The New Yorker - Homework - Issue: 17; June 25 - 2007

14 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN 35 THE TALK OF THE TOWN Jeffiry7bobin on Supreme Court decisions; a new 9/11 monument; the benefits of napping; James Surowiecki on the F.D.A. Calvin Trillin 42 CANADA JOURNAL The House Across the Way What drove a quiet island community to sudden violence? Judith Thurman 49 A CRITIC AT LARGE French Blues A new film about Edith Piaf has given France a chance to revisit a favorite myth. Seymour M. Hersh 58 ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY The General's Report A.fier writing his account ofAbu Ghrai b, Antonio Taguba was shunned by Army colleagues. Here he speaks, for the first time, about what Rum#I and the Pentagon knew, when they knew it, and what they kept hidden. David Owen 70 DEPT. OF ARCHITECTURE The Anti-Gravity Men The structural engineers ofArup. Helen Simpson 82 FICTION "Homework" THE CRITICS BOOKS John Lanchester 88 "The Diana Chronicles" anatomizes a class-based tragedy of manners. 93 Briefly Noted Alex Ross 94 MUSICAL EVENTS A road tri p gauges the health of American regional orchestras. Nancy Franklin 96 ON TELEVISON "John from Cincinnati" attempts to meld sung and mysticism.