THE ATLANTIC | Volume 295 No. 2 | March 2005

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Atlantic cover Calendar

Letters to the Editor

The Agenda
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

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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 Material
A look at some of the files compiled by human-rights researchers documenting the horrors of Saddam's Iraq. [Web only]
The Accidental Autocrat
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 Putin
Paul Starobin, the author of "The Accidental Autocrat," on the complex and inscrutable character of Russia's president
by Benjamin Freed [Web only]
The Truth About Harvard
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 Harvard
Ross Douthat, the author of Privilege, talks about the social and academic realities of a Harvard education
by Benjamin Healy [Web only]
POETRY  Male Voices, From Below
by John Updike

POETRY  Now
by Frannie Lindsay

Meeting
A drawing
by Guy Billout

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Books and Critics
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

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Pursuits and Retreats
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