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8 INTERNATIONAL NOTEBOOK MeetTgor, the Russian tank engineer.
By Owen Matthews 10 PERSaN OF INTEREST
Laurent Fabius, France's undiplomatic top diplomat. By Tracy McNlcol!
11 WORlD ON A PAGE 1he Holoçaust and the euro. By Tunku Varadarajan
12 BUSINESS By Rob Cox
ENTERTAINMENT By Rebecca Dana HEAlTH By Trevor Butterworth 15 COMPASS
Wall Street deserves ta win ils battle with the White House. By Niall Ferguson
16 POLITICS
Right-wingers hate spending-uniess they get the cash. By Paul Begaia
18 TECHNOlOGY
Façebook gets unfriended. By Dan Lyons 20 REPORTER AT LARGE
'Ole Taliban's new stralegy. By Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau
FEATURES
26 'Like Something Out of a Spy Thriller' Meet our man in Beijing-the calm in the China storm. By Melinda Liu
30 The Greatest Day ofHer Life Sixtyyears aga, a 27-year-old woman galvanized a nation as she ascended the throne. Now Queen Elizabeth ]] celebrates her Diamond Jubilee. By Simon Schama 36 Syria's Free Aemy
A photographer slips in t'rom Turkey lo document the Syrian rebellion-then joins refugees and makes his escape. By Giurgos MoutaRs
42 Turn On the Lights-Please A message tu organizers of the Rio' 20 environmenlal summit poverty pollutes.
By Bj'Jrn Lomborg 48 The Sileut Killers
How Obama learned to stop worrying and embrace the drone. By Daniel Klaidman 56 Young in Old Delhi
A photographer captures homeless children living in "the park," a poor, dejected area of the
!ndian capitaL By Lana Siezic 62 Jewel Taylor: Lire After a Warlord As Charles Taylor awaits sentencing, his ex-wile and Liberia are quieliy 1110vingon.
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68 FASHION 'Ole elusive Rei Kawakubo.
70 BOOKS Ottoman delight.
76 THE CITY Etgar Keretretlects on Tei Aviv.
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