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June 2009

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Steve Brodner SEE ALSO: Gates, Bill; Hunger; Philanthropists; Pictorial works; Rich people PDF IMAGES
6-7	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from April 2009: Letter By Keri Weaver On Cambodia's wandering dead, from April 2009: Letter By William F. Schulz Letter By Ben Kiernan Letter By Ben Ehrenreich PDF TEXT IMAGES
9-13	Notebook/Article Dubai Is for Flamingos By Negar Azimi SEE ALSO: Dubai (Emirate); Dubai (United Arab Emirates : Emirate); Financial crises; Flamingos; Horse racing; International trade; Real estate development; United Arab Emirates PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-20	Readings/Article The jungle is obscene By Werner Herzog and Krishna Winston (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Jungles; Motion picture producers and directors; Peru PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Reasonable people By Jay S. Bybee SEE ALSO: Zubaydah, Abu; Correspondence; Imprisonment; Rizzo, John Anthony; Military interrogation; Records and correspondence; Torture; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF TEXT IMAGES
19	Readings/Art/illustration Polar By Barbara Navi PDF IMAGES
22-23	Readings/Article Oranges & peanuts for sale By Eliot Weinberger SEE ALSO: Oranges PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Poetry How lovely wetness makes the flesh By Tennessee Williams PDF TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Known knowns By Svetlana Savranskaya (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; History, Military; Military art and science; Military policy; Soviet occupation, 1979-1989; War casualties; War, Cost of PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Child's play SEE ALSO: Career as president of Liberia; Taylor, Charles; Emmanuel, Charles Taylor; Imprisonment; Liberia; Personal narratives; Kpadeh, Rufus; Torture; Torture victims; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Torture) PDF TEXT IMAGES
26	Readings/Article G.O.P.Y.T. By Ronald Reagan SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Jackson, Michael; Rock musicians PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
27	Readings/Art/illustration Lehmbruck 9-11 By EVOL SEE ALSO: Berlin PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Sick soldier at your door By Barry Hannah PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Article The truth is out there SEE ALSO: Access control; Freedom of information; Government information; Public records PDF TEXT IMAGES
29	Readings/Art/illustration Police dog and stripes By Michael Harrington SEE ALSO: Color in interior decoration; Interior decoration; Wallpaper PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Art/illustration Vanishing point By Sean Yelland SEE ALSO: Elevated highways; Reflection (Optics) PDF IMAGES
32-47	Collection My Great Depression: Ten dispatches from the near future SEE ALSO: Financial crises PDF TEXT IMAGES
33-34	Fiction Change without movement By Kevin Baker PDF TEXT IMAGES
35-37	Fiction Reframing your world By Thomas de Zengotita PDF TEXT IMAGES
36	Cartoon Depression funnies SEE ALSO: Financial crises PDF IMAGES
37-38	Fiction Lack, part two By Jamaica Kincaid PDF IMAGES
38-39	Fiction The great reboot By Colson Whitehead PDF TEXT IMAGES
40-42	Fiction Interim report on recessional aesthetics By Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthy PDF IMAGES
41	Cartoon One year since the collapse . . . SEE ALSO: Rand, Ayn; Financial crises PDF IMAGES
42-44	Fiction Green world By Sherman Alexie PDF IMAGES
44-46	Fiction My views on the darkness are well known By Ben Marcus PDF TEXT IMAGES
47	Cartoon A child ponders the ruins of the 21st century SEE ALSO: Financial crises PDF IMAGES
48-49	Article Every dollar is crucial: Washington's insiders must play to pay By Nancy Watzman SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Career as U.S. congressman; Cantor, Eric; Lobbyists; Political action committees; Real estate business; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) PDF IMAGES
51-59	Article Let them eat cash: Can Bill Gates turn hunger into profit? By Frederick Kaufman SEE ALSO: Agricultural development projects; Agriculture; Sen, Amartya; Gates, Bill; Career as philanthropist; Career as World Food Programme executive director; Famines; Food relief; Hunger; International cooperation; Sheeran, Josette; Philanthropists; United Nations. General Assembly; Views on famine PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
61-63	Art/illustration Foretoken By Yasuhide Kuge (Photog.) and Manabu Ikeda SEE ALSO: Disasters; Waves PDF IMAGES
64-69	Fiction Little drops of water By Kurt Vonnegut PDF IMAGES
71-72	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Brooklyn (Book); Gere, Cathy; Tóibín, Colm; Galeano, Eduardo H.; Huyler, Frank; Knossos and the prophets of modernism (Book); Mirrors: stories of almost everyone (Book); Right of thirst (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
73-76	Review The electric company: How technology revived Ellington's career By Stanley Crouch SEE ALSO: Backstory in blue: Ellington at Newport '56 (Book); Biography; Ellington, Duke; Jazz musicians; Morton, John Fass; Pictorial works PDF TEXT IMAGES
78-82	Review Cold as life: The artful lucidity of Jean Rhys By Evelyn Toynton SEE ALSO: Biography; Rhys, Jean; Pizzichini, Lilian; Novelists, English; Pictorial works; The blue hour: a life of Jean Rhys (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Getting ahead By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF TEXT IMAGES

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Weekly Review By Theodore Ross	Jun 30

By Ken Silverstein

Unprecedented Growth In Israeli Settlements	10:15 AM Jun 9
More on Ambassadorships for Sale	11:07 AM Jun 10
Depression Chic	8:30 AM Jun 9
How Many Law Firms Does It Take to Figure out Where a Congressman Lives?	8:40 AM Jun 8
Obama’s Speech, Pro and Con	9:48 AM Jun 4
“Renegade”: From RW to BO, with love	10:54 AM Jun 4
Congressman Cantor and Cockfighting	9:06 AM Jun 1
Obama to Name Oil Industry Crony to Top Position	9:14 AM Jun 12
The Myth of Gates as Defense Reformer	1:13 PM Jun 10
The Tom Daschle Effect: Terry McAuliffe crushed in Virginia	11:01 AM Jun 10
Wells Fargo’s Stagecoach to Hell	9:52 AM Jun 5
Cheery Photo-ops and Mud	1:35 PM Jun 4
Government Vigorish: The Microsoft story	9:13 AM Jun 12
Kim Jong-il’s Son: Cheese scholar, peacemaker (on the playground)	12:53 PM Jun 3
Is Secrecy on Drone Attacks Hiding Civilian Casualties?	9:20 AM Jun 12
Bush Recount Helper Gets Prison Term For Public Corruption	1:54 PM Jun 4
Who Will Tell The People?	10:34 AM Jun 3
Pentagon Flies the Friendly Skies	11:03 AM Jun 10
Brian Williams, Head of the Presidential Puppy Corps	11:32 AM Jun 3
Federal Court Legalizes Illegal Campaign Contributions	8:40 AM Jun 9
Doing Business With Phil Gramm’s Bank	1:09 PM Jun 8
Glazed or Cream-Filled? Jesus and Donuts	1:16 PM Jun 8
Congressman Visclosky Hit With Subpoena	8:43 AM Jun 1
No NIMBY Problem in India on Jailing Terrorists	1:19 PM Jun 8
The Lobby	8:43 AM Jun 8
Not Ready for Mt. Rushmore: The American Scholar looks at Reagan mythmaking	11:00 AM Jun 15
Obama Energy Adviser: Brought to you by ExxonMobil	11:50 AM Jun 15
Glenn Beck’s Undistilled Looniness	9:02 AM Jun 16
Who Won in Iran?	9:05 AM Jun 16
Keep Guessing Who’s Coming to Dinner at the Obama White House	4:15 PM Jun 16
The Ensign scandal: Did girlfriend double-bill for utilities?	9:43 AM Jun 17
William Jefferson’s Attorney: a degree in advanced chutzpah	10:24 AM Jun 17
Russian Oligarch Retains Advisory Firm Close to Hillary to Help Resolve Visa Ban	11:21 AM Jun 17
Friend of Azeri Dictator Reportedly to be Named Ambassador to Baku	2:09 PM Jun 17
Ladies’ Men	3:43 PM Jun 17
Ensign Love Triangle	8:45 AM Jun 18
Barack Hoover Obama	9:06 AM Jun 18
Obama and political triangulation: the more things change…	9:36 AM Jun 19
Administrative Note	10:38 AM Jun 19
Snack Attack: Industry lobbies on junk food	9:24 AM Jun 30
I hate the U.S. (Soccer Team)	9:35 AM Jun 30
The Evil of Sam Zell	9:41 AM Jun 30
Clinton’s Latest Boner: Ex-president poses with dictator’s daughter	3:50 PM Jun 30
Coleman Concedes: The good news and the bad news	3:52 PM Jun 30

By Scott Horton

How Many Bottles Make a Waterboarding?	1:50 PM Jun 2
Counterfeiting Washington	11:20 AM Jun 9
Twenty Years Later	9:57 AM Jun 4
General Sanchez Calls for Accountability Commission	3:02 PM Jun 1
The Roberts Quartet and Justice for Sale	9:51 AM Jun 10
Six Questions for David Beito, Author of Black Maverick	9:41 AM Jun 11
Cheney Ran the CIA’s Torture Briefings	10:09 AM Jun 3
Rebel Yell II: Will Georgia’s Charles Walker Get a New Trial?	10:04 AM Jun 5
Cheney, the DOJ, and Torture: Two Takes	10:10 AM Jun 9
Petraeus: Bush Administration Violated Geneva Conventions	9:59 AM Jun 1
The Cairo Speech	11:38 AM Jun 4
Plato’s World-Soul	7:21 AM Jun 6
Buchanan Surrenders in Her War With Wecht	1:56 PM Jun 2
Why Comedians Love Dick Cheney	11:04 AM Jun 8
Law Lords Hand British Government Setback on Detentions Policy	2:47 PM Jun 10
Questions for General McChrystal	9:42 AM Jun 2
Leo Strauss and the Iraq War	10:32 AM Jun 3
The Familiar Face of the New RNC	1:52 PM Jun 2
Unsatisfactory Answers from General McChrystal	4:49 PM Jun 2
Holder Admits More Prosecutorial Misconduct in Public Integrity Cases	1:48 PM Jun 5
Emerson’s World-Soul	7:51 AM Jun 7
UN Rapporteur: Rumsfeld in Trouble	3:49 PM Jun 9
Proust—Memory and the Foods of Childhood	6:49 AM Jun 13
Dryden/Handel—The Warrior’s Revenge	7:06 AM Jun 14
Keller’s Iranian Insights	10:45 AM Jun 15
John Yoo’s Reckoning With Justice Draws Closer	2:37 PM Jun 15
The Ghosts of Gitmo	4:04 PM Jun 15
The Fruits of Torture	11:13 AM Jun 16
Partisan Politics and the Accountability Commission	10:55 AM Jun 17
A Crisis in Theocracy	10:07 AM Jun 18
Operation Pinwale	1:33 PM Jun 18
The Jump Artist: Six Questions for Austin Ratner	10:49 AM Jun 19
WaPo Loses Its Top Web Columnist	11:00 AM Jun 19
Obama Justice Department Loves Secrecy	11:34 AM Jun 19
Rumi’s Green-Winged Longing	7:26 AM Jun 20
Emerson’s Saadi	8:51 AM Jun 21
Lawyers’ Opinions and Crime	10:13 AM Jun 23
Political Prosecutions in the Bush Era: A Forum	9:49 AM Jun 25
Did a Bush Justice Figure Obstruct the Renzi Investigation?	9:47 AM Jun 26
Copernicus—Vita brevis	6:17 AM Jun 27
García Lorca — For the Love of Green	10:57 AM Jun 28
Judges Above the Law	10:56 AM Jun 29

By Mr. Fish

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Obama a Very Smooth Liar

By John R. MacArthur

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Jun 17

Six Questions for Cynthia Smith on the Legality of Force-feeding at Guantánamo By Luke Mitchell	4:03 PM Jun 4
“The Crisis in American Medicine” Redux By Luke Mitchell	1:51 PM Jun 15

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