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July 2008

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Tim Bower SEE ALSO: Democratic Party (U.S.); Donkeys; Elephants; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) PDF IMAGES
6-7	Letters/Department Letters On Keyword, from March 2008: Letter By Ian Spencer On Why I pay my taxes, from April 2008: Letter By Jay A. Stout Letter By Don Schrader On Contagious cancer, from April 2008: Letter By John Hayward PDF IMAGES
8-10	Notebook/Article Company policy By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Cooperman, Arthur J.; Career as New York State Supreme Court justice; Death and burial; Iraq War, 2003-; Justice and politics; Police brutality; Bell, Sean PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article The boy from Shanghai By J.G. Ballard SEE ALSO: British; Childhood and youth; Ballard, J.G.; Personal narratives, British; Shanghai; Shanghai (China); Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945 PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Poem The city of Boston By Jack Spicer PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Illustration The poll tax riots By Dexter Dalwood SEE ALSO: Riots PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Illustration Graphic violence By Ala' SEE ALSO: Atrocities; Children and war; Darfur; Darfur Conflict, 2003-; Executions and executioners; Sudan PDF IMAGES
20-23	Readings/Article A foreign policy you can't refuse By John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell SEE ALSO: Godfather (Motion picture); International relations; Motion pictures PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Tutti assieme democraticamente By Daniele Galliano SEE ALSO: Democracy; European Parliament PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Strunk and awe SEE ALSO: Communication; Communications; Government policy; Prevention; Qaida (Organization); Terrorism; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration E.T. By Craig McPherson SEE ALSO: Steel industry and trade; Steel-works PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Candid camera SEE ALSO: Arab countries; Arab-Israeli conflict; Foreign public opinion; Israel PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Illustration Unnatural history By John Macdonald SEE ALSO: Dinosaurs; Museum attendance PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Clinging to guns and religion By Matthew Murray SEE ALSO: Colorado; Ex-church members; Pentecostal churches PDF IMAGES
28-29	Readings/Article Radio days By Jonathan Shainin SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Competitions; Grossman, David; Influence; Israel; Quiz shows; Radio; Aleichem, Sholem PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article On hitchhiking By Harry Crews SEE ALSO: Hitchhiking; Oral intercourse PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Dare not speak our name By Karen Emmerich (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Greece; Lesbians; Lesbos Island (Greece); Name; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Poem When the pie was opened By Paul Muldoon PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article High noon for the Republican Party: Why the G.O.P. must die By Kevin Baker, Kevin P. Phillips, Luke Mitchell, Scott McConnell, and Thomas F. Schaller SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Career as presidential candidate; Democratic Party (U.S.); Clinton, Hillary Rodham; 2008; Political parties; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
41-53	Article The Magic Olympics: With tricks explained! By Alex Stone SEE ALSO: Stone, Alex; Career as magician; Competitions; Magic; Magicians; Stockholm; Sweden PDF IMAGES
54-64	Article Crimes against nature: The many uses of the Daniel Boone National Forest By Kathy Dobie SEE ALSO: Crime; Forest management; Land use; Management; Marijuana; Outdoor recreation PDF IMAGES
65-73	Article The perfect game: Five years with the master of Pac-Man By Joshuah Bearman SEE ALSO: Mitchell, Billy; Career as video game archivist; Career as video game player; Competitions; Video games; Day, Walter PDF IMAGES
74-80	Fiction The case of the severed hand By Robert Coover PDF IMAGES
81-82	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Beijing coma (Book); Biography; Castellanos Moya, Horacio; Thompson, Hunter S.; Oates, Joyce Carol; Jian, Ma; My sister, my love (Book); Outlaw journalist: the life and times of Hunter S. Thompson (Book); Senselessness (Book); McKeen, William PDF IMAGES
83-87	Review A fine line: Rodolphe Töpffer's squiggles and squibs By Jed Perl SEE ALSO: Biography; Comic books, strips, etc.; Kunzle, David; Father of the comic strip: Rodolphe Töpffer (Book); Töpffer, Rodolphe; Rodolphe Töpffer: the complete comic strips (Book) PDF IMAGES
88-94	Review Purist of the self: Did Mahler get the biographer he deserves? By Joshua Cohen SEE ALSO: Biography; Mahler, Gustav; Gustav Mahler, v. 1 (Book); Gustav Mahler, v. 2. Vienna: the years of challenge (1897-1904) (Book); Gustav Mahler, v. 3. Vienna: triumph and disillusion (1904-1907) (Book); Gustav Mahler, v. 4. A new life cut short (1907-1911) (Book); La Grange, Henry-Louis de; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Rude awakening By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen	Jul 29
Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff	Jul 15
Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Jul 22
Weekly Review By Paul Ford	Jul 1
Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke	Jul 8

By Ken Silverstein

Video from Guantánamo: Interrogation of Canadian teenager	3:18 PM Jul 15
The Manchurian Men’s Convention	7:33 AM Jul 12
WhineOn.org: It’s true, liberals really have no sense of humor	12:51 PM Jul 14
Wolcott: “The raven caw of Laura Ingraham’s voice”	9:05 AM Jul 18
Rick Renzi, American	1:33 PM Jul 3
Corruption in Kazakhstan? My last illusions are shattered	11:49 AM Jul 23
Another Reason to Be Skeptical of Yoga	12:32 PM Jul 23
Another Reason to Be Skeptical of the Sierra Club	1:04 PM Jul 23
McCain Advisor’s Track Record on Iraq Unblemished by Success	9:05 AM Jul 29
Will the Bush Administration Strike Iran?	8:39 AM Jul 3
The Professor of Repression and China	9:22 AM Jul 14
Is Fareed Zakaria the $75,000 Man?	10:07 AM Jul 10
Laurie Coleman’s “Blo & Go”: The “whole key is suction”	9:10 AM Jul 8
New York Governor: I’ve got a bridge to sell you — literally	10:36 AM Jul 30
Tax Shirkers for McCain/Lieberman?	7:42 PM Jul 28
Uzbek Dictator’s Daughter: Harvard grad’s “wishes are orders”	4:57 PM Jul 8
Will Obama Speak Out for Constituent’s Kids? Or Will Choreography Prevail on Foreign Trip?	2:46 PM Jul 19
After Losing in Court, Government Keeps Al-Arian Jailed With “Contempt” Charges	8:02 AM Jul 3
So Long Ted Stevens, It’s Been Good to Know You: The Pork King’s finest moments	11:55 AM Jul 30
Why You Don’t Like David Brooks, Explained	1:42 PM Jul 24
The Washington Post, After Watergate	9:23 AM Jul 4
Senator Ted Stevens: A trip down memory lane	2:02 PM Jul 29
Ukrainian Press Calls Conference Attended by Karl Rove “Nauseating”	8:20 PM Jul 18
Lobbyist-arranged Op-eds?	8:37 AM Jul 15
Sweet Dreams: Official Predicts “Chaos” and “Panic” if Washington, D.C., Attacked	7:36 PM Jul 18
Obama’s Money: Not all of it coming from those beloved small donors	8:23 AM Jul 29
Congress and Menthols	8:30 AM Jul 21
Dow 11,349.28	4:42 PM Jul 24
Six Questions for Arvind Ganesan on the Beijing Olympics, the Media and Human Rights	8:17 AM Jul 14
Sunday Times Video Catches Lobbyist Selling White House Access	8:45 AM Jul 13
Charges Against Two SIGIR Employees Dropped	7:03 AM Jul 17
Feeling John McCain	3:04 PM Jul 25
Curt Weldon Pal Pleads Guilty	1:22 PM Jul 25
Waterboarding and the Waverly Inn	8:08 AM Jul 21
Where is the Curt Weldon Investigation Heading?	12:03 PM Jul 15
Slate’s Guide to Administration Lawbreaking and Future Prosecutions	1:50 PM Jul 24
Congress to Look at Price Gouging on Drugs Used to Treat Children	11:55 AM Jul 23
Orange County’s Little Sheriff	1:31 PM Jul 27
Richard Perle: War for fun and profit	8:53 AM Jul 29
More on Dow 36,000	12:44 PM Jul 25
Olympic Sponsors “Cheer for China”:	7:23 AM Jul 20
Zzzzzzzz: Get Ready for CNN’s Exciting Convention Coverage	7:24 AM Jul 12
Rove, Yalta, and Contempt of Congress	11:06 AM Jul 18
Vital Strategic Debate at Air Force: What color leather for our comfort capsules?	8:52 AM Jul 21
Gary Condit: All I did was lie about my affair with a murdered woman and the media won’t leave me alone	8:21 AM Jul 21
Thomas Powers on the Iran Threat	2:16 PM Jul 7
Oregon Fraudster Backing McCain	9:31 AM Jul 9
The Daily Show on the New Yorker Cover	2:29 PM Jul 16
That New Yorker Cover	10:12 AM Jul 15
Iran’s Culpability Conclusively Established: Country Guilty of Bad Photoshopping	10:32 AM Jul 10
And the Nobel Prize for Best Swiss Bank Accounts Goes To…	1:24 PM Jul 9
James Wolcott on Bob Kerrey’s “Recipe for Loserdom”	6:58 AM Jul 3
Los Angeles Times to be Written Entirely by Computer	9:02 AM Jul 28
Congress and Soils Professionals: A Very Dirty Relationship	10:41 AM Jul 9
Senator Cornyn’s Friend at the Scooter Store	2:33 PM Jul 7
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett: Practicing what he preaches	7:33 AM Jul 28
Performance Bonus? Top Officials at Bailed out Fannie and Freddie Rake in Millions	7:06 AM Jul 28
Worldwide Strategic Shakedown Partners	10:34 AM Jul 14
Russian and Serb Interests Paid for Congressman Weldon’s Family Vacation to Europe	11:41 AM Jul 17
Obama’s Reaganesque Foreign Policy?	9:05 AM Jul 12

By Wyatt Mason

“Written Rather Desultorily”	11:26 AM Jul 14
The Discharge From a Deeper Wound	4:21 PM Jul 21
From Where? Whither?	8:57 AM Jul 7
An Imaginary Kindle	5:09 PM Jul 30
Weekend Read: “The other side”	11:45 AM Jul 18
Weekend Read: “A gigantic figure”	12:38 PM Jul 11
“I wanted and didn’t want to ask”	7:53 AM Jul 10
Weekend Read: “A difference of imagination”	8:37 AM Jul 4
This Incomprehensible Whatever-it-was	12:05 PM Jul 28
Resurrection Is Rare	12:18 PM Jul 16
A Staggering Mother	4:05 PM Jul 2
Weekend Read: “The queer world of verbal transmigration”	12:33 PM Jul 25
“An Uncharacteristically Altruistic Monument”	12:45 PM Jul 23

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Gracián on the Role of Culture	7:17 AM Jul 26
Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side	10:58 AM Jul 14
Hans Sachs’s Schlaraffenland	8:56 AM Jul 20
Inside the Pakistan-Taliban Relationship: Six Questions for Ahmed Rashid, Author of Descent Into Chaos	3:41 PM Jul 30
Montesquieu—The Corruption of Principles and the Decline of the State	7:23 AM Jul 12
Washington on the Threat of Partisan Entrenchment	11:26 AM Jul 5
Six Questions for Paul Alexander, Author of Machiavelli’s Shadow	8:09 AM Jul 1
Media Alert	3:58 PM Jul 16
Boileau—Nothing is Beautiful but the True	7:22 AM Jul 13
Six Questions for Steve LeVine, author of Putin’s Labyrinth	2:30 PM Jul 8
Cusanus’s Human Microcosm	5:50 AM Jul 19
García Lorca’s Guitar	7:55 AM Jul 27
Music for the Fourth of July	8:58 AM Jul 4
D’Alembert—Happiness and the Duty to Fellow Humans	11:01 PM Jul 13
Mr. Twain Offers a Lesson on Patriotism	7:17 AM Jul 4
New Allegations of Prosecutorial Misconduct in the Siegelman Case	1:20 PM Jul 24
Six Questions for Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, Author of In Justice	11:55 AM Jul 23
On the Peace Born of Faith	2:38 PM Jul 10
The Misdirection	10:56 AM Jul 21