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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK Fast and Furious—Still Infuriating With the economy still cratered, a slew of foreign policy debacles, and a government shutdown, most Americans probably haven’t thought much...
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CASUAL
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CASUAL Nostalgia Organized A reunion marking the hundredth anniversary of the founding of my high school—Nicholas Senn, on the northside of Chicago—is to be held this month, and I shall not...
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIALS The Park Police “We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around.” —Ronald Reagan The conduct of the National Park Service over the last week might be the biggest...
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AN INAUSPICIOUS DEBUT
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Astrue, Michael
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Articles An Inauspicious Debut The health exchange meltdowns are not just ‘glitches.’ BY MICHAEL ASTRUE For over a year it has been common knowledge within the Obama administration that the...
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THE PERSIAN GULF POWER VACUUM
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SMITH, LEE
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The Persian Gulf Power Vacuum America’s Middle East allies are getting nervous. BY LEE SMITH Despite the administration’s hype of President Obama’s “historic” 15-minute phone call with the...
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WHY IS ALI HARZI STILL AT LARGE?
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JOSCELYN, THOMAS
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Why Is Ali Harzi Still at Large? From Benghazi to Tunis. BY THOMAS JOSCELYN During a press conference on July 26, Tunisian interior minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou listed the suspected terrorists...
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HEALTH REFORM BREAKS BAD
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Conover, Christopher J.
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Feature Health Reform Breaks Bad The deceptions and disasters of Obamacare BY CHRISTOPHER J. CONOVER Breaking Bad is the story of a seemingly wellintended but very misguided man who turned to...
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TELLER OF TALES
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Pritchard, William H.
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Books&Arts Teller of Tales The definitive Updike, in two volumes. BY WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD There have always been readers of John Updike’s work who fi nd his most impressive achievement to be...
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PRESIDENTS AT LEISURE
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BUNCH, SONNY
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B&A Presidents at Leisure Two centuries of lightening the burden. BY SONNY BUNCH Philosophers, war heroes, a movie star: A wide variety of men with an even wider variety of cultural tastes...
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TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
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HAMBY, ALONZO L.
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B&A Turned Upside Down The end of World War II meant the end of empires. BY ALONZO L. HAMBY Franklin D. Roosevelt, meeting with his son Elliott at the beginning of the Casablanca conference...
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LONE STAR POWER
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MCKENZIE, WILLIAM
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B&A Lone Star Power What Texas does, and has to do, to stay successful. BY WILLIAM MCKENZIE What Erica Grieder has succeeded in doing with this book is what few journalists have been able to...
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WATTAGE INDUSTRY
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Eaves, Elisabeth
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B&A Wattage Industry There’s more to urban lighting than illumination. BY ELISABETH EAVES Decades before Hillary Clinton chaired a health care task force and Nancy Reagan urged new...
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BODYGUARD OF LIES
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Yoder, Edwin M. Jr.
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B&A Bodyguard of Lies A trilogy on military deception. BY EDWIN M. YODER JR. Winston Groom’s legendary Forrest Gump is the iconic bystander who stumbles into the company of historically...
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BIRD BRAINS
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GUASPARI, DAVID
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B&A Bird Brains The hidden life, and surprising depth, of the avian mind. BY DAVID GUASPARI ‘What is it like,” asks Tim Birkhead, “for an emperor penguin diving in the inky blackness of the...
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ON TO MARS?
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Gelernter, Joshua
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B&A On to Mars? An astronaut makes the case for exploration. BY JOSHUA GELERNTER On July 21, 1969, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin joined Neil Armstrong on the moon’s surface and launched a new epoch of...
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LESS IS MORE
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Rosen, Michael
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B&A Less Is More In the presidency, obscurity is not the same as unimportance. BY MICHAEL ROSEN It’s sometimes the case that the most forgettable historical fi gures furnish the most...
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LITERARY POSTCARDS
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BOTTUM, JOSEPH
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B&A Literary Postcards The writer’s vocation in J. F. Powers’s correspondence. BY JOSEPH BOTTUM One of the things you learn when you read the letters of great writers is how rarely great...
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IT TAKES A VILLAGE
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SIEGEL, FRED
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B&A It Takes a Village Bohemia at the bottom of Manhattan. BY FRED SIEGEL Greenwich Village has always been a matter of geography imbricated by doctrine. Exempted from the 1811 grid plan for...
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PARADOX OF THE BOOK
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Jeffers, Thomas L.
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B&A Paradox of the Book The chaos of the Internet makes reading easier. BY THOMAS L. JEFFERS Plato is smarter than you. That’s how an experienced teacher once began a series of lectures on...
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PARODY
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PARODY “An offi cial al Qaeda website that is restricted to members of the terrorist group opened its fi rst Twitter account this week in what U.S. offi cials say is an effort to resolve a major...
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