selected items from the September Harper's Index . . .

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Funds allocated to Iraq's water programs to be spent on U.S. embassy operating costs: $85,500,000

Number of the 50 airstrikes targeting Iraq's leadership during the invasion that hit their target: 0

Minimum number of ex-senior government officials who have worked for a major U.S. defense contractor since 1997: 176

Chance that one of them was a member of Congress who became a registered lobbyist: 1 in 4

Minimum number of Congress members Sun Myung Moon claims attended his March coronation as the "King of Peace": 20

Number of Congress members present at the June transfer of power from Coalition military forces to the Iraqi government: 0

Number of HealthSouth executives charged with conspiracy, fraud, money laundering, or lying since March 2003: 20

Number who have pled guilty: 17

Number of those now in prison: 0

Number of words in the first sentence of Bill Clinton's memoir and in that of George W. Bush's, respectively: 49, 5