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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; Harassment; 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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By Ken Silverstein

A Few Facts About the Honduran Military Coup	8:35 AM Jul 6
Sotomayor and the Democrats	10:12 AM Jul 16
How Crazy is Glenn Beck?	3:19 PM Jul 17
Health Care Lobbyists: Awful people, even by the Hill’s standards	10:14 AM Jul 16
More on the Awful American Soccer Team	9:46 AM Jul 1
How Many Hondurans Supported Coup?	9:38 AM Jul 14
Clinton Boner Picture Identified	10:01 AM Jul 1
For Your Morning Viewing Pleasure	10:04 AM Jul 1
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
Administrative Note	12:19 PM Jul 18
The Clinton Foundation: It depends on how you define “is”	10:22 AM Jul 2
Other Pay-to-Play Schemes at the Washington Post?	8:33 AM Jul 6
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
P.J. in Afghanistan	8:33 AM Jul 14
Administrative Note	8:36 AM Jul 6
Honduran Kingmaker	8:27 AM Jul 14
Absolute Last Word on Soccer: Fans make PETA activists look open-minded	9:47 AM Jul 2
The Michael Jackson Memorial: LA’s version of the Tim Russert funeral	8:29 AM Jul 14
Editor Bill Wasik at Politics and Prose Monday Night	8:31 AM Jul 6
Washington Post and Reporters For Sale to Highest Bidder	9:38 AM Jul 2

By Scott Horton

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

By Mr. Fish

A Cartoon	12:21 PM Jul 23
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