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April 2006 Atlantic Monthly
A selective index to this month’s issue, compiled by Benjamin Healy
Who's WhoVolume 297 no. 3 / april 2006 Adams, John Quincy, foreign-policy demonology of, 98 Addington, David, Cheney aide, as imperial enabler, 26 Akhmatova, Anna, hardy muse of, 120 al-Harethi, Qaed Salim Sinan, al-Qaeda operative, disconnected phone of, 67 Allen, Dennis W., on James Bond anality, 100 al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab, as Elvis, 76; as master of disguise, 76 Andress, Ursula, resonant name of, 101 Austen, Jane, relative cruelty of, 118 Baez, Joan, as security risk, 69 Baryshnikov, Mikhail, football expertise of, 32 Ben-Ami, Shlomo, Middle East historian, acuity of, 99; “diplo-blah-blah” of, 99 Berlusconi, Silvio, as cruise director, 13; celibacy of, 13 Bernstein, Theodore, usage authority, on finer points of dangling, 137 Bierce, Ambrose, as combat veteran, 98; sardonic sensibility of, 98 Bin Laden, Osama, Nigerian liberation plan of, 33 Briggs, Anthony, Tolstoy translator, questionable necessity of, 115; as man of the people, 115; as slangslinger, 115–117; as pirate-movie impresario, 116 Buckley, William F., as traffic cop, 138 Bush, George W., near-dictatorial powers of, 25–26; Nigeria policy of, 33–34; perplexing stinginess of, 80; history’s verdict on, 80 Bush, Laura, sex life of, 16 Callow, Simon, kiltedness of, 126 Cameron, David, British opposition leader, as satire made flesh, 138 Carbona, Gene, former drug rep, near-criminality of, 83; as “King of Happy Hour,” 84 Carter, Jimmy, underwater maneuvers of, 68 Columbus, Christopher, savagery of, 138 Coward, Noël, as James Bond bit player, 100–102 Derrida, Jacques, as stumbling block, 71 Dowling, Levi H., doctor, as channeler of Christ, 117 Drucker, Peter F., as Newt syllabus entry, 37; on knowledge workers, 47–50 Eco, Umberto, as James Bond explicator, 104 Eden, Anthony, former British PM, temporary insanity of, 101 Einstein, Albert, as gypsy, 50; as bohemian, 50; as high-school dropout, 50 Elizabeth II, queen, delegating prowess of, 13; blurriness of, 13; as “pork butcher from Norwich,” 13 Fake, Caterina, Flickr foundr, airport ritual of, 135 Fleming, Ian, as Kennedy adviser, 101; as anti-Castro plotter, 101; as anti-baseball, 102; as antihot dog, 102; as anti-neon, 102; as anti-bosoms, 102; bottomless contradictions of, 102; as terrorism prophet, 102; Hollywood dreams of, 104 Fonda, Jane, as security risk, 69 Ford, Gerald, as master of suspense, 120 Franklin, Benjamin, enormous biography of, 120 Fulton, Kevin, former IRA operative, anxious retirement of, 53–62; concern of for “wee fish and creatures of the sea,” 60 Gaddis, William, potential irrelevance of, 114 Galbraith, John Kenneth, on aesthetics, 47 Garcia-Roza, Luiz Alfredo, Brazilian mystery novelist, sketchy plots of, 105 Gingrich, Newt, e-mail address of, 36; as counterfactual novelist, 36; as Amazon.com reviewer, 36; “Cheshire Cat coyness” of, 36; dataphilia of, 36–37; reading list of, 37; as Clinton womb-mate, 37; as Gore clone, 37; FDR and, 37; Ataturk and, 37; de Gaulle and, 37; Churchill and, 37; Reagan and, 37 Hadrian, emperor, as Home Depot founder, 124 Harris, Rolf, as Aussie TV personality, 13; as royal portraitist, 13 Hart, Gary, political twilight of, 36 Hatch, Orrin, as camera-phone user, 133 Hatch, Richard, survivor, as tax evader, 13; potential prison term of, 13 Hoover, J. Edgar, anti-Quaker vendetta of, 69 Huntington, Samuel, on institutional fortitude, 75 Indridason, Arnaldur, Icelandic mystery novelist, pardonable clichés of, 105 James, Henry, pet paradox of, 114 Jassim, Khamis Mohamed, Iraqi politician, Johnsonian wound-display policy of, 75 Jordan, Michael, as pharmaceutical sales rep, 82 Kafka, Franz, as sushi garnish, 108 Kennedy, John F., as James Bond fan, 101; juvenile taste of, 101 Keynes, John Maynard, as optimist, 46 Kirino, Natsuo, Japanese mystery novelist, as Zola successor, 108; black humor of, 108 Lamberth, Royce C., FISA judge, living-room hearings of, 65; cocker spaniel of, 65 Lantos, John, medical ethicist, on cobblerlessness, 93 Lee, Peggy, tremendous goodness of, 95; as Lady and the Tramp songwriter, 95; as Jewish basketball star, 95; as single mother, 95; as autobiographer, 95; as North Dakotan, 96; sexual style of, 96 Lewis, Jerry, as stumbling block, 71 Lewis, Michael, as Newt syllabus entry, 37 Lincoln, Abraham, dictatorial powers of, 25; gaseous quasi-mysticism of, 97 Lloyd, Henry Demarest, as Rockefeller nemesis, 44–46 Loman, Willy, pharmaceutical portfolio of, 83 Lovecraft, H. P., encyclopedic creepiness of, 117 Lucas, George, chicken dinner of, 132 Magdalene, Mary, ubiquity of, 117 McBain, Ed, immortality of, 105–106 McEwan, Ian, on magical irrealism, 105 Mitchell, George, political twilight of, 36 Moron, Jack, hard-hitting columnist, as Michael Wharton creation, 138 Nabokov, Vladimir, as Tolstoy fan, 118 Niven, David, as noncanonical Bond, 100 Nixon, Richard, as surveillance target, 69 Oates, Joyce Carol, sinister intimations of, 110 Obasanjo, Olusegun, Nigerian president, democratic reputation of, 33; popular mandate of, 33; wholesale failure of, 33–34 Oldani, Michael, former pharmaceutical sales rep, as diner veteran, 88; as cognac disburser, 90 O’Reilly, Bill, as test of will, 32 Pataki, George, tepid presidential prospects of, 37 Petty, Richard, political career of, 32 Pinter, Harold, historical sensitivities of, 138 Pynchon, Thomas, potential irrelevance of, 114 Reagan, Ronald, political patience of, 37 Reese, Frank, poultry farmer, on robustness of heirloom chickens, 129; as nurse anesthetist, 129 Reidy, Jamie, former drug rep, on pigeon-like pharmacist behavior, 88 Robertson, Pat, spiritual debasement of, 101 Roosevelt, Franklin D., imperial tendencies of, 25; Newt Gingrich and, 37 Rumsfeld, Donald, camera-phone ban of, 135 Sailhac, Alain, chef, on heirloom- turkey miracle, 128 Scappaticci, Freddie, IRA exploits of, 53–62 Scott, Sir Walter, preposterous home of, 126 Sherman, William Tecumseh, cruelty of, 98; as memoirist, 98 Simple, Peter, as Michael Wharton mouthpiece, 138–139; last words of, 138 Spector, Phil, itchy trigger finger of, 13 Spock, Benjamin, as security risk, 69 Springer, Jerry, spiritual debasement of, 101 Stewart, Martha, as chicken booster, 127 Swann, Lynn, as GOP MVP, 32; Baryshnikovian qualities of, 32; apparent youth of, 32; as official fitness adviser, 32 Tamerlane, as head contractor, 120 Thatcher, Margaret, intelligence intake of, 56 Tolstoy, Leo, translation-proof qualities of, 117; jagged fairy tales of, 118; ultimate humanity of, 118 Truman, Harry, as steel hoarder, 26; as NSA innovator, 69 Updike, John, as Tom Wolfe nemesis, 109–110, 113–114 Van Gogh, Vincent, as plot device, 121 Watts, J. C., as GOP MVP, 32 Wernicke, Carl, famed area of, 114 Wharton, Michael, British columnist, as exile, 139; laconic nature of, 139; Serbs and, 139; white Rhodesians and, 139; open marriage of, 139 Wilson, Woodrow, as “leader of the North American rebel colonists,” 139 Wodehouse, P. G., Long Island lair of, 138 Wolfe, Tom, as Updike nemesis, 109–110, 113–114; Cartesian echoes of, 110; as brawler, 113–114 Wonder, Stevie, as alleged Phil Spector target, 13 Yoo, John, as imperial enabler, 26 Zola, Emile, would-be successors of, 108, 112, 113
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