern Door	8:07 AM Jan 19
The New Keynesians	3:24 PM Jan 22
Juvenal—Remembering Why We Fight	Jan 26
The Torture President Wields His Veto	8:32 PM Jan 4
An Anniversary to Ponder	9:04 AM Jan 30
The Vision of Hildegard of Bingen	7:19 AM Jan 6
The Other Scandal Involving Destruction of Evidence	10:13 AM Jan 9
Harper’s Magazine as Matchmaker: Charles Dickens and Herman Melville	12:44 PM Jan 13
Madison on Gradual Encroachments Against Freedom	Jan 8
Vaughan’s ‘The World’	7:52 AM Jan 27
A Political Prosecution Goes Under the Microscope	5:49 AM Jan 25
Rimbaud’s ‘Righteous Man’	12:01 AM Jan 9
The Official Story Unfolds	8:09 AM Jan 18
Heine’s Solitary Spruce	7:18 AM Jan 7
More Obstruction at Justice	11:56 AM Jan 29
The Delusional President	7:50 AM Jan 6
Missing News Items Report	8:48 AM Jan 28
Berlin—Lawyers as Cutlery	Jan 14
‘Reasonable Minds Can Differ’	12:22 AM Jan 31
Ashcroft’s Sweet Deal	3:38 PM Jan 11
Emerson’s Transcendentalist	Jan 23
How Bush’s Fiscal Mismanagement Produced a Recession	8:40 AM Jan 26
Kepler on How We Learn	Jan 18
Lord Shiva’s Dance	8:49 AM Jan 15
Bulletins from the Ministry for Torture	9:39 AM Jan 27
Calderón—Life as a Dream	Jan 1
The Illustrated President	12:54 PM Jan 24
Tucholsky’s Liberal Moment	Jan 30
Pushkin—A Feast in the Time of Plague	8:25 AM Jan 11
Department of Orwellian Excesses	12:13 AM Jan 8
Mandelstam’s Stalin Epigram	7:46 AM Jan 29
Molière’s Religious Hypocrite	Jan 9
The Dalai Lama on the Duty to Earth and the Human Family	Jan 20
Three Points on the Elections	2:52 PM Jan 8
The National Surveillance World	11:02 AM Jan 2
Dürer on Extracting Art from Nature	Jan 5
Warren on Goodness from Badness	Jan 2
Frankfurt on Bullshit	Jan 11
Frost’s ‘Mending Wall’	5:16 AM Jan 3
Blackwater and the Administration of Justice	10:43 AM Jan 19

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	9:44 PM Jan 18
A Cartoon	12:28 PM Jan 4
A Cartoon	10:34 AM Jan 11
A Cartoon	10:27 AM Jan 11

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