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Santorum’s “1984”

Will South Carolina end Romney’s inevitability? A new ad calls him Big Brother.

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Perry’s Good Ideaby Hendrik Hertzberg

The Governor vs. the Supreme Court.

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Etta Jamesby Ben Greenman

It’s difficult to sum up James’s career, which was too sprawling, too erratic, too much. But here are five highlights…

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The Tortoise Racewith William Finnegan

A Manhattan night-life baron’s battle to save the plowshare tortoise.

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Mullah Omar’s Faceby Amy Davidson

The Taliban leader’s name alone somehow conveys more, and is more evocative, than his picture…

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Newt Gingrich’s master plan.

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Letter From Moscow

The resistance to Vladimir Putin.

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Annals of Information

Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?

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Annals of Psychology

Using simulation to treat traumatized veterans.

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Letter from Burma

Can Aung San Suu Kyi unite Myanmar?

Ariel Levy on Callista Gingrich.
Steve Coll on negotiating with the Taliban.
New fiction by Roberto Bolaño.
William Finnegan on saving a rare tortoise.
Emily Nussbaum on “Downton Abbey.”
James Wood on Michel Houellebecq.

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Steve Coll and Amy Davidson discuss Obama’s Iran problem.

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Hennessy Youngman on Damien Hirst.

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At the Met.

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Donald Hall looks at his barn, and back through time.

Peter Schjeldahl on Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim.

Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut.”

William Finnegan on saving the plowshare tortoise.

Portraits from Tahrir Square.

Super Sam Fuld in action.

Scenes from a Talk meeting.

Jason Schwartzman introduces The New Yorker’s iPad App.

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