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• GOING DOWN 

  Americans long ago became accustomed to the pleasing notion that there is nothing quite so sound as the dollar. During the nineteen-twenties and...

  12/06/04 by John Cassidy · More from publication

• FOR THE BIRDS 

  For every pigeon-lover--Mike Tyson, Marlon Brando, the gentleman with the stale bread--there are a thousand citizens who can name the danger zones,...

  12/06/04 by Ben McGrath · More from publication

• PERMANENT FATAL ERRORS. 

  "You can't imagine how much time it takes to lie on the floor in a fetal position," Mark Mellman explained to a gathering of political scientists...

  12/06/04 by Louis Menand · More from publication

• MORE WAR 

  "The city has been seized. We have liberated the city of Falluja," General John Abizaid declared on November 14th, six days after the Marines began...

  11/29/04 by Philip Gourevitch · More from publication

• SHADOWBOXING 

  "Straight male seeks Bush supporter for fair, physical fight," someone wrote in a widely distributed Web-site posting last week. But onstage the...

  11/29/04 by John Lahr · More from publication

• WHY WORK 

  In the fall of 1897, Max Weber suffered a nervous breakdown. He was thirty-three years old--still quite young, in the rigidly hierarchical world of...

  11/29/04 by Elizabeth Kolbert · More from publication

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