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Once Allende was overthrown, Kissinger became the leading enabler of Pinochet's repressive new regime. FEATURES AS HENRY KISSINGER REACHES 100 YEARS OF AGE ON May 27, Chileans are preparing to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the bloody military coup that the former US national security adviser helped orchestrate in September 1973. The declassified historical record leaves no doubt that Kissinger was the chief architect of US efforts to destabilize the democratically elected government of Socialist Party leader Salvador Allende. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents a critique of the book "Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala" by Kirsten Weld which addresses the political history of the nation, the Guatemalan National Police's archives, and the roots of Guatemalan violence during the Cold War. Counterinsurgency campaigns and then-investigator Edeliberto Cifuentes are mentioned, along with former Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz's regime. Weld's views regarding reivindicación (redemption) are examined.

This article presents information on the book "The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Non-Fiction, 1909-1959," edited by Tom Hiney and Frank MacShane. In his letter to Erle Stanley, Raymond Chandler opines that the reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called "significant literature" will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. He opines that when a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things.

The article focuses on the books "The Cigarette Papers," by Stanton A. Glantz and John Slade and "Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris," by Richard Kluger. One is fittingly titled "The Cigarette Papers," because it does for the tobacco war have done what the Pentagon papers did for the Vietnam War. It confirms what every admirer of private enterprise should have surmised: that the tobacco manufacturers always, but always knew more about their product than their critics did. In "Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris," Kluger holds that if the tobacco executives were morally reprehensible, it was less for peddling a product commonly understood to be dangerous than for lying to reassure the clientele.

COLUMNS THE PANDEMIC HAS FORCED US TO SLOW down, if not to stop in our tracks. The first, Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State, was compiled during the Depression as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project. During the summers of his early years, from 1899 to 1920, Hemingway, the son of a Chicago doctor, vacationed in Michigan's Northwoods. [Extracted from the article]

In reality, Bankman-Fried's scheme was simple: create FTT tokens and sell them to Alameda Research at discounted rates, then steal FTX's customer assets and lend them to Alameda Research to make risky bets in the crypto market. FEATURES BEFORE SAM BANKMAN-FRIED BECAME THE POSTER CHILD FOR RAPAcious speculative folly, he was the anointed emissary from the future of finance - sharing conference stages with world leaders, hobnobbing with celebrities, and donating enormous sums of cash to political parties, think tanks, and charities. Bankman-Fried was obviously aware of the industry's limitations thanks to his firsthand experience propping up crypto's paper value, so his pre-bankruptcy goal was to move past crypto and develop FTX into a financial super-app: "I want FTX to be a place where you can do anything you want with your next dollar. And this crisis led to more devastating reports on FTX's Ponzi-like business model, documenting a back-door portal in the company's trading software that apparently enabled Bankman-Fried's fraudulent handling of customers' funds. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on two books "The Hunter Gracchus and Other Papers on Literature and Art" and "The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories," by Guy Davenport. On the long march through the woods of the world, humankind seeks a lamp by which it will be led. Goodly guidance, then, is a thoroughly human need and in the world of arts and letters, Davenport, poet, painter, translator, fictionist and critic, has been for decades an indispensable guide in all the darkness. As an essayist, Davenport has treated a gallimaufry of subjects in his previous collections. Davenport's genius is in charting connections the invisible contiguities between continents of human make, the family resemblances between the far-flung forces.

"VOX," is an independent newspaper written by and for Atlanta teenagers. It is one of a growing number of city youth papers that have been popping up across the country, bringing their readers the 411 on everything from contraception to homelessness to restrictive school dress codes. A University of Iowa survey of 149 city high school newspapers found that between 1983 and 1993 nineteen folded, mostly for lack of funding. A recent Freedom Forum study also noted that school administrators are less likely to respect their students' free speech when newspapers are poorly funded.

This article focuses on the book "Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg," by Tom Wells. The Wild Man of the title is a disorganized and undisciplined "egomaniac" and "narcissist" with a voracious sexual appetite, overweening ambition and an overpowering craving for adulation and public attention. He is incapable of completing work or maintaining personal loyalties. He even unearths evidence that he didn't bring any means of paying when he invited one couple out to dinner and that another couple living below his apartment called him a noisy neighbor.

This article focuses on a case of a criminal Lori Berenson. During the nearly five years of her incarceration, much has been written in the United States about Lori Berenson, on how the daughter of liberal, academic parents turned a youthful concern for social justice into a committed passion. Although there have been some reports focusing on Berenson's work with leftist organizations in Central America, little is known about the circumstances of her arrest in Peru. But mention the name Lori Berenson to Peruvians, and the face most of them see in their minds is the one that appeared on their television sets on January 8, 1996, when she was presented to the press by the police, making her first public statement since her arrest.

American papers typically assumed that the victims of lynchings were guilty and deserved their fate, publishing boldface headlines such as "NEGRO BRUTE LYNCHED" (The Washington Post, August 2, 1899); "A FEARFUL RIDE OF DEATH. Wells had written to the paper in response to a Post editorial criticizing her anti-lynching campaign. Newspapers Defended Slavery THERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES, MOSTLY in the North and West, of long-lived newspapers that, as far as I can tell, did not publish ads for slaves, including The New York Times. Similarly lurid reports, which would have attracted curious readers and meant greater profits from newspaper sales, were also published and reprinted nationwide by the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of others. [Extracted from the article]

BOOK & the ARTS NOW THAT WE KNOW HOW THE UNITED States' generation-long misadventure in depressing cer's Afghanistan in Craig experience The Whitlock's ended, Afghanistan in 2005, one excellent Army Papers: recounted and offiA Secret History of the War, takes on an elevated salience. From a counterterrorism perspective, the United States is now dependent on the Taliban to live up to their claim that they will not let Afghanistan be used again as a base for global terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda or some successor group. The United States would never have invaded Afghanistan simply to keep the Taliban at bay, but now it had to stay and fight them because it was already there. A decade and a half of grinding counterinsurgency warfare and expensive nation-building efforts later, President Donald Trump made a deal with the Taliban under which the United States would withdraw its forces in 2021. [Extracted from the article]

Columbia Broadcasting Systems lawyers spiked a 60 minutes interview with a former tobacco executive who wanted to criticize the industry, a door opened to a story that is only beginning to be told: the way Big tobacco has silenced critics and manipulated public information about its cancer causing product. As the 60 minutes episode faded into a Morley-is-mad-at-Mike story, several crucial aspects of the power of the tobacco corporations to control the news have gone unexamined. Brown & Williamson, the company CBS lawyers feared, didn't have to threaten, much less sue, the network to censor a story.

This article discusses on the contradictions between free expression and the rights of the newspapers to publish what it wants. In 1989, "The New York Times," champion of the First Amendment, declared in a review that Washington investigative reporter, Dan Moldea exhibited "too much sloppy journalism" in "Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football. Moldea wanted to respond in a letter, but the "Times" refused to let him which compelled Moldea to sue the "Times." It was found that "the trial court erred in ruling that the "Times" review could not be defamatory as a matter of law."

Press coverage of the "insurance crisis," or "civil liability crisis" is a mess. Reporters and editors seem perfectly happy to settle for two types of coverage: anecdotes and hysteria. They love anecdotes about judgments such as the nearly one million bucks given the woman who claimed she lost her psychic powers in a CAT scan. Or the $1.5 million awarded the families of three fishermen lost in a storm the National Weather Service failed to forecast. The idea in these stories is to convey the notion which is exactly what the insurance industry want the press to convey that juries everywhere have become gullible and insanely generous and must be sat on. The hysteria stories are built around a long and growing list of businesses that can no longer afford liability insurance because the rates have been jacked up by as much as 1 ,000 percent in the past couple of years.

The article focuses in the organization Accuracy in Academia. The organization seeking to root out the dissemination of "disinformation or misinformation" by radical professors. The organization's first newsletter reported on an unidentified Midwestern professor whose lectures on Latin American history criticized U.S. policy in the region. The target of A.I.A.'s March newsletter, its third, was Linda Arnold, a historian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Although A.I.A. focused on Arnold as a result of a student complaint, the newsletter did not attack anything she said in class.

The article looks at a tax provision which will require the United States government to pay up to $8 billion to the nation's ten largest paper companies. The author points out the this money will come from a transportation bill intended to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. Ironically, paper mills have decided to add unnecessary diesel fuel to their paper in order to qualify for the tax credit.

The poem "written on a paper bag" by Jess Mynes is presented. First Line: clover flowers fleck to dirt; Last Line: wobble pronged bobbing filaments.

The readers Singer had addressed for decades in The Forward, New York's leading Yiddish daily paper, represented a significant share of the world's surviving Yiddish speakers. To that larger public, Singer appeared not as a participant in a broader Yiddish culture but as a synecdoche for Yiddish as such, perhaps even a medium with the power to resurrect it. BOOKS & the ARTS BY THE 1950S, WHEN ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER'S YIDDISH fiction was beginning to win acclaim in English translation, the future of the Yiddish language looked bleak. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers commentary on the small mill town of Berlin, New Hampshire that suffered an economic setback when its sole manufacturer, the local paper mill, was decimated. A similar mill in a nearby town, the Wausau paper mill, was shut down, and U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards came there to aid the laid-off mill workers. This act of concern proves that Edward's populist politics set the domestic economic agenda for the 2008 U.S. presidential race.

Presents the poem " The Paper Speaks," by Suzanne Noguere.

Presents the poem "Paper," by W.S. Merwin.

The article reports on a loophole in a U.S. law that allows the paper industry to receive a tax credit meant to encourage environmentally sound behavior, even as it continues to burn polluting fossil fuels. The defect in the legislation was revealed in this magazine in April 2009. Efforts to correct the matter are discussed, as is opposition to ending the credit mounted by senators Olympia Snowe and Blanche Lincoln, who represent states where the paper industry prominent.

FEATURES IN 1979, ROBERT BULLARD AND A TEAM OF 10 GRADUATE STUDENTS SPENT WEEKS poring over city records, library archives, and microfiche, searching for landfill locations in Houston, a sprawling, 557-square-mile city that's home to nearly 1.5 million people. To find a landfill, Bullard and his students had to follow the paper trails of permits, deeds, and licenses. Robert Bullard Isn't Done Yet Bullard started looking at landfills after his then wife, Linda, an attorney, sued the City of Houston and Southwestern Waste Management over a proposal to build a landfill in a predominantly Black, middle-class neighborhood in northeast Houston called Northwood Manor. [Extracted from the article]

The author asks that how does a self-described free speecher help the cause by bringing libel charges against the one American newspaper that considers the First Amendment a personal bequest from the Framers? Respect for the facts of the writer Dan Moldea's case confronts any free-expression realist with uncomfortable answers. The unholy mess of Moldea v. The New York Times, in which Moldea fights for the right to answer an attack on his book and the Times hides behind the First Amendment while suppressing his voice, developed because of a fundamental division at the heart of The New York Times. The free-expression thinking should be forced to accommodate that fact. Unlike The Washington Post Book World, for instance, the Times Book Review does not list the names of its editors on a masthead.

The article discusses the crisis relate to U.S. newspapers in 2016. Topics covered include the slow death of newspapers in the country due to the launch of online resources such as social networking sites. Also mentioned is the impact of the launch of advertising sites such as Craigslist on the demise of U.S. newspapers.

The article discusses books like "Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence," by Greg Moses and "The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.," vol. 3, "Birth of a New Age, December 1955--December 1956," edited by Clayborne Carson. The guttings of King's philosophical and spiritual essence mean walking away from the man who said, "our government must depend more on its moral power than on its military power. One explanation for the nation's refusal to honor King the pacifist is that pacifism itself is not understood. It is rarely taught as a viable alternative to violence.

Although India bans the importation of plastic waste, the wrappers and Amazon shipping envelopes that start off in American recycling bins end up in the region mixed with waste paper imports for the mills, Bloomberg reported. A worker sifts through waste outside a paper mill in the Muzaffarnagar District of Uttar Pradesh. When the plastic is burned, the smell overwhelms the homes of area residents. [Extracted from the article]

When a firm like General Motors re¬quired a chunk of outside capital (which was rare), a GM executive or two - relatively low-level ones - would meet with a Morgan Stanley partner, who would then convene the other partners and decide how to raise it: stocks or bonds? There was no competition; "no other banking firm", Lemann explains, "could try to become the underwriter of that issue because the SEC could review only one firm's request at a time." He introduces us to the anti-Berle: Mi¬chael Jensen, the kind of University of Chicago - trained economist who insists that markets are the only fair way to ap¬portion value in a society because they are the only institutions that are rational. Jensen's most influential statement of this idea was a 1976 paper, "Theory of the Firm.". [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses growing popularity of the radical progressive Pirate Party in Iceland politics. Topics include reference to party front person and parliament member Birgitta Jonsdottir, former stint as WikiLeaks spokesperson as well as the Nordic-style parliamentary democracy system of government. Also mentioned are domination of pro-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conservative politicians, Panama Papers corruption exposures and the "Morgunbladid" center-right newspaper.

The article focuses on the book "The Vermont Papers: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale," by Frank Bryan and John McClaughry. It is the guiding logic of the book, which goes something like this: Scale is an essential element of all social constructs, though one the Industrial Age has tried to ignore, "In governance," as Frank Bryan and John McClaughry say, "as with nearly everything else in this century, scale has been the forgotten ingredient." The result is the centralization and giantism of political and economic institutions and their inability to respond and function properly, "the collapse of the American center" and "the specter of a government that no longer works."

In the US, Uber hired Alan Krueger, a distinguished Princeton economist, to write a paper on the company and especially its "driver-partners" (Uber's term at the time). When I first read Krueger's paper, I was pained to see the economist - who died by suicide in 2019 - producing such propaganda. Krueger's coauthor was Jonathan Hall, an Uber staff economist, and the 2015 paper was based on a company-sponsored survey of its drivers. [Extracted from the article]

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Paper Chase" by Stephen Mihm in the June 18, 2012 issue, which reviewed the book "Paper Promises" by Philip Coggan, along with a response from Stephen Mihm.

The article discusses the release of the paperback version of the book "They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons," by Jacob Heilbrunn, and questions whether Heilbrunn was guilty of plagiarism. The author presents sections of an article from the periodical written by Patricia Derian, "Some of Our Best Friends Are Authoritarians," and compares them to Heilbrunn's book to demonstrate the possibility of plagiarism.

The article discusses the death of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned by polonium, and the attempts of the British government to extradite his alleged killer Andrei Lugovoi. Russia has said that it will not send a citizen to a foreign country. The author discusses the lack of cooperation between Russian authorities and those in Great Britain. Russia cannot charge Litvinenko without receiving evidence from the British who have yet to indict anyone.

The author complains about the quality and lack of readership of the "New York Sun," a conservative daily newspaper based in New York City. The author accuses the paper of using underhanded tactics to make sales figures look good. In reality, the author states, no one is reading the newspaper. The author also asks why conservatives would open the paper in such a liberal city. The author notes the efforts of editor-in-chief Seth Lipsky at promotion by condemning other papers in the city.

Books & the Arts After the fifth debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, The Washington Post published one of its infamous fact-checks highlighting those moments when, in the paper's estimation, someone got too loose with the truth. Digging through the archives, Dougherty shows just how long California leaders have been aware of the housing crisis that the state faced if it didn't alter course. Dougherty also follows the YIMBY activists as they mobilize for new subsidized and market-rate housing. [Extracted from the article]

Grechen Shirley appealed to the Federal Election Commission when she realized taking her children, then ages 1 and 3, along for the full-time job of campaigning wouldn't work and that the cost of child care was too high for her family. The FEC ruled in Grechen Shirley's favor, making it permissible for candidates for federal office to use campaign funds for child care during campaign activity. PHOTO (COLOR): Blazing a trail: Liuba Grechen Shirley, with her son while on a break from shooting a campaign ad, successfully petitioned the FEC to rule that candidates may use campaign funds to pay for child care. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information about the book "Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience," by Jill Nelson. The book is hot. Nelson takes no prisoners, and a lot of insiders are burned. But Nelson can't simply be dismissed as a glorified gossip, or a cranky, sore loser spitting out sour grapes. Too much of what she says hits home. Just as Lunch not only gives good gossip but also reveals the bizarre facts of how movies get made, so Slavery gives insight about how influential big-city dailies are run and how stories get assigned, edited, killed and played.

This was New York City, so abortion, with state Medicaid funding, was readily available. At the time, about 100,000 abortions were performed per year in New York City.) I thought of my friend while reading the latest round of promises from abortion opponents about all the great things they'll do for women who will be forced to go through with unwanted pregnancies, now that the Supreme Court seems ready to overturn Roe v. Wade or at least permit greater restrictions on the right to choose. It cannot be said often enough that most women who have abortions are mothers: The woman who needs an abortion and the woman who needs diapers are the same person. [Extracted from the article]