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5 AMERICAN NOTEBOOK

How ta spot a workplace crazy. By Lloyd Grove 6 INTERNATIONAL NOTEBOOK

Brazil' s trial of the century. By Mac Margolis 8 PERSON OF INTEREST

Lakhdar Brahimi, the reluctant new U.N.

envoy to Syria. By Christopher Dickey 9 WORLD ON A PAGE

The mysterious Monsieur Hollande; American roulette. By Tunku Varadarajan

10 ECONOMY By Dan Gross AUTOS By Chris Lee SPORTS By Leslie Andrews 12 OPINION

Franklin Delano Obama: The New Deal, in 2012. By Richard A. Epstein

14 NEWS GALLERY

ln South Sudan, arriving after a very long walk Text and photographs by Shannon Jensen

FEATURES

18 Friend or Foe in Afghanistan

Why are so many Afghan soldiers tuming their guns on the Americans? And can they be stopped? By Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau 24 Winning

To heU with the doping charges-Lance Armstrong performed miracles. Stop tearing down our idols. By Buzz Bissinger

32 "What the .#@% Is Wrong With Republicans?!"

How GOP men are ruining the party.

By Kathleen Parker 37 American Politics

What Mitt Romney should say in Tampa-and why he won't. By Peter Beinart

38 This Is the Museum of the Future A collection dedicated ta the glory and tragedy of one fictional couple's love. By Orhan Pamuk 44 Death of a Forester

Chut Wutty sought to save one of !ndochina's last great ecological sanctuaries. It cost him his life. By Olesia Plokhii

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