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OCTOBER 22, 2012 1 3
4 LETTERS
NEWSBEAST
6 AMERICAN NOTE BOOK
Fashion's full-figured failure. By Robin Givhan 7 INTERNATIONAL NOTE BOOK Does the Israeli right have a permanent majority? By Dan Ephron
8 PERSON OF INTEREST
Han H<:\Il,the enfant terrible of Chinese letters.
By Duncan Hewitt 9 WORLD ON A PAGE
Trial and error in Tripoli, Libya; the EU peaces out. By Tunku Varadarajan
10 POLITICS By David Sessions TECHNOLOGY By Brian Ries HALLOWEEN By Malcolm Jones 12 REPORTER AT LARGE Has Mullal1 Omar lost his mind?
By Sam Seibert .16 CONFLICT
Tensions rise on the Turkey-Syria border.
By Mike Giglio 18 OPINION
Why do Russia's thinkers celebrate Putin?
By Nina Khrushcheva
FEATURES
24 Lincoln Plays to Wm
Some consider politics a dirty ward. But the 16th president was a master of ruthlessness- for the sake of the highest ideals.
By Sidney Blumenthal 31 Compass
Biden brings the blarney. By Niall Ferguson 32 Buddha Meets the Hungry Tigress Can Beijing's incoming leaders resolve Tibet's crisis and stop the spate of fiery suicides?
By Melinda Liu
36 The Repentant Radical
A former extremist warns of a resurgent al Qaeda. But who is this man, Maajid Nawaz?
. By Christopher Dickey 42 Paging Dr. Nahim
Sierra Leone is trying to heal its wounds in the aftermath of one of Africa's most brutal civil wars-but there's only one psychiatrist around to treat the nation's trauma.
By Clair MacDougall. Photographs by Tim Hetherington
46 Journey to Topaz
My family's wartime years in the Utal1 internment camp. By Julie Otsuka
OMNIVORE
50 ART Liu Bolin's disappearing art;
Picasso's world in black and white.
54 CHESS Enthusiasts plot to revive the game ofkings.
64 THE CITY ElifShafak reflects on Ankara, Turkey.
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