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Destination:Europe
>, Business
40 The new CEG obsession byDaniel McGinn 42 Executive roundtable:
Crisis survival
ln response to those "shameless" bankers, the conversation has shifted leftward
and President Obama is sounding like a continental head of state. Palle14 Society & The Arts 46 The draw ofDead Town
by Suzanne Smalley 50 The new Arab art scelle
by Sophie Grove THE ISSUE
World Affairs
14 We're aIl socialists now by JonMeacham 16 Obama le Français
by Michael Freedman 20 Enter the doomsayers ...
again byDaniel Gross 21 The bailout morality play
by Robert J. Samuelson
22 Laughing at the fat cats byJerry Adler
27 Embrace the ]apan scenario by Edward J. Lincoln
28 End of the Chinese dream by Mary Hennock 30 A world without nukes
by Henry A. Kissinger 33 Saving Gaza byAbdul Rahman H. Al-Saeed 34 How to talk to Iran
byMaziar Bahari
36 The BlackBerry syndrome by Sharon Begley
DEPARTMENTS
4 Periscope 5 Perspectives 11 World View 57 The Good Life 60 The Last Ward NO MORE NIGHTMARE: How
to haltproliferation of the world's most deadly weapons
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