Harpers Magazine from CaglePost.com Columns by Harpers Magazine from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Harpers+Magazine Wed, 13 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Harper's Index The Brazilians have an expression, "para ingl^s ver," which literally means "for the Englishman to see." In the 19th century, the English abolished the slave trade and insisted that others do the same. As dependent on English capital as it was on sl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/740356dc-9ee3-4bd0-876a-e82dd4379e62.html Wed, 13 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Index By Harper's Magazine staff arper's Index By Harper's Magazine staff Change since March 2008 in the total credit extended to Americans through credit cards : -$349,300,000,000 Estimated portion of all new U.S. "savings" last year that actually was payment of credit-card debt : ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e088559e-7c98-4a0e-ac40-9738ddddddc4.html Thu, 07 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Weekly The U.S. Centers for Disease Control declared a public-health emergency over an outbreak of swine flu that has infected at least 20 people in California, Kansas, New York, Ohio, and Texas. The virus is believed to have originated in Mexico City, wher... http://www.caglepost.com/article/10fb4a24-967c-482e-83e4-97d4de9f2c57.html Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Findings Researchers discovered an "Obama effect": African-Americans' performance on a verbal test improved, to equal that of white Americans, immediately after Obama's nomination and his election. African-American parents were found to be warier than white A... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e170b316-6a5a-4de1-92d4-37c8f9e10aad.html Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Weekly On the sixth anniversary of Saddam Hussein's fall from power, tens of thousands of Iraqis loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr protested the continued U.S. occupation. "When America came, they didn't do anything for Iraq," said one protester. "This is not... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1305ada2-78b3-458c-8507-403185e62385.html Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Weekly A 6.3 earthquake in the Abruzzo region of Italy damaged buildings in 26 towns, destroyed numerous historic monuments, left tens of thousands of people homeless, and killed at least 92 people, including an 82-year-old nun who died of shock. Seismologi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d27c3977-ce17-493d-aee4-0625e553b868.html Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Index Average number of years after the beginning of a severe economic downturn that economic growth resumes : 2 Average number of years until unemployment reaches its peak : 5 Estimated amount by which the U.S. GDP increases for each additional dollar of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c4268853-49db-4bb8-bf9a-277d5b85efa6.html Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Weekly > The Senate passed a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that included more than 8,000 congressional earmarks, among them provisions for improving blueberry products in Georgia and controlling the spread of Mormon crickets in Utah. President Barack O... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1709b72f-edc4-40e3-9db5-89b15e6737d0.html Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Weekly > The Senate passed a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that included more than 8,000 congressional earmarks, among them provisions for improving blueberry products in Georgia and controlling the spread of Mormon crickets in Utah. President Barack O... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f81f9f63-cff2-498f-ab32-b9b786d7eb4f.html Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT This Week in Harper's Magazine > The Senate passed a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that included more than 8,000 congressional earmarks, among them provisions for improving blueberry products in Georgia and controlling the spread of Mormon crickets in Utah. President Barack O... http://www.caglepost.com/article/84ea183d-9c1a-43af-ba19-d9776d0bf6ba.html Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT This Week in Harper's > The Senate passed a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that included more than 8,000 congressional earmarks, among them provisions for improving blueberry products in Georgia and controlling the spread of Mormon crickets in Utah. President Barack O... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9904f3a2-3fec-4c75-919e-d9ad63cb881a.html Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Weekly The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 651,000 jobs were lost in February (the third straight month in which more than 650,000 jobs have been lost) thus increasing the unemployment rate to 8.1 percent, the highest level since 1983. The Ob... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c5dacf4a-78a2-451e-9783-e77b5dcd9da7.html Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Index Percentage of Americans who think their lives serve "an important purpose" : 94 Percentage of U.S. teens who say they are "completely satisfied" with themselves : 30 Chance that a U.S. high-school student says he or she has stolen something from a st... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3b238f4d-275f-4e38-9687-15e360244998.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT Findings A gay penguin couple in China's Polar Land zoo were ostracized by other penguins and then placed in a separate enclosure after they made repeated attempts to steal the eggs of straight penguin couples and replace them with stones. Men who have more b... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dd1040e3-c8c3-4a74-bb90-d0059e892564.html Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Harper's Weekly The House and Senate reached agreement on a $789 billion economic-stimulus plan, which President Obama is expected to sign into law despite a lack of support from Republicans. "When Roosevelt did this," said Rep. Steve Austria (R-Ohio), "he put our ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d52f9804-0cc6-4b46-9c0e-04aa59b9f220.html Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Harper's Weekly The Senate passed an $827 billion stimulus package with the help of three Republicans who forced Democrats to cut billions of dollars that would have provided aid to states and education programs. Economists said the cuts were "outrageous" and "disas... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c89053b4-d9b7-41bd-b9d7-d49e8006cb35.html Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Harper's Index Number of times in 2008 that the S&P 500 closed up or down 5 percent in a single day: 17 Number of times between 1956 and 2007 it did this: 17 Year that the U.S. stock market first regained its 1929 pre-crash peak: 1954 Profit that the federal govern... http://www.caglepost.com/article/085b05a9-b3a7-47d0-9ea3-ec0d7bdc05e7.html Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Findings Studies found that obese women have as many sex partners as non-obese women, that obese men have fewer sex partners than non-obese men, and that men will spend more money on a date with a lady in red. Researchers discovered that handsome fathers pass... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c7e7a22b-e023-479e-99ab-4241fc160e48.html Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Harper's Weekly Israel and Hamas agreed to a one-week cease-fire in Gaza, where Gazan officials estimated that 1,300 Palestinians had died. "My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town of Staszow," said Sir Gerald Kaufman, a British MP who was... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a5801a0b-ff89-45fe-b373-1a6a05f8bb6c.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Harper'S Index Number of news stories from 1998 to Election Day 2000 containing "George W. Bush" and "aura of inevitability": 206 Amount for which Bush successfully sued Enterprise Rent-a-Car in 1999: $2,500 Year in which a political candidate first sued Palm Beach... http://www.caglepost.com/article/861fbfa8-50a5-42b1-8843-c07248d269e1.html Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Harper'S Weekly Israel extended its occupation of the Gaza strip, sending in ground forces and cutting the territory in two. Hamas fired 32 missiles at Israel. The Palestinian health ministry reported that more than 500 Palestinians, most of them civilians, includin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/59c2fff5-918a-4572-b574-3948081145f8.html Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Harper's Weekly Israel bombed Hamas targets in Gaza for three days, killing at least 300 people, 50 of them civilians, and blowing up a mosque and a television station. Palestinians seeking to flee into Egypt were turned back; a doctor at a Gaza hospital said that a... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4c64ec62-5a59-4f4f-81d5-16a3f866ddd5.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Findings High testosterone levels were correlated with financial risk-taking in men, were found to make men prefer feminine women and make women prefer masculine men, and were induced in both men and women by the revving engines of high-performance cars. An A... http://www.caglepost.com/article/03218881-efaa-4438-88f5-9fb89200db51.html Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Harper's weekly Federal agents arrested hedge-fund manager Bernard Madoff and charged him with running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, possibly the largest in Wall Street history. Madoff faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and $5 million in fines; he had hoped... http://www.caglepost.com/article/e151ae9c-738c-422d-ae8b-f865a6c82963.html Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT New Books When he wasn't covering Third World coups, civil wars and revolutions as a nomadic correspondent for the Polish Press Agency, the late Ryszard Kapuscinski was publishing such wonderful books as "The Emperor," about Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, and "Sha... http://www.caglepost.com/article/02c44fbd-f9cd-4b87-8fe5-1f6cb8eac227.html Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Harper's Index Percentage by which the $750 billion bailout exceeds the total U.S. GDP of a century ago, adjusted for inflation: 50 Percentage by which it exceeds the cost of the entire New Deal: 33 Factor by which it exceeds the cost of the 1990 savings-and-loan b... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bdfe0f00-34be-4a3f-a247-9b63c2af06ab.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Findings Researchers found that 70 percent of voters who claim to be undecided have already made up their minds, estimated that genes are responsible for 53 percent of an eligible voter's likelihood of voting and for 46 percent of a voter's "partisan intensit... http://www.caglepost.com/article/78ceb8ba-031c-4432-b4b9-891bb442884d.html Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Weekly review Doctors in Berlin announced that they had cured a man of AIDS by giving him transplanted blood stem cells from a donor naturally resistant to the virus; other researchers cautioned that the treatment was of little immediate use, and justified in this... http://www.caglepost.com/article/959be0ec-15dc-475c-b482-80fef63fddd6.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT New Books Rebekkah, who has fled her hateful family and the ferocious Christian sectarianism of 17th-century England for marriage to a stranger in the New World wilderness of Mary's Land, has reason to wonder after so much silence, absence, vacancy and death: ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/15c37422-0baf-499e-9cae-3cae2b9e5daf.html Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Harper's Index Estimated value of U.S. economic growth lost due to the global credit crisis : $2,000,000,000,000 (see page 35) Portion of U.S. subprime mortgage buyers since 2003 who might have qualified for a prime mortgage : 3/5 Number of times that speakers at t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0bc3fefe-89c8-400f-a360-b2e4ccf683ab.html Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT Weekly Review On the 79th anniversary of the stock-market crash of 1929, the Dow fell 312.3 points, closing below 8,400. Chrysler announced that it would cut 25 percent of its salaried jobs, OPEC said that it was cutting oil production by 1.5 million barrels a day... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f7f1696f-317a-4f3a-8550-acc8d8d7079e.html Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Findings Scientists bred a race of lazy mice, gave sedentary mice a drug that provided them with the benefits of exercise, created sleepless fruit flies, stopped mouse livers from aging, gave knee injuries to a race of cartilage-regenerating mice who quickly ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ff078e07-729a-41c1-b92d-63d8f27dd373.html Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Weekly Review The world economy continued its collapse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 22 percent over eight days, Wall Street lost $2.4 trillion in market value, and Iceland went bankrupt. The head of the International Monetary Fund warned that the wor... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b602c05f-182c-40aa-bcd7-0e7f5b1261ff.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT New Books After nine years of reporting from the Middle East and South Asia, the last three and a half spent in Iraq, Dexter Filkins seems to have been not so much the dutiful journalist embedded in an American military unit as a sojourner embedded in war itse... http://www.caglepost.com/article/09d43780-13df-4425-95e5-a11651f4be95.html Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Index Estimated number of U.S. lives saved per month by $4 gasoline, through reduced driving nationwide: 1,000 Number of additional road deaths that would have been caused by a "gas-tax holiday" this summer: 66 Number of U.S. gas stations where the group P... http://www.caglepost.com/article/82e66d18-7da3-4c63-ab68-0d3575b7fc8d.html Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Findings Researchers suggested that homosexuality in men may be an evolutionary advantage if it is caused by a set of "feminizing" genes and if men who carry sub-critical numbers of these genes are rendered more sensitive and therefore less likely to kill the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/82d3c16f-4bf2-4aa8-ab37-1928ee155fad.html Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Weekly Review Stocks on Wall Street and other exchanges throughout the world dropped as brokerage Merrill Lynch was bought by Bank of America, insurance giant AIG sought tens of billions of dollars in government loans, and investment bank Lehman Brothers declared ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9a9a452b-b5fa-47c0-991f-bcc6cee0ec35.html Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT New books "Fire, water, gas, heat, dust, negligence, ignorance, malice, collectors, book sellers, book worms, insects, children and servants" -- these, according to William Blades in "Enemies of Books" (1880), are the agents most responsible for the deteriorat... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a101811d-a397-497c-9b9f-738f16cf31b3.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Index The fair price of a barrel of oil, according to Osama bin Laden in 1998 : $144 Date on which oil reached $144 per barrel : 7/2/08 Rank of this year's economic crisis among the "largest financial shocks since the Great Depression," according to the IM... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7b41e714-f57a-47d9-ba54-5555eb2e7924.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Findings Scientists discovered that eating blueberries and having friends are good for the memory and that pregnancy and smoking are bad for it. Nautiluses can remember useful things, but only for a day, whereas cuttlefish, which are much more sophisticated c... http://www.caglepost.com/article/996606c2-5cb6-4325-9935-f30bcb02ddb0.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Weekly Review After more than a week of fighting and one failed cease-fire, Russia and Georgia signed a revised cease-fire agreement, but Russian troops remained within 25 miles of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promised French Pr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2021ff57-a771-4bf1-a1d0-dc5c53522d48.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT New Books David Carr has always seemed to enjoy his job more than a newspaper ought to allow, especially the New York Times. As a business-news reporter with a nose for the odd deal, a Monday morning frequent-flier media columnist, and an unbuttoned blogger on... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0600fd83-3ebf-44eb-9b2e-b27468c4fbb5.html Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Index Number of corporations that have publicly committed to sponsoring the Democratic National Convention, as of June: 75 Number for the Republican National Convention: 50 Percentage change by 2012 in the after-tax income of the top 0.1 percent of U.S. ea... http://www.caglepost.com/article/80e56364-445f-4e2f-888d-d46216119d52.html Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Weekly Review Radovan Karadzic was arrested in Belgrade and awaits imminent extradition to The Hague, where he will face charges of genocide for his role in the Srebrenica massacres and the siege of Sarajevo. The former Bosnian Serb president, a psychiatrist and p... http://www.caglepost.com/article/aef0c780-7d5c-4d3d-ac0e-92fe9a772c07.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Findings A genetic variation affecting two-thirds of East Asian men might allow them to take performance-enhancing testosterone undetected, a study found. As yet there exists only anecdotal evidence that Chinese, Japanese and Korean athletes are more successf... http://www.caglepost.com/article/08aa4ace-ae6c-41db-b3a6-ff32a6b8bf73.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Weekly Review The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision seized the IndyMac Bank of California, worth an estimated $32 billion, after the bank's closure in the wake of the mortgage-industry collapse, and the Bush administration proposed a rescue package for ailing mort... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d2fad8c6-7de7-4961-ac9c-4bfa08b4e03c.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT New Books You will have noticed that Joyce Carol Oates seldom repeats herself. Yes, she is always interested in class, race, sex, dreams, madness and boxing; in landscape, philosophy, worship, work and violence; in fear and loathing in the breakfast nook and t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c34d7053-e8cf-41d5-b811-29de7ba1bb32.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Index Average amount spent lobbying Congress last year each day it was in session : $16,279,069 Estimated total value of investments in major U.S. military contractors owned by members of Congress : $150,000,000 Amount of the federal budget that John McCai... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a9cd8adf-37e2-4b22-bdab-b32e8ee5a47a.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Findings Scottish scientists found that women are instinctively attracted to the faces of men who want long-term relationships whereas men are instinctively attracted to the faces of women who want one-night stands; French biostatisticians declared Caucasian ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8078d8fd-0ef0-44ef-93af-d96ab516fe96.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Weekly Review The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that detainees held as "enemy combatants" by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have a constitutional right to challenge their detention through habeas-corpus petitions in federal courts. "Liberty and security can ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/be55f821-1e45-4b96-aaf8-85f70ea9ad9d.html Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT New Books Salman Rushdie's "The Enchantress of Florence" (Random House) actually spends less time in Florence, the 15th-century Renaissance city-state, than in Fatehpur Sikri, the16th-century dream metropolis of the Mughal emperor Akbar the Great. This is beca... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8f8a0f89-bd2d-4766-be85-b826ed5d3cef.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Index Portion of Barack Obama supporters who said in April they would not vote for Hillary Clinton if she became the nominee: 1/5 Portion of Clinton supporters who said this about Obama : 1/4 Percentage of John McCain supporters in March 2000 who said they... http://www.caglepost.com/article/dcb30508-2ae1-4b71-bb1b-74aa005cc14a.html Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Findings Biologists found that those English soccer teams with red uniforms tend to win more often and score more goals than other teams, and a British psychologist found that soccer players are successful in direct proportion to the lengths of their ring fin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5afa7962-7cdb-441a-ab37-bf28245863ea.html Wed, 28 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Today's Top Issues Of The World A 7.9-magnitude earthquake centered in Sichuan Province, China, left 50,000 dead and 5 million homeless. Outside Beichuan Middle School, where 1,000 students and teachers died, parents waited for the bodies of their children to be pulled from the rub... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a2e96285-0244-4100-8b66-4e7c1b9dfea6.html Thu, 22 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT New Books Consider Hannah Green's rose garden, Sylvia Plath's bell jar, Virginia Woolf's lighthouse and Marilyn Monroe's pills. Or such textbooks on falling apart as Doris Lessing's "The Four-Gated City," Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," R.D. Lai... http://www.caglepost.com/article/309ac855-0478-4eb3-bae2-cff1cf8ccaea.html Wed, 14 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Harper's Index Number of U.S. presidential elections so far in which the two major-party nominees were both sitting senators : 0 Number of Senate bills that John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have co-sponsored together since 2005 : 86 Rank that the age g... http://www.caglepost.com/article/72b803ef-6a75-43ce-a687-c595822351a3.html Wed, 07 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Knowing Is Half The Battle Stick figure wearing gear: This is American soldier Joe. He wants to win in Al Anbar, but sometimes it seems like other people don't share that idea. Stick figure with mustache wearing gear: This is Mohammed. He's in the Iraqi Army. He has a lot of t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/748947c9-ddfc-45ca-b02c-822ee2c79b80.html Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Findings A team of scientists at Newcastle University created human embryos by combining the genetic material of one man and two women, another team of scientists at Newcastle University discovered how to create sperm from the bone-marrow cells of women, and ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8c2e1397-a575-4715-92f8-0a662f4ae2a0.html Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Weekly Review Twenty U.S. soldiers were killed last week fighting across Iraq, and 1,300 Iraqi officers and soldiers were fired for poor performance. The Bush administration said it was optimistic that many more refugees from the estimated 4.4 million people who h... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b865598e-70e6-424b-888b-7b5b4976011f.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT New Books Picture yourself a postcard from Darfur, where, after the Antonov bombers and helicopter gunships have softened up their targets, Janjaweed "faith warriors" ride in on horseback to burn down grass huts and murder Zaghawa villagers, for the greater gl... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f357567c-67b0-4b42-86a8-5e770f90b39f.html Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Weekly Review With the assistance of the Federal Reserve, J.P. Morgan Chase acquired its rival Bear Stearns for $236.2 million, or $2 a share, about 1 percent of the bank's value two weeks ago. Bear Stearns Chairman Jimmy Cayne competed in the North American Bridg... http://www.caglepost.com/article/43e5a99a-1c74-4fb1-8dfe-048d518afacc.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT New Books John Stape, author of "The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad" (Pantheon), is also co-editor of two volumes of the collected letters of Joseph Conrad, which makes it all the odder that he chooses not to quote from a couple of letters I should have though... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1f42bb23-d210-426c-bf77-04bafc28f000.html Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Findings A new climate-change model, which takes into account other models' failures to anticipate the rapidity of sea-ice disappearance, predicted that the Arctic Ocean will have ice-free summers within five years; a topographical survey found that rising se... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6a45ef6f-8cd4-4822-a4c7-b15324280448.html Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Weekly Review Sen. Barack Obama beat Sen. Hillary Clinton by huge margins in primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, and Sen. John McCain beat former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. The close Democratic race worried party superdelegates, who wil... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0b29b85c-171d-4b2a-992e-2546d94b6ab5.html Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Bad Luck of Murat Kurnaz It was bad luck that Murat Kurnaz, a 19-year-old resident of Germany and citizen of Turkey, should have been in Peshawar in December 2001 when Pakistan's security police, looking for suspects to sell for a bounty to American military intelligence, bo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f0283ab2-4e79-4fb7-9d9a-817de5379bdc.html Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Rest As FARC From the diaries of Tanja Nijmeijer, a 29-year-old Dutch woman who joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2002 while on a trip. The diaries were found last summer when the Colombian army raided the guerrilla camp where Nijmeijer ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/554f9da2-0fe5-4102-8333-e67401deda04.html Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Findings Researchers found that students whose names begin with "A" or "B" tend to receive better grades than students whose names begin with "C" or "D." They also found "A"- and "B"-named students to be more plentiful at top-tier law schools than at less pre... http://www.caglepost.com/article/155bb29b-7147-4f7e-b6de-311b7ea579d0.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT New Books There is no doubt that David Levering Lewis, with "God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215" (Norton), will ruffle the feathers of some scholar-birds, especially those right-wing one-notes who can be counted on to sing "The Song of Ro... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c0ea9cf8-a2ce-4322-adb7-81137415a70c.html Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT "Harpers Index" Ratio of the number of Latinos in Iowa to the number of full-time farmers : 7:4 Percentage change since 2000 in the estimated number of Hispanic voters in the United States : +122 Percentage of Republicans today who say that free trade is bad for t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/21685262-ca7d-4771-a26a-3a3f6f8d16af.html Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT Weekly review Members of a North African faction of Al Qaeda detonated bombs at the U.N. complex in Algeria and at the country's Supreme Court, killing at least 26 people and injuring more than 170. 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ALL_HTTPHTTP_CACHE_CONTROL:no-cache HTTP_CONNECTION:close HTTP_PRAGMA:no-cache HTTP_ACCEPT:Accept: application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain; HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:gzip HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE:en-us,en;q=0.5 HTTP_HOST:rss.caglecartoons.com HTTP_USER_AGENT:CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html) HTTP_X_CC_LIST:List:1 For:205.234.193.41
ALL_RAWCache-Control: no-cache Connection: close Pragma: no-cache Accept: Accept: application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain; Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Accept-Encoding: gzip Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Host: rss.caglecartoons.com User-Agent: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html) x-cc-list: List:1 For:205.234.193.41
APPL_MD_PATH/LM/W3SVC/294024485/Root
APPL_PHYSICAL_PATHC:\wwwroot\domains\caglerss\www\
AUTH_TYPE 
AUTH_USER 
AUTH_PASSWORD 
LOGON_USER 
REMOTE_USER 
CERT_COOKIE 
CERT_FLAGS 
CERT_ISSUER 
CERT_KEYSIZE 
CERT_SECRETKEYSIZE 
CERT_SERIALNUMBER 
CERT_SERVER_ISSUER 
CERT_SERVER_SUBJECT 
CERT_SUBJECT 
CONTENT_LENGTH0
CONTENT_TYPE 
GATEWAY_INTERFACECGI/1.1
HTTPSoff
HTTPS_KEYSIZE 
HTTPS_SECRETKEYSIZE 
HTTPS_SERVER_ISSUER 
HTTPS_SERVER_SUBJECT 
INSTANCE_ID294024485
INSTANCE_META_PATH/LM/W3SVC/294024485
LOCAL_ADDR205.234.193.41
PATH_INFO/columns/Harpers+Magazine.xml
PATH_TRANSLATEDC:\wwwroot\domains\caglerss\www\columns\Harpers+Magazine.xml
QUERY_STRING 
REMOTE_ADDR38.103.63.55
REMOTE_HOST38.103.63.55
REMOTE_PORT33379
REQUEST_METHODGET
SCRIPT_NAME/columns/Harpers+Magazine.xml
SERVER_NAMErss.caglecartoons.com
SERVER_PORT80
SERVER_PORT_SECURE0
SERVER_PROTOCOLHTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWAREMicrosoft-IIS/6.0
URL/columns/Harpers+Magazine.xml
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROLno-cache
HTTP_CONNECTIONclose
HTTP_PRAGMAno-cache
HTTP_ACCEPTAccept: application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSETISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODINGgzip
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGEen-us,en;q=0.5
HTTP_HOSTrss.caglecartoons.com
HTTP_USER_AGENTCCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
HTTP_X_CC_LISTList:1 For:205.234.193.41