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August 2009

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	Art/illustration Cadillac (detail) By Cheryl Kelley SEE ALSO: Antique and classic cars; Cadillac automobile PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Fast fish, loose fish, from May 2009: Letter By Glenn Reed On Let them eat cash, from June 2009: Letter By David Stevenson Letter By Jonathan Brun Letter By Frances Moore Lappé Letter By Frederick Kaufman PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-9	Notebook/Article Fatheralong By John Edgar Wideman SEE ALSO: African American fathers; Civil rights; Death and burial; Till, Emmett; Till, Louis; Race discrimination PDF TEXT IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-15	Readings/Article Is sex interesting? By Wallace Shawn SEE ALSO: Erotic literature, American; Sex (Biology); Sex in popular culture PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Article The king of fop SEE ALSO: Authors, Irish; Clothing; Costume; Journeys—Canada; Journeys—United States; Wilde, Oscar PDF TEXT IMAGES
15	Readings/Art/illustration Nickelodeon By Adrian Ghenie PDF IMAGES
16-17	Readings/Article Death alone is motion By Jack Spicer SEE ALSO: Authorship; Adam, Helen; Gilbert, Jack; Questionnaires; Duncan, Robert; San Francisco PDF TEXT IMAGES
17-18	Readings/Article Mommies, you bastards SEE ALSO: Child rearing; Computer network resources; Criticism and interpretation; Electronic discussion groups; Family; Family relationships; Parenting; Plath, Sylvia; Women poets, American PDF TEXT IMAGES
18-20	Readings/Article The bernality of evil SEE ALSO: Madoff, Bernard L.; Career as judge; Chin, Denny; Securities fraud; Sentences (Criminal procedure); Trials, litigation, etc.; Victims of crimes PDF TEXT IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Their two cents SEE ALSO: Debtor and creditor; Financial services industry PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article The wearin' of the mean SEE ALSO: Abused children; Case studies; Catholic Church; Catholic schools; Child abuse; Institutional care PDF TEXT IMAGES
21	Readings/Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Luis Enrique Camejo SEE ALSO: City and town life; City traffic; Cuba; Havana; Storefronts PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Art/illustration Love it! Bite it! By Wei Liu SEE ALSO: Architectural models; Cities and towns; Food; Models PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A fine display of Capuchins By Jean Paul Sartre and Chris Turner (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Burial; Church architecture; Crypts; Human remains (Archaeology); Sartre, Jean Paul; Journeys—Italy—Rome; Rome; Rome (Italy) PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Art/illustration [Untitled Art/illustration] By Jim Dingilian SEE ALSO: Bottles; Smoke PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Art/illustration Edifice By Ben Grasso SEE ALSO: Buildings; Wrecking PDF IMAGES
26-36	Article End of the road: After Detroit, the wreck of an American dream By Ben Austen SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Automobile industry and trade; Automobile industry workers; Londrigan, Bill; Blue collar workers; Career as president of Kentucky AFL-CIO; Career as Toyota managing officer; Conglomerate corporations; Corporate culture; Labor unions; Scott County; St. Angelo, Steve PDF TEXT IMAGES
37-41	Collection These mean streets: scenes from the abandoned city By Will Steacy (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photography Burned car, Los Angeles, 2009 By Will Steacy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Abandonment of automobiles; Fires; Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) PDF IMAGES
38	Photography Home delivery, Los Angeles, 2009 By Will Steacy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.); Newspaper vendors; Newspapers PDF IMAGES Photography Foreclosed homes, Detroit, 2009 By Will Steacy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Abandonment; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Dwellings; Foreclosure; Housing PDF IMAGES
39	Photography Bench, Queens, 2008 By Will Steacy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Benches; Queens (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES Photography Satellite dish, Detroit, 2009 By Will Steacy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Abandonment; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Dwellings; Housing; Satellite dish antennas PDF IMAGES
40	Photography Condos, Chicago, 2008 By Will Steacy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Abandonment; Chicago (Ill.); Condominiums; Housing PDF IMAGES Photography Douglass Projects, Detroit, 2009 By Will Steacy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Public housing PDF IMAGES
41	Photography Rubble, Detroit, 2009 By Will Steacy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Abandonment; Detroit; Detroit (Mich.); Housing; Wrecking PDF IMAGES Photography Skid row, Los Angeles, 2009 By Will Steacy (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.); Slums PDF IMAGES
42-51	Article Like I was Jesus: How to bring a nine-year-old to Christ By Rachel Aviv SEE ALSO: Church and state; Evangelistic work; Milford; Missionaries; Poor children PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
53-72	Fiction Too much happiness By Alice Munro PDF TEXT IMAGES
73-74	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Streever, Bill; Cold: adventures in the world's frozen places (Book); Londongrad (Book); Notebooks from New Guinea: field notes of a tropical biologist (Book); Nadelson, Reggie; Holmes, Richard; The age of wonder: how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science (Book); Novotny, Vojtech PDF TEXT IMAGES
75-82	Review Kinds of killing: The flourishing evil of the Third Reich By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: Evans, Richard J.; The Third Reich at war (Book); World War, 1939-1945 PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department Vicious circles By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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By Ken Silverstein

I’ll Tase You, Bro’	8:29 AM Aug 10
Where In The World Is Your Member of Congress?	8:36 AM Aug 10
Anne Wexler: Burger Queen	1:59 PM Aug 10
Trickle Down Recovery	10:37 AM Aug 12
Reader Replies on Anne Wexler: She was best since sliced bread (and probably a virgin as well)	10:44 AM Aug 12
Afghanistan: More American aid money headed down the drain	10:47 AM Aug 12
There Is a God: Santorum mulling presidential bid	11:37 AM Aug 13
Ghosting Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page	11:39 AM Aug 13
Transparently Phony	11:40 AM Aug 13
Health Care’s Army of Lobbyists: Six for every member of Congress	11:50 AM Aug 14
The Closing of the American Mind, Cable News Edition	9:01 AM Aug 17
Death is Cheap	9:24 AM Aug 18
Senator Webb: Burma’s man in Washington?	9:58 AM Aug 18
The CIA and the Cockpit Lounge	10:42 AM Aug 18
Congressman Buchanan knows where the bodies are buried	9:35 AM Aug 19
Coming soon: Vote fraud in Afghanistan	1:20 PM Aug 19
Health Care Deadlock, Explained	1:22 PM Aug 19
Orly, the Queen of Israel	10:03 AM Aug 20
Wanted: Baby Jesus’ head	11:14 AM Aug 21
UBS, Money Laundering, and Phil Gramm	9:52 AM Aug 24
The Vote in Afghanistan	9:59 AM Aug 24
The Myth of the Obama Movement	10:37 AM Aug 24
The White House and the Justice Department: Different approaches to UBS	2:16 PM Aug 24
Major Democratic Donor Arrested For Bank Fraud	1:51 PM Aug 25
From The Tastes Like Chicken Files	10:44 AM Aug 26
Georgia Republican Setting New Standard for Corruption	10:47 AM Aug 26
Follow The Money, Please	11:54 AM Aug 26
Florida GOP Politico’s Political Motto: Charge it!	8:51 AM Aug 28
Ohio Terror Plot: Little Red Riding Hood held as person of interest	9:28 AM Aug 28
Cadaver News Network	12:57 PM Aug 28
How Many Lobbyists Does It Take To Get $7.4 Billion From the Pentagon?	8:36 AM Aug 31
You Read It Here First: Obama is not God	10:12 AM Aug 31

Hobbes—How We Make the Future From the Past	7:37 AM Aug 1
Suckling’s The Invocation	6:55 AM Aug 2
A Mozart Premiere, Delayed by Two Centuries	7:38 AM Aug 3
Rove’s Mississippi Mud	10:59 AM Aug 4
Can the Military Commissions Be Salvaged?	1:17 PM Aug 4
The Birth of the Atomic Age	11:08 AM Aug 6
Blackwater’s Dark Secrets	2:39 PM Aug 6
Camus—The Fall	10:18 AM Aug 8
Hugo—Demain, dès l’aube	9:59 AM Aug 9
Fredo’s New Job	12:34 PM Aug 10
Special Prosecutor on the Horizon?	10:14 AM Aug 11
Renditions, Obama Style	10:13 AM Aug 12
The Geneva Conventions at Sixty	1:28 PM Aug 12
A Political Fragging	2:26 PM Aug 13
Inside the World of Dusty Foggo	4:05 PM Aug 13
Karl Rove’s Convenient Memory Lapses	9:34 AM Aug 14
Your Tax Dollars At Work	1:15 PM Aug 14
Six Questions for Derek S. Jeffreys, Author of Spirituality and the Ethics of Torture	2:09 PM Aug 14
Jefferson–Pursuit of the Avenues of Truth	8:23 AM Aug 15
Freneau—A Political Litany	7:50 AM Aug 16
Yoo Returns to Berkeley	10:34 AM Aug 17
Reporting on C Street	3:19 PM Aug 17
A Culture of Death	10:27 AM Aug 18
Manure for the Garden State	12:04 PM Aug 19
Cheney’s Snuff Program Involved Blackwater	10:09 AM Aug 20
A Party of Nihilists	1:52 PM Aug 20
Missing Black Site Located: Vilnius, Lithuania	2:28 PM Aug 20
More Obstruction at Justice	9:53 AM Aug 21
Rove’s Sorry Victim Act	1:46 PM Aug 21
Rilke—the Duty to Those Who Follow	8:12 AM Aug 22
Rilke—To Music	8:26 AM Aug 23
What To Look For Today	9:37 AM Aug 24
Blackwater’s Contracts	10:34 AM Aug 24
Holder’s Modified, Limited Hangout	4:30 PM Aug 24
Seven Points on the CIA Report	10:11 AM Aug 25
D.C. Court Comes Through for Kyle Sampson	1:58 PM Aug 26
Guess What: Cheney’s CIA docs don’t say what he claims they say	2:17 PM Aug 26
Once Upon a Coup	8:26 AM Aug 27
Was Holder Right?	10:55 AM Aug 27
Collect the Torture Team	9:24 AM Aug 28
New CIA Docs Describe Brutal Renditions Process	2:17 PM Aug 28
Six Questions for David Cole, Author of The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable	5:04 PM Aug 28
Gogol’—Those Damned Liberals!	7:53 AM Aug 29
WaPo: Mystery man says waterboarding works	3:10 PM Aug 31

By Mr. Fish

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