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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Enthusiasms of Newsweek
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Scrapbook The Enthusiasms of Newsweek THE SCRAPBOOK was a little surprised by last week’s cover of Newsweek—no heroic portrait of Barack Obama?—and so, slowly and a little hesitantly, dove...
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LOST IN THE PERSONASPHERE
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FERGUSON, ANDREW
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Casual LOST IN THE PERSONASPHERE I was with my kids at Zuma beach, in Malibu. It was night. We were alone. A full moon had risen over the Pacifi c. As far as you could see into a scrim of mist...
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An Indecent Decision
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EDITORIAL An Indecent Decision What are the scariest words in constitutional law these days? “Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court.” Earlier this term, Kennedy wrote the 5-4...
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A Heaping Bowl of Mush
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TERZIAN, PHILIP
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A Heaping Bowl of Mush Dealing with Robert Mugabe, Obama-style BY PHILIP TERZIAN If inspirational claptrap is the stuff of diplomacy, then Barack Obama should flourish in the...
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Closing the Enthusiasm Gap
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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Closing the Enthusiasm Gap McCain and Obama, by the numbers. BY STEPHEN F. HAYES About the time political reporters were sitting down to lunch on June 24, BlackBerries all over Washington...
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Very Retiring Republicans
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BARNES, FRED
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Very Retiring Republicans They’d rather quit than fi ght. BY FRED BARNES Democrats John Conyers, John Dingell, and Charles Rangel were in the wilderness from 1994 to 2006, the years of...
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McCain, Obama, & the Catholic Vote
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ANDERSON, RYAN T.
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McCain, Obama, & the Catholic Vote Which one is a natural? BY RYAN T. ANDERSON While a number of Catholics have been waxing rhapsodic about Barack Obama’s appeal, it seems to have gone...
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History's Fall Guys
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barnett, dean
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History’s Fall Guys From tulips to $4 gas, “speculators” are always to blame. BY DEAN BARNETT There was a moment in history when the Dutch really loved their tulips. In 1635, 40 tulip bulbs...
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Shaken and Stirred Up
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JOHNSON, REUBEN F.
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Shaken and Stirred Up The aftermath of China’s earthquake. BY REUBEN F. JOHNSON Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province Chinese superstition revolves around the magic of certain numbers, with 8...
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Laughter at the Supreme Court
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ROSS, LEE
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Laughter at the Supreme Court Yes, the justices tell lawyer jokes. BY LEE ROSS ‘Attempts at humor usually fall fl at.” This concise admonition from the offi cial guide for lawyers arguing...
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L'Affaire Enderlin
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MOUTET, ANNE-ELISABETH
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L’Affaire Enderlin Being a French journalist means never having to say you’re sorry BY ANNE-ELISABETH MOUTET Paris To understand the al-Dura affair, it helps to keep one thing in mind: In...
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Talking Politics
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HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER
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Talking Politics What are they really saying? BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Mr. William Safi re would have made—indeed he does make, in another of his incarnations—a highly serviceable...
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Isn't That Special?
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Roberts, Andrew
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Isn’t That Special? Anglo-American relations are more complicated than you think. BY ANDREW ROBERTS How deep are the historical roots of the Special Relationship? Is it simply a marriage of...
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Boris the Good
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NAGORSKI, ANDREW
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Boris the Good Unfortunately, not great. BY ANDREW NAGORSKI It was hard not to admire Boris Yeltsin when he fi rst emerged as a primal force in Moscow. After all, he demonstrated tremendous...
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After the Fox
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Short, Edward
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After the Fox Riding to hounds and the death of Old England. BY EDWARD SHORT In Hunting the Fox (1921), his celebrated handbook, Lord Willoughby de Broke praised the resiliency of...
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Unholy Thoughts
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BecK, Stefan
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Unholy Thoughts A Bright Young Thing grapples with the post-9/11 world. BY STEFAN BECK In 2006 Martin Amis took a potentially career-ending risk: He told the truth. In an interview with Ginny...
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Speak the Speech
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Bachrach, Judy
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Speak the Speech The twilight world of the White House ventriloquists. BY JUDY BACHRACH Is there any creature in the world lower or more pitiful than a White House ghostwriter? I mean,...
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Rhymers' Dictionary
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SIMON, JOHN
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Rhymers’ Dictionary Defining the moderns. BY JOHN SIMON It is not an easy task to fi nd the right reviewer for poetry. Many reviewers who can handle all kinds of prose well enough fi nd poetry...
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Keeping Score
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BANNER, JAMES M. Jr.
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Keeping Score History is made, then recorded, and recorded again. BY JAMES M. BANNER JR. The historical study of historical thought and writing— what historians call historiography— has long...
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Here's My Plan
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CONTINETTI, MATTHEW
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Here’s My Plan Winning blue-collar votes in red states. BY MATTHEW CONTINETTI A few months back, Barack Obama explained why he had not won more support from voters in Appalachia. You go into...
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Identity Theft
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Alston, Edith
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Identity Theft A rediscovered classic of souls in transition. BY EDITH ALSTON By the time the feckless young Sheppard Lee discovers himself dead, in the vicinity of the corpulent remains...
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Cops on the Case
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BREEN, JON L.
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Cops on the Case Two police procedurals from contemporary Britain. BY JON L. BREEN The invention of the police procedural, in recent decades the dominant subgenre of detective fi ction, is...
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Parody
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Parody “[Sen. John McCain] proposed a $300 million government prize to whoever can develop an automobile battery that far surpasses existing technology. The bounty would equate to $1 for every...
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