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September 2009

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	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Jennifer Renninger SEE ALSO: Durban Review Conference (2009 : Geneva, Switzerland); International relations; Relations with Jews; United Nations PDF IMAGES
4	Letters/Notice In memoriam: Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009 On Jesus killed Mohammed, from May 2009: Letter By Tom Camfield On The sicario, from May 2009: Letter By Tom Camfield On The ironic cloud, from July 2009: Letter By Tommy Nelson On Barack Hoover Obama, from July 2009: Letter By David Osachy Letter By John Kellett Letter By John L. Rudy On Labor's last stand, from July 2009: Letter By Nathan Dodell On Eclogue, from July 2009: Letter By Rey Howard On We still torture, from July 2009: Letter By Joseph Margulies Letter By Steve Heilig On The less you know—corrected, from June 2009: Note/correction SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Television news anchors; Cronkite, Walter PDF TEXT IMAGES
9-11	Notebook/Article Golden State fever By Peter Schrag SEE ALSO: Schwarzenegger, Arnold; Budget deficits; Career as California governor; Debts, Public; Government policy; Illegal aliens; Real property tax; Referendum; Tax and expenditure limitations PDF TEXT IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article The returns By Breyten Breytenbach SEE ALSO: Aeronautics, Commercial; Berlin; Berlin (Germany); Breytenbach, Breyten; Congresses; Cultural relativism; International relations and culture; Journeys—Germany—Berlin; Multiculturalism; Passenger traffic; Security measures PDF TEXT IMAGES
16	Readings/Poetry Africa! Africa! By James Schuyler PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Art/illustration Wiese By David Schnell SEE ALSO: Meadows PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photography #0265 Campana, Buenos Aires, RA. 2005 By Carlo Valsecchi (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Architecture, Industrial; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Buenos Aires (Argentina); Buildings, structures, etc.; Industrial buildings PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article Hope I'm being a help to you SEE ALSO: Assisted suicide; Correspondence; Death and burial; False personation; Instant messaging; Minnesota; Kajouji, Nadia; Ontario; Ottawa; Suicide victims; Melchert-Dinkel, William; Women college students PDF TEXT IMAGES
22-23	Readings/Article I have a dream house By Elizabeth Jacobson SEE ALSO: African American churches; Baltimore; Baltimore (Md.); Banks and banking; Career as Wells Fargo loan officer; Jacobson, Elizabeth; Finance, Personal; Race discrimination PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Photography Port Angeles By Elger Esser (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Rising and setting; Sun PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article Dial M for mullah By Tamer Elzein (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Hotlines (Counseling); Islam; Life skills guides; Muslims; Questions and answers PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Heckuva job, Dog Eater By Rakhat Aliyev and James Addison White (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Career as president of Kazakhstan—Humor; Kazakhstan; 1991-; Nicknames; Nazarbaev, Nursultan; Officials and employees PDF TEXT IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Just blew it SEE ALSO: Clothing—Humor; Men's clothing; Nike (Firm); Public relations; Nadal, Rafael; Tennis players PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Article Southern belle strategy SEE ALSO: Career as Republican national committee chairman; Bush, George; 1969-1974; Politics, Practical; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Sexism; Views on women politicians; Women in politics; Women politicians PDF TEXT IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article Losing is for losers By Michael Kinahan SEE ALSO: Coaching; Failure (Psychology); Losers; Soccer coaches PDF TEXT IMAGES
28	Readings/Art/illustration Count to ten By Elizabeth Neel SEE ALSO: Interior architecture PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Fiction The people who kept everything By Sam Lipsyte PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Art/illustration Potato chips from miracle chips By John Baldessari SEE ALSO: Face PDF IMAGES
32-40	Article Dehumanized: When math and science rule the school By Mark Slouka SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Capitalism; Career as high school English teacher; Corporate culture; Curricula; Democracy; Humanities; Industries; Language; Eure, Marcus; Mathematics; New York times; Politics and culture PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
41-52	Advertising supplement The national parks: America's best idea PDF IMAGES
53-67	Article Minority death match: Jews, blacks, and the “post-racial” presidency By Naomi Klein SEE ALSO: Antisemitism; Arab countries; Arab-Israeli conflict; Obama, Barack; Crimes against humanity; Durban Review Conference (2009 : Geneva, Switzerland); Human rights; Influence; International relations; Israel; Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud; Oratory; Propaganda, Anti-Israeli; Relations with Jews; Reparations; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Slavery; Views on reparations for historical injustices PDF TEXT IMAGES
68-69	Article Developmentally disabled: Why foreign aid to Afghanistan stays in America By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Obama, Barack; Corporations, American; Economic assistance, American; Opium poppy growers; Privatization; United States. Agency for International Development; Views on economic assistance to Afghanistan PDF IMAGES
70-76	Article Weeping in Tehran: Scenes from the uprising SEE ALSO: Career as president of Iran; Contested elections; Demonstrations; Iran; Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud; 2009-; Political corruption; Political participation; Tehran (Iran); Youth PDF TEXT IMAGES
77-82	Fiction Adriana By J.M. Coetzee PDF TEXT IMAGES
83-84	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Amigoland (Book); Brey, Ilaria Dagnini; Informers (Book); Vásquez, Juan Gabriel; Rothfield, Lawrence; Casares, Oscar; Rape of Mesopotamia: behind the looting of the Iraq Museum (Book); The Venus fixers (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
85-90	Review Motherless children: Lorrie Moore tries to keep it real By Jonathan Dee SEE ALSO: A gate at the stairs (Book); Moore, Lorrie; Pictorial works; Realism in literature PDF TEXT IMAGES
90-94	Review Perpetual motion: The education of Aleksandar Hemon By Randy Boyagoda SEE ALSO: Hemon, Aleksandar; Love and obstacles: stories (Book); Pictorial works; Young men as authors PDF TEXT IMAGES
95	Puzzle/Department Greeting card By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
96	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF TEXT IMAGES

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By Ken Silverstein

The Lawnmower That Saved California	9:58 AM Sep 11
Tea Party Death Express	2:56 PM Sep 8
Shocking: Wall Street Journal loves the rich	3:18 PM Sep 10
Take Me to Your Leader	2:29 PM Sep 25
Congressman Joe Wilson: Confederate General	3:21 PM Sep 10
Joe Wilson and the Belgian Arms Maker	9:56 AM Sep 11
Foreign Aid Making American CEOs Very Rich	9:41 AM Sep 3
Six Questions for Peter Maass on the Violent Twilight of Oil	10:21 AM Sep 21
Obama, Coups and Banana Republics	9:36 AM Sep 3
Doctor’s Lobby on Health Care Reform: Bend over, this won’t hurt a bit	10:31 AM Sep 15
News Flash: Fourteen members of congress as corrupt as Don Young	10:33 AM Sep 15
Election Fraud and Pinching Derrieres: The U.N. mission in Afghanistan	2:39 PM Sep 30
The Dumbest Man in Washington D.C.	11:43 AM Sep 3
How the Fed Buys Top Economists (and Journalists)	11:12 AM Sep 9
Underage Prostitution, Gotcha Journalism, and the Ethics of the Acorn Sting	8:23 AM Sep 18
Congress Cracks Down on Defense Fraud: But it was just by accident	2:24 PM Sep 30
Health Care Reform: Blue Dog Democrat Strikes it Rich	8:44 AM Sep 22
Obama’s Likely Legacy: Failure in Afghanistan and Iraq	1:49 PM Sep 22
Reading Richard Cohen: A fate worse than waterboarding	9:06 AM Sep 1
Congressman Murtha’s Esteemed Colleagues	11:14 AM Sep 9
The Splendors of War	8:50 AM Sep 25
“I Am Getting Into Spanking Her”: California Assemblyman’s hands-on lobbyist policy	11:29 AM Sep 9
Like Condi, Hillary Offering Photo Ops for Dictators	10:15 AM Sep 23
In Defense of Joe Wilson: Mark Slouka	1:57 PM Sep 11
Not Reading the Health Reform Bill: Ignorance or bliss?	11:26 AM Sep 14
Booze for Rockets: An American contractor on the Iraqi black market	11:11 AM Sep 18
Show Me the Money!	8:55 AM Sep 25
The Acorn Fraud and the Media	9:18 AM Sep 25
Turkmenistan’s Friend in the Obama Administration	11:39 AM Sep 14

By Scott Horton

The Business of Occupation	3:47 PM Sep 22
Entangled Giant	11:31 AM Sep 29
Six Questions for Wallace Shawn	3:39 PM Sep 8
The Village Idiots	12:54 PM Sep 30
Justice in Gaza	3:18 PM Sep 17
The Incredible, Vanishing Torture Documents	9:58 AM Sep 29
Hofmannsthal—Der Kaiser und die Hexe	5:23 AM Sep 20
Did Bryan Whitman Run the “Military Analysts Program”?	8:22 AM Sep 30
Two Marine Generals Take Cheney to the Woodshed	9:44 AM Sep 11
Why Are Jews So Liberal?	4:09 PM Sep 14
Burckhardt—Learning from the Past	4:03 AM Sep 19
The Long Journey West	12:50 PM Sep 24
Schlozman Walks	2:10 PM Sep 14
Justice O’Connor Crusades Against Judicial Elections, and Texas Again Provides Exhibit A	10:15 AM Sep 17
Cheney the Sith Lord and the Feckless Democrats	3:59 PM Sep 10
Spanish Criminal Investigators Press Holder for Answers on Gonzales Six	4:52 PM Sep 11
And Now: Fredo, the Opera	2:00 PM Sep 3
Afghanistan Impasse	4:01 PM Sep 21
Bush’s Gilded Age	11:20 AM Sep 18
Inside the Red Book	2:49 PM Sep 21
Flecha—War as a Salad	5:55 AM Sep 6
Rush, Glenn and the G.O.P.	4:23 PM Sep 17
Of Big Trees and Little ACORNs	2:29 PM Sep 29
Security Contractors Immune from Torture Charges, Judges Rule	10:42 AM Sep 14
Hughes—I, too, sing America	1:40 AM Sep 27
Maimonides on Trustworthy Sources	6:38 AM Sep 12
One Year After the Meltdown, Wall Street Takes Some Lashings	10:00 AM Sep 16
Venus of the Golden Age	7:51 AM Sep 13
Return to Glenn Beck-istan	10:16 AM Sep 21
Another Senior Bush Justice Official Takes the Fifth?	2:11 PM Sep 8
Pincus’s Double Standard	4:09 PM Sep 18
The Great Pipeline Opera	11:45 AM Sep 25
Did Cheney Undermine Case Against Airline Bombers?	9:53 AM Sep 8
Joe Wilson, Neoconfederate	11:46 AM Sep 15
Voyage to Glenn-Beckistan	5:27 PM Sep 16
Alfarabi—The Quest for Happiness	11:57 PM Sep 25
Torture Doesn’t Work, Neurobiologist Says	3:08 PM Sep 22
Republican Gomorrah–Six Questions for Max Blumenthal	2:27 PM Sep 16
Straussophobia–Six Questions for Peter Minowitz	4:38 PM Sep 29
Kafka’s Legacy on Trial	3:52 PM Sep 30
Tirant lo Blanch, the Order and the Book	5:59 AM Sep 5
General Myers and the Torture Team	10:33 AM Sep 8
Dear President Bush,	4:07 PM Sep 16
Bush-Era Diplomats Embrace the Nuremberg Defense	5:02 PM Sep 1

By Mr. Fish

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