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November 2009

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	Art/illustration Wrinkle in time (detail) By Steve Mills SEE ALSO: Newspapers; Waste paper PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Dehumanized, from September 2009: Letter By Nicholas Nardini Letter By Ione Fine Letter By Virginia Sluiter On Minority death match, from September 2009: Letter By Gerald M. Steinberg 9p. 4) Letter By Naomi Klein PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-10	Notebook/Article The cold we caused By Steven Stoll SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Climatic changes; Effect of human beings on; Environmental aspects; Epidemics; Global temperature changes; Government policy; Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric; Human ecology; Paleoclimatology; Pleistocene PDF TEXT IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
15-20	Readings/Article The war we can't win By A.J. Bacevich SEE ALSO: Afghan War, 2001-; Afghanistan; Counterinsurgency; Bush, George W. (George Walker); Iraq War, 2003-; Islamic fundamentalism; Military leadership; Military policy; 2001-2009; 2009-; National security; Qaida (Organization); Strategic aspects; Taliban; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
16	Readings/Poetry Clean, clean, clean By Linh Dinh PDF TEXT IMAGES
17	Readings/Art/illustration Back to storage By Zsolt Bodoni SEE ALSO: Hungary; Public sculpture; Storage PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Art/illustration Cry By Karin Mamma Andersson SEE ALSO: Waterfalls PDF IMAGES
21-22	Readings/Article Huis claws By Jean Paul Sartre and John Gerassi SEE ALSO: Authors, French; Crabs; Depression, Mental; Imaginary companions; Interviews; Sartre, Jean Paul PDF TEXT IMAGES
22	Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography 526 7th St., Rapid City, South Dakota SEE ALSO: Firearms owners; South Dakota; Street life PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Eagle Point Dr., Sherwood, Pulaski, Arkansas SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Dwellings; Fire and fire prevention; Fires PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography 2104 S. Lamar Blvd., Austin, Travis, Texas SEE ALSO: Austin; Street life; Uncle Sam (Nickname) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Anything to get arrested SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Children and war; Crimes against; Palestine PDF TEXT IMAGES
23	Readings/Article Next year in Washington By Frank I. Luntz SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, American; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Israel; Jewish-Arab relations PDF TEXT IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article Adult situations By Brett Fletcher Lauer SEE ALSO: Motion pictures; Television broadcasting of films PDF TEXT IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article The lord taketh away SEE ALSO: Worthington, Carl; Doctrines; Healing; Infants; Medicine; Oregon; Spiritual healing; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES
27	Readings/Photography Near Rochester, Washington By Steve Davis (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Farms; Floods; Washington (State) PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection If Told Correctly By Diane Williams PDF TEXT IMAGES Readings/Fiction None of this would have been remotely feasible By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Fiction If told correctly it will center on me By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Between midnight and 6 a.m. By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction This has to be the best By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Pedestal By Diane Williams PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Collection Readings By Adam Broomberg (Photog.) and Oliver Chanarin (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Red House #1 By Adam Broomberg (Photog.) and Oliver Chanarin (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Birds PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Red House #3 By Adam Broomberg (Photog.) and Oliver Chanarin (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Red House #25 By Adam Broomberg (Photog.) and Oliver Chanarin (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Boxes; Geometrical constructions PDF IMAGES Readings/Photography Red House #9 By Adam Broomberg (Photog.) and Oliver Chanarin (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Mickey Mouse (Fictitious character) PDF IMAGES
30-38	Article Final edition: Twilight of the American newspaper By Richard Rodriguez SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Career as San Francisco chronicle columnist; Caen, Herb; Newspaper publishing; San Francisco; San Francisco (Calif.); Sections, columns, etc. PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
39-41	Collection Winter stories By Paolo Ventura (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Photography Winter stories #23 By Paolo Ventura (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Pedestrians; Umbrellas and parasols; Winter PDF IMAGES
40	Photography Winter stories #9 By Paolo Ventura (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Booksellers and bookselling; Pedestrians; Winter PDF IMAGES Photography Winter stories #17 By Paolo Ventura (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Snow; Streets; Winter PDF IMAGES
41	Photography Winter stories #39 By Paolo Ventura (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Lofts; Windows; Winter PDF IMAGES Photography Winter stories #15 By Paolo Ventura (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Winter PDF IMAGES
42-51	Article The intelligence factory: How America makes its enemies disappear By Petra Bartosiewicz SEE ALSO: Siddiqui, Aafia; Career as Pakistan's chief justice; Disappeared persons; Chaudhry, Iftikhar Muhammad; Imprisonment; Military intelligence; Pakistan; Pakistanis; Political prisoners; Prevention; Prisoners and prisons; Terrorism; Trials (Murder); United States. Central Intelligence Agency; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
52-53	Article Voodoo academics: Brandeis University's hard lesson in the real economy By Christopher R. Beha SEE ALSO: Endowments PDF IMAGES
54-64	Article About motorcycles By Frederick Seidel SEE ALSO: Biography; Collectors and collecting; Seidel, Frederick; Motorcycles; Motorcyclists; Performance PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES
65-68	Fiction Prosperous friends By Christine Schutt PDF TEXT IMAGES
69-70	New books/Review New Books By Benjamin Moser SEE ALSO: Aesop's mirror: a love story (Book); McCoy, Alfred W.; Appetite city: a culinary history of New York (Book); Give my poor heart ease: voices of the Mississippi blues (Book); Huggins, Maryalice; Policing America's empire: the United States, the Philippines, and the rise of the surveillance state (Book); Grimes, William; Ferris, William R. PDF TEXT IMAGES
71-76	Review The worst of times: Revisiting the Great Depression By Arthur Krystal SEE ALSO: Dancing in the dark: a cultural history of the Great Depression (Book); Depressions; Dickstein, Morris; 1929 PDF TEXT IMAGES
77-82	Review Ways of not seeing: On the limits of design fetishism By Mark Kingwell SEE ALSO: Design; Sudjic, Deyan; The language of things: understanding the world of desirable objects (Book) PDF TEXT IMAGES
83	Puzzle/Department The shingle By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES
84	Findings/Article Findings By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi PDF FREE TEXT IMAGES

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By Ken Silverstein

Hold the Feta: Marine foils Florida “terror” plot	11:03 AM Nov 11
“Black Friday”: Scenes from the front	2:51 PM Nov 30
Goldman Sachs: The casino always wins	9:09 AM Nov 2
U.S. Government Documents Crime Spree by Dictator’s Son: Why no action by the feds?	2:58 PM Nov 16
Blogger Junket to Uzbekistan: Torture chambers likely not among tour stops	9:32 AM Nov 13
Our SOB: Will State Department finally act against crook from oil-rich Equatorial Guinea?	9:43 AM Nov 17
On Bended Knee: Gideon Levy on Obama’s Israel Policy	3:07 PM Nov 2
Obama and the Closing of the Arabian Mind	11:52 AM Nov 5
The Idiocy Begins: Pundits and politicians on Hasan	10:40 AM Nov 10
Employee Recommendation: A moron, but shows initiative	11:59 AM Nov 5
More on Equatorial Guinea’s Oil-Sotted Crook	11:04 AM Nov 18
Sting: Obama, Synchronicity, Hypocrisy	9:21 AM Nov 2
What’s the Term? “You got screwed”	11:45 AM Nov 10
The Washington Version of the Twinkie Defense	9:53 AM Nov 16
Congress: Not quite the People’s House	2:09 PM Nov 10
Carolyn Lamm: A hero in her own mind	11:14 AM Nov 25
Green Jobs: Moving to China	4:52 PM Nov 6
ABA President’s Curious Means of “Advancing Rule of Law”	1:02 PM Nov 23
Obama’s “Freedom Agenda”	2:53 PM Nov 30
The Mysterious $75,000 Inheritance	9:05 AM Nov 2
How Much Does It Cost to Hire a “Respected Economist”?	9:55 AM Nov 16
Not Funny: Reporter detained in Iran for ties to the Daily Show	10:40 AM Nov 23
Six Questions for Marian Wang on “Lady Bloggers”	9:40 AM Nov 18
Before I Vote, Let Me Check My Portfolio	12:10 PM Nov 23

By Scott Horton

¡Obámanos!: Six Questions for Hendrik Hertzberg	1:36 PM Nov 25
Frost on the KSM Trial	4:12 PM Nov 20
Judgment in Milan	6:04 PM Nov 4
Büchner’s Revolutionary Spirit	8:45 AM Nov 7
Thucydides—The Oration of Pericles	7:40 AM Nov 28
Coping with Bad Prosecutors	11:10 AM Nov 10
Hang 'Em High!	10:43 AM Nov 17
Blackwater’s Pakistan Capers	2:57 PM Nov 24
Calvin and Madison on Men, Angels and Government	8:38 AM Nov 14
Public Event: Grappling with Preventive Detention	12:03 PM Nov 10
How the American Press Mistook China for a Fish	6:38 PM Nov 23
Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Arar	5:57 PM Nov 2
Arendt on the Political Lie	12:39 PM Nov 21
An Austrian Tyranny over America?	12:43 PM Nov 30
U.S. Attorney Sought Readership Information from Internet News Site	9:52 AM Nov 12
Grappling with Contractor Immunity	3:15 PM Nov 20
Government to Pay $3 Million in Unlawful Surveillance Suit	1:31 PM Nov 12
A Thanksgiving Meditation	12:55 PM Nov 25
Freiligrath—O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst	7:06 AM Nov 8
Wyatt—They flee from me	7:11 AM Nov 15
Did Cheney Lie to the Plame Prosecutors?	11:50 AM Nov 2
Public Event: Guantanamo and Preventive Detention	3:39 PM Nov 12
The Guantánamo Lawyers—Six Questions for Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz	11:07 AM Nov 23
Arriaza—the Colossus	7:29 AM Nov 1
Broder’s Healthcare	2:58 PM Nov 23
A President Stands Trial for Torture and Disappearings	10:29 AM Nov 4
The CIA’s Drone War	3:40 PM Nov 6
Wang Wei’s Farewell	7:35 AM Nov 29
More Evidence of an Emerging Military Dictatorship in Iran	11:14 AM Nov 30
Holder Claims State Secrecy… Again	11:20 AM Nov 2
More on the Verdict in Milan	11:38 AM Nov 6
Interpreting the Elections	8:53 AM Nov 4
Nietzsche—The Lonely One	12:48 PM Nov 22
English AG Opined Iraq War was Illegal	6:15 PM Nov 30
Our Dwindling Email Privacy	4:09 PM Nov 2

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