December 4, 2004 2:46 PM

Blasted machines

As a regular sender of online newsletters myself, I respect the brand of honesty in the new edition of Harper's Weekly.

Dear Reader,

This week's contributor suffered a last-minute laptop fatality. Consequently, for only the second time since July 2000, you will be deprived of a Weekly Review.

Please accept our most sincere apologies, and visit Harpers.org for an encore presentation of "The Frequency: Solving the Riddle of the Dan Rather Beating," by the novelist Paul Limbert Allman, originally from the December 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine.

Yrs,

Roger D. Hodge

Harper's Magazine

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