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July 2009

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Fish SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Financial crises; Hoover, Herbert; On postage stamps; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On The quivering upper lip, from May 2009: Letter By Kramer O'Neill On Jesus killed Mohammed, from May 2009: Letter By Richard Meibers Letter By Terre Thaemlitz On Last man standing, from May 2009: Letter By Andrew S. Mine PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Fat and scant of breath By Paul West SEE ALSO: Brain damage; Cerebrovascular disease; Death, Apparent; Emergency medical services; Patients; Rehabilitation PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-15	Readings/Article The ironic cloud By D. Graham Burnett and Jeffrey Andrew Dolven SEE ALSO: Guerrilla warfare; Irony; Language; Princeton; Princeton University; Research grants PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
14	Readings/Article Kvetch-22 By Ariel Babinsky (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Depressed persons; Draft; Israel; Malingering; Medical examinations; Peace movements; Recruiting, enlistment, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Readings/Art/illustration The commons By Erik Benson SEE ALSO: Commons; Plazas; Public spaces PDF IMAGES
16-17	Readings/Article Outliers SEE ALSO: Franks, Bobby; Death and burial; Interviews; Kidnapping; Murderers; Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal; Loeb, Richard A.; Right and wrong; Trials (Murder) PDF TEXT IMAGES
17	Readings/Photography Acid pollution, Mandoli, Delhi, 2006 By Sophie Gerrard (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Delhi; Environmental conditions PDF IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article My so-called putsch By Ozden Ornek and Ayse Sibel Erol (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Admirals; Career as Turkey prime minister; Diaries; Islam and politics; Erdogan, Recep Tayyip; Turkey PDF TEXT IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article We are the government SEE ALSO: Career as white Zimbabwean citrus farmer; Career as Zimbabwe president; Career as Zimbabwe senate president; Civil rights; Madzongwe, Edna; Human rights; Land reform; 1980-; Etheredge, Peter; Political corruption; Political persecution; Right of property; Mugabe, Robert Gabriel; Zimbabwe PDF TEXT IMAGES
21	Readings/Art/illustration Woodsman 3 By George Shaw PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Car stalk SEE ALSO: Arizona; Automobile ownership; Career in car repossession; Finance, Personal; Dicks, Jennifer; Fischer, Michael; Phoenix; Web sites PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article One life to live By Getahun Mesfin Haile (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Ethiopia; Radio in health education; Radio plays; Soap operas PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Deliverance SEE ALSO: Career as obstetrician; Skol, Catherine; Childbirth; Delivery (Obstetrics); Health; Malpractice; Pierce, Scott PDF TEXT IMAGES
24	Readings/Art/illustration Corrida in ronda no. 3 By Eric Fischl SEE ALSO: Bullfighters; Bullfights PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Company towns By Luther Magnussen PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Art/illustration Steel mill By Peter Waite SEE ALSO: Industrial buildings; Steel-works PDF IMAGES
29-37	Article Barack Hoover Obama: The best and the brightest blow it again By Kevin Baker SEE ALSO: Obama, Barack; Career as U.S. president; Financial crises; Free enterprise; Hoover, Herbert; 1929-1933; 2009-; Pictorial works; Political leadership; Progressivism (United States politics); Reconstruction Finance Corporation PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
38-44	Article Labor's last stand: The corporate campaign to kill the Employee Free Choice Act By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Business and politics; Career as lobbyist; Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America; Corporations; Spencer, Glenn; Labor movement; Labor unions; Lobbying; 2009-; Organizing; United States. National Labor Relations Board PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
45-48	Article Eclogue: On the rich sin of meddling By Mark Slouka SEE ALSO: Animal behavior; Animals; Effect of human beings on; Intelligent design (Teleology); Life and death, Power over; Mortality; Naturalists; Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature, Healing power of PDF TEXT IMAGES
49-55	Article We still torture: The new evidence from Guantánamo By Luke Mitchell SEE ALSO: Abuse of; Artificial feeding; Obama, Barack; Cuba; Guantánamo Bay; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Medical ethics; Prisoners; Torture; Torture (International law); Views on torture PDF TEXT IMAGES
56-63	Article The ghosts of Doongerwadi: Among Bombay's dwindling Parsis By Sherally Munshi SEE ALSO: Bombay; Bombay (India); Mirza, Dasturji Framroze; Baria, Dhun; Funeral customs and rites; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Mistree, Khojeste; Knowledge—Dokhmas; Parsees; Vultures; Zoroastrianism PDF TEXT IMAGES
64-72	Fiction Wait till you see me dance By Deb Olin Unferth PDF IMAGES
73-74	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Camus, Albert; Biography; Camus, a romance (Book); Hawes, Elizabeth; Pfeijffer, Ilja Leonard; In the sanctuary of outcasts (Book); It's our turn to eat: the story of a Kenyan whistle-blower (Book); Wrong, Michela; White, Neil; Pictorial works; Rupert: a confession (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
75-79	Review Eloquent phantom: Tayeb Salih's search for an elusive present By Robyn Creswell SEE ALSO: Johnson-Davies, Denys; Season of migration to the north (Book); Sudan; Salih, Tayeb PDF TEXT IMAGES
79-82	Review Noble and savage: The bitter extremes of Elsa Morante By Robert Boyers SEE ALSO: Biography; Morante, Elsa; Tuck, Lily; Pictorial works; Woman of Rome: a life of Elsa Morante (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department New collectives By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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WASHINGTON BABYLON
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MR. FISH
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE
COMMENTARY

Weekly Review By Sam Stark	Jul 7
Weekly Review By Paul Ford	Jul 14
Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Jul 21
Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez	Jul 28

By Ken Silverstein

More on the Awful American Soccer Team	9:46 AM Jul 1
Clinton Boner Picture Identified	10:01 AM Jul 1
For Your Morning Viewing Pleasure	10:04 AM Jul 1
Washington Post and Reporters For Sale to Highest Bidder	9:38 AM Jul 2
Absolute Last Word on Soccer: Fans make PETA activists look open-minded	9:47 AM Jul 2
The Clinton Foundation: It depends on how you define “is”	10:22 AM Jul 2
Editor Bill Wasik at Politics and Prose Monday Night	8:31 AM Jul 6
Other Pay-to-Play Schemes at the Washington Post?	8:33 AM Jul 6
A Few Facts About the Honduran Military Coup	8:35 AM Jul 6
Administrative Note	8:36 AM Jul 6
Honduran Kingmaker	8:27 AM Jul 14
The Michael Jackson Memorial: LA’s version of the Tim Russert funeral	8:29 AM Jul 14
P.J. in Afghanistan	8:33 AM Jul 14
How Many Hondurans Supported Coup?	9:38 AM Jul 14
Politico Not Exactly Virginal on Wall Between Reporting/Money	11:27 AM Jul 14
Senator Coburn, Sotomayor, and I Love Lucy	10:11 AM Jul 16
Sotomayor and the Democrats	10:12 AM Jul 16
Health Care Lobbyists: Awful people, even by the Hill’s standards	10:14 AM Jul 16
Politico’s Parties	10:43 AM Jul 16
Sotomayor Hearings: Content-free	9:16 AM Jul 17
Democrats Weaken Key Bill Backed By Unions	9:20 AM Jul 17
More on Sessions v. Sotomayor	9:22 AM Jul 17
How Crazy is Glenn Beck?	3:19 PM Jul 17
Administrative Note	12:19 PM Jul 18

By Scott Horton

“Just Following Orders”	9:45 AM Jul 1
Jefferson—The Risk of Too Much Confidence in Elected Government	6:18 AM Jul 4
Frost—The Gift Outright	7:06 AM Jul 5
A Lady of Loose Virtues	8:50 AM Jul 6
To Russia With Love	9:39 AM Jul 6
Shostakovich in Oxford	11:05 AM Jul 7
Did DOJ Retaliate Against Siegelman Whistleblower?	3:51 PM Jul 7
A Renditions Scandal in Britain	11:13 AM Jul 8
Six Questions for Ariel Cohen on Obama’s Efforts to Restart U.S.-Russian Relations	3:25 PM Jul 8
Public Event: Justice After Guantánamo	7:36 PM Jul 8
A Tour of Gitmo	9:39 AM Jul 9
National Review Hearts Stalinism	2:09 PM Jul 9
The Justice Department Roach Motel	3:07 PM Jul 9
Calvin—Working for the Common Good	5:33 AM Jul 10
The C Street Club (Updated)	9:26 AM Jul 10
Galileo—Reading the Book of Nature	7:22 AM Jul 11
Campanella—Il mondo è il libro	5:39 AM Jul 12
Will Holder Launch a Torture Investigation?	9:31 AM Jul 13
Is the Lid About to Blow on the Cheney Snuff Program?	11:58 AM Jul 13
Rep. King Calls for Scorched Earth	2:49 PM Jul 13
Saint-Just—Man is born for peace and liberty	5:42 AM Jul 14
A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to Damascus	10:32 AM Jul 14
The Ghosts of Dasht-i-Leili	3:52 PM Jul 14
Jeff Sessions’s Big Day	9:13 AM Jul 15
More on Cheney’s Pet CIA Project	12:37 PM Jul 15
Inside the “Christian Mafia”	9:48 AM Jul 16
The Winger Media Shows Its Teeth	10:17 AM Jul 16
WaPo: Snuff Program Was Close to Activation	11:39 AM Jul 16
Six Questions for Jack Balkin on the Entrenchment of the National Surveillance State	5:31 PM Jul 16
Yoo Must Be Kidding	9:49 AM Jul 17
Hypocris-C Street	2:46 PM Jul 17
Collateral Damage in Afghanistan and the FCPA in Azerbaijan	3:08 PM Jul 17
Weber—‘Official Secrets’ and Bureaucratic Warfare	8:05 AM Jul 18
Rückert/Mahler—Um Mitternacht	8:42 AM Jul 19
A Prisoner in Afghanistan	9:20 AM Jul 20
Newsweek on Air Looks at the Assassins	12:50 PM Jul 20
Meet the Torturers	1:01 PM Jul 20
The APA’s Nuremberg Defense	4:07 PM Jul 20
Sexual Blackmail in the Siegelman Case?	11:17 AM Jul 21
Peering Under the Rock at the C Street “Family”	5:08 PM Jul 21
The CIA Misleads Courts and Congress: What to Do About It	7:27 PM Jul 21
Did Americans Watch the Massacre at Dasht-e-Leili?	9:53 AM Jul 22
“Witch Hunts,” “Show Trials” and Other Beltway Delusions	11:58 AM Jul 22
Base Motives	9:20 AM Jul 23
Keeping the Dark Lord’s Secrets	3:39 PM Jul 23
The Pickering Diaries	9:47 AM Jul 24
Nietzsche—The Dionysian Impulse	6:50 AM Jul 25
Catullus—Nothing Endures	6:52 AM Jul 26
Cheney’s Plans for a Military Coup	10:00 AM Jul 27
Musicophilia: Six Questions for Oliver Sacks	12:18 PM Jul 28
Ambassadorships for Sale	9:50 AM Jul 29
Clinton Intervened to Keep Lid on Torture Account	10:23 AM Jul 30
Prosecutors Under the Loupe	2:58 PM Jul 30
Court Orders Release of Juvenile Prisoner at Gitmo	9:50 AM Jul 31
NYT Punk’d—Twice in One Day	5:22 PM Jul 31

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	10:19 PM Jul 10
A Cartoon	3:12 PM Jul 17
A Cartoon	12:21 PM Jul 23
A Cartoon	3:03 PM Jul 31

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Thurber, Addams and My Funny Bone

By John R. MacArthur

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December 2009

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC SUPERFRAUD
Why the Hudson River Will Never Run Clean
By David Gargill

THE MASTER OF SPIN BOLDAK
Undercover with Afghanistan’s Drug-Trafficking Border Police
By Matthieu Aikins

MERMAID FEVER
A story by Steven Millhauser

UNDERSTANDING OBAMACARE
By Luke Mitchell

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