Recently added articles from Harper's Magazine:
Of Proust and Seuss.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Perhaps it is merely a matter of mood--mine is unaccountably cheery of late--but I do not believe that things literary are as dreary as Cynthia Ozick ["Literary Entrails," Criticism, April] might have us understand. Ozick is certain, for example, that literary criticism is not happening ....
Power to the eco-people.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2007; ... In his June Notebook, "Climate, Class, and Claptrap," Garret Keizer fails to recognize that environmentalism is a social-justice movement whose objectives, if achieved, would do more to abolish inequity than any other before it. Environmentalism is currently the biggest threat to ...
Liberty under siege.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2007; ... In his contribution to the June Forum, "Undoing Bush," David Cole writes, "For a short parlor game, challenge your friends to name a constitutional right that Bush has not sought to undermine. After the right to bear arms and the guarantee against the quartering of soldiers, the game will ...
Arcadia no more?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Behind my parents' house, there are woods where as a kid I loved to explore the flora and fauna. There were pheasants and quail and bright red salamanders. All of those creatures are gone now. I had been thinking about this loss of wildlife when I ...
Harper's index.
Aug 01, 2007 ... Number of Bush White House officials who are authorized to discuss pending criminal cases with the Justice Department: 711 Number of Clinton officials who were: 4 Number of Bush appointees who regulate industries they used to represent as lobbyists: 85 ...
All the chief of staff's men.(Testimonials)(I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr.)
Aug 01, 2007 ... From 1986 letters sent to Judge Reggie B. Walton after the March 6 conviction of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr., former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, for perjury and obstruction of justice. On June 5, Walton sentenced Libby to thirty months in prison and fined him $250,000. ...
Purgatorio.(Epistle)(prisoners' view on life imprisonment)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2007; ... From a May letter to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, signed by 310 prisoners serving life sentences for murder, the only crime that carries a life sentence in Italy, which banned the death penalty for all crimes in 1994. Translated from the Italian by Stefania Heim. Dear ...
Rough guide.(Glossary)(prison vocabulary)
Aug 01, 2007 ... From a list of prison vocabulary compiled by Dr. Prison, a San Diego consultancy that prepares convicts to serve their sentences. Ass out: a prisoner who has so disrespected corrections officers that they will not give him anything Birds on the line: a warning that ...
Memory almost full.(Discography)(Montana v. Andrew McCormack's sentencing memorandum)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2007 ... From a February 26 sentencing memorandum by Judge Gregory R. Todd, in the case of Montana v. Andrew McCormack. In 2006, McCormack was arrested for stealing beer. After entering a guilty plea, he received a sentence of probation, community service, and a fine. Mr. McCormack, to ...
A fate worse than Bush: Rudolph Giuliani and the politics of personality.(ESSAY)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Rudolph Giuliani has, by far, the most dubious known personal history of any major presidential candidate in American history, what with his three marriages and his open affairs and his almost total estrangement from his grown children, not to mention the startling frequency with which he ...
Battling the hard man: notes on addiction to the pornography of violence.(CRITICISM)(Viewpoint essay)
Aug 01, 2007; ... At first I barely noticed "him"--the sly, implausible, mean-spirited loiterer whispering hard-man trash in my head. I dismissed the filth and cant as an insignificant side current--something that could have been running in me, polluted and unnoticed, for years, hidden by high-level ...
Run like fire once more: chasing perfection at the world's longest footrace.(LETTER FROM QUEENS)
Aug 01, 2007; ... The runners slog past a bivouac of plastic card tables and folding chairs, past electric-green Port-O Lets ripe with disinfectant, past indifferently groomed hedges and the redbrick facade of Thomas A. Edison Vocational and Technical High School. At the corner of 168th Street, they cut ...
New books.(Book review)
Aug 01, 2007; ... If the Swedish Academy was so determined to foist the Nobel Prize for Literature on an Austrian in 2004, a case could be made that the Austrian should have been Peter Handke rather than Elfriede Jelinek. But to have a dog in this fight you need to be a lot more comfortable in German than I ...
It's a round world after all: India, China, and the global economy.(The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us)(Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey Through Heaven and Hell)(Book review)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Discussed in this essay: The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us, by Robyn Meredith. W.W. Norton. 268 pages. $25.95. Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey Through Heaven and Hell, by Alice H. Amsden. MIT ...
Waugh vs. Waugh: the family ties that bind.(Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family)(Critical essay)
Aug 01, 2007; ... Discussed in this essay: Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family, by Alexander Waugh. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 472 pages. $27.50. If Arthur Waugh were to address his son today as he did when the boy was at boarding school in the early 1900s, he would probably ...
News clippings.(PUZZLE)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2007; ... (with acknowledgments to The Listener) The diagram represents two pages of a newspaper. Each "headline" is actually two clues written consecutively with no connecting words or overlapping. One answer is to be entered in the left side of the diagram, one in the right, but either ...
Findings.
Aug 01, 2007 ... The J. Craig Venter Institute filed an application to patent a minimal genome, consisting of fewer than 400 genes required to sustain life, with the aim, apparently, of cornering the market in synthetic life-forms designed to produce ethanol or hydrogen fuel. Researchers working on the ...
Medication and its discontents.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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All rights reserved?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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We are not the world.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
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