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August 2008

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Ray Bartkus SEE ALSO: 1981-1989; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The revolution will not be pasteurized, from April 2008: Letter By Mark A. Kastel On The battle of ideas, from May 2008: Letter By John Tredway Letter By Jean-Luc Lavigne On Democracy and deference, from June 2008: Letter By Fred Nollan On Harper's index, from June 2008: Note/correction On Our phony economy, from June 2008: Letter By Jim Loving On They shoot buffalo, don't they, from June 2008: Letter By Jeff Welsch On Suicide by fitness center, from June 2008: Letter By Jim Valentine PDF IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Requiem for the private word By Garret Keizer SEE ALSO: Access control; Confidential communications; Elite (Social sciences); Privacy, Right of PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-18	Readings/Fiction On not growing up By Ben Marcus PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article Signed, sealed, delivered SEE ALSO: Distribution of decedents' estates; Last letters before death; Rapture (Christian eschatology); Swindlers and swindling PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Photo Silver Lake Operations #5, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007 By Edward Burtynsky (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Australia; Nickel mines and mining; Strip mining PDF IMAGES
18-19	Readings/Article Shoot everyone you see SEE ALSO: Aung Zaw; Burma; Children and war; Selective Service System; Htun Myint; Interviews; Maung Zaw Oo; Myin Win; Recruiting, enlistment, etc.; Sai Seng PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Illustration London Apt Fire, 2007 By Richard Storms SEE ALSO: Apartment houses; Fires; Fires and fire prevention PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Active metaphors By George Saunders SEE ALSO: Criticism; Metaphor; Realism PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Holler back SEE ALSO: Casting; Disfigured persons; Motion pictures; Pittsburgh PDF IMAGES
22-24	Readings/Poem Praise to the Swiss Federation By Gabriel Gudding PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Canal building By Huan Zhang SEE ALSO: Canals PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article D-Day cup SEE ALSO: Brassieres; Gas masks; Patents PDF IMAGES
24-25	Readings/Article Stupid brave SEE ALSO: Abdullahu, Agron; Albanians; Duka, Dritan; Duka, Eljvir; Kosovo (Serbia); Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Terrorism); War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
25	Readings/Article America, I've given you all By Allen Ginsberg SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Artists; Correspondence; Federal aid to the arts; Helms, Richard; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Everybody who's anybody By J. Edgar (John Edgar) Hoover SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Correspondence; Emergency management; Government policy; Habeas corpus; Information technology; 1945-1953; Souers, Sidney; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Discredit report By Adam J. Szubin SEE ALSO: Consumer credit; Correspondence; Credit ratings; Drug traffic; Government policy; Thompson, Mike; Prevention; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES Readings/Article I got a Taliban, bro SEE ALSO: Mohamed, Ahmed; Taylor, Andy; Career as traffic police; Blakely, James; South Carolina; Traffic police; Transportation; Trials, litigation, etc.; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Megahed, Youssef PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article Russian arch SEE ALSO: Art, Modern; Art, Russian; Career as museum owner; Catalogs; Markin, Igor; Moscow; Moscow (Russia) PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Illustration No other conceivable option By Kristine Moran SEE ALSO: Dystopias PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction In dreams I kiss your hand, madam By William Gaddis PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Poem Pompeii By Charles Bernstein PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
33	Readings/Photo Icy prospects #7 By Jorma Puranen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Reflections; Winter PDF IMAGES
35-45	Article The wrecking crew: How a gang of right-wing con men destroyed Washington and made a killing By Thomas Frank SEE ALSO: Angola; Apartheid; Career as Angolan guerrilla leader; Career as superspy; Career as U.S. president; Career in conservative politics; Career in politics; Conservatism; Williamson, Craig; Entrepreneurship; Norquist, Grover Glenn; Guerrilla warfare; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; Abramoff, Jack; Kemp, Jack; Savimbi, Jonas Malheiro; 1981-1989; North, Oliver; Pictorial works; Political corruption; Reed, Ralph; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Reagan, Ronald; South Africa PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
46-49	Article Looks good on paper: With welfare-to-work, presentation is everything By Tracie McMillan SEE ALSO: Career as welfare recipient; Jurado, Carmen; Public welfare administration; Résumés (Employment); Welfare recipients PDF IMAGES
50-55	Article The mandarins: American foreign policy, brought to you by China By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Haig, Alexander Meigs; Scowcroft, Brent; Career as China adviser; Link, E. Perry (Eugene Perry); Foreign economic relations; Kissinger, Henry; Bader, Jeffrey; Berger, Sandy PDF IMAGES
57-61	Collection Brute soul By Walton Ford PDF IMAGES Illustration Loss of the Lisbon rhinoceros By Walton Ford SEE ALSO: Rhinoceroses PDF IMAGES
58-59	Illustration Scipio and the bear By Walton Ford SEE ALSO: Bears PDF IMAGES
60-61	Illustration Hyrcania By Walton Ford SEE ALSO: Tigers PDF IMAGES
62-72	Fiction Jack By Marilynne Robinson PDF IMAGES
73-74	New books/Review New books By John Leonard SEE ALSO: Biography; Carr, David; Lebedoff, David; Waugh, Evelyn; Orwell, George; Bruno, Giordano; Giordano Bruno: philosopher/heretic (Book); Rowland, Ingrid D. (Ingrid Drake); Man in the dark (Book); Auster, Paul; The night of the gun (Book); The same man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in love and war (Book) PDF IMAGES
75-82	Review The master's voice: Henry James's curriculum vitae By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Biography; James, Henry; Henry James: the mature master (Book); Henry James: the young master (Book); Novelists, American; Pictorial works; Novick, Sheldon M. PDF IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Champagne for two By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF IMAGES

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

Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Aug 5
Weekly Review By Paul Ford	Aug 26
Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke	Aug 12
Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Aug 19

By Ken Silverstein

China Nabs Another Gold Medal: Government sets new record for jailing Olympics protesters	2:58 PM Aug 20
Will Bush Administration Let Oil Companies Skate on Money Paid to African Dictator?	11:10 AM Aug 4
More Hot Air From David Broder on Speaking Fees	5:31 PM Aug 13
Biden, Pork, and the Drug War	12:07 PM Aug 25
David Broder Tears Up Over Senator Stevens	9:43 AM Aug 3
Your Essential Guide to the Political Conventions	5:28 AM Aug 25
NBC’s Olympics, Brought to You By Henry Kissinger	7:24 AM Aug 9
The “Crescendo” Recedes: Public indifferent to Biden’s selection	7:49 AM Aug 24
In New Interview, John Edwards Reveals All	10:04 PM Aug 13
Blog Break	7:09 AM Aug 26
Obama’s Money: Will his big donors top Bush’s Pioneers and Rangers?	9:35 PM Aug 5
Bipartisan Policy Center: We are not boring	8:42 AM Aug 25
The Murtha Rules: A simple system to win federal money	12:52 PM Aug 20
Congressman Vern Buchanan: Would you buy a used car from this man?	10:24 AM Aug 19
What Was Putin Thinking?	2:41 PM Aug 11
Six Questions for Chris Lehmann on “Moronic” Campaign Coverage and the “Press Bubble”	12:28 PM Aug 21
Congressman Murtha’s Racket: Pork and influence peddling or jobs and growth?	8:35 AM Aug 21
John Edwards Ends Fling With Anti-Poverty Center	9:36 AM Aug 11
Olympics Chief OK on China jailing grannies, but really annoyed by Jamaican sprinter’s celebration	8:46 AM Aug 22
Change We Can Believe In? Democratic keynoter biggest recipient of lobbying money	2:53 PM Aug 14
NBC: Nothing Bad about China	10:33 AM Aug 13
How Hunt Oil Buys and Sell(s)	8:02 AM Aug 25
Silent Armey: Former House majority leader lobbies for defense contractor	11:33 AM Aug 5
How Low Can Jacques Rogge Sink? Beijing and the spirit of ‘36	6:01 AM Aug 8
Convicted Felon: Congressional ethics bill filled with loopholes	1:14 PM Aug 20
I’ll Have My Tie, With a Side Order of Fries	8:59 AM Aug 18
Travel Advisory for Pakistan: Don’t carry your satellite phone	9:53 AM Aug 14
Alan Greenspan: The maestro has no wand	7:18 AM Aug 15
Penetrating Campaign Insights from the Washington Post and CNN	9:32 AM Aug 22
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Two Party System	1:31 PM Aug 18
National Enquirer Publishes John Edwards Pix	3:52 PM Aug 6
Hard Times for the G.O.P.: Leaked letter reveals pathetic financial conditions at party’s private club	10:32 AM Aug 5
Good Georgia vs. Fascist Russia? Maybe it’s not that simple	9:11 PM Aug 13
Credibility Crunch: Biden’s son worked for credit card company that pushed bankruptcy “reform” bill	9:00 AM Aug 25
Palin and Her Pastors: “Those that die without Christ have a horrible, horrible surprise”	5:51 PM Aug 30
Olympic Protests: Another Triumph for Jacques Rogge’s “Silent Diplomacy”	3:44 PM Aug 18
Biden Blatherfest: Read Glenn Greenwald, skip the rest	8:18 PM Aug 24

By Luke Mitchell

Free Speech Zone	3:41 PM Aug 28
Undecideds	9:16 PM Aug 27
Clowns	11:42 AM Aug 26
Big Party	5:46 PM Aug 26

By Wyatt Mason

Weekend Read: “So the trail leads you here”	2:35 PM Aug 1
Die A Painful Death	11:35 AM Aug 4
“Shurshaschie in Buryane”	3:22 PM Aug 11
Weekend Listen: Hallali!	1:25 PM Aug 29
All That, For This?	5:07 AM Aug 6
The Books Remain Closed: A discussion with Arthur Krystal	1:44 PM Aug 20
A Strangely Elegant, Convex-shaped Writing Machine	12:36 PM Aug 18
On a Very High Shelf	2:17 PM Aug 25
Weekend Read: “Not a bad way of making a living”	5:10 PM Aug 22
An Abnormal, Morbid, or Disfiguring Outgrowth	4:03 PM Aug 27
Prayers Mistakenly Submitted	11:24 AM Aug 13
Weekend Read: An unwritten, half written, rewritten difficult book	6:22 PM Aug 7
Weekend Read: “May Christ send you sorrow and a serious illness”	1:32 PM Aug 15

By Scott Horton

In Pursuit of Kafka’s Porn Cache: Six questions for James Hawes	7:28 AM Aug 19
Lincoln–The Duty to Think Anew	8:25 AM Aug 30
Milton’s Golden Compass	11:16 AM Aug 10
The Justice Department’s Truthiness Problem	9:55 AM Aug 8
Solzhenitsyn—The Challenge of the Modern Age	9:36 AM Aug 16
More Prosecutorial Mischief in Mississippi	9:17 PM Aug 20
Georgia on My Mind	10:37 AM Aug 11
The Mukasey Doctrine	3:20 PM Aug 12
The Zero-Calorie Debates	7:10 AM Aug 15
Elder Joseph’s Simple Gifts	7:55 AM Aug 24
Yeats’s Sailing to Byzantium	7:51 AM Aug 31
Bayle on the Chronicler’s Duty	7:23 AM Aug 23
Verdict on Hamdan	9:03 AM Aug 7
Shaftesbury on the Meaning of Life	7:59 AM Aug 9
Military Judge Finds Political Manipulation in Gitmo, Again	6:25 PM Aug 16
More’s Immortality	6:13 AM Aug 17
Burckhardt on the Duty of Citizens	6:45 AM Aug 2
Mörike’s To a Lamp	10:08 AM Aug 3