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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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THE SCRAPBOOK
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THE SCRAPBOOK Faster and Furiouser: The Sequel ‘A store calling itself Fearless Distributing opened early last year on an out-of-the-way street in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood,...
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CASUAL
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CASUAL Say It Ain’t So, Lance Stan Musial, the St. Louis Cardinal who died a few weeks ago, seems to have been one of those great athletes of good character—player-hero, civic...
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EDITORIALS
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EDITORIALS Deal Breaker What is it about “compromise” that President Obama doesn’t understand? Is it that he and Democrats would have to give up something— perhaps numerous things—to reach an...
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THE HAGEL FIASCO
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HAYES, STEPHEN F.
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The Hagel Fiasco Worst confirmation hearing ever? BY STEPHEN F. HAYES Finally John Warner let Chuck Hagel speak. Warner, having declared that he was discarding his prepared remarks in the...
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CAMERON AND THE EUROSKEPTICS
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STUTTAFORD, ANDREW
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Cameron and the Euroskeptics Color them unimpressed. BY ANDREW STUTTAFORD David Cameron leaves things late. Leadership by essay crisis, it has been called, a nod to procrastination by...
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DOCUMENTING REAGAN
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Shirley, Craig
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Documenting Reagan Another poor effort. BY CRAIG SHIRLEY There are now some 1,000 books about Ronald Wilson Reagan and, according to Amazon, 86 documentaries. The bad ones are sloppy; the...
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HOW TO KILL A STORY
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CHANG, GORDON G.
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How to Kill a Story China versus the Tibetans. BY GORDON G. CHANG Dharamsala, India At the Tibetan Children’s Village, where India’s high mountains meet the fi rst row of the Himalayas, the...
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THE ISSUE LEFT BEHIND
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FINN, CHESTER E. Jr.
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The Issue Left Behind Republicans and education reform. BY CHESTER E. FINN JR. As the Republican party searches its soul and its ranks for policies, strategies, and leaders that can restore it...
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WHY WE MIGHT GET TAX REFORM
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Brannon, Ike
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Why We Might Get Tax Reform For incredibly cynical and corrupt reasons. BY IKE BRANNON Argentina hasn’t always been a basket case: In the early 1990s the country embarked on a radical...
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ABANDON 'THE CHILDREN'
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CLYNE, MEGHAN
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Abandon ‘the Children’ We need a better argument against the massive federal debt BY MEGHAN CLYNE Politicians are not known for originality. In their public speech, most cling to the security of...
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OBAMA THE BARGAINER
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COST, JAY
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Obama the Bargainer How to lose friends and alienate Congress BY JAY COST The recent inaugural festivities would have seemed more than a little strange to the Framers of the Constitution, had...
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LOSING STREAK
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BELL, JEFFREY
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Losing Streak The Democratic ascendancy and why it happened BY JEFFREY BELL In the six presidential elections between 1992 and 2012, the Democratic party has regained the solid popular-vote...
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VICTORY IN IRAQ
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Bull, Bartle B.
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Victory in Iraq How it was won, how it may be lost. BY BARTLE B. BULL It was December 2006. Al Qaeda was near the peak of its infl uence in Iraq. The United States was widely considered to...
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BOOKS OF HOURS
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Tonguette, Peter
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Books of Hours One man’s meat is another man’s stuffing. BY PETER TONGUETTE The title of David Shields’s latest book could hardly be more straightforward, but by the time we are fi...
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WOMAN OF TEXAS
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MCKENZIE, WILLIAM
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Woman of Texas The 20th-century journey of Lady Bird Johnson. BY WILLIAM MCKENZIE Whatever you may think about the reliability of oral histories, the set of interviews that Lady Bird Johnson...
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SEEING AND BELIEVING
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KLINGENSTEIN, SUSANNE
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Seeing and Believing The scientifi c method for comprehending the world. BY SUSANNE KLINGENSTEIN In 1935, Ernst Gombrich, scion of a bourgeois Viennese Jewish family, and newly minted Ph.D. in...
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BUILDING BLOCS
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TUSHNET, EVE
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Building Blocs An exhibition at the intersection of politics, art, and urban design. BY EVE TUSHNET The phrase “political architecture” evokes the idea of architecture for and by...
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PARKER INACTION
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PODHORETZ, JOHN
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Parker Inaction The criminal mind is not necessarily gripping entertainment. BY JOHN PODHORETZ In 1962, Donald E. Westlake created his pulpiest character, the sociopathic...
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PARODY
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PARODY “Obama calls Netanyahu to congratulate him on Israeli election results.” —Haaretz, January 28,...
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