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6 AME~ICAN NOTEBOOK You call that a scoop? By Howard Kurtz 7 INTERNATIONAL NOTE BOOK
A Pakistani minister off ers cash for a filmmaker's death. By Nazar VI Islam 8 PERSON OF INTEREST
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Denmark's feisty prime minister. By Louise Roug
9 WORLD ON A PAGE Flags for sale; rotting chicken.
By Tunku Varadarajan
10 MY FAVORITE MISTAKE
Sir Richard Branson re!ives his banana-boat rescue.
12 BUSINESS By Lauren Streib ENVIRONMENT By Josh Dzieza TECHNOLOGY ByMkhelle Cottle 14 NEWS GALLERY
Ail the Gandhis.
18 REPORTER AT LARGE
ln Kenya, waitingfor justice more than 50 years-and counting. By Margot Kiser 22 PARENTING
No, your digital kids aren't alright.
By Lee Siegel
FEATURES
26 More Than Just a Club?
An independent Catalonia could rob Barça of its halo. By Jimmy Burns
30 lflsrael Atlacks Iran...
Will America get pulled into another Mideast war? Newsweek hosted a "war game" with former O.S. officiaIs to find out. By Dan Ephron 36 The Idea Man's Secret Treasures Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen is the world's first masterpiece-collecting, Jimi Hendrix- . worshiping philanthropist. By Blake Gopnik
42 Young and Broke on the Frontlines Rookie freelancers are risking their !ives to cover the story of the Arab Spring-with dangerous consequences. By Sarah A. Topol 46 MyProofofHeaven
When a neurosurgeon found himself in a coma, he experienced things he never thought possible-a journey to the after!ife.
By Dr. Eben Alexander
OMNIVORE
50 FIL M Sex therapy goes mainstream with The Sessions; Hollywood's enduring affair with the City of Light.
54 BOOKS Chinua Achebe's war memoir.
56 THE CITY JohnBurdettrefiectson Bangkok.
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