Harper's Magazine: June 2008

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June 2008

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	Art/illustration Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane (detail) By Master of the Trebon Altarpiece SEE ALSO: Jesus Christ; Prayer in Gethsemane PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On The next bubble, from February 2008: Letter By Jim Costanzo On Wasteland, from February 2008: Letter By David Tenenbaum On Mudville, from March 2008: Letter By Steve Salerno On Islamopocalypse, from March 2008: Letter By Mark Steyn PDF IMAGES
9-13	Notebook/Article Democracy and deference By Mark Slouka SEE ALSO: Abuse of administrative power; Authoritarianism; Democracy; Bush, George W. (George Walker); Government etiquette; Political and social views; Political participation PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-24	Readings/Article Our phony economy By Jonathan Rowe SEE ALSO: Career as economist; Economic development; Environmental aspects; Gross domestic product; Human ecology; Quality of life; Kuznets, Simon Smith; Social ecology PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Generation why? SEE ALSO: Arizona; Career in parricide; Schlicker, Hughstan; Juvenile delinquency; Mesa; Parricide; Youth PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Art/illustration Management By James Rieck SEE ALSO: Executives; Management; Suits (Clothing) PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article The stoned leading the blind By Jason Cossman SEE ALSO: Care and hygiene; Eye; Nutritional aspects; Sex (Biology); Warshak, Steven; Substance abuse; Telemarketing; Trials (Fraud); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Art/illustration Sweeping through By Yoon Lee SEE ALSO: Elevated highways; Orbits PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Poetry Death be not green By Mary Ellen Gabias PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Trailer of tears By Leonard Samuel Shoen SEE ALSO: Business communication; Depositions; Ignorance (Law); Truthfulness and falsehood PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article The doctor is out SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Rodriguez, Edith; Emergency reporting systems; Hospitals; Malpractice; Negligence; Telephone PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Breathing is for closers SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Hudgens, Chad; Employee motivation; Christopherson, Joshua; Torture; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Torture); Utah; Waterboarding PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Cheaper cell By Muhammad Atef SEE ALSO: Khabab, Abu; Arab countries; Correspondence; Finance, Personal; Qaida (Organization); Terrorists PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Contempt of court SEE ALSO: Wider, Aaron; Career as lawyer; Contempt of court; Depositions; Mortgage brokers; Bodzin, Robert; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Fear review By Luis Sancho SEE ALSO: Big bang theory; End of the world (Astronomy) PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
29	Readings/Photography Untitled recoil By Greg Stimac (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Firearms; Public use; Shooting; Target practice PDF IMAGES
30-31	Readings/Article A servant to my chief SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Taylor, Charles Ghankay; Civil War, 1989-; Civil War, 1991-2002; Marzah, Joseph; Liberia; 1980-; Sierra Leone; Switzerland; Trials, litigation, etc.; Views on atrocities; War crime trials PDF IMAGES
31-34	Readings/Article Endless reasons to die By Anthony Loyd SEE ALSO: Loyd, Anthony; Career as war correspondent; Civil War, 1991-2002; Personal narratives, British; Sierra Leone; Traffic accident victims; Translators PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Art/illustration The searchers By Paco Pomet SEE ALSO: Artificial legs; Physically handicapped PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Go directly to jail By John Sebelius SEE ALSO: Board games; Creative ability; Family; Sebelius, K. Gary; Kansas; Sebelius, Kathleen; Parent and adult child PDF IMAGES
35-36	Readings/Fiction How beautiful the mountain By Breyten Breytenbach PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Art/illustration Bluebird Canyon By Alexis Rockman SEE ALSO: Landslides PDF IMAGES
39-50	Article Turning away from Jesus: Gay rights and the war for the Episcopal Church By Garret Keizer SEE ALSO: Anglican Communion; Appointment, call, and election; Bishops; Career as Archbishop of Uganda; Career as first openly gay bishop in Anglican Communion; Church work; Doctrines; Episcopal Church; Orombi, Henry Luke; Homosexuality; Poverty; Robinson, V. Gene PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
51-59	Article The searchers: In pursuit of the drowned By Alec Wilkinson SEE ALSO: Boats and boating; Career as searcher for drowning victims; Drowning victims; Ralston, Gene; Ralston, Sandy; Search and rescue operations PDF IMAGES
60-65	Article A mind dismembered: In search of the magical penis thieves By Frank Bures SEE ALSO: Magic; Nigeria PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
66-74	Article They shoot buffalo, don't they: Hazing America's last wild herd By Christopher Ketcham SEE ALSO: American bison; Environmental aspects; Grazing; Montana; Pasture, Right of; Public lands; Yellowstone National Park PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
75-80	Fiction Suicide by fitness center By Joyce Carol Oates PDF IMAGES
81-82	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Thirlwell, Adam; Biography; Needham, Joseph; Rushdie, Salman; Winchester, Simon; The delighted states (Book); The enchantress of Florence (Book); The man who loved China (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-88	Review A mind of its own: Resisting the tyranny of the brain By Gary Greenberg SEE ALSO: Best of the brain from Scientific American: mind, matter, and tomorrow's brain (Book); Brain; Linden, David J.; O'Leary, Denyse; Bloom, Floyd E.; Popper, Karl Raimund; Beauregard, Mario; Begley, Sharon; Eccles, John C. (John Carew), Sir; The accidental mind: how brain evolution has given us love, memory, dreams, and God (Book); The self and its brain (Book); The spiritual brain: a neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul (Book); Train your mind, change your brain: how a new science reveals our extraordinary potential to transform ourselves (Book) PDF IMAGES
89-94	Review Feeling and form: From Plato to Penrose, the music is the message By Zalmen Rosenfeld SEE ALSO: Brain; Music; Musicophilia: tales of music and the brain (Book); Sacks, Oliver PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Torn clues By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF IMAGES

WEEKLY REVIEW
WASHINGTON BABYLON
SENTENCES
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MR. FISH
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Jun 17
Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Jun 10
Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Jun 24
Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Jun 3

By Ken Silverstein

Obama Wins Coveted Hamas Un-endorsement with AIPAC Speech	10:17 PM Jun 4
Congressman Weldon and that Murky Russian Non-Profit	2:18 PM Jun 12
Greta Van Susteren on Journalists and Speaking Fees	5:23 PM Jun 14
The Bush Legacy, As Seen From London	7:53 PM Jun 17
Bob Woodward, Sponsored by Citibank	8:43 AM Jun 13
Thar She Blows: The joys of offshore drilling	8:18 AM Jun 24
New and Improved Rice	1:05 PM Jun 19
Bob Woodward’s Moonlighting	11:53 AM Jun 12
Michelle Obama and Uncle Joe: Forthcoming scoop from Larry Johnson	8:30 PM Jun 3
McCain on the Everglades: I was against it before I was for it	10:23 AM Jun 5
Bob Woodward: On the inside looking out	11:10 AM Jun 20
Graveyard of Empires?	9:10 AM Jun 19
Post Rules Appear at Odds with David Broder/Bob Woodward Speaking Gigs	12:42 PM Jun 17
WSJ: Controversial Russian Tied to Congressional Scandal	12:49 PM Jun 10
David “Huey” Broder Condemns Obama for Breaking with Reverend Wright	2:10 PM Jun 5
Bob Woodward’s “Charity”: Follow the Money, If You Can Find It	10:17 AM Jun 17
Former NPR Ombudsman On Journalists and Speaking Gigs	11:19 AM Jun 13
David Broder’s Moonlighting: Post columnist benefits from corporate speaking deals	9:09 AM Jun 12
Obama and Ethanol, BFF	10:28 AM Jun 23
More on Obama and AIPAC	2:09 PM Jun 10
Reason Makes Hash of Larry Johnson on Michelle Obama Story	11:45 AM Jun 5
New Cheney Videotape Surfaces	11:10 AM Jun 13
David Broder’s and Bob Woodward’s Lame Alibis	12:15 PM Jun 21
More on the New Buckraking	1:33 PM Jun 20
Countrywide Financial’s “Friends”	9:52 AM Jun 13
Next Year in Jerusalem: Obama Not Waiting to Win Presidency to Start Flip-Flopping	10:14 AM Jun 5
Parental Warning: Obscene David Broder video follows	10:00 AM Jun 25
Waiting for Kurtz	8:45 AM Jun 23
Change We Can Believe In?	9:18 AM Jun 19
The Way Washington Works, Cuban-Style	11:31 AM Jun 2
Alhurra’s Paid Commentators	5:10 PM Jun 24
Michelle Obama and Larry Johnson: Seeing is Believing	1:55 PM Jun 2
A Fair and Balanced Tim Russert Obit	9:25 AM Jun 19
Fee-for-service Professors	12:33 PM Jun 15

By Wyatt Mason

Weekend Read: Roth’s (Justified) Complaint, or “Document Dated July 27, 1969”	11:30 AM Jun 6
Cannot Be Confined Too Fine	5:13 PM Jun 30
Shop Talk	4:16 PM Jun 18
Dying is Fun	4:13 PM Jun 2
The Baby is Beautiful	3:23 PM Jun 23
The Solid Shelf of Rock	4:11 PM Jun 25
Weekend Read: “A lizard whose leg you can pluck off”	1:58 PM Jun 13
Weekend Read: “I’ll dance at your wedding.”	5:01 PM Jun 27
Weekend Read: “The literature of social intent”	9:56 AM Jun 20
“Calling From Somewhere Above”	11:53 AM Jun 4
On the Fringe of His Line	12:06 PM Jun 16
Injured by His Large Head	1:20 PM Jun 11
His Dream of Himself	10:29 AM Jun 9

By Scott Horton

The U.S. Attorneys Scandal Enters the Criminal Prosecutions Phase	8:18 AM Jun 16
Empedocles’s Fragment No. 17	8:26 AM Jun 15
Adam Smith on the Nature of Human Virtue	6:02 AM Jun 28
The Addington–Yoo Hearing, Gavel-to-gavel	3:04 PM Jun 24
Travel Advisory	8:25 AM Jun 19
The Calling of Politics	9:52 AM Jun 9
Nightline Looks at Corruption at Justice	4:48 PM Jun 9
Will the National Surveillance State Prevail Again?	6:19 PM Jun 24
Six Questions for Mohsin Hamid	2:34 PM Jun 25
More on Maher Arar	3:37 PM Jun 5
Pressure Mounts on Karl Rove	7:09 AM Jun 2
Remembering Aitmatov	3:00 PM Jun 11
Media Alert	7:28 PM Jun 13
Six Questions for Michael Sheehan, Author of Crush the Cell	9:13 AM Jun 15
Weber on the Political Vocation	11:32 PM Jun 8
A Setback for the State of Exception	9:10 AM Jun 13
Another Political Prosecution Goes Up in Flames	4:51 PM Jun 2
Plato’s Dialectic of Numbers	8:42 AM Jun 14
Assessing Yoo and Addington	3:55 PM Jun 27
Cicero—Scipio’s Dream	6:23 AM Jun 21
Whitman–Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	11:34 PM Jun 8
Torture from the Top Down	9:45 AM Jun 18
Williams’s Song	7:26 PM Jun 29
Siegelman Prosecution Continues to Unravel	4:24 PM Jun 4
Schubert/Rückert ‘Du bist die Ruh’	7:34 AM Jun 22