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CalendarLetters to the Editor
COMMENT American Casino The promise and perils of Bush's "ownership society"
by Robert J. Shiller
FOREIGN POLICY What "W" Owes to "WW" President Bush may not even know it, but he can trace his view of the world to Woodrow Wilson, who defined a diplomatic destiny for America that we can't escape
by David M. Kennedy
VERBATIM Rather's Familiar Quotations
THE LIST Security Fences
by Abigail Cutler
MEDIA J-School for Jerks How you, too, can learn to behave like Bill O'Reilly
by Joshua Green
THE ODDS Who Will Be the Next James Bond?
by John Sellers
What's the Matter With Central Park West?
by Walter Shapiro
Primary Sources Hizbollah's new toy; America's "Pedestrian Danger Index"; the perils of dialing drunk
THE WORLD IN NUMBERS The New Opium War [This article is unavailable online.]
by Matthew Quirk
The Accuser
One woman has spent decades documenting crimes against humanity in Iraq. Now Saddam and his circle are facing justice
by William Langewiesche
SIDEBAR TO "THE ACCUSER" Related MaterialThe Accidental Autocrat
A look at some of the files compiled by human-rights researchers documenting the horrors of Saddam's Iraq. [Web only]
Vladimir Putin is not a democrat. Nor is he a czar like Alexander III, a paranoid like Stalin, or a religious nationalist like Dostoyevsky. But he is a little of all these—which is just what Russians seem to want
by Paul Starobin
INTERVIEWS Parsing PutinThe Truth About Harvard
Paul Starobin, the author of "The Accidental Autocrat," on the complex and inscrutable character of Russia's president
by Benjamin Freed [Web only]
It may be hard to get into Harvard, but it's easy to get out without learning much of enduring value at all. A recent graduate's report
by Ross Douthat
INTERVIEWS God and Man at HarvardPOETRY Male Voices, From Below
Ross Douthat, the author of Privilege, talks about the social and academic realities of a Harvard education
by Benjamin Healy [Web only]
A poem
by John Updike
POETRY Now
by Frannie Lindsay
Meeting
A drawing
by Guy Billout
EDITOR'S CHOICE Clothes-Minded
The London Look: Fashion From Street to Catwalk, by Christopher Breward, Edwina Ehrman, and Caroline Evans; Harvard Rules, by Richard Bradley; The Glorious Cause, by Robert Middlekauff; The Meaning of Independence, by Edmund Morgan
by Benjamin Schwarz
I'll Be Damned
Graham Greene's most fervent loyalty was to betrayal
by Christopher Hitchens
READING LIST One Great Book Per Life
Writers who said it all to perfection in a single book and then most decently died
by Allan Gurganus
Marshal Plan
The age of parents as friends is over
by Sandra Tsing Loh
Backfire
A leading observer of militant Islam argues that the movement will undermine itself—if only the United States will let it
by Peter Beinart
INNOCENT BYSTANDER Feeling Entitled?
Huey Long's aspiration—"Every man a king!"—is at last within our grasp
by Cullen Murphy
A LOOK BACK 55 Years Ago in The Atlantic
"My Father: Leslie Stephen"
SPORT The Magician
The world's best pool player sees shots no one else can
by Pat Jordan
THE PUZZLER Cloverleaf
by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Word Fugitives
by Barbara Wallraff
POST MORTEM Ex-Husband of Love Goddesses
Artie Shaw (1910-2004)
by Mark Steyn
Who's Who
A selective index to this month's issue
Compiled by Benjamin Healy