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Letters to the Editor Dawn of the Daddy State If terrorism has made a global trend toward greater state power inevitable, then it's important to get authoritarianism right. Here's how by Paul Starobin BRIEF LIVES: The Abolitionist Philip Mangano, a Bush appointee, has some new ideas about homelessness. His question: Will liberals accept compassionate conservatism if it works? by Douglas McGray The Heart of the Matter Is Dick Cheney physically a good risk as Vice President? Seven cardiologists weigh in by Howard Markel THE LIST: Rich, Famous, Incarcerated by Nathan Littlefield Al-Qaeda's Understudy Suicide terrorism has come to Pakistan by Nasra Hassan Kerry's Secret Weapon? Howard Stern could become an unlikely presidential kingmaker by Ross Douthat POST MORTEM: The Prototypical Bicycling Monarch Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (1909-2004) by Mark Steyn THE ODDS: Life on Mars by Marshall Poe Primary Sources Our "unthinkable" environmental future; Iraq's looming ethnic conflict; the most expensive homes in America THE WORLD IN NUMBERS:
Al-Qaeda's Resurgenceby Terrence Henry The Tragedy of Tony Blair When he came to office, the Prime Minister seemed another JFK. Now his mystique is dissipated and his promise shattered. The chief cause is the war in Iraq—a war he led his people into against their will, for reasons that were not true by Geoffrey Wheatcroft Where Did He Go Wrong?: An Interview with Geoffrey WheatcroftPlaying Dirty This year's presidential campaign is already shaping up to be even more negative than the last. That's no accident. Our correspondent looks at the cloak-and-dagger world of opposition research—the updated version of "dirty tricks" by Joshua Green The Assassination Tapes Lyndon Johnson secretly recorded many of his telephone conversations. The tapes of two 1967 calls provide a rare window into his thoughts after hearing a rumor, later substantiated, that the CIA had plotted to assassinate Fidel Castro by Max Holland Greed on Trial The question before the jurors was not whether legal fees amounting to $7,700 an hour were "unreasonable." It was whether the lawyer-plaintiffs should get $1.3 billion more by Alex Beam Squirt Gun A poem by Robert Morgan [audio] Loggers A poem by John Struloeff [audio] Some Words Inside of Words A poem by Richard Wilbur [audio]  New & Noteworthy Inside the Victorian Home, by Judith Flanders; Family Fortunes, by Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall; Public Lives, by Eleanor Gordon and Gwyneth Nair; The Guardians, by Geoffrey Kabaservice; The Greeks and the Irrational, by E. R. Dodds reviewed by Benjamin Schwarz Offshoring the Audience If France makes movies for the French, and America makes movies for the world, who's left to make movies for America? by David Kipen Young Men in Shorts The 1908 Boy Scout manual was, our reviewer writes, "one of the very few books of the twentieth century that actually led to the formation of a worldwide movement" by Christopher Hitchens In The Dark Remember Me, by Trezza Azzopardi reviewed by Christina Schwarz Shopworn Like the Valley Girls who made it famous, the suburban mall is now on the wrong side of forty by Sandra Tsing Loh What's For Dinner? Convenience foods have been doing battle with old-fashioned cooking for half a century. Which side is winning? by Ann Hodgman  MUSIC: A Real Gone Guy Even though the saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter never went away, his two recent albums are being hailed as a major comeback by Francis Davis TRAVELS: Sulfur Island Everyone recognizes the image of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima. But what do you know about the place we were actually fighting for? by P. J. O'Rourke FICTION: Until Gwen by Dennis Lehane Hookers, Guns, and Money: An Interview with Dennis LehaneThe Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Word Court by Barbara Wallraff Proper-Name Index by Benjamin Healy
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