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CalendarLetters to the Editor  COMMENT Demolition Men Ariel Sharon and Junichiro Koizumi point the way to a centrist resurgence in American politics by Jonathan Rauch PHOTO OP Flu Shot photograph by Daniele La Monaca CROSS-EXAMINATION Justice Delayed Why we still don’t have a way to put terrorists on trial by Benjamin Wittes FOREIGN AFFAIRS Dangerous Games The most heated competition in the 2008 Olympics could take place not in a stadium but in the Taiwan Strait by Jennifer Lind WASHINGTON Schools for Scandal Republicans might—or might not—want to look backward for lessons on handling life under a cloud by Joshua Green THE STATES The Six-Year Itch by Chuck Todd and Marc Ambinder FIRST PRINCIPLES Capitalism: The Movie Why Americans don’t value markets enough—and why that matters by Clive Crook Primary Sources Keeping tabs on the war on terror; bigger, brainier downtowns; synonyms make you stupid  How Do I Love Thee? A growing number of Internet dating sites are relying on academic researchers to develop a new science of attraction. A firsthand report from the front lines of an unprecedented social experiment by Lori Gottlieb INTERVIEWS Logging On For LoveThe Checkpoint For Israeli soldiers checkpoint life is dull, alienating, and stress-inducing. For the Palestinians it is frustrating, humiliating, and anger-provoking. Yet it’s the human face of the occupation—and as close as some Israelis and Palestinians will ever come by Ted Conover The Preacher Bishop T. D. Jakes wants his flock not only to do good but to do well, and his brand of entrepreneurial spirituality has made him perhaps the most influential black leader in America today by Sridhar Pappu The Right Way Seven steps toward a last chance in Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack SPECIAL REPORT A Switch in Time: a New Strategy for Iraq150 YEARS OF THE ATLANTIC Civil Rights & Black Identity Articles by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King Jr., with an introduction by Randall Kennedy. Not Conspicuously Intelligent Design A cartoon by Bruce McCall by Bruce McCall POETRY Pyracantha and Plum by Jane Hirshfield  EDITOR’S CHOICE Another 5001 Nights at the Movies American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now, edited by Phillip Lopate by Benjamin Schwarz Home Alone The dark heart of shelter-lit addiction by Terry Castle READING LIST Mommies Dearest, Part 2 More top literary reasons why it sucks to have chic parents by Sally Singer New Fiction Becoming Strangers, by Louise Dean by Christina Schwarz ESSAYS A Close Read A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit by Christina Schwarz INTERVIEWS Terra IncognitaWhat’s Left? A new book by the West’s most influential Marxist shows him to be both “the most profound essayist wielding a pen” and on the wrong side of history by Christopher Hitchens BEST SELLERS ABROAD Germany by R. Jay Magill Jr.  FOOD Open for Business A post-Katrina visit to the restaurants of New Orleans, where eating out has become essential group therapy by Corby Kummer TECHNOLOGY Spy’s-eye View Google Earth and its rival programs offer (civilians) a new way to look at the world by James Fallows TRAVELS Going Coastal Away from the heat and bustle of Morocco’s historic cities lie some of the friendliest and most tranquil places in North Africa by Jeffrey Tayler Answers to the January/February Puzzler THE PUZZLER TwofersWord Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff POST MORTEM Mister Available Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) by Mark Steyn Who's Who A selective index to this month's issue by Benjamin Healy |
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